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1975
 
     
English author Ruth Prawer Jhabwala wins the Booker Prize with her novel Heat and Dust        
1976
 
  
Portugal adopts a democratic constitution after 43 years of dicatorship     
1976
 
     
Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin        
1976
 
   
Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony      
1976
 
    
Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music       
1976
 
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Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century      
1976
 
    
The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon       
1976
 
   
19-year-old Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros ends the year as number one in Europe      
c. 1977
 
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Royal tombs are excavated at Vergina, in Macedonia, probably including that of Philip of Macedon       
1977
 
   
Jacques Chirac, leader of a recently formed neo-Gaullist party, is elected mayor of Paris