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1976
• On 16 March, British Labour prime minister Harold Wilson suddenly resigns, giving no reason. He is succeeded by James Callaghan. • The Cod War ends with fishing agreement between Iceland and Britain. • On 4 July, a force of Israeli commandos raids Entebbe airport in Uganda, freeing 98 hostages from the terrorist hijacking of an Air France flight (27 June). • On 9 September, Mao Zedong dies in Beijing. A power struggle begins between moderates such as Deng Xiaoping and his widow, Jiang Qing, one of the 'Gang of Four' hard-liners. Jiang and the other members of the 'gang' are arrested and denounced on 7 October. • On 2 November, Democrat Jimmy Carter wins the US presidential election over the incumbent Gerald Ford. • The Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airplane makes its first transatlantic flights on 21 January. • Apple Computers is founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. • American film-maker Martin Scorsese makes Taxi Driver, a violent film about an alienated Vietnam War veteran. • Alex Haley publishes Roots, an account of the family of a black slave who is transported from Africa to the United States. It enormously increases the popularity of genealogy. |
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