1976 Winter Paralympics medal table, Medal table
The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.


1976 Winter Paralympics medal table, Medal table
To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the  icon next to the column title.


1976 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1976 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1976 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This election was held on the same day as other local elections.


1976 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election, Notes
• italics denote the sitting councillor • bold denotes the winning candidate


1976 Wirral by-election
The Wirral by-election of 11 March 1976 was held after Selwyn Lloyd, who had been elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) but who was serving as Speaker of the House of Commons, retired. The Conservatives held on to the seat in the by-election.


1976 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1976 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1976 Big Ten Conference football season. In their seventh season under head coach John Jardine, the Badgers compiled a 5–6 record (3–5 against Big Ten opponents) and finished in a three-way tie for seventh place in the Big Ten.


1976 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Quarterback Mike Carroll was selected as the team's most valuable player and led the Big Ten Conference with 1,773 yards of total offense. Running back Larry Canada led the team with 993 rushing yards, the fifth-highest total in the Big Ten during the 1976 season. Ira Matthews was the team's leading scorer with 42 points on seven touchdowns.


1976 Wisconsin Badgers football team
David Charles was selected by the AP as a second-team wide receiver, and Dave Crossen by the UPI as a second-team linebacker, on the 1976 All-Big Ten Conference football team.


1976 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Players selected in the 1977 NFL Draft
Only one Wisconsin player was selected in the 1977 NFL Draft.


1976 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 1976 Metropolitan Borough Council election for the City of Wolverhampton Council in Wolverhampton, England, were held on 6 May.


1976 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The composition of the council prior to the election was:


1976 Women's African Volleyball Championship
The 1976 Women's African Volleyball Championship was the First African continental volleyball Championship for women in Africa and it was held in Port Said, Egypt, with Six teams participating.


1976 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1976 Women's British Open Squash Championships was held at Wembley in London from 27 February - 4 March 1976. Heather McKay (née Blundell) won her fifteenth consecutive title defeating Sue Newman in the final.


1976 Women's College World Series
The eighth Women's College World Series (WCWS) was held in Omaha, Nebraska on May 13–16, with nineteen college softball teams meeting in the 1976 ASA/AIAW fastpitch softball tournament. Most of the teams had won state championships. This was the last WCWS before the adoption of regional qualifying tournaments. Because college softball had not yet been separated into competitive divisions, large and small colleges competed together in one overall national championship.


1976 Women's College World Series, Teams
The Michigan State Spartans went undefeated through all five of their games to win the 1976 national championship, beating Northern Colorado, 3–0, in the final game.


1976 Women's Hockey World Cup
The 1976 Women's Hockey World Cup was the second edition of the Women's Hockey World Cup. It took place from 22–30 May in West Berlin, West Germany. West Germany won the title defeating Argentina in the final on 30 May.


1976 Women's Nordic Football Championship
1976 Women's Nordic Football Championship was the third edition of the Women's Nordic Football Championship tournament. It was held from 9 July to 11 July in Borås, Fristad and Öxabäck in Sweden.


1976 Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The 37th edition of the  World Allround Speed Skating Championships 1976 took place on 21 and 22 February in Gjøvik, Norway at the Gjøvik Stadion ice rink.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker)
The 1976 Women's World Open was a women's snooker tournament that took place in Middlesbrough in 1976. Vera Selby won the final 4–0 against Muriel Hazeldene.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker), Background and Tournament summary
The tournament was sponsored by Embassy and run together with the men's 1976 World Snooker Championship.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker), Background and Tournament summary
The top seed, was Joyce Gardner, the only professional player. Gardner had been three times runner-up in the Women's Professional Snooker Championship from 1934 to 1937; and seven times Women's Professional Billiards Champion from 1930 to 1938. She lost in her first match to eventual runner-up Muriel Hazeldene.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker), Background and Tournament summary
The Second seed was Vera Selby, who had won the UK national amateur snooker title for the previous four seasons, and had held the corresponding billiards title since 1970.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker), Background and Tournament summary
Other competitors included the past amateur champions Maureen Baynton and Rosemary De Lasso (née Davies), who both came out of retirement; Marion Westaway from Australia; and two players from Canada, 16-year-old Canadian champion Natalie Stelmach, and Sheila King.


1976 Women's World Open (snooker), Background and Tournament summary
Selby lost only one frame on the way to winning the title.


1976 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The 1976 Women's World Open Squash Championship was the inaugural women's edition of the 1976 World Open, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players.


1976 Women's World Open Squash Championship
The event took place at the Stafford Courts in Brisbane in Australia from 18–23 August 1976. Heather McKay won the World Open title, defeating Marion Jackman in the final in just 22 minutes. McKay picked up $2,000 (the biggest winning cheque of her career) for winning the competition.


1976 Workington by-election
The Workington by-election, 1976 was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Workington in Cumbria on 4 November 1976. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Richard Page, who became the first non-Labour MP in the constituency’s history.


1976 Workington by-election, Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Fred Peart had been elevated to the peerage in order to serve as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal. He had held the seat since the 1945 general election, and had served in previous Cabinets under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.


1976 Workington by-election, Candidates
The Labour candidate was 33-year-old Dale Campbell-Savours, the Managing Director of a clock company who had fought Darwen in both the February and October elections of 1974.


1976 Workington by-election, Candidates
The Conservative Party candidate was Richard Page, who was 35 and had contested the Workington seat against Peart in both 1974 general elections.


1976 Workington by-election, Result
The result was a surprise victory for Page and the Conservatives, with a majority of 1,065 votes. Workington had been a safe Labour seat, held even in the landslide defeat of 1931.


1976 Workington by-election, Result
Both the main contenders in this by-election would go on to long Parliamentary careers. Campbell-Savours defeated Page for the Workington seat at the 1979 election, and would represent it until standing down at the 2001 election, when he was elevated to the Lords.


1976 Workington by-election, Result
After his defeat, Page soon returned to the House of Commons at a 1979 by-election for the constituency of South West Hertfordshire, which he would represent until the 2005 election.


1976 World 600
The 1976 World 600, the 17th running of the event, was a Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 30, 1976, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.


1976 World 600, Race report
The five drivers that dominated the 1976 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season were David Pearson (average finish of 7th place), Cale Yarborough (average finish of 8th place), Richard Petty (average finish of 9th place), Benny Parsons (average finish of 10th place), and Bobby Allison (average finish 12th place).


1976 World 600, Race report
Four hundred laps took place spanning 1.500 miles (2.414 km). It took four hours and twenty-two minutes for David Pearson to defeat Richard Petty under the race's final yellow flag in front of 103,000 spectators.


1976 World 600, Race report
Pearson would earn the pole position with a speed of 159.132 miles per hour (256.098 km/h) while the race's average speed would be 137.352 miles per hour (221.047 km/h); he would clinch his third career World 600 win at this event along with his final win ever at Charlotte. Dale Earnhardt ran a #30 Army Special Chevrolet scheme at this event. Terry Ryan was the last-place finisher  due to a hub problem on lap 11. Wisconsin short track ace Dick Trickle did a one-off in a second car, the #99 Ford, for the Junie Donlavey team, blew an engine and retired before halfway. Seven cautions slowed the race for 38 laps (including the 400th lap of the race).


1976 World 600, Race report
For the first 245 laps the primary battle was between Pearson and Yarborough as the lead officially changed 33 times in that span and 37 in all. Yarborough cut a tire and finished a lap down in third.


1976 World 600, Race report
David Pearson's next pole position would be at Riverside International Raceway two weeks later; he would win eight poles overall that year including at the  1976 National 500; which took place that October.


1976 World 600, Race report
Bobby Isaac blew his engine and spun at Lap 46; it would be his final Winston Cup start. It was ironic that Isaac’s career ended in the World 600, as his debut came fifteen years earlier when, as a favor, he started and parked Junior Johnson's car in the qualifying race for this historic event.


1976 World 600, Race report
Janet Guthrie would make her debut here. She was invited to attempt this race by Humpy Wheeler after failing to qualify for the 1976 Indianapolis 500. Guthrie finished her first stock car race in 15th place and drove well over 500 miles in the process, silencing some of the era's critics who thought women wouldn't be able to go the distance in long oval races.


1976 World 600, Race report
Notable crew chiefs who participated in this race included Junie Donlavey, Jake Elder, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, and Bud Moore.


1976 World 600, Race report
Race earnings for each driver ranged from the winner's share of $49,990 ($224,604 when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's earnings of $885 ($3,976 when adjusted for inflation). The total prize purse sanctioned by NASCAR for this event was $225,025 ($1,011,033 when adjusted for inflation).


1976 World 600, Race report, Box Score
(5) Indicates 5 bonus points added to normal race points scored for leading 1 lap(10) Indicates 10 bonus points added to normal race points scored for leading 1 lap & leading the most laps.


