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Club of Rome head Dr Aurelio Peccei says that 'Limits to Growth,' rept that orgn commissioned 3 yrs ago, served purpose of getting world's attention focused on ecological dangers of unplanned and uncontrolled population and indus expansion, speech, internatl conf, Pa Univ (S)
Passionist Fathers: Article on Security Natl Bank of NJ, under heavy financial pressure and target of hotly contested take-over bid, reveals following oddity: implication that treas of Eastern Province of RC Passionists Order was less than prudent when he moved $500,000 of $4-million portfolio under his supervision out of Treas bills and into 5,000 nonvoting shares of Fiduciary Investment Co; treas, Rev Gerard Orlando, has testified that he felt that investment in fledgling FIC was as safe as putting money in Gen Motors Corp (L)
Andrei Amalrik, a clissiaent Soviet writer who suffered years of imprisonment and Siberian exile, has agreed to live abroad after a campaign of police harassment. Page 3.
House of Lords' Com of Privileges upholds disputed legitimacy of Geoffrey Russell and names him rightful heir to barony of Ampthill; rejects challenge by John Russell, his younger half-bro; scandal surrounding his birth recalled; illus (M)
State Dept officials rept US and Greece have reached virtual agreement on 4-yr pact, involving $700-million in mil aid to Greece, allowing continued operation of 4 US bases there; pact will parallel one between US and Turkey (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 7, 1976, covering April 13, 1976.
Peter Frampton
Eagles
Carole King
Bob Dylan
Bad Company
1976Jonathan Brandis, American actor (died 2003)[†]
Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut in 1982 as Kevin Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live. In 1990, he portrayed Bill Denbrough in the television miniseries It, and starred as Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. In 1993, at the age of 17, he was cast in the role of teen prodigy Lucas Wolenczak on the NBC series seaQuest DSV. The character was popular among teenage viewers, and Brandis regularly appeared in teen magazines. He died by suicide in 2003.
1976Dan Campbell, American football player and coach[†]
Daniel Allen Campbell is an American professional football coach and former tight end who is the head coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played in the NFL for 11 seasons. Campbell played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the New York Giants in the third round of the 1999 NFL draft. He was also a member of the Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints, and Detroit Lions. He is known for his aggressive style of play-calling.
1976Glenn Howerton, American actor[†]
Glenn Franklin Howerton III is an American actor. He is best known for playing Dennis Reynolds on the long-running sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present) on FX/FXX, a series he co-developed with Rob McElhenney, and on which he serves as an executive producer and writer. In film, he is best known for his portrayal of Jim Balsillie in the Canadian film BlackBerry (2023).
1976The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.[†]
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments.
1976Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.[†]
The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion was an industrial disaster in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland on 13 April 1976. 40 workers were killed and 60 people injured. This was Finland's worst industrial disaster.
In 1976, the world population was approximately 4,144,246,377 people[†]