Significant 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
- Jun 20 "Jaws", based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider is released
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 in Quezon City, the Philippines to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight title
World Leaders in 1975
Gerald Ford
38th US President
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet General Secretary
Mao Zedong
Chinese Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party
Famous People in 1975
Louise Fletcher
Oscar for Best Actress
Pete Rose
Sportsperson
of the Year
Stevie Wonder
Grammy for Album of the Year
Angelina Jolie
Charlize Theron
Drew Barrymore
Kate Winslet
Ray Lewis
Tiger WoodsFamous 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
- Mar 29 Molecular biologist Peter Agre (26) weds Mary Macgill
- Apr 2 Actress Jane Curtin (27) weds television producer Patrick Lynch
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
- Nov 10 Journalist Ben Bradlee (54) divorces Antoinette Pinchot after 19 years of marriage
Chiang Kai-shek
Ezzard Charles
Francisco Franco
Haile Selassie
Sam Giancana
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman