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1975

* [[January]] - [[Altair 8800]] is released, sparking the era of the [[microcomputer]].
* [[January]] - [[Volkswagen]] introduces the [[Volkswagen Golf|Golf]], its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
* [[January 1]] - [[Watergate scandal]]: [[John N. Mitchell]], [[H. R. Haldeman]] and [[John Ehrlichman]] are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
* [[January 1]] - Work is abandoned on the British end of the [[Channel Tunnel]].
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* [[January 2]] - The [[Federal Rules of Evidence]] are approved by the [[United States Congress]].
* [[January 5]] - The bulk ore carrier ''[[MV Lake Illawarra]]'' strikes the [[Tasman Bridge]] in [[Tasmania]], [[Australia]], killing 12.
* [[January 6]] - ''[[Wheel of Fortune (US daytime game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' premieres on [[NBC]].
* [[January 6]] - ''[[AM America]]'' makes its television debut on ABC.
* [[January 7]] - [[OPEC]] agrees to raise [[crude oil]] prices by 10%.
* [[January 8]] - [[Ella Grasso]] becomes [[Governor of Connecticut]], the first woman U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
* [[January 8]] - U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] appoints Vice President [[Nelson Rockefeller]] to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the [[CIA]].
* [[January 10]] - Japanese soldier [[Teruo Nakamura]] surrenders on the [[Indonesia]]n island of Morota.
* [[January 12]] - [[Super Bowl IX]]: The [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] defeat the [[Minnesota Vikings]] 16-6 at [[Tulane Stadium]] in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]].
* [[January 14]] - Heiress [[Lesley Whittle]], 17, is kidnapped from her home in [[Shropshire]], England by [[Donald Neilson]].
* [[January 15]] - [[International Women's Year]] is launched in Britain by [[Princess Alexandra]] and [[Barbara Castle]].
* [[January 15]] - [[Portugal]] grants independence to [[Angola]].
* [[January 20]] - In [[Hanoi]], [[North Vietnam]], the Politburo approves the final military offensive against [[South Vietnam]].
* [[January 20]] - [[Michael Ovitz]] founds the [[Creative Artists Agency]].
* [[January 29]] - The [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]] bombs the U.S. [[State Department]] main office in [[Washington, D.C.]].

===February===
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* [[February 1]] - The [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation]] is launched, becoming the first TV network in the [[Philippines]].
* [[February 4]] - The [[1975 Haicheng earthquake|Haicheng earthquake]], the first successfully [[Earthquake prediction|predicted earthquake]], kills 2,041 and injures 27,538 in [[Haicheng, Liaoning]], [[China]].
* [[February 9]] - The ''[[Soyuz 17]]'' crew ([[Georgi Grechko]], [[Aleksei Gubarev]]) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the ''[[Salyut 4]]'' space station.
* [[February 11]] - [[Margaret Thatcher]] defeats [[Edward Heath]] for the [[Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 1975|leadership]] of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|UK Conservative Party]] in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[February 11]] - Colonel [[Richard Ratsimandrava]], President of [[Madagascar]], is assassinated.
* [[February 13]] - A "Turkish Federated State of North Cyprus" is declared as an unsuccessful first step to international recognition of a [[Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus|Turkish Cypriot separatist state]] in [[Cyprus]].
* [[February 13]] - Fire breaks out in the [[World Trade Center]].
* [[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 between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
* [[February 23]] - In response to the [[1973 energy crisis|energy crisis]], [[daylight saving time]] commences nearly 2 months early in the [[United States]].
* [[February 26]] - A fleeing [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] member shoots and kills off-duty London police officer [[Stephen Tibble]], 22, as he gives chase.
* [[February 27]] - The [[Movement 2 June]] kidnaps [[West Germany|West German]] politician [[Peter Lorenz]]. He is released on [[March 4]] after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
* [[February 28]] - A [[Moorgate tube crash|major tube train crash]] at [[Moorgate station]], [[London]] kills 43 people.
* [[February 28]] - In [[Lomé]], [[Togo]], the [[European Economic Community]] and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first [[Lomé Convention]].

