Important Events
- Feb 11 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party
- Mar 21 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
- Apr 4 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
- Apr 29 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war
- Nov 11 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr - 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs
1975 in Film & TV
- Jan 6 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
- Mar 1 Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
- Mar 7 "Mirror", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev, is released
- Jun 7 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
1975 in Music
- Jul 5 At Knebworth Festival in England, Pink Floyd debut their album "Wish You Were Here" with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage
- Sep 25 Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies
- Oct 19 "A Chorus Line", held record longest-running Broadway show (6,137 performances), first premieres at the Shubert Theatre in New York
- Nov 6 First performance of the Sex Pistols at St Martins College, London
1975 in Sport
- Apr 3 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it
- Oct 1 "The Thrilla in Manila"; Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title
Angelina Jolie
Charlize Theron
Drew Barrymore
Jodhi May
Kate Winslet
Tiger WoodsWorld Leaders in 1975
Gerald Ford
38th US President- Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet General Secretary - Mao Zedong
Chinese Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party
Gerald Ford
Leonid Brezhnev
Mao ZedongFamous People in 1975
- Louise Fletcher
Oscar for Best Actress - Pete Rose
Sportsperson
of the Year - Stevie Wonder
Grammy for Album of the Year
Louise Fletcher
Pete Rose
Stevie WonderFamous Weddings
- Jan 21 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (57) weds toy inventor Jack Ryan (48) (div. 1976)
- Feb 21 Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench (27) weds Vickie Chesser in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mar 8 5th Earl of Lichfield Patrick Anson (35) weds Lady Leonora Grosvenor (26), daughter of the 5th Duke of Westminster at Chester Cathedral in England
Famous Divorces
- Jun 26 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
- Jul 10 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after their marriage
- Jul 17 Beatle member Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
Chiang Kai-shek
Dmitri Shostakovich
Francisco Franco
Haile Selassie
Sam Giancana
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman