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In 1976, daylight saving time (summer time) was reintroduced in Metropolitan France for the first time since WW2 because of the oil crisis, [citation needed] and since 1976 Metropolitan France has thus been at GMT+1 (now UTC+01:00) during the winter and GMT+2 (now UTC+02:00) during the summer.
January to March. 2 January – Nicolas Goussé, soccer player. 17 January – Yohan Lachor, soccer player. 20 January – Lilian Jégou, cyclist. 20 January – Yann Pivois, cyclist. 22 January – Christophe Himmer, soccer player. 28 January – Pierrick Bourgeat, alpine skier. 31 January – Vincent Masingue, basketball player.
The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, was a wine competition organized in Paris on 24 May 1976 by Steven Spurrier, a British wine merchant, and his colleague, Patricia Gallagher, in which French oenophiles participated in two blind tasting comparisons: one of top-quality Chardonnays and another of red wines (Bordeaux wines from France and Cabernet Sauvignon wines ...
Albert Spaggiari. Albert Spaggiari (14 December 1932 – 8 June 1989), nicknamed Bert, was a French criminal chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France, in July 1976 that resulted in the theft of an estimated 46 million francs, none of which were ever found. [1][2]
Villejuif leaflet. Categories: 1976 by country. Years of the 20th century in France. 1970s in France. 1976 in Europe. Hidden categories: Category series navigation using skip-gaps parameter. Category series navigation year and decade.
The final Queen show of the year was in Hyde Park, London, on 18th September, after the hot summer of 1976. The Hyde Park gig was in fact a free concert which drew in a crowd of about 180,000. The free concert was organised by entrepreneur Richard Branson. Several audio recordings exist of the Hyde Park concert, including a soundboard source.
The day after freeing 47 hostages, the hijackers of Air France Flight 139 freed another 101 passengers from captivity and extended their deadline for release of 53 prisoners to 2:00 in the afternoon for Sunday, as Israel continued to negotiate for the safety of the remaining 110 people on board.
A rivalry arose with his Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who resigned in 1976. [42] Raymond Barre, called the "best economist in France" at the time, succeeded him. [14] Unexpectedly, the right-wing coalition won the 1978 legislative election. [14] Nevertheless, relations with Chirac, who had founded the Rally for the Republic (RPR), became more ...