===March===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] wins the [[Football League Cup]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]], beating [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] 1-0 in the final.
* [[March 4]] - [[Charlie Chaplin]] is knighted by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]].
* [[March 4]] - A Canadian parliamentary committee is televised for the first time.
* [[March 6]] - [[1975 Algiers Agreement|Algiers Accord]]: [[Iran]] and [[Iraq]] announce a settlement in their border dispute.
* [[March 6]] - A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the [[Axel Springer AG|Springer Press]]. The 6 March Group (connected to the [[Red Army Faction]]) demands amnesty for the [[Baader-Meinhof Group]].
* [[March 7]] - The body of teenage heiress [[Lesley Whittle]], kidnapped 7 weeks earlier by the [[Donald Neilson|Black Panther]], is discovered in [[Staffordshire]], England.
* [[March 8]] - The [[United Nations]] proclaims [[International Women's Day]].
* [[March 9]] - Construction of the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline System]] begins.
* [[March 10]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[North Vietnam]]ese troops attack [[Ban Me Thuot]], [[South Vietnam]], on their way to capturing [[Saigon]].
* [[March 10]] - ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' opens on [[Broadway (New York City)|Broadway]] in [[New York City]] with 4 performances.
* [[March 10]] - ''[[Shinkansen]]'' opens between [[Osaka]] and [[***uoka, ***uoka|***uoka]].
* [[March 11]] - The leftist military government in [[Portugal]] defeats a rightist coup attempt.
* [[March 13]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[South Vietnam]] [[Nguyen Van Thieu|President Nguyen van Thieu]] orders the [[Tây Nguyên|Central Highlands]] evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians (the ''Convoy of Tears'').
* [[March 15]] - In [[Brazil]], the [[Guanabara State|Estado da Guanabara]] (State of Guanabara) merges with the state of [[Rio de Janeiro]], under the name of [[Rio de Janeiro]]. The state's capital moves from the city of [[Niterói]] to the city of [[Rio de Janeiro]].
* [[March 22]] - ''Ding-a-dong'' by Teach-In (music by **** Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th [[Eurovision Song Contest 1975]] for the [[Netherlands]].
* [[March 25]] - [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|King Faisal]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] is shot and killed by his nephew; the killer is beheaded on [[June 18]]. ([[King Khalid]] succeeds Faisal.)
* [[March 28]] - A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital in [[Rijeka]], [[Yugoslavia]], kills 25 people.

===April===
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* [[April 3]] - [[Bobby Fischer]] refuses to play in a [[chess]] match against [[Anatoly Karpov]], giving Karpov the title.
* [[April 4]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The first military [[Operation Babylift]] flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
* [[April 4]] - Bill Gates founds [[Microsoft]] in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]].
* [[April 9]] - [[Asia]]'s first professional [[basketball]] league, the [[Philippine Basketball Association]], plays its first game at the [[Araneta Coliseum]].
* [[April 13]] - [[Bus massacre]]: The [[Kataeb]] militia kills 27 [[Palestinians]] during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, [[Lebanon]], triggering the Lebanese civil war.
* [[April 13]] - A [[Chadian coup of 1975|coup d'état in Chad]] led by the military overthrows and kills President [[François Tombalbaye]].
* [[April 17]] - Following several weeks succesful fightning, the [[Communist]] [[Khmer Rouge]] guerilla forces captures of [[Phnom Penh]], prompting a forcible [[evacuation|mass evacuation]] of the city.
* [[April 24]] - Six [[Red Army Faction]] terrorists take over the West German embassy in [[Stockholm]], take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police. (See [[West German embassy siege]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Vietnam War]]: As [[North Vietnamese Army]] forces close in on the [[South Vietnam]]ese capital [[Saigon]], the [[Australia]]n Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
* [[April 30]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Fall of Saigon]]: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take [[Saigon]], resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, [[South Vietnam]] surrenders unconditionally.

===May===
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* [[May 5]] - The [[Busch Gardens Williamsburg]] [[Theme Park]] opens in [[Virginia]].
* [[May 12]] - [[Mayaguez incident]]: [[Khmer Rouge]] forces in [[Cambodia]] seize the [[United States]] merchant ship [[SS Mayaguez|SS ''Mayaguez'']] in international waters.
* [[May 15]] - [[Mayaguez incident]]: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
* [[May 16]] - [[Sikkim]] accedes to [[India]] after a referendum.
* [[May 16]] - [[Junko Tabei]] becomes the first woman to reach the summit of [[Mount Everest]].
* [[May 25]] - [[Indianapolis 500]]: [[Bobby Unser]] wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.
* [[May 27]] - The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near [[Grassington]], [[North Yorkshire]], [[England]] results in 32 deaths (the highest ever toll in a United Kingdom road accident).
* [[May 28]] - Fifteen [[West Africa]]n countries sign the [[Treaty of Lagos]], creating the [[Economic Community of West African States]].

===June===
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* [[June 5]] - The [[Suez Canal]] opens for the first time since the [[Six-Day War]].
* [[June 5]] - The [[United Kingdom]] votes yes in a [[United Kingdom referendum, 1975|referendum]] to stay in the [[European Community]].
* [[June 9]] - The [[Order of Australia]] is awarded for the first time.
* [[June 10]] - In [[Washington, DC]], the [[United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States|Rockefeller Commission]] issues its report on [[CIA]] abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.
* [[June 19]] - [[Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan]] is found guilty [[in absentia]] of the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.
* [[June 25]] - Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] declares [[Indian Emergency (1975 - 77)|a state of emergency]] in [[India]], suspending civil liberties and elections.
* [[June 25]] - [[Mozambique]] gains [[independence]] from [[Portugal]].
* [[June 26]] - Two [[FBI]] agents and 1 [[American Indian Movement|AIM]] member die in a shootout, at the [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]] in [[South Dakota]].

