Fairhaven High School Class of 1976

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....

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