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)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)