===July===
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* [[July 1]] - The [[Postmaster-General's Department]] is disaggregated into the [[Australian Telecommunications Commission]] (trading as [[Telecom Australia]]) and the [[Australian Postal Commission]] (trading as [[Australia Post]]).
* [[July 4]] - [[Sydney]] newspaper publisher [[Juanita Nielsen]] disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
* [[July 5]] - [[Cape Verde]] gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
* [[July 6]] - The [[Comoros]] declare their independence from [[France]].
* [[July 9]] - The National Assembly of [[Senegal]] passes a law that will pave way for a [[multi-party system]](albeit highly restricted).
* [[July 12]] - [[São Tomé and Príncipe]] declare independence from [[Portugal]].
* [[July 17]] - [[Apollo-Soyuz Test Project]]: An American [[Apollo program|Apollo]] and Soviet [[Soyuz spacecraft]] dock in [[orbit]], marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
* [[July 31]] - In [[Detroit, Michigan]], [[Teamsters Union]] president [[Jimmy Hoffa]] is reported missing.

===August===
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* [[August 1]] - The [[Helsinki Accords]], which officially recognize [[Europe]]'s national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in [[Finland]].
* [[August 5]] - [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Gerald R. Ford|Ford]] posthumously pardons [[Robert E. Lee]], restoring full rights of citizenship.
* [[August 8]] - The [[Banqiao Dam]], in China's [[Henan Province]], fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perish.
* [[August 8]] - [[Samuel Bronfman]], son of the president of [[Seagram]]'s, is kidnapped in [[Purchase, New York]].
* [[August 11]] - [[British Leyland]] Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
* [[August 11]] - Governor [[Mário Lemos Pires]] of [[Portuguese Timor|Portuguese]] [[East Timor]] abandons the capital [[Dili]], following a [[Timorese Democratic Union|UDT]] coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and [[Fretilin]].
* [[August 15]] - The [[Birmingham Six]] are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in [[Great Britain]].
* [[August 15]] - President [[Mujibur Rahman]] of [[Bangladesh]] is killed during a coup.
* [[August 20]] - [[Viking program]]: [[NASA]] launches the ''[[Viking 1]]'' planetary probe toward [[Mars (planet)|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]].

===September===
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* [[September 5]] - In [[Sacramento, California]], [[Lynette Fromme]], a follower of jailed cult leader [[Charles Manson]], attempts to assassinate U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]], but is thwarted by a [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] agent.
* [[September 5]] - The [[The London Hilton on Park Lane|London Hilton]] hotel is bombed by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]; 2 people are killed and 63 injured.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.u...000/2499203.stm 1975: London Hilton bombed]</ref>
* [[September 6]] - A Richter Scale 6.7 magnitude [[earthquake]] kills at least 2,085 in [[Diyarbakir]] and [[Lice, Turkey]].
* [[September 14]] - [[Elizabeth Seton]] is canonized, becoming the first American [[Roman Catholic]] saint.
* [[September 14]] - [[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn|Rembrandt]]'s painting "[[Night Watch (painting)|The Night Watch]]" is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
* [[September 15]] - The [[France|French]] department of [[Corse]], comprising the entire island of [[Corsica]], is divided into two departments: [[Haute-Corse]] and [[Corse-du-Sud]].
* [[September 16]] - [[Papua New Guinea]] gains its independence from [[Australia]].
* [[September 18]] - Fugitive [[Patricia Hearst]] is captured in [[San Francisco]].
* [[September 19]] - General [[Vasco Goncalves]] is ousted as Prime Minister of [[Portugal]].
* [[September 20]] - The term of [[Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah]], as the 5th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] of [[Malaysia]], ends.
* [[September 21]] - [[Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra]], [[Sultan]] of [[Kelantan]], becomes the 6th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] of [[Malaysia]].
* [[September 22]] - U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] survives a second assassination attempt, this time by [[Sara Jane Moore]] in [[San Francisco]].
* [[September 27]] - [[Francoist Spain]] executes five [[ETA]] and [[Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriótico|FRAP]] members, the last executings in [[Spain]] to date.
* September 27 - The [[Norwood Football Club]] beats the [[Glenelg Football Club]] in the [[SANFL]] Australian Rules Football Grand Final.
* [[September 28]] - The [[Spaghetti House siege]] takes place in London.
* [[September 30]] - The [[Hughes Helicopters]] (later [[McDonnell-Douglas]], now [[Boeing IDS]]) [[AH-64 Apache]] makes its first flight.

