1975

Years: 1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1975 in aviation 1975 in film 1975 in literature 1975 in music 1975 in politics 1975 in sports 1975 in television 1975 in Canada

Events

January

January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21
January 5 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband
January 10 - Japanese soldier Teruo Nakamura surrenders on the Indonesian Island of Morota
January 14 - 17 year old heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by the Black Panther.
January 16 - Angola gains independence from Portugal
January 20 - Michael Ovitz founds Creative Artists Agency
January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer

February

February 9 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
February 10 - Greek poet and writer, Nikos Kavvadias dies from a stroke.
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison
February 27 - Movement 2 June kidnaps Peter Lorenz, Christian Democrat Union candidate for mayor of the West Berlin. They demand release of 7 left-wing terrorists within three days. Six of them are released and taken to Yemen. Movement 2 June releases Lorenz in March 4
February 28 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

March

March 1 - Color television transmissions begin in Australia
March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
March 6 - Algiers Accord - Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
March 6 - A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press. "6 March Group" (connected to Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the "Baader-Meinhof group"
March 7 - the body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped seven weeks earlier by the Black Panther is discovered in Staffordshire, England
March 8 - United Nations begin sponsoring the International Women's Day.
March 9 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 15 - In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name state name of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niteroi to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 25 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness - killer is beheaded on June 18.

April

April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title
April 17 - Pol Pot proclaims the "Democratic Republic of Kampuchea" in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).
April 24 - Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand release of the jailed members of RAF. They shoot embassy's military attach� Lieutenant Colonel Baron Andreas von Mirchbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegart. Shortly before midnight some of their explosives detonate and Swedish police exploit the situation to capture them
April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - Vietnam War: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.

May

May 12 - Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters
May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
May 16 - India annexes Sikkim
May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
May 28 - 15 West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
May 30 - 1972 Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine dies in a car accident.

June

June 5 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War
June 19 - Lord Lucan found guilty in absentia of the murder of the nanny Sandra Rivett
June 28 - Mozambique gains independence from Portugal

July

July 4 - A Hamburg jury sentences Ludwig Hahn, the former head of Warsaw Gestapo, to life imprisonment
July 5 - Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France
July 12 - S�o Tom� and Pr�ncipe declare independence
July 15 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project: Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations
July 31 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.

August

August 8 - Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagrams, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York
August 11 - British Leyland comes under British government control
August 11 - M�rio Lemos Pires, Governor of Portuguese Timor, abandons the capital Dili following UDT coup and outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
August 15 - Birmingham Six sentenced to life imprisonment
August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars
August 24 - Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment
August 29 - In Ireland the death occurs of Eamon de Valera, aged 92. He was a leader of the 1916 Rising, Prime Minister of Ireland for 21 years and President of Ireland for 14 years. He was one of the most influential Irish politicians of the 20th Century.

September

September 5 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
September 14 - Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at a gallery in Amsterdam.
September 15 - The French department of Corse, the entire island of Corsica was divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
September 20 - End of term for Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 21 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 - President Ford survives a second assassination attempt, again by a female.

October

October 9 - Bomb explosion outside Green Park Tube Station near Piccadilly in London - 1 dead, 20 injured.
October 16 - Five Australian-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian forces during an incursion into Portuguese Timor.
October 27 � 18-year-old Robert Poulin begins shooting in St Pius X High School in Ottawa, Canada and then shoots himself. 1 dead, 5 wounded.
October 29 - First victim of Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe).
October 30 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.

November

November 3 - An independent audit of Mattel, of the United States largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
November 6 - Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara
November 10 - United Nations Resolution 3379: With a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991)
November 10 - The 729-foot-long freighter (then, the largest ship on the Great Lakes) SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board
November 11 - Angola becomes independent from Portugal (a deadly civil war soon erupts)
November 11 - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is sacked by the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr
November 14 - Spain abandons Western Sahara
November 22 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
November 25 - Suriname independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
November 25 - Irish Republican Army outlawed in United Kingdom
November 27 - Ross McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the IRA
November 28 - Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor
November 29 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft became a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).

December

December 7 - East Timor invaded by Indonesia.
December 21 - Left-wing terrorists, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna. They kill three hostages, extort $5 million ransom and escape into Middle East.
December 29 - bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport - 11 dead.

Unknown dates

Tamil Tigers begin their terrorism including assassinations, bank robberies and attacks against army and police
In New Zealand, Maori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5000 people in support of Maori claims to their land
The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland
Government of Colombia announces finding of Ciudad Perdida
Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Saharaui Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
First use of the term fractal

Year in topic

1975 in film
- March - Production begins on Star Wars.
- June 20 - Jaws 1
- July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Rooster Cogburn starring John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn and others
1975 in literature
1975 in music
- Paul Simon releases album Still Crazy After All These Years.
- Art Garfunkel releases album Breakaway.
- Simon and Garfunkel release single "My Little Town," the last single they have released together to date. Song hits #9 on Billboard charts and is released on both their solo albums of 1975.
1975 in sports
- July 5 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
1975 in television
- January 18 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
- March 1 - Australian television stations officially convert from black and white to colour transmission.
- April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
- October 11 - Saturday Night Live is broadcasted for the first time. (George Carlin is the guest host).
- Wheel of Fortune premieres.

Births

Deaths

unknown - Will Mastin, vaudevillian

January

January 19 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist
January 24 - Larry Fine, actor (The Three Stooges)

February

February 4 - Louis Jordan, musician
February 14 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse, writer
February 16 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete
February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union
February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, Black Muslim leader

March

March 8 - George Stevens, director, producer, cinematographer
March 14 - Susan Hayward, actress
March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate
March 16 - T-Bone Walker, musician
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia

April

April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China
April 13 - N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad
April 17 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and president
April 30 - Gen Paul, French artist

May

May 5 - Moe Howard, actor (The Three Stooges)
May 8 - Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee
May 13 - Bob Wills, country musician
May 18 - Leroy Anderson, composer
May 23 - Moms Mabley, comedienne
May 30 - Steve Prefontaine, distance runner

June

June 26 - Josemar�a Escriv�, Spanish Priest and founder of Opus Dei

July

July 17 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor
July 29 - James Blish, U.S. science fiction author

August

August 8 - Julian Cannonball Adderley - saxophonist
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68, Russian composer
August 16 - Vladimir Kuts, Soviet long-distance runner
August 29 - Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach & third President of Ireland

September

September 27 - Jack Lang, Australian politician

October

October 21 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete

November

November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (b. 1892)
November 27 - Ross McWhirter, Guinness Book of Records co-founder

December

December 1 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (b. 1906)
December 1 - Nellie Fox, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1927)
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, composer

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
Chemistry - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
Medicine - David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
Literature - Eugenio Montale
Peace - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Economics - Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans

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