1975 - What happened in 1975 ?
January 1975
Monday 06:
The American soap opera Another World becomes the first daytime drama to air hour-long regularly scheduled episodes.
Tuesday 07:
OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
Wednesday 15:
Portugal grants independence to Angola.
Saturday 18:
The Jeffersons debuts on CBS.
Monday 20:
Michael Ovitz founds Creative Artists Agency.
February 1975
Sunday 09:
The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
Friday 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.
Monday 24:
Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release the classic double album Physical Graffiti.
Friday 28:
A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
March 1975
Thursday 06:
Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.
Monday 10:
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
Saturday 22:
In Stockholm, Sweden, Teach-In wins the twentieth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Ding-a-dong."
Tuesday 25:
Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
Wednesday 26:
The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
April 1975
Thursday 03:
Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
Saturday 12:
Khmer Rouge troops capture Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sunday 13:
An attack by Phalangists on a Palestinian bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war.
Monday 21:
Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
Thursday 24:
The Baader-Meinhof Gang blow up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
May 1975
Monday 12:
Mayagüez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
Friday 16:
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Wednesday 28:
Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
June 1975
Thursday 05:
The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC
Tuesday 24:
An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
Wednesday 25:
Mozambique achieved independence.
Thursday 26:
Indira Gandhi establishes authoritarian rule in India.
July 1975
Wednesday 09:
The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system.
Friday 11:
Chinese archeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
Saturday 12:
São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence.
Tuesday 15:
1977 - Griffith N.S.W, Anti - Drug campainer Donald Mackay dissapers presumed murded.
Thursday 31:
In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
August 1975
Saturday 02:
In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an NFL football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
Sunday 03:
A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
Tuesday 19:
The cricket test match between England and Australia is called off after the pitch is vandalised by supporters of George Davis.
Saturday 23:
Successful Communist coup in Laos
Monday 25:
Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, the album that would launch him to superstardom.
September 1975
Monday 01:
The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
Friday 05:
In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
Sunday 14:
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
Thursday 18:
Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
Tuesday 30:
The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
October 1975
Wednesday 01:
Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Phillipines.
Saturday 11:
Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the guest host.
Thursday 16:
The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
Wednesday 22:
Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is given a general discharge after appearing in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual."
Thursday 30:
Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.
November 1975
Thursday 06:
The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
Monday 10:
United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991).
Tuesday 11:
Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister, and announces a general election to be held in early December.
Friday 14:
Spain abandons Western Sahara.
Tuesday 25:
Suriname becomes independent.
December 1975
Monday 01:
The long-running soap opera The Edge of Night switches networks to ABC after 19 years on CBS.
Tuesday 02:
The communist Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Sunday 07:
Indonesia invades East Timor.
Friday 26:
Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union
Monday 29:
A bomb explodes at New York City's LaGuardia Airport killing 11.
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