===October===
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* [[October 1]] - ''Thrilla in Manila'': Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
* [[October 2]] - A blast at an explosives factory kills 6 in Beloeil, Quebec.
* [[October 9]] - A bomb explosion outside the [[Green Park tube station]] near [[Piccadilly]] in London kills 1 and injures 20.
* [[October 11]] - [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] airs the first episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' ([[George Carlin]] is the first host; [[Billy Preston]] and [[Janis Ian]] the first musical guests).
* [[October 16]] - [[Balibo Five|Five]] [[Australia]]n-based [[journalist]]s are killed at [[Balibo]] by [[Indonesia]]n forces, during their incursion into [[Portuguese Timor]].
* [[October 22]] - [[1975 World Series]]: The [[Cincinnati Reds]] defeat the [[Boston Red Sox]] 4-3.
* [[October 27]] - [[Robert Poulin]] kills 1 and wounds 5 at [[St. Pius X High School (Ottawa)|St. Pius X High School]] in [[Ottawa]], [[Canada]] before shooting himself.
* [[October 29]] - [[Peter Sutcliffe]] (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
* [[October 30]] - [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]] becomes acting [[Head of State]] after dictator [[Francisco Franco]] concedes that he is too ill to govern.

===November===
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* [[November 3]] - An independent audit of [[Mattel]], one of the [[United States]]' largest [[toy]] manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated [[press release]]s and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
* [[November 3]] - The first petroleum pipeline opens from [[Cruden Bay]] to [[Grangemouth]], Scotland.
* [[November 6]] - The [[Green March]] begins: 300,000 unarmed [[Morocco|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 General Assembly Resolution 3379]]: By a vote of 72-35 (with 32 abstentions), the [[United Nations]] General Assembly approves a resolution equating [[Zionism]] with [[racism]]. The resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world.
* [[November 10]] - The 729-foot-long freighter ''[[SS Edmund Fitzgerald]]'' sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to [[Whitefish Bay]] on [[Lake Superior]], killing all 29 crew on board (an event immortalized in song by [[Gordon Lightfoot]]).
* [[November 10]] - Lev Leshchenko revives ''[[Den Pobedy]]'', one of the most popular [[World War II]] songs in the [[USSR]].
* [[November 11]] - [[Angola]] becomes independent from [[Portugal]]; [[civil war]] soon erupts.
* [[November 11]] - [[Australian constitutional crisis of 1975]]: [[Governor-General of Australia]] Sir [[John Kerr (Governor-General)|John Kerr]] dismisses the government of [[Gough Whitlam]] and commissions [[Malcolm Fraser]] as [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]].
* [[November 11]] - The first annual [[Vogalonga]] rowing "race" is held in [[Venice]], [[Italy]].
* [[November 14]] - [[Spain]] abandons [[Western Sahara]].
* [[November 20]] - Former [[California]] Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] enters the race for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President [[Gerald Ford]].
* [[November 20]] - Spanish dictator [[Francisco Franco]] dies in [[Madrid]].
* [[November 22]] - [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|Juan Carlos]] is declared [[List of Spanish monarchs|King of Spain]] following the death of dictator [[Francisco Franco]].
* [[November 25]] - [[Suriname]] gains independence from the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]].
* [[November 25]] - The [[Irish Republican Army]] is outlawed in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[November 27]] - [[Ross McWhirter]], co-founder of the [[Guinness Book of Records]], is shot dead by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] for offering reward money to informers.
* [[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]] becomes a [[registered trademark]] on [[November 26]], [[1976]]).
* [[November 29]] - While disabled, the submarine tender ''[[USS Proteus (AS-19)]]'' discharges radioactive coolant water into [[Apra Harbor]], Guam. A Geiger counter at 2 of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.

===December===
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* [[December 2]] - The communist [[Pathet Lao]] takes power in [[Laos]].
* [[December 3]] - The wreck of the ''[[HMHS Britannic]]'' is found in the [[Kea Channel]] by [[Jacques Cousteau]].
* [[December 8]] - [[New York City]] is approved for bailout of 2.3 billion each year through to [[1978]].So 6.9 billion total.
* [[December 7]] - [[Indonesia]] [[Indonesian invasion of East Timor|invades]] [[East Timor]].
* [[December 21]] - Six people, including [[Ilich Ramírez Sánchez|Carlos (the Jackal)]], kidnap delegates of an [[OPEC]] conference in [[Vienna]].
* [[December 29]] - A bomb explosion at [[LaGuardia Airport]] kills 11.

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Edited by yungbol, 30 March 2009 - 01:19 PM.

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