The Truth About Cats and Dogs in Black and White

The theme of the party is 1976 - here are some interesting tidbits to get you prepped for Saturday's festivities. What happened in 1976? For for starters, a very cute little girl came into the world with a squished head, damn forceps.

1976

• World population: 4.158 billion
• The Timbit is introduced
• Birth of Big Ben, race horse
• Emmy nominated T.V. series “Wonder woman” hit airways.
• Indiana wins 86-68 over Michigan in NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship
• Oscar winning picture “One flew over the cuckoos nest” could be seen on the big-screen along with top box office hit “Rocky” and the re-release of “Jaws.”
• Alex Haley released “Roots”
• 1976 Summer Olympics open in Montreal, Canada
• First laser printer introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800
• Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray
• Record of the Year: "Love Will Keep Us Together," Captain and Tennille
• Album of the Year: Still Crazy After All These Years, Paul Simon (Columbia)
• The Eatons’ catalogue is discontinued (January 14)
• In only one week, The Eagles’ Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The new platinum certification represents sales of at least 1 million copies for albums and 2 million copies for singles (February 24)
• Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak(April 1)
• CN Tower opens in Toronto - The tallest free standing land structure (June 25)
• Parliament votes to abolish the death penalty (June 30)
• Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created (July 19)
• Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars (July 20)
• Mysterious disease strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia, claiming 29 lives (August 4)
• Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. form a band called Feedback in Dublin. The band would later be renamed U2 (September 25)
• Little known -company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico (November 26)

May 15

• Buddha’s Birthday
• Feast Day of Saint Denise in the Roman Catholic Church
• International day of families
• International day of climate changes
• International conscientious objectors' day
• 1859 Birth of Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906).
• 1905 Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 1908 Artist Claude Monet destroys some of his paintings, which he didn't like.
• 1914 Birth of Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa.
• 1928 Release of the animate short "Plane Crazy", featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
• 1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.
• 2004 The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 - 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.