Major Events of 1976

• Raid on Entebee
• Apple II Introduced

Academy Awards

Best Picture: "Rocky" Best Director: John G. Avildsen ... "Rocky"
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson ... Peter Finch ... "Network" Best Actress: Faye Dunaway ... "Network"

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year:"This Masquerade" ... George Benson
Best Song: "I Write the Songs" ... Bruce Johnson
Best Album: "Songs in the Key of Life" ... Stevie Wonder
Male Vocalist: Paul Simon ...Stevie Wonder ... "Songs in the Key of Life"
Female Vocalist: Linda Ronstadt ... "Hasten Down the Wind"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM N., U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1919:

"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of
chemical bonding"
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Literature

BELLOW, SAUL, U.S.A., b. 1915:

"for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture
that are combined in his work"
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WILLIAMS, BETTY, Northern Ireland, b. 1944; and

CORRIGAN, MAIREAD, Northern Ireland, b. 1944: Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
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The prize was awarded jointly to:

BLUMBERG, BARUCH S., U.S.A., The Institute for Cancer Research,
Philadelphia, PA, b. 1925; and

GAJDUSEK, D. CARLETON, U.S.A., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
b. 1923:

"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and
dissemination of infectious diseases"
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Physics

The prize was divided equally between:

RICHTER, BURTON, U.S.A., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA,
b. 1931;

TING, SAMUEL C. C., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Cambridge, MA, (European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland), b. 1936:

"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle
of a new kind"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban ... "A Chorus Line"
Fiction: Saul Bellow ... "Humboldt's Gift"
History: Paul Horgan ... "Lamy of Santa Fe"
International Reporting:Sydney H. Schanberg ... "New York Times"
National Reporting: James Risser ... "Des Moines Register"
Public Service: "Anchorage Daily News"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "Travesties" ... Tom Stoppard
Best Musical: "A Chorus Line"
Best Actor in a play: John Wood ... "Travesties"
Best Actress in a play: Irene Worth ... "Sweet Bird of Youth"
Best Actor in a musical: George Rose ... "My Fair Lady" "
Best Actress in a musical: Donna McKechnie ... "A Chorus Line"