Editing 1976 (section)

===April===
{{Main|April 1976}}
* [[April 1]]
** [[Apple Computer]] Company is formed by [[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]] in California.
** [[Conrail]] (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until [[1986]], when it is sold to the public.
** The [[Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect]] is first reported by British astronomer [[Patrick Moore]].
* [[April 2]] – [[Norodom Sihanouk]] is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the [[Khmer Rouge]] led by [[Pol Pot]] and is placed under house arrest.
* [[April 3]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1976]] is won by [[Brotherhood of Man]], representing the United Kingdom, with their song ''[[Save Your Kisses for Me]]''.
* [[April 5]]
** [[James Callaghan]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
** [[1976 Tiananmen Incident|Tiananmen Incident]]: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's ''Monument of the Martyrs'' to commemorate the death of Premier [[Zhou Enlai]]. Poems against the [[Gang of Four]] are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
** [[Segovia prison break]]: in Spain's largest prison break since the [[Spanish Civil War]], 29 political prisoners escape from [[Segovia]] prison.
* [[April 13]]
** The [[Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion]] in [[Lapua]], Finland kills 40.
** The [[United States Treasury Department]] reintroduces the [[United States two-dollar bill|two-dollar bill]] as a [[Federal Reserve Note]] on [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s 233rd birthday as part of the [[United States Bicentennial]] celebration.
* [[April 16]] – As a measure to curb [[population growth]], the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
* [[April 19]] – A [[1976 Brownwood tornado|violent F5 tornado]] strikes around [[Brownwood, Texas]], injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least {{convert|1000|yd|m}} by the tornado and survived uninjured.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |author2=[[National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service]] |author3=[[National Climatic Data Center]] |editor1-last=Potter |editor1-first=Thomas D. |title=Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena |journal=Storm Data |date=April 1976 |volume=18 |issue=4 |page=14 |publisher=[[United States Department of Commerce]] |language=English}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – The [[Great Bookie Robbery]] in [[Melbourne]], Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4&nbsp;million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
* [[April 25]] – Portugal's [[1976 Constitution of Portugal|new constitution]] is enacted.
* [[April 29]] – [[Sino-Soviet split]]: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.<ref name="konkurent">{{cite web|url=http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691|script-title=ru:"Красный" Китай против советских ревизионистов|author=Юрий Уфимцев|publisher=Конкурент.Ru|language=ru|access-date=July 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143640/http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691|archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.<ref name="konkurent"/>