What happened onMarch 2, 1976Tuesday Week 10

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March 2 is a Tuesday again in 1982.

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The World in 1976 the year a scoreboard could not show a ten

When Nadia Comaneci earned a perfect ten in Montreal, the scoreboard showed 1.00 instead. It had only three digits, because the people who built it never expected anyone to score a ten.

Life back then

American towns painted fire hydrants red, white and blue for the country's two hundredth birthday, and tall ships sailed into New York harbor on the Fourth of July. Drivers chatted to strangers on CB radio, picking a handle instead of using a name, and the slang leaked into hit songs. Home computers were still bare circuit boards ordered from magazine ads and soldered at the kitchen table. Britain baked through a rainless summer that dried the reservoirs, and by December punk bands were swearing on teatime television.

The year in 8 events

• ✈️Jan 21 Concorde carries paying passengers for the first time. Two jets leave London and Paris the same morning.
• 🗳️Mar 16 Harold Wilson suddenly resigns as Britain's prime minister. James Callaghan takes over in April.
• 🍎Apr 1 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne start Apple Computer.
• 🕯️Jun 16 Police open fire on student marchers in Soweto, South Africa. Protests spread across the country.
• 🎆Jul 4 The United States marks 200 years since the Declaration of Independence.
• 🔭Jul 20 Viking 1 lands on Mars and sends back the first pictures taken from the surface.
• 🕯️Jul 28 An earthquake flattens Tangshan in China while the city sleeps. Hundreds of thousands are killed.
• 🏛️Sep 9 Mao Zedong dies in Beijing after leading China for 27 years.

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