1976 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 28 and 29 February 1976 in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice rink.


1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship
The 1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament also known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship. The 1976 tournament was played in Johannesburg from 12 to 30 October 1976. Doug Mountjoy defeated Paul Mifsud 11–1 in the final to win the title.


1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
The first World Amateur Snooker Championship was held in 1963. The defending champion for 1976 was Ray Edmonds, who had won the tournament in 1972 and 1974. The 1976 tournament was held at the President Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 12 to 30 October 1976, with 24 participants playing in three eight-player round-robin groups followed by a knockout to determine the champion. Apartheid was in force in South Africa, and following the advice of their respective governments, players from India and Sri Lanka did not take part in the competition.


1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
Doug Mountjoy was the only player to win all of his group matches. Edmonds lost the title when he was defeated 1–5 by Paul Mifsud in the quarter-finals. In another of the quarter-finals, Silvino Francisco eliminated his brother Manuel Francisco 5–1. The final was contested by Mountjoy and Mifsud, with Mountjoy taking a 6–0 lead by the end of the first session and completing an 11–1 victory in the second session on 29 October, meaning that the scheduled session for 30 October was not required.


1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary
Mountjoy compiled the highest break of the tournament, 107, during the group stage.


1976 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Qualifying groups
The final tables are shown below. Players in bold qualified for the next round.


1976 World Championship Tennis Finals
The 1976 World Championship Tennis Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 6th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1976 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas, in the United States and was held from May 4 through May 9, 1976.


1976 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles
Arthur Ashe was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Harold Solomon.


1976 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles
Björn Borg won in the final 1–6, 6–1, 7–5, 6–1 against Guillermo Vilas.


1976 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1976 World Championship Tennis circuit
The 1976 World Championship Tennis circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1976. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT) and consisted of a schedule of 25 tournaments leading up to a singles WCT Finals play-off in Dallas and a doubles play-off in Kansas City in May. A total of 54 players participated, 30 players less than in the previous three years, and the group system used in the previous editions was replaced by a single pool.


1976 World Championship Tennis circuit
The U.S. Pro Indoor was the only tournament in which all players participated, all other tournaments had a 16 men draw. The season final was played by the eight best performers and was won by the Swede Björn Borg who defeated Guillermo Vilas from Argentina in four sets. The total prize money for the 1976 WCT circuit was $2,400,000, including a $320,000 Avis Challenge Cup round–robin special event played in Hawaii in January and May.


1976 World Championship Tennis circuit
The Aetna World Cup between teams of the US and Australia was played in March in Hartford and was won by the US 6–1.


1976 World Championship Tennis circuit, Schedule
The schedule of events on the 1976 WCT circuit, with player progression documented until the quarterfinals stage.


1976 World Championship for Makes
The 1976 World Championship for Makes was part of the 24th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It was a series for production based cars from the following FIA categories


1976 World Championship for Makes
The series ran from 21 March 1976 to 4 September 1976, and comprised 7 races in total.


1976 World Championship for Makes, World Sportscar Championship
Following the 1975 season, the FIA chose to divide the World Championship into two series that would run simultaneously but separately. Open-cockpit sportscars (formerly known as FIA Group 5 Sports Cars, now officially FIA Group 6 Two-Seater Racing Cars) would transfer from the World Championship for Makes to a new World Championship for Sports Cars, while production-based cars (such as the new Group 5 Special Production Cars) would contest the World Championship for Makes. Events in which both types of car ran, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, were not counted towards either championship.


1976 World Championship for Makes, World Championship for Makes, Championship results
Points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car with any other cars from that manufacturer merely skipped in the points allocation. Only the best 5 points finishes for each make counted towards the championship with any other points earned not included in the totals. Discarded points are shown in the table below within brackets.


1976 World Championship for Makes, World Championship for Makes, Championship results
In addition to the outright championship the FIA also awarded three Divisional titles. Division 1 was for cars with an engine capacity of up to 2000cc, Division 2 for cars from 2001 to 3000cc and Division 3 for those above 3000cc.


1976 World Championships in Athletics
The 1976 World Championships in Athletics was the first global, international athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hosted on 18 September 1976 in Malmö, Sweden, it featured just one event: a men's 50 kilometres race walk contest. The course passed through the streets of the city and the start and finish points were within Malmö Stadion.


1976 World Championships in Athletics, Summary
Soviet athlete Veniamin Soldatenko (runner-up at the 1972 Olympics) was the gold medallist. This made him the first ever IAAF world champion and at 37 years and 258 days he remains the oldest male athlete to win that accolade. Mexico's Enrique Vera came second and Finnish walker Reima Salonen was third. A total of 42 walkers representing 20 countries entered the championships race and 37 finished, with four failed to finish and one being disqualified.


1976 World Championships in Athletics, Summary
The International Olympic Committee decided to drop the men's 50 km walk from the Olympic athletics programme for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics.


1976 World Championships in Athletics, Summary
It was the first World Championships that the IAAF had hosted separate from the Olympic Games (traditionally the main championship for the sport). This marked the beginning of a move away from this arrangement as a 1976 IAAF Council meeting decided that the organisation would host its own, full-programme, championships on a quadrennial basis. The two-race 1980 World Championships in Athletics filled in for the lack of a women's 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres run at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The competition came of age at the 41-event 1983 World Championships in Athletics, which is considered the first edition proper.


1976 World Club Challenge
The 1976 World Club Challenge was an unofficial trial of what would later become the World Club Challenge concept, with the 1975 NSWRFL season's premiers, Eastern Suburbs hosting the 1975–76 Northern Rugby Football League season's Premiership and Challenge Cup winners St. Helens. The one-off challenge match was played on 29 June, right in the middle of the 1976 NSWRFL season, at the Sydney Cricket Ground before a crowd of 26,856.


1976 World Club Challenge
The next game of its kind would not be played until 1987.


1976 World Club Challenge, Background
The game was the first of its type, and was the last to be played in Australia until 1994.


1976 World Club Challenge, Eastern Suburbs Roosters
The Roosters, coached by Jack Gibson and captained by Australian international forward Arthur Beetson, were the reigning Sydney premiers having won the NSWRFL Grand Finals in both 1974 and 1975.


1976 World Club Challenge, St Helens
Saints were the reigning English champions, having won the title in 1974-75. Saints were coached by former Great Britain captain Eric Ashton and captained by Welsh dual rugby international Kel Coslett.


1976 World Club Challenge, Aftermath
After winning the 1974 and 1975 Sydney premierships, Eastern Suburbs would not win another until 2002, while St Helens would go on to win a third English premiership in succession in 1976–77.


1976 World Club Challenge, Aftermath
The next time Easts, now known as the Sydney Roosters, would play in a World Club Challenge was in 2003 where they would again face St Helens, the 2002 Super League champions at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, England. The result would be no different though as the Roosters defeated the Saints 38-0 in front of 19,807 fans.


1976 World Club Challenge, Aftermath
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the challenge, St Helens and the Sydney Roosters played a match as part of the 2016 World Club Series.


1976 World Cup (men's golf)
The 1976 World Cup took place December 9–12 at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, United States. It was the 24th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 48 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Spanish team of Seve Ballesteros and Manuel Piñero won by two strokes over the United States team of Jerry Pate and Dave Stockton. The individual competition for The International Trophy, was won by Ernesto Perez Acosta of Mexico, three strokes ahead of six players, who tied second.


1976 World Field Archery Championships
The 1976 World Field Archery Championships were held in Mölndal, Sweden.


1976 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1976 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Scandinavium in Göteborg, Sweden from 2 to 7 March. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1976 World Figure Skating Championships
The ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker of the United States and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič of Czechoslovakia.


1976 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1976 World Junior Curling Championships were held from February 22 to 27 in Aviemore, Scotland. The tournament only consisted of a men's event.


1976 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 1976 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were on March 10–13, 1976 in Megève, France. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion. It was the first World Junior Figure Skating Championships to be held.


1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships were between December 26, 1975, and January 1, 1976, in Tampere, Turku, Pori and Rauma Finland. The Soviet team won the tournament with a perfect 4–0 record. This was the third edition of the Ice Hockey World Junior Championship, but the results are not included in official IIHF records. Canada was represented by a club team, the Sherbrooke Castors, while the other four nations were represented by teams of their top under-20 players. The United States did not participate in this tournament, after having competed in the 1974 and 1975 tournaments.


1976 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Final standings
The tournament was a round-robin format, with each team playing each of the other four teams once each.


1976 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships
The 1976 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the second annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Liège, Belgium.


1976 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships
The Championships had four events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit and Team pursuit. Robert Dill-Bundi became the first cyclist to retain a world junior title, and the first to win two gold medals in the championships.


