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1976
 
     
The British public is outraged to discover that the Tate Gallery has spent money purchasing Carl Andre's arrangement of bricks, Equivalent VIII        
1976
 
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A guerrilla movement, with Rhodesian backing, launches a long civil war against Frelimo in Mozambique      
1976
 
    
A military coup in Argentina brings to an end the two-year presidency of Juan Perón's widow, Isabelita       
1976
 
   
Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony      
1976
 
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The Polisario, as a government-in-exile in Algeria, proclaim the independence of Western Sahara as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic       
1976
 
    
Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London,       
1976
 
    
Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music       
1976
 
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Hundreds of deaths and casualties result from police firing on a demonstration by schoolchildren in the black township of Soweto      
1976
 
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Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century      
1976
 
   
In a daring raid on Entebbe airport, Israeli troops rescue hostages hijacked on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris