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| 1975 |
| | | Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr appoints Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Franco dies and is succeeded as Spanish head of state by Juan Carlos, heir to the Bourbon throne | |
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| 1975 |
| | | English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Surinam wins independence from the Dutch, with Johan Ferrier as the first president | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Robert Muldoon is prime minister of New Zealand after a National Party ;election victory | |
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| 1975 |
| | | In Angola the USA and USSR fund rival guerrilla groups, MPLA and UNITA | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia begins decades of guerrilla resistance and brutal repression | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Canadian novelist Robertson Davies completes his semi-autobiographical Deptford Trilogy | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Malcolm Fraser becomes the Australian prime minister, winning the first of three general election victories | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Cuban troops, sent by Castro to Angola, clash with South African forces attempting to combat communism | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mikhail Baryshnikov dances in the New York premiere of Twyla Tharp's ballet Push Comes to Shove | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Nkomo and Mugabe merge their guerrilla troops in a more effective disruptive force, to be known as the Patriotic Front | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Portugal adopts a democratic constitution after 43 years of dicatorship | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Harold Wilson unexpectedly resigns as the British prime minister and is succeeded by James Callaghan | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 14-year-old Jodie Foster stars as a drug-addicted child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mary Leakey and her team find footprints, about 3.6 million years old, of bipedal hominids walking upright at Laetoli in Tanzania | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The UN entrusts the Western Sahara to joint administration by Morocco and Mauritania | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII | |
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| 1976 |
| | | A guerrilla movement, with Rhodesian backing, launches a long civil war against Frelimo in Mozambique | |
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| 1976 |
| | | A military coup in Argentina brings to an end the two-year presidency of Juan Perón's widow, Isabelita | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The Polisario, as a government-in-exile in Algeria, proclaim the independence of Western Sahara as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London, | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Hundreds of deaths and casualties result from police firing on a demonstration by schoolchildren in the black township of Soweto | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century | |
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| 1976 |
| | | In a daring raid on Entebbe airport, Israeli troops rescue hostages hijacked on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 1 detaches from the orbiter and makes a successful landing on Mars | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Liverpool football player Kevin Keegan begins six years as captain of England | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Black American author Alex Haley traces his family origins in Africa in Roots | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 333 days after leaving Earth, the landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 2 touches down on Mars and begins sending back photographs | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mao Zedong dies in Beijing, at the age of 82, and lies in state in the Great Hall of the People | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Bulgarian-born US artist Christo (Christo Javacheff) constructs a 24-mile Running Fence in California | |
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