1976 World Orienteering Championships
The 1976 World Orienteering Championships, the 6th World Orienteering Championships, were held in Aviemore, Scotland, 24–26 September 1976.


1976 World Orienteering Championships
The championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.


1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
The 1976 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship  was held at Zoo Lake Park in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 18 February - 6 March 1976.


1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship
Doug Watson won the singles which was held in a round robin format. South Africa completed a clean sweep of events by taking the Pairs, Triples and Fours Gold which also help them lift the Leonard Trophy.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship
The 1976 World Professional Match-play Championship was a professional invitational snooker tournament held from 28 November to 11 December 1976 at the Nunawading Basketball Centre in Burwood East, Melbourne, Australia. Eddie Charlton, the event's promoter, won the title by defeating Ray Reardon by 31 frames to 24 in the final. The Championship was sanctioned by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, with the event's title causing confusion with the World Snooker Championship in some media reports. The tournament was not repeated.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship
A World Professional Match-play Championship for professional snooker was staged each year from 1952 to 1957, having been created following a dispute between the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) and the Billiards Association and Control Council. The PBPA members established a competition, which became known as the World Professional Match-play Championship, as an alternative to the World Snooker Championship. Although at first these were not deemed to be world championships, they were later recognised as editions of the World Snooker Championship. After 1957, the event was discontinued due to a decline in the popularity of snooker. The World Championship was re-instituted on a challenge basis from 1964 to 1968, and as a knock-out format tournament from 1969.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship
The 1976 tournament, which is not recognised as an edition of the World Snooker Championship, featured sixteen invited players. Alex Higgins was the only one of the top four seeds not to reach the semi-finals. Higgins was defeated 6–13 by Paddy Morgan, who then lost in the deciding frame of his semi-final match against Charlton. Reardon played Graham Miles in the other semi-final, which he won 19–16 after recovering from five frames behind.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Background
A World Professional Match-play Championship for professional snooker was staged each year from 1952 to 1957, having been created following a dispute between the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) and the Billiards Association and Control Council. The PBPA members established a competition, which became known as the World Professional Match-play Championship, as an alternative to the World Snooker Championship. Although at first these were not deemed to be world championships, they were later recognised as editions of the World Snooker Championship. After 1957, the event was discontinued due to a decline in the popularity of snooker.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Background
After this, there were no world championship matches until professional Rex Williams gained agreement from the BACC that the world championship would be staged on a challenge basis, with defending World Professional Match-play Championship Pulman featuring in the first match. Pulman retained the title in several challenges from 1964 to 1968. From 1969, the World Snooker Championship we re-established as a knock-out format tournament, using their "Players No. 6" brand.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Background
In 1976, Eddie Charlton gained the recognition of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) for a World Professional Match-play Championship to be held in Australia, promoted by him. The tournament was staged from 28 November to 11 December 1976, at the Nunawading Basketball Centre in Burwood East, Melbourne, Australia, with 16 invited players participating, as an event distinct from the World Championship. John Spencer declined to participate as he was dissatisfied with how the 1975 World Snooker Championship had been conducted by Charlton's promotions company. Clive Everton, editor of Snooker Scene magazine, criticised the WPBSA's decision to approve a tournament with a name that could be confused with the World Snooker Championship, and the decision to include lower-ranked Australian players rather than higher ranked players. Ray Reardon was the top seed, with Alex Higgins second.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Background
On two further occasions after 1976, the WPBSA sanctioned the staging of the tournament, but it did not take place on either of them due to problems with organising the event. The tournament is recognised in Ian Morrison's Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Snooker (1987) as part of the same series as the World Professional Match-play Championship, whilst snooker statistician Chris Turner views them, and the later World Matchplay events as distinct from each other despite the similar titles.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
The first round matches commenced on 25 November, and were contested over 25 frames, finishing on 2 December. Three of the Australian professionals were comprehensively defeated, with Reardon eliminating Ron Mares 13–1 (21–4 after dead frames), Charlton defeating Lou Condo by the same margin (and 17–1 after dead frames), and Higgins whitewashing Dennis Wheelwright 13–0 (16–9 after dead frames). Perrie Mans achieved a winning margin at 13–6 against John Dunning, and the pair split to remaining dead frames for a final scoreline of 16–9. Graham Miles defeated Jim Meadowcroft 13–5, increasing his margin to 18–7 after dead frames.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
Dennis Taylor led Paddy Morgan, the Australian national English billiards champion, 4–2 and 9–6, before Morgan won three consecutive frames to equalise at level at 9–9. Taylor took the following two frames to lead 12–10, but Morgan qualified for the quarter-finals by completing another three-frame run. Cliff Thorburn, facing Gary Owen, had difficulties with the joint of his two-piece cue stick. Owen led 4–2 and 12–6 before securing a win at 13–6. Williams led Bill Werbeniuk 11–7, before Werbeniuk won six successive frames for a 13–11 victory.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
The quarter-final round was held from 3 to 4 December, with matches played over 25 frames. Having led Owen 11–7, Reardon won 13–9, and added the three dead frames to finish at 16–9. Charlton defeated Mans 13–8 after they had been level at 7–7, and won all the dead frames for 17–8. Miles defeated Werbeniuk 13–11 after they had been tied at 11–11. They did not play the scheduled dead frame.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
Morgan made a break of 104, consisting of thirteen reds and blacks, as he built a 12–6 lead against Higgins, and then won 13–6, with each of the pair winning three dead frames to leave the final score 16–9. Higgins was the only one of the top four seeds not to reach the semi-finals.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
The semi-finals took place from 5 to 7 December, with both matches across 37 frames. Morgan led Charlton 16–14 at the start of their final session, and increased this to 17–14 before Charlton won the next three frames to equalise. Morgan then regained a lead at 18–17, but Charlton took the following two frames to progress to the final after the deciding frame, 19–18. Reardon and Miles were level at 15–15, before Reardon won 19–16. Miles had been leading 10–5, but lost eight of the following nine frames.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
The final was played from 8 to 11 December over 61 frames. Charlton established a 5–1 lead during the first session, after winning each of the first five frames. and later led 10–8 and 13–11. From 15 to 15, Charlton added four of the six frames from each of the next two session, for 23–19. From two frames ahead, 25–23, at the start of the penultimate session, Charlton took five of the session's six frames, to increase his advantage to 30–24 going into the last session. Charlton won the title 31–24 by clearing the colours after Reardon had failed an attempt to pot the black ball.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Summary
Reardon congratulated Charlton after the match, saying that he was a worthy winner, whereas Reardon himself had "played like a loser", adding "In fact I didn't really deserve to get to the final at all. I was almost relieved to lose and I was certainly glad when it was over." After winning the title, Charlton was erroneously reported as being "world champion" by Grandstand, World of Sport and several newspapers.


1976 World Professional Match-play Championship, Main draw
Results for the tournament are shown below. Numbers in parentheses indicate seedings.


1976 World Rally Championship
The 1976 World Rally Championship was the fourth season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). 10 events were included on the schedule, as the series revisited the same locations as the previous season. The only change in the schedule was a slight shuffle in order, with Portugal being moved up to March from July.


1976 World Rally Championship
Lancia again repeated its title, with the Stratos HF accumulating another four rally wins, and scoring more than twice as many points as its nearest competitor, Opel. The Ascona's consistency was enough for second place overall, despite no wins. Lancia's dynasty, however, would not continue, as this was to be the last WRC title for the Stratos.


1976 World Rally Championship
From 1973 to 1978, the WRC only awarded a championship for manufacturers. Scoring was given for the highest placing entry for each manufacturer. Thus if a particular manufacturer was to place 2nd, 4th, and 10th, they would receive points for 2nd place only. However, the manufacturer would still gain an advantage in scoring from its other entries, as the points for the 4th and 10th place entries would be denied to other manufacturers.


1976 World Rowing Championships
The 1976 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held in August 1976 at Villach in Austria. Since 1976 was an Olympic year for rowing, the World Championships did not include the 14 Olympic classes scheduled for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Only three lightweight men's events were scheduled, and all finals were raced on 16 August.


1976 World Series
The 1976 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1976 season. The 73rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion  Cincinnati Reds and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees. The Reds swept the Series in four games to repeat as champions, avenging their 1939 and 1961 World Series losses to the Yankees. The 1976 Reds became, and remain, the only team to sweep an entire multi-tier postseason, one of the crowning achievements of the franchise's Big Red Machine era. The Reds are also the last NL team to win back-to-back World Series. It also marked the second time that the Yankees were swept in a World Series—the Los Angeles Dodgers were the first to sweep them in 1963.


1976 World Series
The Reds won the NL West division by 10 games over the Dodgers, then defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, three games to none, in the NL Championship Series after losing seven of 12 games to the Phillies during the regular season. The Yankees won the AL East division by 10+1⁄2 games over the Baltimore Orioles, then defeated the Kansas City Royals, three games to two, in the AL Championship Series.


