March 1976 calendar

Events

• 02 Mar 1976 Bubbling Brown Sugar opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 766 performances
• 03 Mar 1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia.
• 04 Mar 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes in Toledo, Ohio.
• 06 Mar 1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov
• 07 Mar 1976 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria.
• 09 Mar 1976 First female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy.
• 11 Mar 1976 Near Newport, Rhode Island, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake occurs.
• 12 Mar 1976 South African troops leave Angola.
• 13 Mar 1976 Mozambique recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
• 14 Mar 1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race.
• 15 Mar 1976 Failed coup in Nigeria.
• 16 Mar 1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
• 17 Mar 1976 Rubin Hurricane Carter is retried
• 19 Mar 1976 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years.
• 20 Mar 1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
• 23 Mar 1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect
• 24 Mar 1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Peron and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
• 25 Mar 1976 My Fair Lady opens at St. James Theater NYC for 384 performances
• 26 Mar 1976 Wings release Wings at the Speed of Sound album
• 27 Mar 1976 Washington DC underground Metro opens
• 29 Mar 1976 Eight Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting four Kent State students.
• 30 Mar 1976 Israel kills six Palestinians protesting land confiscation.
• 31 Mar 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their first ever NBA playoff berth.

Famous Birthday

• Reese Witherspoon

  American actress.

• Chester Bennington

  American musician (Linkin Park).

• Brittany Daniel

  American actress.

• Peyton Manning

  American football player.

• Yamila Diaz
• Keri Russell

  American actress.

• Freddie Jr Prinze
• Alexandra Pastor
• Giovanna Antonelli

  Brazilian actress and producer.

• Amy Smart

  American actress.

• Alessandro Nesta

  Italian footballer.

• Wladimir Klitschko

  Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer.

• Michelle Monaghan

  American actress.

• Rachel Blanchard

  Canadian actress.

• Shirley Bousquet
• Elisa Tovati

  French singer and actress, formerly TV presenter, born to parents of Russo-Moroccan Jewish origins.

• Laure Delattre
• Jennifer Capriati

  American tennis champion by the age of 16, beating Chanda Rubin at Wimbledon June 1992.

• Mélanie Coste
• Christi Taylor
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Famous Deaths

• Paul Kossoff

  English guitarist and songwriter (Free Black Cat Bones and Back Street Crawler) (d. 1976).

• Arthur Crudup

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976).

• Jean Martinon

  French musician, conductor, violinist, composer.

• Robert de Roos

  Composer, dies at 69.

• George Sklavos

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Nelson Case

  TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66.

• Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg

  Actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99.

• Michael Goodliffe

  Actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61.

• Martha Saalfeldt

  Writer.

• Walter H Schottky

  German physicist (Born 1886).

• Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom

  American boxer and actor (Born 1903).

• Lin Yutang

  Chinese writer (Born 1895).

• "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom

  light-heavyweight boxing champion (1932-34), dies at age 71.

• Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue]

  Dutch comedian/poet, dies at age 77.

• Alberta Franklin

  silent screen actress, dies at age 79.

• Bernard L Montgomery

  British General, defeated Rommel, dies at age 88.

• John Marvin Jones

  Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (Born 1882).

• Nikolai Semashko

  Soviet sports administrator (Born 1907).

• Jim Walsh

  American basketball player (Born 1930).

• Giuseppe Genco Russo

  Sicilian mafioso (Born 1893).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Miracles - Love Machine (Part 1)
2. The Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
3. Eric Carmen - All By Myself
4. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
5. Captain and Tennille - Lonely Night (Angel Face)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Tina Charles - I Love To Love
2. The Four Seasons - December '63
3. Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
4. CW McCall - Convoy
5. Brotherhood Of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me