Historical Events in 1975 (Part 3)

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• Aug 13 Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed

• Aug 14 Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
• Aug 15 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
• Aug 15 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
• Aug 15 Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.

• Aug 16 "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 performances
• Aug 16 Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
• Aug 19 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
• Aug 20 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
• Aug 20 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
• Aug 21 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
• Aug 21 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
• Aug 21 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba


• Aug 22 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
• Aug 23 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
• Aug 23 Communists take over Laos
• Aug 23 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
• Aug 23 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
• Aug 23 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
• Aug 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Aug 24 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
• Aug 24 Papadopoulos, Pattakos and Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
• Aug 24 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
• Aug 24 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
• Aug 27 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
• Aug 27 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
• Aug 29 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
• Aug 30 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
• Sep 1 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
• Sep 1 Gunsmoke goes off the air

• Sep 1 KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
• Sep 1 NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season
• Sep 1 NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
• Sep 1 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
• Sep 1 US stripper well oil prices decontrolled
• Sep 3 England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes
• Sep 3 Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die


• Sep 3 Dodgers 1st baseman Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak in a 13-2 loss v Cincinnati Reds
• Sep 4 The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.

• Sep 5 Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns
• Sep 5 Wings release "Letting Go"
• Sep 6 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
• Sep 6 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976

• Sep 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Sep 7 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
• Sep 7 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Pakistani cricketer Hanif Mohammad
• Sep 7 US Open Men's Tennis: Manuel Orantes of Spain wins his only Grand Slam title; upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors 6-4, 6-3, 6-4
• Sep 8 Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
• Sep 8 Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
• Sep 9 Viking 2 Mars probe launches

• Sep 10 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
• Sep 13 -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US

• Sep 14 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
• Sep 14 Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen
• Sep 15 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
• Sep 15 The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
• Sep 15 1st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 17-3 in Foxborough
• Sep 16 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
• Sep 16 Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
• Sep 16 Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
• Sep 16 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
• Sep 17 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
• Sep 18 Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
• Sep 19 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor

• Sep 20 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw
• Sep 22 World Football League folds
• Sep 22 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
• Sep 24 OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues
• Sep 25 Jackie Wilson suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma

• Sep 26 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
• Sep 27 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
• Sep 28 5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14
• Sep 28 6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27
• Sep 28 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
• Sep 28 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit California Angels, 5-0
• Sep 28 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
• Sep 29 "Three For Money" debuts on NBC-TV
• Sep 29 Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
• Sep 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 29 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
• Sep 29 Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
• Sep 30 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
• Sep 30 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
• Oct 1 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
• Oct 1 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"

• Oct 1 Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production
• Oct 2 The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian
• Oct 2 Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine

• Oct 3 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
• Oct 4 A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.
• Oct 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 5 Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first World Formula 1 drivers championship; wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil
• Oct 7 Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith
• Oct 7 US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
• Oct 7 MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
• Oct 7 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0


• Oct 8 San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome

• Oct 10 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt

• Oct 12 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
• Oct 12 Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19)
• Oct 12 NASA launches space vehicle S-195

• Oct 14 US President Gerald Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
• Oct 15 Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles
• Oct 17 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss
• Oct 17 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
• Oct 18 Simon & Garfunkel reunite on "Saturday Night Live", sing "My Little Town"
• Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 19 "A Chorus Line", held record longest-running Broadway show (6,137 performances), first premieres at the Shubert Theatre in New York
• Oct 19 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
• Oct 20 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
• Oct 20 Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus
• Oct 21 "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
• Oct 21 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll

• Oct 21 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
• Oct 21 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
• Oct 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 22 "Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
• Oct 22 Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
• Oct 22 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus, becoming the first lander to return images from the surface of another planet
• Oct 22 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
• Oct 22 World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season
• Oct 23 Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola
• Oct 23 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
• Oct 23 Women take the day off in Iceland to commemorate “International Women’s Year”, shutting the country down for a day
• Oct 24 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
• Oct 25 Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits
• Oct 25 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing

• Oct 26 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC


• Oct 26 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball

• Oct 28 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
• Oct 28 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
• Oct 28 Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976
• Oct 29 Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year
• Oct 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 29 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills first victim, Wilma McCann
• Oct 30 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
• Oct 30 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
• Oct 30 King Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
• Oct 30 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"

• Nov 2 First sports event at The Summit arena in Houston - NBA's Houston Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89; future Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich top scores with 24 points
• Nov 3 Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
• Nov 3 U.S. advice columnist for "Good Housekeeping" Ann Landers asks parents in a mail-in survey "‘If you had it to do over again, would you have children?" 70% of participants say no
• Nov 3 Chris Evert becomes first tennis player to achieve the No. 1 ranking as the WTA Tour rankings debut; Evert holds top-spot for first 26 weeks
• Nov 4 Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
• Nov 5 British government sends troops to Belize
• Nov 5 Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution
• Nov 6 "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances

• Nov 7 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
• Nov 7 8th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
• Nov 8 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
• Nov 10 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior

• Nov 10 Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
• Nov 10 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
• Nov 11 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
• Nov 11 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr - 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs

• Nov 12 NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
• Nov 12 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
• Nov 12 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins
• Nov 12 7h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats England 25-0
• Nov 13 "Musical Jubilee" opens at St James Theater NYC for 92 performances
• Nov 14 Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara
• Nov 15 "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" single released by Ed Bruce
• Nov 18 Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
• Nov 18 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
• Nov 18 "Rufus featuring Chaka Khan" 4th studio album by Rufus is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1976)
• Nov 19 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP

• Nov 22 Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland
• Nov 23 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8

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