1976 World Series
This World Series was the first in which the designated hitter rule, which had been introduced in the AL three years prior, was in effect; it was used for all games (for the first 10 years, the use of the DH alternated; in even-numbered years, it was used in all games, in odd-numbered years, it was not used; starting in 1986, the DH would be used only in games played at the AL representative's park). The use of the DH wound up benefiting the Reds, who were able to get utility infielder Dan Driessen's bat in the lineup.


1976 World Series
Driessen hit .357 with one home run. Elliott Maddox, Carlos May, and Lou Piniella shared the role for the Yankees. Game 1, played at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, marked the first time the DH was used in a NL ballpark. Game 2, also at Riverfront Stadium, was the first World Series weekend game to be scheduled at night.


1976 World Series
It stands as the first and only time the Yankees have been swept in the World Series at Yankee Stadium.


1976 World Series, Background
After spending the last two years sharing home field with the New York Mets at Shea Stadium, the 1976 New York Yankees returned home to a rebuilt and modified Yankee Stadium. George Steinbrenner had now owned the team for four years, since 1973, with Billy Martin serving the first of his five stints as manager since 1975.


1976 World Series, Background
General Manager Gabe Paul made numerous trades getting Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa from the Angels for Bobby Bonds; Willie Randolph and Dock Ellis from the Pirates for Doc Medich; and Doyle Alexander, Ken Holtzman, and Grant Jackson from the Orioles for Rudy May, Tippy Martinez, Scott McGregor, and Rick Dempsey.


1976 World Series, Background
The heart of the team was Yankee captain, Thurman Munson, whose grit and determination were factors in his winning the 1976 American League MVP award. Third baseman, Graig Nettles, and first baseman, Chris Chambliss were the key run producers, while speedy outfielders Roy White and Rivers set the table for the power hitters. Super free agent Catfish Hunter headed the staff while reliever Sparky Lyle led the A.L. in saves with 23. The Yankees finished 10+1⁄2 ahead in the A.L. East advancing to the World Series by beating the Kansas City Royals in the fifth game of the playoffs on a ninth-inning walk-off home run by Chambliss.


1976 World Series, Background
The defending champion Cincinnati Reds were piloted by Sparky Anderson who had a star-studded lineup led by second baseman Joe Morgan. Catcher Johnny Bench, first baseman Tony Perez, and outfielder George Foster provided enough power to drive in sparkplugs Pete Rose, Ken Griffey, and Morgan, who combined power (27 homers, 111 RBI) and speed (67 stolen bases) from the third-spot in the batting order. Morgan went on to win his second-straight National League Most Valuable Player award, outdistancing runner-up teammate Foster. Foster would go on to win the 1977 MVP award, giving the Reds six MVPs in an eight-year stretch. Bench won MVP honors in 1970 and 1972 while Rose took home the hardware in '73.


1976 World Series, Background
The Reds led the NL in every significant offensive category including runs scored, batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, doubles, triples, home runs, RBI, and stolen bases.


1976 World Series, Background
On the mound, the Reds relied on left-handers Don Gullett and Fred Norman to pacify the Yankee hitters in Games 1 and 2, respectively. Gullett had come back from a mid-season injury to start Game 1 but had to leave the game in the eighth inning due to a twisted ankle while Norman out-pitched ace Hunter in Game 2. Game 3 in New York pitted effective 1976 NL Rookie of the Year Pat Zachry for the Reds against newly acquired Yankee, Dock Ellis. Ellis only lasted 3+1⁄3 innings, exiting in the fourth after a home run by Driessen.


1976 World Series, Background
Game 4 was delayed a day due to rain, but the Reds were ready for the sweep. Bench's two-run home run gave the Reds a 3–1 lead. In the top of the ninth, a frustrated Billy Martin threw a baseball from the dugout onto the field towards home plate umpire Bill Deegan, causing his ejection from the game. In the ninth, Bench's second home run followed by back-to-back doubles by César Gerónimo and Dave Concepción made the score 7–2 and essentially blew the game open.


1976 World Series, Background
The Cincinnati Reds outscored the New York Yankees, 22–8, and became the first NL team to repeat as World Champions since the 1921–1922 New York Giants. The Reds did not make a single offensive or defensive substitution (save pitching changes) during the entire series. Bench would claim the MVP of the series hitting .533 with two home runs and six runs batted in. His catching counterpart, Thurman Munson, had nine hits, all singles, and a .529 batting average.


1976 World Series, Summary
NL Cincinnati Reds (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (0)


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
Joe Morgan got the Reds off to a booming start with a home run in the first off of Doyle Alexander, who had to start because Catfish Hunter had a sore arm and needed another day of rest. The Yankees tied the game in the second when Lou Piniella hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Graig Nettles's sacrifice fly. In the third, Dave Concepcion tripled with one out and scored on Pete Rose's sacrifice fly to put the Reds up 2–1. Tony Pérez's RBI single in the sixth extended their lead to 3–1.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In the seventh, George Foster hit a leadoff single and scored on a Johnny Bench RBI triple. Bench then scored on a Sparky Lyle wild pitch. The only bad news for the Reds was an injury to starting pitcher Don Gullett, who pulled a calf muscle in the eighth and would be unavailable for the remainder of the Series. It turned out to be Gullett's last appearance in a Reds uniform. Pedro Borbon pitched 1+2⁄3 shutout innings to close the game.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Reds scored three runs in the second off Catfish Hunter. After a leadoff double by Dan Driessen, George Foster's RBI single put the Reds up 1–0. Foster was caught stealing second, but after a double and walk, Dave Concepción's RBI single made it 2–0 Reds. A walk loaded the bases before a sacrifice fly by Ken Griffey made it 3–0 Reds. The Yankees got on the board on an RBI single by Graig Nettles in the fourth.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
In the seventh, the Yankees tied things up on an RBI double by Fred Stanley off  starter Fred Norman and an RBI groundout by Thurman Munson off Jack Billingham. Meanwhile, Hunter settled into a groove, pitching a complete game and shutting out the Reds until the ninth. With two outs, Ken Griffey reached second when Stanley threw wildly past first after fielding his slow bouncer. Joe Morgan was walked intentionally and Tony Pérez ended the game by driving in Griffey with a single.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Sunday night contest, the first weekend World Series game to begin after dark, was played under temperatures that started at 43 °F (24 °C) and dipped into the 30s as the game progressed. MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn responded to criticism of the scheduling, which was done to accommodate NBC television, by attending the game without wearing an overcoat in spite of the cold nighttime weather.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
As the Series moved to Yankee Stadium, the Reds struck first with three runs off starter Dock Ellis. Dan Driessen hit a leadoff single, stole second and scored on an RBI double by George Foster, After Johnny Bench singled, an RBI force-out by César Gerónimo made it 2–0 Reds. Geronimo stole second and scored on an RBI single by Dave Concepción to cap the inning's scoring. Dan Driessen smacked a home run in the fourth. In the bottom of the inning, the Yankees got on the board on Oscar Gamble's single off of Pat Zachry.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
A seventh inning home run by Jim Mason—the 500th home run in the history of the World Series—cut the Reds' lead to 4–2. Mason became the first of two players to hit a home run in his only World Series at-bat, the second being Geoff Blum in 2005 for the Chicago White Sox. The Reds got both runs back in the eighth on Joe Morgan's RBI double off Grant Jackson after two leadoff singles and Foster's RBI single off Dick Tidrow.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
This game featured a slick defensive play by Grant Jackson in the top of the seventh. Johnny Bench hit a hard grounder up the middle which appeared to be a sure base hit, but Jackson speared the ball with his glove behind his back and retired Bench.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
This was the first World Series game at Yankee Stadium to open with opera star Robert Merrill's famous rendition of the National Anthem.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Yankees got on the board in the first (which would be their only lead in this Series) on a two-out Thurman Munson single and a Chris Chambliss double off of Gary Nolan. Munson would collect four hits in the game. In the fourth, Joe Morgan walked off of Ed Figueroa, stole second, and came home on a George Foster single. Johnny Bench followed with his first home run to give the Reds a 3–1 lead.


1976 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Yankees cut the lead to 3–2 in the fifth inning.when Mickey Rivers hit a leadoff single, stole second and scored on Munson's single, but the Reds padded that lead in the ninth. Figueroa walked two before being relieved by Dick Tidrow, who allowed a one-out three-run home run to Bench to extend the Reds' lead to 6–2. César Gerónimo and Dave Concepción followed with consecutive doubles to make 7–2 Reds. Will McEnaney pitched 2+1⁄3 shutout innings to end the series. It was the Reds' second-straight World Series victory and the second-straight time McEnaney would be on the mound for the Series' final out. It also, to date,  is the only perfect playoff season since the LCS was created in 1969.


