1975

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980

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Events

January 1 - John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21
January 7 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
January 8 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband
January 20 - Michael Ovitz founds Creative Artists Agency
January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer
February 9 - The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative party in the United Kingdom.
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 prison.
March 4 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
March 6 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
March 9 - Construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline begins.
March 10 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
March 25 - Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
April 17 - Pol Pot proclaims the "Democratic Republic of Kampuchea" in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).
April 25 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
May 12 - Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
May 16 - India annexes Sikkim.
July 15 - Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
September 5 - President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California.
September 22 - President Ford survives a second assassination attempt, again by a female.
November 11 - Angola independent from Portugal.
November 11 - Gough Whitlam dismissed as Prime Minister of Australia during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975.
November 25 - Suriname independent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
November 28 - East Timor independent from Portugal
December 7 - East Timor invaded by Indonesia
Spanish army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Saharaui Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
December 29 - A bomb explods at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1975 in film
- January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
- March - Production begins on Star Wars
- July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Jaws
- Rooster Cogburn starring John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn and others
1975 in literature
1975 in music
- Paul Simon releases album Still Crazy After All These Years
- Art Garfunkel releases album Breakaway
- Simon and Garfunkel release single "My Little Town," the last single they have released together to date. Song hits #9 on Billboard charts and is released on both their solo albums of 1975.
1975 in sports
- May 3 - FA Cup final - Fulham F.C. 0 - 2 West Ham United F.C. played at Wembley Stadium in front of 100,000
- January 12 - Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers (16) def. Minnesota Vikings (6)
- October - World Series: Cincinnati Reds defeat Boston Red Sox four games to three
1975 in television
- January 18 - The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
- April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
- Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC.
- The Wheel of Fortune premieres

Births

January 3 - Danica McKellar, actress
January 22 - Balthazar Getty, actor
January 27 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, musician
February 11 - Chuck Watanabe, kayaker.
February 20 - Brian Littrell, musician ("NSYNC")
February 22 - Drew Barrymore, actress.
March 5 - Niki Taylor, fashion model
March 12 - Andrew Murawa, all-around cool guy.
May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer
May 8 - Enrique Iglesias, singer
June 4 - Angelina Jolie, US actress
June 25 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

Deaths

January 24 - Larry Fine, actor (The Three Stooges)
February 4 - Louis Jordan, musician
February 14 - P. G. Wodehouse, writer
February 24 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union
February 25 - Elijah Muhammad, Black Muslim leader
March 8 - George Stevens, director, producer, cinematographer
March 14 - Susan Hayward, actress
March 15 - Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate
March 16 - T-Bone Walker, musician
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek
May 8 - Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee
May 13 - Bob Wills, country musician
July 29 - James Blish, U.S. science fiction author
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68, Russian composer
August 24 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot
November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, composer
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