Top News Stories from 1976

World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade
Nobel Peace Prize: Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams (both Northern Ireland)
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U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Gerald R. Ford
Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller
Population: 218,035,164
Life expectancy: 72.9 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 52.9
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000) 48.2
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  • US Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority (March 24).
  • Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act (May 11).
  • US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment (July 3).
  • Nation celebrates Bicentennial (July 4).
  • Mysterious disease strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia, eventually claiming 29 lives (Aug. 4).
  • Jimmy Carter elected US President (Nov. 2).

Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars): $1,819.00 billion
Federal spending: $371.79 billion
Federal debt $629.0 billion
Median Household Income(current dollars): $12,686 billion
Consumer Price Index: $56.9
Unemployment: 7.7%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.13
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Sports

Sports Links

Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

Super Bowl
Pittsburgh d. Dallas
World Series
Cincinnati d. NY Yankees
NBA Championship
Boston d. Phoenix
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Philadelphia
Wimbledon
Women: Chris Evert d. E. Cawley (6-3 4-6 8-6)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. I. Nastase (6-4 6-2 9-7)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Bold Forbes
NCAA Basketball Championship
Indiana d. Michigan
NCAA Football Champions
Pittsburgh (12-0-0) 1976 Summer Olympics

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow
Music: Air Music, Ned Rorem
Drama: A Chorus Line, Conceived by Michael Bennett
Academy Award, Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, producers (United Artists)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow (US)
Record of the Year: "Love Will Keep Us Together," Captain and Tennille
Album of the Year: Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon (Columbia)
Song of the Year: "Send in the Clowns," Stephen Sondheim, songwriter
Miss America: Tawney Elaine Godin (NY)
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Events

  • The Steadicam is used for the first time in Rocky.
  • Philip Glass completes Einstein on the Beach, the first widely known example of minimalist composition.
  • NBC broadcasts Gone with the Wind and scores record-breaking ratings.

Movies

  • Rocky, Taxi Driver, Network, All the President's Men

Music

  • Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach,

Books

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: William N. Lipscomb, Jr. (US), for work on the structure and bonding mechanisms of boranes
Physics: Burton Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting (both US), for discovery of subatomic particles known as J and psi
Physiology or Medicine: Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek (both US), for discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
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