Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Chez Loma in Coronado. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

Mac Davis won Entertainer of the Year, John Denver's "Back Home Again" took Album of the Year and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin" Single and Song of the Year at the tenth Academy of Country Music awards on 27 February 1975 at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, hosted by Roger Miller and aired on ABC on 5 March.

At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards on 1 March 1975 at New York's Uris Theatre, Stevie Wonder won four awards including Album of the Year, Olivia Newton-John won Record of the Year for 'I Honestly Love You' and Marvin Hamlisch won Song of the Year and Best New Artist.

Gilbert Lau opened Flower Drum on 26 May 1975 in Melbourne's Chinatown and spent the following decades making the case that Cantonese cooking belonged at the top of Australian fine dining rather than in a separate category of it. It has been a fixture of the city's restaurant lists ever since, on Market Lane.

A fine-dining Cantonese restaurant in Melbourne’s Chinatown, known for refined food and attentive service.

President Anwar Sadat reopened the Suez Canal on 5 June 1975, eight years after the Six-Day War closed it. A mine-clearing effort by the US and Britain through 1974 had cleared the waterway.

The shortened, long-range Boeing 747SP flew for the first time on 4 July 1975. Built for Pan Am's New York-Middle East routes, it entered service with Pan Am on 25 April 1976.

The Mack family opened Europa-Park, a 16-hectare amusement park built around European-themed lands, in the German town of Rust. It has since grown into continental Europe's second-most-visited theme park.

Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.

Typhoon Nina's record rainfall burst the Banqiao Dam on the Ru River in Henan on 8 August 1975, triggering the failure of dozens of other dams in the deadliest dam disaster in history.

Anchor Brewing's Fritz Maytag brewed the first Christmas Ale on 17 November 1975, a pale dry-hopped ale that began the modern American Christmas beer and later became a spiced brown ale.

Two years after the Arab oil embargo, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act set up a federal emergency oil stockpile and gave the President the power to order it sold when supply is severely interrupted. Ford called the bill imperfect but signed it anyway, to end "the long debate over national energy policy".

In 1976 Whitbread secured a licence to brew the Belgian pilsner Stella Artois under contract in the UK, the start of a British-brewed Stella whose UK strength was 4.8% from 2008 until it was cut to 4.6% in 2020.

British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.

The 11th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 19 February 1976 at the Hollywood Palladium, hosted by Marty Robbins; Loretta Lynn became the first woman to win Entertainer of the Year, and Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" won Single and Song of the Year.

At the 18th Annual Grammy Awards on 28 February 1976 at the Hollywood Palladium, Captain & Tennille won Record of the Year, Paul Simon's 'Still Crazy After All These Years' Album of the Year and Natalie Cole Best New Artist, the first African American to win it per Wikipedia.

Idaho's new Teton Dam breached around midday on 5 June 1976 as its reservoir filled for the first time, releasing the entire lake, flooding five counties and killing 11 people.

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck directly beneath Tangshan at 3:42 a.m. local time, and within minutes 85% of the city's buildings were down. The official toll was 242,469 dead; historians accept at least 300,000.

Morinaga Milk Industry's Pino has been sold since 1976 and reaches its 50th anniversary in October 2026; the bite-sized vanilla ice cream in a chocolate coating comes six pieces to a pack.

Doris Mattus opened the first Häagen-Dazs scoop shop at 120 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights in 1976, serving the three original flavours of vanilla, chocolate and coffee; the shop's own sign gives 15 November 1976.

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman propose public-key cryptography and a way for two parties to agree a secret key over an open channel. It is the idea that later makes e-commerce and secure messaging possible.

Apgujeong's original 'garden' galbi house (1976), renovated and reopened June 2022, famed for marinated short ribs and seating about 600.

Rokkatei's Marusei Butter Sand, two biscuits sandwiching white chocolate, Hokkaido butter and rum-soaked raisins, was released in 1977 to commemorate the Obihiro confectioner's name change, and became a Hokkaido souvenir staple.

Sanko Seika's Yuki no Yado, a salted salad senbei dotted with milky sugar icing made with Hokkaido cream, went on sale in Japan in 1977 and has its own anniversary on 10 August.

The 12th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 17 February 1977 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles; Mickey Gilley took Entertainer of the Year and four more awards before a record crowd of about 4,000, the first time the show was opened to the public.

At the 19th Grammy Awards on 19 February 1977 Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year, his third in four years; George Benson's "This Masquerade" won Record of the Year and Starland Vocal Band Best New Artist.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on characters appearing in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. It reached US theaters on 11 March 1977.

Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 American supernatural science fiction horror film directed by John Boorman and written by William Goodhart. It is the second installment in The Exorcist film series and the sequel to The Exorcist (1973), and stars Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, and James Earl Jones.