World Events

MUS 150 Final Project: BOSTON

World Events

In other 1976 news...

United States:

- Apple Company is created

- Jimmy Carter is elected President

- United States celebrates its Bicentennial Anniversary

- Seattle Seahawks and Toronto Blue Jays are formed

- ABA and NBA merger

- Hurricane Carter is retried

- The Ramones release their first album

Science and Technology:

- First space shuttle is built

- First megamouth shark is discovered near Oahu

- First laser printer introduced by IBM

- First commercial supercomputer becomes available

- Viking 1 and 2 land on Mars

- UK's Great Heat Wave reaches its peak

World News:

- North and South Vietnam are united

- Argentina deposes their president

- UK's prime minister resigns

- Tiananmen Square

- CN tower built

- Mao Zedong dies

- U2 is formed

Art and Literature:

- Saul Bellow wins Nobel Literature Prize

- The Grey King by Susan Cooper wins the Newberry Medal

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