Historical Events in 1975

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• Jan 1 International Women's Year begins

• Jan 1 Sweden adopts constitution
• Jan 1 U.S. Federal oil depletion allowance eliminated for large producers

• Jan 1 61st Rose Bowl: #5 Southern California beats #3 Ohio State, 18-17
• Jan 1 41st Orange Bowl: #9 Notre Dame beats #2 Alabama, 13-11
• Jan 2 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
• Jan 4 "Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances
• Jan 4 "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
• Jan 4 "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances
• Jan 4 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
• Jan 4 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
• Jan 4 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
• Jan 4 New Orleans Jazz set a then NBA record (with 24-second shot clock) by scoring only 20 points in the first half of a 111-89 loss in Seattle; unwanted record stands for nearly 25 years
• Jan 5 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances


• Jan 5 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
• Jan 5 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
• Jan 6 "AM America" premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
• Jan 6 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
• Jan 6 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage
• Jan 7 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
• Jan 7 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah" premieres in NYC for 1050 performances
• Jan 7 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing $30,000 damage

• Jan 9 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
• Jan 9 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
• Jan 11 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
• Jan 12 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
• Jan 12 Super Bowl IX, Tulane Stadium, New Orleans, LA: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6; MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB

• Jan 14 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
• Jan 14 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
• Jan 14 17-year-old Lesley Whittle is kidnapped in Shropshire, England

• Jan 15 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence


• Jan 15 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland

• Jan 18 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
• Jan 19 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
• Jan 19 Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
• Jan 20 25th NFL Pro Bowl, Miami Orange Bowl: NFC beats AFC, 17-10; MVP: James Harris, LA Rams, QB
• Jan 20 Terrence McNally's play "Ritz" premieres in NYC
• Jan 21 28th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 7-1; MVP: Syl Apps Jr., Pittsburgh, C
• Jan 22 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
• Jan 23 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 23 Former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Ralph Kiner is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Jan 24 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 24 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England

• Jan 28 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
• Jan 28 1975 NFL Draft: Steve Bartkowski from University of California first pick by Atlanta Falcons
• Jan 29 "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
• Jan 29 First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King
• Jan 29 West Indies win fifth test against India to win an exciting series 3-2

• Feb 1 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
• Feb 1 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
• Feb 1 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
• Feb 2 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea

• Feb 2 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
• Feb 3 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
• Feb 4 Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, strikes Haicheng, Liaoning, China
• Feb 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Feb 8 1800 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• Feb 8 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
• Feb 9 Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
• Feb 10 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
• Feb 10 The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire

• Feb 11 Tv drama “Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic”, starring Linda Blair, premieres on US network NBC
• Feb 13 Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
• Feb 14 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
• Feb 16 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
• Feb 16 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory

• Feb 18 Italy broadens abortion law
• Feb 20 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
• Feb 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Feb 20 A feud begins between the official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975
• Feb 21 John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
• Feb 21 Watergate figures John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs for conspiracy and obstruction of justice
• Feb 23 In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
• Feb 25 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured


• Feb 26 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances
• Feb 26 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
• Feb 27 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
• Feb 27 US House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
• Feb 28 EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
• Feb 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 28 A major London tube train crash at Moorgate station kills 43 people and injures a further 74.
• Mar 1 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
• Mar 1 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
• Mar 1 Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
• Mar 1 Five Nations Rugby Championship match between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh attracts a world record attendance of 104,000; Scots win 12-10
• Mar 3 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances

• Mar 6 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• Mar 7 US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
• Mar 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Mar 7 "Mirror", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev, is released
• Mar 8 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Mar 8 22nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats NC State, 70-66
• Mar 9 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
• Mar 9 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• Mar 10 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
• Mar 10 Dog spectacles patented in England
• Mar 10 Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
• Mar 11 Rightist military coup in Portugal under General António de Spínola fails
• Mar 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Mar 12 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam
• Mar 13 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in NYC


• Mar 15 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
• Mar 15 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
• Mar 15 "That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
• Mar 15 Wales trounce Ireland, 32-4 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 18th Five Nations Rugby Championship
• Mar 16 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
• Mar 16 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
• Mar 17 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
• Mar 18 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
• Mar 19 "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
• Mar 19 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports
• Mar 21 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
• Mar 22 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovision Song festival
• Mar 22 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
• Mar 22 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
• Mar 22 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beats Immaculata 90-81 in Harrisonburg
• Mar 22 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
• Mar 22 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels
• Mar 22 20th Eurovision Song Contest: Teach-In for Netherlands wins singing "Ding-a-dong" in Stockholm

• Mar 26 "Tommy" premieres in London
• Mar 26 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
• Mar 26 The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
• Mar 28 Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also
• Mar 29 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
• Mar 30 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
• Mar 31 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky, 92-85; 10th title under coach John Wooden who had announced his retirement 2 days earlier
• Apr 1 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
• Apr 2 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.

• Apr 3 James Rupers kills his family to inherit


• Apr 4 138 killed as a USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes on approach during an emergency landing at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base in South Vietnam
• Apr 4 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes

• Apr 4 British sitcom "The Good Life" starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith debuts on BBC One
• Apr 5 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
• Apr 5 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
• Apr 5 129th Grand National: Irish combination of jockey Tommy Carberry aboard L'Escargot wins by 15 lengths from 7/2 favourite and 1973-74 winner Red Rum

• Apr 6 "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
• Apr 6 "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
• Apr 6 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colorado
• Apr 6 Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson)
• Apr 7 Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries

• Apr 9 24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices
• Apr 10 Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs

• Apr 11 J. P. Parisé scores an 11 sec OT goal, to see the NY Islanders eliminate the NY Rangers in their ever 1st playoff advance

• Apr 12 Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast, North Ireland

• Apr 13 Chad military coup by General Odingar
• Apr 13 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
• Apr 15 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken
• Apr 15 Gabon amends constitution
• Apr 16 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
• Apr 17 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
• Apr 18 John Lennon releases single "Stand by Me"
• Apr 19 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR


• Apr 20 29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win
• Apr 21 79th Boston Marathon: American Bill Rodgers wins men's section in race record 2:09:55; Liane Winter of West Germany women's champion in 2:42:24 (female world record)

• Apr 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 25 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao

• Apr 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Apr 25 West German embassy blown up in Stockholm, Sweden

• Apr 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Apr 28 South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
• Apr 29 Ethiopia nationalizes all land

• Apr 29 Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge are the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
• Apr 30 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War
• May 2 Apple records closes down
• May 3 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02

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