ABSTRACT
In 1976, the trial of the Red Army Faction started. The first commercial flight of the Concorde took place. Independence was declared in Western Sahara, but the US vetoed a UN Resolution declaring Palestine to be an independent nation. Black high school students in Soweto rose up in protest to the use of Afrikaans as a required language of instruction. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer. The United States of America celebrated its bicentennial. In a debate in San Francisco, Gerald R. Ford, incumbent Republican President committed a gaff e when he said, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