1976 World Series, Composite box
1976 World Series (4–0): Cincinnati Reds (N.L.) beat New York Yankees (A.L. ).


1976 World Series, Broadcasting
This was the last of 30 consecutive World Series telecasts by NBC, which had aired the event since 1947; under Major League Baseball's new television contract, Series coverage would now alternate between NBC (in even-numbered years) and rival network ABC (in odd-numbered years) each year; this arrangement would end after the 1989 World Series, and CBS would hold exclusive rights to MLB games for the next four years. (A similar setup occurred between 1996 and 2000, when Series telecasts would alternate between NBC and Fox.) It was also the last time that local announcers for the participating teams (the Reds' Marty Brennaman and the Yankees' Phil Rizzuto, in this case) would be regularly featured on the network telecast.


1976 World Series, Broadcasting
This was the first of 21 consecutive World Series to be broadcast by CBS Radio.


1976 World Series of Poker
The 1976 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held in May 1976 at Binion's Horseshoe.


1976 World Series of Poker, Main Event
There were 22 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10K to enter the winner-take-all tournament. The 1976 Championship was the first WSOP Main Event to award the winner a gold bracelet along with the cash prize.


1976 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 1976 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were the first ever championships and took place between April 9 and 11, 1976 in Champaign, Illinois. The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.


1976 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Results, Men
* First place is awarded 5 points, second is awarded 3 points, third is awarded 2 points, fourth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.


1976 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Results, Women
* First place is awarded 5 points, second is awarded 3 points, third is awarded 2 points, fourth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.


1976 World Snooker Championship
The 1976 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1976 Embassy World Snooker Championship for sponsorship purposes) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place at two venues. This was the first world championship to be sponsored by Embassy; their sponsorship lasted for the next 30 years. Ray Reardon won in the final 27–16 against Alex Higgins.


1976 World Snooker Championship, Tournament detail
The leading 14 players in the Order of Merit received automatic entry to the final stages and were joined by two winners from the qualifying competition. The leading 8 in the Order of Merit were seeded.


1976 World Snooker Championship, Tournament detail
The Middlesbrough Town Hall in Middlesbrough staged the top half of the draw and the Wythenshawe Forum, Manchester, staged the bottom half and the final. The final was held over 4 days from 20 to 23 April.


1976 World Snooker Championship, Tournament detail
Champion Ray Reardon won 15–7 against John Dunning including breaks of 106, 81 and 71; Dennis Taylor 15–2 with a break of 115 in the last frame and then his semifinal against Perrie Mans by 20–10 with a top break of 133 plus runs of 85 and 70.


1976 World Snooker Championship, Tournament detail
The final, where Reardon had travelled to where Higgins had been playing, was a fractious affair with complaints from Reardon over the quality of the table and the TV lighting. Eventually, the referee was replaced after further complaints from the champion. Higgins had the better of the earlier exchanges, leading 4-2 and 10-9 before Reardon started to dictate both the pace and tactics. The Welshman eventually won, very comfortably, 27–16 to secure his fifth title.


1976 World Snooker Championship, Tournament detail
The highest break of the tournament was 138 made by John Spencer in his match against David Taylor. Earlier in the week Eddie Charlton had compiled a break of 137; however, it did not count as a record because the table was not up to standard.


1976 World Sports Acrobatics Championships
The 2nd World Sports Acrobatics Championships were held in Saarbrücken, West Germany, in 1976.


1976 World Sportscar Championship
The 1976 World Sports Car Championship (officially the World Championship for Sports Cars,) was a motor racing series open to Group 6 cars, (officially Two-Seater Racing Cars (Group 6)). The championship was contested over a seven race series which ran from 4 April to 19 September and included a secondary award, the 1976 FIA Cup for Cars up to 2 Litres. 1976 was the 24th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing.


1976 World Sportscar Championship
The championship was won by Porsche and the FIA Cup by Lola.


1976 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, Races
† - In the race, Ickx finished behind two Group 7 CanAm cars, but these large capacity cars were not eligible for Group 6 championship points.


1976 World Sportscar Championship, Results - 1976 World Championship for Sports Cars
Points were awarded to the top ten finishers in each race in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car in each race with no points awarded for any additional placing gained.


1976 World Sportscar Championship, Results - 1976 World Championship for Sports Cars
Only the best 5 points finishes per manufacturer could be retained towards the championship, with any other points earned not included in the totals. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the table below.


1976 World Sportscar Championship, Results - 1976 World Championship for Sports Cars, The cars
The following cars contributed to the nett championship pointscores of their respective manufacturers:


1976 World Sportscar Championship, FIA Cup for Cars up to 2 Litres
The 1976 FIA Cup for Cars up to 2 Litres was contested concurrently with the 1976 World Championship for Sports Cars.


1976 World Sportscar Championship, World Championship of Makes
For the 1976 season, the FIA chose to run two separate World Championships for "sportscars". Open-cockpit Group 6 cars would contest the new World Championship for Sports Cars, while production-based cars, including Group 5 Special Production Cars, would now contest the World Championship for Makes. The 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans, which was open to both types of cars, did not count towards either championship. The World Championship for Makes was won by Porsche.


1976 World Team Tennis season
The 1976 World Team Tennis season was the third season of the top professional team tennis league in the United States. Led by regular season and playoff male most valuable player Sandy Mayer and female playoff most valuable player Billie Jean King, the New York Sets swept the San Francisco Golden Gaters in the WTT Finals to win the league championship.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Competition format
The 1976 World Team Tennis season included 10 teams split into two divisions (Eastern and Western). Each team was scheduled to play a regular-season schedule of 44 matches.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Competition format
The top two teams in each division qualified for the playoffs and met each other in the division championship series. The first-place team was given a choice of hosting either the first and third or second and third matches of the series. The division champions met in the best-of-five World Team Tennis Finals with the lower seed hosting the first two matches and the higher seed hosting the remaining matches.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Competition format
Each match comprised one set each of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. Starting with this season, the order of play for the entire match was determined by the coach of the home team. Games were decided by the first player or doubles team to reach four points with no-ad scoring. Each set ended when one team had won either six or seven games and had an advantage over its opponent of at least two games. Sets that were tied 6–6 were decided by a tiebreaker.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Competition format
Set tiebreaker games were nine total points with the first player or doubles team to reach five the winner. An advantage of only one point was needed to win a tiebreaker game. Starting this season, if the team that won the final set was trailing in the match, the match went to overtime with the same players who participated in the final set remaining on the court. The leading team was required to win a game to end the match. If the match was tied at the end of five sets, or if the trailing team won enough games in overtime to tie the match, a super tiebreaker game was played between the players who participated in the final set using the same format as the set tiebreaker games.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Player draft
WTT conducted its player draft for the 1976 season on December 11, 1975, at the Essex House in New York City. Teams made their selections in reverse order of their regular-season finish from the 1975 season. The players chosen in the first five rounds of the draft are listed in the tables below. The biggest news at the draft was the trade of the rights to Ilie Năstase by the New York Sets immediately after they used their third-round pick on him, to the Hawaii Leis.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Player draft
Năstase expressed interest in playing WTT but not in New York, because New York fans had widely criticized him for his on-court behavior and emotional outbursts. The Sets had previously agreed to allow the Leis to negotiate with Năstase with compensation going from Hawaii to New York if the Leis were to reach a deal with him. The Leis immediately announced that they had signed Năstase to a one-year contract worth in excess of $100,000. Leis owner Don Kelleher would not describe the amount with any more specificity than, "It was six figures." The Leis sent undisclosed cash consideration and future draft picks to the Sets to complete the deal.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Playoff match results, WTT Finals
Of the total of 8 playoff matches, home teams won 5 and lost 3. The higher seeds had 3 wins and 1 loss in their 4 home matches. The higher seeds won 2 of the 3 matchups.


1976 World Team Tennis season, Individual statistical leaders
The table below shows the individual players and doubles teams who had the best winning percentages in each of the five events in WTT.


1976 World Team Tennis season, All-Star Classic
The 1976 WTT All-Star Classic was played on July 10, at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California. The West overcame a 21–17 deficit after four sets when Betty Stöve and Dianne Fromholtz beat Martina Navratilova and Virginia Wade in a tiebreaker and then proceeded to win three consecutive overtime games to send the match to a super tiebreaker. A crowd of 12,581 fans watched both teams make substitutions for the super tiebreaker. Chris Evert entered for Fromholtz, while Billie Jean King and Evonne Goolagong replaced Wade and Navratilova. Evert forced Goolagong into an error to seal the West victory.


1976 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1976 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 18 to July 27, 1976. There were 173 men in action from 46 nations.


1976 World Weightlifting Championships
This tournament was a part of 1976 Summer Olympics but counted as World Weightlifting Championships too. Only total medals counted for Olympic Games while Snatch and Clean & Jerk medals counts for World Weightlifting Championships.


