Sport
- February 16 - Police recover the Grey Cup after it was stolen the previous December.
- April 5 - Bobby Orr becomes the first National Hockey League (NHL) defencemen to win the scoring title.
- May 2 - Montreal is awarded the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- May 22 - The Vancouver Canucks join the National Hockey League.
- The first Arctic Winter Games commence in Yellowknife.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)