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What Happend in March of 1976
March 2 Bob Lurie becomes CEO of San Francisco Giants; "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 766 performances;
Holgate, Kemp and Lopez' musical premieres in New York City; Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest
March 3 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
March 4 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio; San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
March 5 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time
March 6 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova and Gorshkov (URS); Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina and Zaitsev (URS); Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB);
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
March 7 Morocco and Mauretania break diplomatic relations with Algeria
March 8 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
March 9 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy; Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
March 12 South African troops leave Angola
March 14 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race; U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 15 Failed coup in Niger
March 16 British premier Harold Wilson resigns
March 17 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76); Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried; U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
March 19 Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
March 20 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.70); March 20 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
March 23 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
March 24 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
March 25 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties; "My Fair Lady" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 384 performances;
"Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City for 48 performances
March 26 AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M; Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
March 27 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title; Washington D.C. underground Metro opens
March 29 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68; 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
March 30 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
March 31 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth; New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
Figured we would share the above history as to jog our memories....