1976 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


1976 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1976 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. In their second and final season under head coach Fred Akers, the Cowboys were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games on campus at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.


1976 Wyoming Cowboys football team
Wyoming compiled an 8–4 record, tied for the WAC championship (6–1), lost to Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, and outscored their opponents 278 to 250. The team's statistical leaders included Don Clayton with 409 passing yards, Robbie Wright with 718 rushing yards, Walter Howard with 305 receiving yards, and Dan Christopulos with 53 points scored.


1976 Wyoming Cowboys football team
It was Wyoming's first winning season since 1969 and first bowl appearance since the Sugar Bowl in January 1968. Akers soon departed for the University of Texas and the Cowboys' next winning season was in 1980; the next bowl appearance was in December 1987.


1976 XII FIBA International Christmas Tournament
The 1976 XII FIBA International Christmas Tournament "Trofeo Raimundo Saporta" was the 12th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1976 with the participations of Real Madrid (runners-up of the 1975–76 FIBA European Champions Cup), Tennessee Volunteers, Cavigal Nice and Africa Selection.


1976 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1976 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. The Bulldogs were led by 12th-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for first place in the Ivy League with a 6–1 record, 8–1 overall.


1976 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1976 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1976 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 23 May 1976 at the Opatija circuit.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
On 10 September 1976, British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia), with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany. The collision was the result of a procedural error on the part of Zagreb air traffic controllers.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
All 176 people aboard the two aircraft were killed, making it, at the time, the world's deadliest mid-air collision. It is the deadliest aviation accident in both Croatia and Yugoslavia.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Flights
British Airways Flight 476 departed London Heathrow Airport for Istanbul Atatürk Airport at 08:32 UTC as flight BA476, with 54 passengers on board and a crew of 9. At the controls of the Trident 3B was an experienced captain, Dennis Tann (born 1932), who by the time of the accident had accumulated 10,781 flying hours. He was assisted by first officer Brian Helm and flight engineer Martin Flint.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Flights
Inex-Adria Flight 550 departed Split Airport at 09:48 UTC bound for Cologne Bonn Airport as flight JP550. It carried 108 passengers, mostly German holiday-makers returning home at the end of a holiday on the Dalmatian coast, and a crew of 5. At the controls sat captain Jože Krumpak (born 1925), an experienced pilot with 10,157 flying hours, and first officer Dušan Ivanuš. Inex-Adria was a charter airline based in Slovenia, the northernmost of the constituent republics making up the federation of Yugoslavia.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Flights
Both flights proceeded uneventfully until they approached the Zagreb VOR.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Air traffic control
In the mid-1970s, the Zagreb air traffic control region was one of the busiest in Europe despite being seriously undermanned and poorly equipped. The Zagreb VOR was a reporting point for a number of congested airways between northern Europe and southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. The airspace was divided into three sectors by altitude: the lower sector below 25,000 feet (7,600 m), the middle sector from 25,000–31,000 feet (7,600–9,400 m), and the upper sector above 31,000 feet (9,400 m).


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
On entering Yugoslav airspace from Austria, BA476 established radio contact with the Zagreb ACC upper-sector controller Gradimir Tasić at 10:04:12 UTC, informing him that they were at Flight Level 330 (33,000 ft; 10,050 m)  and expected to reach the Zagreb VOR at 10:14. The controller responded by instructing them to select transponder code 2312, and to call again on reaching the VOR:


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
This was the last communication with the Trident aircraft before the accident.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
At around the same time, JP550 contacted middle-sector controller Bojan Erjavec asking for a higher flight level; the aircraft was at FL260 (26,000 ft; 7,900 m) . FL280 and FL310 were unavailable, so Erjavec informed JP550 of the situation and offered FL350 (35,000 ft; 10,650 m) , which the pilots accepted. To get clearance for a higher level, it was necessary to obtain the permission of the upper-sector controller.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
Erjavec waved his hand to get Tasić's attention, but Tasić (who was working the upper sector on his own, as co-worker Mladen Hochberger had gone to search for Nenad Tepeš, Tasić's replacement who was running late) was far too busy to be interrupted. Middle sector controller Gradimir Pelin was then instructed to co-ordinate the climbout for the DC-9 with Tasić.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
According to Pelin, he walked to the upper sector console holding JP550's flight progress strip. He asked Tasić if the DC-9 could climb to FL350. Tasić took the strip from Pelin and looked at it, then asked where the aircraft was at the moment. Pelin then pointed to a blip on the screen approaching Kostajnica. Tasić's response was 'yes, it could climb'. Pelin then noticed an aircraft on the screen coming from the direction of Metlika and asked Tasić about it, who said 'wait until they cross'.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
Pelin referred to the middle-sector screen to make sure that he had identified the DC-9 positively on the upper-sector screen. He then returned to Tasić and they both watched the targets pass each other, at which point Tasić authorised JP550 to climb. Pelin then called out to Erjavec and said 'yes, climb it'. Upon Erjavec receiving the OK from Pelin, he instructed the DC-9 to climb to FL350. That was at 10:07:40.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
At 10:12:03, JP550 called the Zagreb middle-sector controller to inform them that the aircraft was out of flight level 310. The last instructions given by Erjavec to JP550 were to call the upper-sector controller on 134.45 MHz and to stop squawking the assigned squawk code. By instructing JP550 to squawk Standby, Erjavec simply released a code allocated for the middle sector. The data tag for the DC-9 would now disappear from his screen and the aircraft would become merely a point among many others.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
If everything about this handover had been normal, the DC-9 would have been given a new code on initial contact with the upper sector controller and would have been positively identified on the upper sector screen with its flight number and altitude readout. But this had not been a normal handover because of the ill-handled co-ordination for the climb. Also, Tasić was busy with other traffic and JP550 did not immediately contact the upper-sector controller. This could have been because the frequency was busy, but the pilots might also have delayed the call for some unknown reason.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
By the time JP550 contacted the upper-sector controller at 10:14:04 it had reached the Zagreb VOR and was already climbing through FL325 (32,500 ft; 9,900 m) . The controller immediately asked for confirmation of the aircraft's level:


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
Realising the imminent danger of collision, Tasić instructed the JP550 to stop climbing. In doing so, he reverted to his native Serbo-Croatian language, contrary to the regulations. This meant that the British Airways plane, even if they overheard this conversation, would have very little chance of understanding their own imminent danger. The controller's last-ditch attempt to avert catastrophe turned what would have been a near miss into the collision he was trying to prevent. For, by the time JP550 had levelled off it was at flight level 330, exactly the same level as BA476:


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
The mid-air collision occurred at 10:14:41. Half a minute later, Tasić attempted to call BA476 and instruct it to report passing the next waypoint at Našice, but was answered by a different flight:


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
Tasić continued to call BA476 and JP550, ignoring calls from other aircraft, but to no avail:


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
Meanwhile, a Lufthansa Boeing 737 was travelling eastbound on UB5 at flight level 290 towards Zagreb, only 15 miles behind the Trident. The co-pilot saw the collision as a flash of lightning and afterwards, out of a ball of smoke, two aircraft falling towards the ground. The Lufthansa captain, Josef Kröse, reported the sighting to Erjavec, the middle-sector controller.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
This was spoken in such an agitated voice that Erjavec was unable to understand what was being said. (Later, on hearing the recording of this call, Captain Kröse had difficulty in understanding his own words.) The Lufthansa captain had to repeat his message several times.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
When the implications of what was being said dawned on Erjavec, he glanced across to the upper-sector controller. At his station sat a stunned Tasić, white-faced with shock. Slowly he lifted the headset from his ears and placed it on the console in front of him.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident
The two aircraft had collided over the town of Vrbovec, northeast of Zagreb, the last five metres of the DC-9's left wing cutting through the Trident's cockpit section and forward passenger compartment. The explosive decompression caused the forward part of the Trident's fuselage to disintegrate; the Trident fell, landing on its tail and sliding a short distance before its remains came to rest near village Gaj. The DC-9, now without over one-third of its left wing, went into an immediate nose-dive and slammed into the ground right-wing first, near village Dvorišće. In the end, everyone aboard both flights was killed.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Accident, Initial survivors
A police officer who was one of the first to arrive at the scene reported that a baby on the ground was "still giving feeble signs of life near the [British] plane, but even if the ambulances had arrived before me, it would have been too late to save it." Locals reported finding a boy, who was lying on road near field, and who was giving a signs of life up to 15 minutes after the falling to the ground, but he eventually died.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Trial
By noon that day, all controllers were in custody for interrogation. Later, all were released except Tasić, who remained in custody until the trial.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Trial
The trial opened on 11 April 1977 in Zagreb District Court. All the controllers were indicted under the Penal Code of Yugoslavia, Articles 271-72 as "persons who by endangering railway, sea or air traffic, threaten the lives of persons or property".


