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1.2 February

February 4 - In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
February 4 - 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria
February 11 - Clifford Alexander Jr is confirmed as 1st African-American Secretary of US Army.
February 20 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands
February 24 - Cuba's current constitution enacted.
February 27 - Western Sahara declares independence

1.3 March

March 1 - Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Island
March 3 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977
March 9- 11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, Letcher County, Ky
March 17 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
March 20 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank
March 24 - Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Peron
March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system opens
March 31 - New Jersey Supreme Court rules that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985

1.4 April

April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
April 4 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest
April 5 - British prime minister Harold Wilson resigns and is replaced by Jim Callaghan
April 13 - An explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland kills 40
April 16 - In India the minimum age for marriage is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women; it is to curb population growth
April 25 - Portugal's new constitution enacted

1.5 May

May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof of RAF is found hanging in an apparent suicide in her cell in Stuttgart-Stannheim prison
May 11 - President Gerald Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act
May 24 - Washington, DC Concorde service begins

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