Editing 1976 (section)

===March===
{{Main|March 1976}}
* [[March]] – The [[Cray-1]], the first commercially developed [[supercomputer]], is released by [[Seymour Cray]]'s [[Cray Research]], with the first purchaser being the [[Energy Research and Development Administration]] (ERDA) in [[Los Alamos, New Mexico]].<ref>"100 Million Computations Each Second", AP report in ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', September 20, 1976, p. 17</ref>
* [[March 1]] 
** U.K. Home Secretary [[Merlyn Rees]] ends [[Special Category Status]] for those sentenced for scheduled [[Terrorism|terrorist]]crimes relating to the civil violence in [[Northern Ireland]].
** [[Bradford Bishop]] allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]] list.
* [[March 4]]
** The [[Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention]] is formally dissolved in [[Northern Ireland]], resulting in [[Direct rule over Northern Ireland]] by the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] in London.
** The [[Maguire Seven]] are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.
* [[March 9]] – [[Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)|A cable car disaster]] occurs when a supporting cable breaks in [[Cavalese]], Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.<ref>{{cite news|title=42 Skiers Are Killed in Italy When Cable Car Falls 200 Feet|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 10, 1976}}</ref>
* [[March 9]]–[[March 11|11]] – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in [[Letcher County, Kentucky]].
* [[March 16]] – [[Harold Wilson]] resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* [[March 20]] – [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of armed robbery of a [[San Francisco]] bank in [[1974]].
* [[March 24]]
** [[Argentina]] military forces depose president [[Isabel Perón]].
** A [[M 24|general strike]] takes place in the [[People's Republic of the Congo]].
* [[March 26]]
** [[The Body Shop]], the retail chain for [[skin care]] products and [[cosmetics]] founded by [[Anita Roddick]], opens its first branch in [[Brighton]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx |title=Our History |publisher=[[The Body Shop]] |year=2009 |access-date=2010-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814132117/http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx |archive-date=14 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 27]]
** The [[South African Defence Force]] withdraws from [[Angola]] and concludes [[Operation Savannah (Angola)|Operation Savannah]].
** The first {{convert|7.4|km|mi}} of the [[Washington Metro]] [[Subway (rail)|subway]] system opens.
* [[March 29]] – The [[military dictatorship]] of General [[Jorge Videla]] comes to power in [[Argentina]].
* [[March 31]] – The [[New Jersey]] Supreme Court rules that patient in a [[persistent vegetative state]] in the [[Karen Ann Quinlan case]] can be disconnected from her [[ventilator]]. She remains comatose and dies in [[1985]].