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Trial
Tasić was the only one to be found guilty; he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. After a petition by air traffic controllers, it was determined that Tasić had been used as a scapegoat, and he was released on 29 November 1978. He had served nearly two years and three months in prison.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, In popular culture
A dramatised reconstruction of the events leading up to the accident, starring Antony Sher and entitled Collision Course, was made by Granada Television in 1979.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, In popular culture
The events of the accident are also documented in a season 1 episode of Aircrash Confidential titled "Collisions", which was first aired on the Discovery Channel in 2011.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
In August–November 1976, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case was from Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District, 1,098 kilometres (682 mi) northeast of the capital city of Kinshasa.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
The virus responsible for the initial outbreak, named after the nearby Ebola River, was first thought to be Marburg virus but was later identified as a new type of virus related to the genus Marburgvirus.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
A total of 318 cases and 280 deaths (an 88% fatality rate) resulted from this outbreak, which, along with an outbreak in Sudan that had begun a few weeks previously, were the first outbreaks of Ebola ever recorded.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
The people of the north-central Zaire area were most heavily affected by this specific epidemic. This area is located within the Bumba Zone that is in the Equator Region which consists mostly of tropical rainforests in the biome, as the villages were established along the Zaire River. Over this region, there were approximately 35,000 Zarieans and 275,000 people in the entire Bumba Zone and three-quarters of the Zaire population lived in forest villages. Each of the forest villages had approximately less than 5,000 people in the population, and the even smaller villages had less than 500.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
The topography of the river runs along the border on the Southside of the country, and this was important in the context of the Ebola epidemic, as it separated the areas geographically. The people of Zaire were usually hunters, or in contact with hunters that were exposed to an array of wild animals. This was not the suspected cause for the outbreak but was considered a possible outbreak cause for some time. Because the cause of the outbreak initially was unknown, many patients to fall ill were diagnosed with or treated for malaria, yellow fever, and typhoid fever.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
Mabalo Lokela, the headmaster of a local school in Yambuku, was the first case of the 1976 outbreak in Zaire. Lokela had toured with a Yambuku mission in August 1976 near the Central African Republic border and along the Ebola River.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
Lokela was initially diagnosed with malaria at the Yambuku Mission Hospital and given quinine. However, Lokela returned to the mission hospital on 1 September with a high fever. Rest was recommended, and he returned home to his village of Yalikonde, about one kilometer from the mission complex. By 5 September, Lokela was in a critical condition with profuse bleeding from all orifices, vomiting, acute diarrhea, chest pains, headache, fever and in an agitated and confused state. Lokela died shortly afterwards on 8 September. On 28 August, a second man presented symptoms, claiming he was from the nearby village of Yandongi.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
He left the hospital on 30 August, as no clear cause could be identified from his symptoms, and was not seen again. On the same day, Yombe Ngongo, a patient at the hospital receiving treatment for anemia, checked out of the hospital and returned to her village. She soon fell seriously ill, and was tended to by her younger sister Euza. Yombe Ngongo died on 7 September, and her sister Euza followed on 9 September.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
Soon after Lokela's visit, a number of other cases were presented at the Yambuku Mission Hospital. A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that "almost all subsequent infections had either received injections at the hospital or had had close contact with another case." Shortly after family members prepared his body for burial, in accordance with local customs, 21 of Lokela's friends and relatives fell seriously ill and 18 later died.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History
Yambuku Mission Hospital was a remote Catholic hospital and had no doctors and no laboratory facilities to aid in diagnosis. This, as well as the lack of communication ability, contributed to this Mission Hospital being isolated from Kinshasa, and unable to receive more resources until the Minister of Health sent out an International Commission to investigate further. Treatment of the disease was conducted by four Belgian nuns, a priest, one female nurse from Zaire, and seven male Zaireians. Urgent pleas for assistance were sent out on 12 September. On 15 September, the first doctor to arrive, Mgoi Mushola, prepared a report in which he noted that none of the many treatments provided met with success; this was the first formal description of Ebola virus disease.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
The International Commission team worked with the nurses for interpreting and processing standardized pre-coded forms. These forms included clinical questionnaires, as well as, many epidemiological features such as: asking for the sex and age of the person and asking to list out relatives that would also fill out a form. Through this form, the team was able to construct a control group to compare with the Ebola patients, by matching similar traits, thus helping them construct their epidemiological study.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
The team needed to figure out how this disease was spreading in order to make a plan of attack against the virus. Because of the uncertainty of the infection route, the team placed a quarantine over the region of the Bumba Zone that was most concerning within two days after the hospital’s closure in October. The motivation for this quick quarantine was largely due to the intense nature of the symptoms and rapid progression of this disease.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
Unfortunately, there was a lot of resistance from people to help out the team and situation because of the fear associated with the unknown infection route of this disease. Since all of the infection route possibilities were in contention, they had to start narrowing down the potential infection pathways. The team noted that the cases had distinct patterns when drawn out into an epidemic curve that showed a clear correlation between the disease and women between the age of 18 and 25.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
The Mission Hospital had only 120 beds available and a staff of just 17 nurses that were directed by a paramedical assistant, not a doctor. This hospital primarily saw patients from the Yandongi country, but they had also attracted patients from the outer Bumba Zone because this hospital was considered relatively well-stocked and supplied with a good amount of staff for the area. They were already very limited in disease containment abilities because of these factors, but they also generally saw anywhere between 6,000 and 12,000 patients a month for general care. This is another reason why the quarantine was so necessary during the time of the Ebola epidemic at this hospital.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
Peter Piot, a microbiologist and physician who investigated the ensuing epidemic, concluded that it was inadvertently caused by the Sisters of Yambuku Mission Hospital, who had given unnecessary vitamin injections to pregnant women in their prenatal clinic without sterilizing the needles and syringes. There were five total syringes and needles that were being used by this nursing staff for multiple days. These medical materials were rinsed between uses with the use of only warm water. Then, at the end of their shift, the nurses would boil the needles and syringes in water, and no other sterilization methods were utilized.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
This was not an effective enough sterilization process as the Ebola virus was able to be spread from an initial unidentified infected person and spread through this hospital. The International Commission team was able to back up this theory by their epidemiological study showing a correlation between injection history and Ebola cases and then consequently the spreading through person to person.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
In all, 318 cases of Ebola were identified in Zaire, and 280 resulted in death. An additional 284 cases and 151 deaths occurred in nearby South Sudan in an unrelated outbreak. Yambuku Mission Hospital was closed after 11 of its 17 staff members died. Belgian nuns serving the community were also infected, and two of them died, along with Mayinga N'Seka, a Zairean nurse, after the group was transported to Kinshasa. With assistance from the WHO, the outbreak was eventually contained by quarantining local villagers in their communities, sterilizing medical equipment, and providing protective clothing to medical personnel.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
The small Congolese Air Force provided helicopters to allow the outbreak team to visit 550 villages in the area. Cases were documented in 55 of the 550 villages surveyed. The majority of cases were detected in the first four weeks of September, and the last detected probable case died on 5 November 1976.


1976 Zaire Ebola virus outbreak, History, Epidemiology
The table below summarizes the eleven outbreaks that have occurred in the DRC since 1976:


1976 in Afghanistan
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Afghanistan.


1976 in Afghanistan
President Daud Khan pursues schemes of economic development and agricultural improvements with substantial aid from China, the U.S.S.R., Iran, and Kuwait, partly in the form of long-term loans and partly in technical aid.


1976 in Afghanistan, April 1976
Floods and earthquakes devastate the provinces of Herat, Helmand, and Kandahar. Pakistan sends a message of sympathy and contributes substantially to relief operations, indicating a marked relaxation of the previously mounting tension between the two countries, largely due to persuasion by Pres. Nikolai Podgorny of the Soviet Union and the Shah of Iran. By mutual consent, both countries refrain from hostile propaganda.


1976 in Afghanistan, June 7–11, 1976
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan visits Kabul. There, both countries undertake to follow principles of respect for territorial integrity and noninterference in internal affairs set forth by the 1955 Bandung Conference of Asian and African nations.


1976 in Afghanistan, August 20–24, 1976
Daud Khan pays a return visit to Islamabad. He and Bhutto reach tentative agreement on a solution to the Pashtunistan problem.


1976 in Afghanistan, End of November 1976
An attempted coup, instigated by discontented retired officers and led by a retired general, Mir Ahmad Shah, is discovered and some 50 persons are arrested.


1976 in American television
This is a list of American television-related events in 1976.


1976 in American television, Programs
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1976 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Australia.


1976 in Australia, Television
Nine Network soap operas The Young Doctors and The Sullivans both begin on air in November.


1976 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1976.


1976 in Australian literature, Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1976 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


1976 in Australian literature, Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1976 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


1976 in Australian television
This is a list of Australian television-related events in 1976.


1976 in Bangladesh
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th  year of the 20th century, and the  7th   year of the 1970s decade.


1976 in Bangladesh
The year 1976 was the 5th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the year when Gen Ziaur Rahman consolidated his power and proceeded to become the President.


1976 in Bangladesh, Economy
Note: For the year 1976 average official exchange rate for BDT was 15.40 per US$.


1976 in Bangladesh, Events, Awards and recognitions
In the year 1976, the first year of the award, 9 individuals were awarded Ekushey Padak in recognition of their contribution to different fields:


1976 in Belgian television
This is a list of Belgian television related events from 1976.


1976 in Brazilian football
The following article presents a summary of the 1976 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 75th season of competitive football in the country.


1976 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1976.


1976 in Brazilian television
This is a list of Brazilian television related events from 1976.


1976 in British music
This is a summary of 1976 in music of all genres in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.


1976 in British music, Overview
This year saw the emergence of disco as a force to be reckoned with, a trend which would hold for the rest of the decade and peak in the last two years. This was also the year which truly established ABBA as the top selling act of the decade with them achieving their second, third and fourth number ones (as well as releasing the biggest-selling album of the year).


1976 in British music, Overview
The ABBA formula was also replicated in the biggest-selling song of the year - the Eurovision-winning "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man, who began a three-year run in the UK charts from 1976. Other acts to achieve notable firsts were Elton John, who scored his first UK number one single this year (albeit as a duet with Kiki Dee), Showaddywaddy had their first and only number one and long-standing hitmaker Johnny Mathis also scored his biggest hit this year. The album charts saw TV advertising become a major factor in changing the landscape of big sellers with non-regular singles artists achieving high sales with compilations. Among these were Slim Whitman, Bert Weedon, Glen Campbell and The Beach Boys, who remained at number one for ten consecutive weeks.


1976 in British music, Overview
Also emerging this year was a new trend, which became known as punk rock. This was little evident on the charts as yet, and was more a lifestyle choice, but would become much more significant the following year, as many new acts who typified the trend came onto the scene.


1976 in British music, Overview
Overall, 1976 is not considered a vintage year by music critics, with its overwhelming dominance by pop and MOR acts. Certainly, many consider 1976 to be the nadir of British music and hold the year's charts up to be the very reason why Punk and New Wave music emerged with such force the following year.


1976 in British music, Overview
Britain's foremost classical composers of the late 20th century, including Sir William Walton, Benjamin Britten and Sir Michael Tippett, were still active. Sir Charles Groves conducted the Last Night of the Proms, and the soloist for "Rule Britannia" was contralto Anne Collins; the programme included Walton's Portsmouth Point overture.


1976 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums
The list of the top fifty best-selling albums of 1976 were published in Music Week and in Record Mirror at the end of the year, and reproduced in the second edition of the BPI Year Book in 1977. However, in 2007 the Official Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1976 is shown in the table below.


1976 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1976.


1976 in British television
This is a list of British television-related events in 1976.


1976 in British television, Continuing television shows
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1976 in Cambodia
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Cambodia.


1976 in Canadian television
The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1976. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.


1976 in Cape Verde
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Cape Verde.


1976 in Chile
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Chile.


1976 in Croatian television
This is a list of Croatian television related events from 1976.


1976 in Croatian television, Deaths
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1976 in Danish television
This is a list of Danish television related events from 1976.


1976 in Dutch television
This is a list of Dutch television related events from 1976.


1976 in Estonia
This article lists events that occurred during 1976 in Estonia.


1976 in Estonian television
This is a list of Estonian television related events from 1976.


1976 in French television
This is a list of French television related events from 1976.


1976 in German television
This is a list of German television related events from 1976.


1976 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 1976 in Iceland.


1976 in India
Events in the year 1976 in the Republic of India.


1976 in Irish television
The following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1976.


1976 in Israel, Events, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1976 include:


1976 in Israel, Events, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1976 include:


1976 in Israel, Events, Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1976 include:


1976 in Italian television
This is a list of Italian television related events from 1976.


1976 in Italian television, Events
1976 is the year of three turning points in the history of Italian television: the reform of RAI, the official beginning of the color broadcastings by RAI, and the birth of the private channels on air.


1976 in Italian television, Debuts, News and educational
On Rai Uno debut, for the Friuli earthquake, of the magazine Speciale TG1 (again today on air). The empowered Rai Due gets, beyond its news (TG2), its magazine (TG2 dossier), its sport magazine (Domenica Sprint) and its weather program (Meteo 2).


1976 in Japan
Events in the year 1976 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 51 (昭和51年) in the Japanese calendar.


1976 in LGBT rights
This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1976.


1976 in Laos
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Laos.


1976 in Luxembourg
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.


1976 in Malaysia
This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1976, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.


1976 in Michigan
The Associated Press (AP) selected the top Michigan news stories of 1976 as follows:


1976 in Michigan
The AP also selected the state's top sports stories as follows:


1976 in Michigan, Population
In the 1970 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 8,875,083 persons, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1980, the state's population had grown 4.4% to 9,262,078 persons.


1976 in Michigan, Population, Cities
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 70,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.


1976 in Michigan, Population, Counties
The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 120,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.


1976 in Michigan, Music
Albums and singles by Michigan artists or centered on Michigan topics that were released or became hits in 1976 include the following:


1976 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in New Zealand.


1976 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Radio and television
See : 1976 in New Zealand television, 1976 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand


1976 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film
See : Category:1976 film awards, 1976 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1976 films


1976 in New Zealand television
This is a list of New Zealand television-related events in 1976.


1976 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1976 in Norwegian music.


1976 in Portugal, Culture
Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with Carlos do Carmo and the song "Uma flor de verde pinho".


1976 in Portugal, Sports
In association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1975–76 Primeira Divisão and 1976–77 Primeira Divisão. The final of the Taça de Portugal was on 13 June.


1976 in Rhodesia
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Rhodesia.


1976 in Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 1976.


1976 in Singapore
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Singapore.


1976 in Singapore, Events, Date unknown
- The Queensway Shopping Centre is opened as a sports mall. The mall also hosts Singapore's first public escalators.


1976 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in South Africa.


1976 in South Africa, Railways, Locomotives
Three new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways:


1976 in South African television
This is a list of South African television-related events in 1976.


1976 in Swedish football
The 1976 season in Swedish football, starting April 1976 and ending November 1976:


1976 in Taiwan
Events from the year 1976 in Taiwan. This year is numbered Minguo 65 according to the official Republic of China calendar.


1976 in Thailand
The year 1976 was the 195th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 31st year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2519 in the Buddhist Era. It is most significantly marked by the Thammasat University massacre on 6 October, which brought an end to a three-year period of civilian rule.


1976 in Thailand, Incumbents
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1976 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.


1976 in Zaire
The following lists events that happened during 1976 in Zaire.


1976 in architecture
The year 1976 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


1976 in association football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1976 throughout the world.


1976 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1976  throughout the world.


1976 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 1976  throughout the world.


1976 in basketball
Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.


1976 in basketball, 1976 Olympics
The United States men's team won its eighth Gold medal in nine competitions. This was the first time that Women's basketball was played at the Summer Olympics.


1976 in comics
Notable events of 1976 in comics. See also List of years in comics. This is a list of comics-related events in 1976.


1976 in comics, Awards, Eagle Awards
Two British comics fans, Mike Conroy and Richard Burton, create the Eagle Awards, named after the long-running Brish comic title Eagle. The first set of awards are presented in 1977 at Comicon '77 for comics published in 1976:


1976 in comics, First issues by title, Other publishers
Release: December by Mondadori. Reprint of classic Donald Duck’s stories.


1976 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1976.


1976 in film, Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:


1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1976 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.


1976 in games
This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1976. For video games, see 1976 in video gaming.


1976 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1976.


1976 in ice hockey
The following is a chronicle of events during the year 1976 in ice hockey.


1976 in ice hockey, Olympics
The men's tournament  at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was the 13th Olympic Championship. The Soviet Union won its fifth gold medal. Czechoslovakia gained the silver, while West Germany obtained the bronze medal. Games were held at the Olympiahalle Innsbruck. Vladimir Shadrin was the scoring champion with 14 points.


1976 in ice hockey, Women's hockey
The Bishops University Gaiters women's ice hockey team hosted a Women's Invitational Hockey Tournament. The participants also included John Abbott College, University of New Brunswick Red Blazers and Dawson College. John Abbott captured the championship, while Bishop's defeated Dawson College in double overtime for third place.


1976 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1976.


1976 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976.


1976 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 1976 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


1976 in motorsport, Annual events
The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.


1976 in music
A list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1976.


1976 in music, Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1976.


1976 in music, Other hit singles
Most of these singles were top 20 in either the US or the UK.