My graduation year - Small facts about 1976

Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. . It was also the 1976th year of theCommon Era, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century - which is conventionally considered to have begun in 1901, and the 7th year of the 1970s - 1970 being the first of course. In Europe the summer of this year was particularly long, warm and dry.