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Watergate Convictions
Jan 1 H. R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crimes
- 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 2 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
- Jan 4 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
- 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 4 NHL Boston Bruins Dave Forbes becomes 1st athlete indicted for criminal assault for excessive violence during play; stick butt-end the face of Minnesota North Star Henry Boucha caused permanent vision damage; court case ends in hung jury, and a civil settlement is eventually reached
- Jan 4 NHL Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
- Jan 4 US President Gerald Ford signs Executive Order on CIA activities within the US (No 11828)
- Jan 5 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
- Jan 5 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
- Jan 6 "AM America" premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
- Jan 6 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
- Jan 6 A thousand 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 estimated $30,000 damage
- Jan 7 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
- Jan 7 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing $30,000 damage
Watergate Figures Released
Jan 8 Judge John Sirica orders release of Watergate's John Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
- Jan 9 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
- Jan 11 Soviet 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
Kissinger Hints Action Over Oil
Jan 13 US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of "actual strangulation of the industrialized world" in the wake of oil shock
- Jan 14 17-year-old Lesley Whittle is kidnapped in Shropshire, England
- Jan 14 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
- Jan 14 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
Diller's Hollywood Star
Jan 15 Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Jan 15 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
- Jan 15 Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
- Jan 18 "The 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 Terrence McNally's play "Ritz" premieres in NYC
- Jan 22 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
- Jan 23 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
- Jan 24 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
- Jan 24 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
Rahman Disposed
Jan 25 Bangladeshi parliament disposes of premier Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
"Seascape"
Jan 26 Edward Albee's play "Seascape" premieres in NYC
Rubik's Cube
Jan 30 Ernő Rubik applies for a patent for his "Magic Cube" invention, later to be known as a Rubik's cube
"Mandy"
Jan 31 Barry Manilow's single "Mandy" goes gold
"#9 Dream"
Jan 31 John Lennon releases single "#9 Dream"
Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 3 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jazz End Losing Streak
Feb 8 Pete Maravich scores 47 points as the New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game NBA road losing streak with a 106-102 win over the Hawks in Atlanta
- 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
Leadership Contest
Feb 11 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party
Daytona 500
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 16 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
- Feb 17 A&M Records releases John Lennon's sixth studio album, "Rock 'n' Roll" album, cover songs of early rock numbers
- Feb 18 Italy broadens abortion law
- 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 20 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
- Feb 20 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 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 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 A major London tube train crash at Moorgate station kills 43 people and injures a further 74.
- Feb 28 EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
- Feb 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 1 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
- Mar 1 Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
- Mar 1 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
Music History
Mar 3 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
- Mar 6 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
Mirror
Mar 7 "Mirror", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Margarita Terekhova and Ignat Daniltsev, is released
Young Americans
Mar 7 RCA releases "Young Americans", David Bowie's 9th studio album, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City; featuring appearances by John Lennon on two tracks, it peaks in the U.S. charts at No. 9, and No. 2 in the U.K.
- Mar 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 7 US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
- Mar 8 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Mar 9 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- Mar 10 Dog spectacles patented in England
- Mar 10 John Lennon releases single "Stand By Me", a cover of Ben E. King's song from 1961
- 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Mar 12 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam
Film & TV History
Mar 14 Film adaptation of Neil Simon's comedy "The Prisoner of Second Avenue", starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft, premieres in NYC
- 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 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
- Mar 15 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
- 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 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 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels
- Mar 22 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beats Immaculata 90-81 in Harrisonburg
- Mar 22 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
Boxing Title Fight
Mar 24 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Music Concert
Mar 24 New Orleans R&B piano player Professor Longhair with the Meters perform at record release party for Paul McCartney and Wings' "Venus and Mars", aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California
When Will I Be Loved
Mar 25 Linda Ronstadt releases cover of the Everly Brothers' 1960 song "When Will I Be Loved" as a single; climbs to No. 2 in the charts
Tommy
Mar 26 Ken Russell's film "Tommy", based on the rock opera by The Who, premieres in London; Roger Daltrey and Ann-Margret star, Tina Turner and Elton John are featured
- Mar 26 The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
- Mar 26 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
- Mar 28 NHL Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses
- Mar 29 "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle reaches #1 on US singles chart
- Mar 29 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
- Mar 30 James Rupert kills 11 members of his family on Easter Sunday in Hamilton, Ohio
- Mar 30 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
- 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.
Sports History
Apr 3 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov
- 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 British sitcom "The Good Life" starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith debuts on BBC One
Founding of Microsoft
Apr 4 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
Music History
Apr 4 Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes
Sports History
Apr 5 American tennis #1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2
- Apr 5 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
- 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
Academy Awards
Apr 8 47th Academy Awards: "The Godfather Part II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
Sports History
Apr 8 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st African American baseball manager (Cleveland Indians beat New York Yankees, 5-3)
Baseball Trade
Apr 11 Hank Aaron returns to County Stadium as a Milwaukee player after his off-season trade from the Atlanta Braves; Brewers beat Cleveland Indians, 6-2
- 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 The Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia marking the end of the Cambodian Civil war (Kampuchea National Day)
- Apr 18 John Lennon gives what becomes his final public performance at a gala salute to British media mogul Lew Grade at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, NYC; he performed 3 songs - Little Richard’s “Slippin’ and Slidin’”, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, and closed with his own “Imagine”
- Apr 19 British rock band Queen begins concert tour of Japan
- Apr 19 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
- Apr 20 29th Tony Awards: "Equus" (play) & "The Wiz" (musical) win
Event of Interest
Apr 21 Last South Vietnam President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu resigns after 10 years in power
No Man's Land
Apr 23 Harold Pinter's play "No Man's Land" premieres in London
Free Election in Portugal
Apr 25 Mário Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's first free election since 1925 following the Carnation Revolution of 1974
- Apr 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Apr 25 West German embassy blown up in Stockholm, Sweden
Baseball Record
Apr 26 MLB Philadelphia Phillies slugger Mike Schmidt's 2 home runs in 7-3 win over Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh ties NL record of 11 HRs in April
- Apr 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
TV Show Appearance
Apr 28 Ringo Starr appears on "The Smothers Brothers Show", singing Hoyt Axton's "No No Song", and John Lennon is the guest on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" program, in what turns out to be his final television interview; both on NBC-TV
- Apr 28 South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
- Apr 29 Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge are the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
- Apr 29 Ethiopia nationalizes all land
The Fall of Saigon
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
- Apr 30 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War
- May 2 Apple records closes down
- May 3 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
- May 4 Ed Bullins's stage drama "The Taking of Miss Janie" opens in NYC
- May 4 Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time
- May 4 Italian film "Seven Beauties" directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, and Shirley Stoler released - first film directed by a women to be nominated for an Academy Award
- May 5 A's release pinch runner Herb Washington, who played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding. He did steal 30 bases and score 33 runs.
- May 5 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara for historical novel "Killer Angels"
- May 6 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
- May 6 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
- May 6 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
- May 7 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
End of Vietnam Era
May 7 US President Gerald Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
Inseparable
May 11 Natalie Cole releases her debut album "Inseparable" (wins 2 Grammy Awards)
- May 12 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
- May 13 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee
- May 14 Cult feminist film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" written and directed by Chantal Ackerman and starring Delphine Seyrig premieres at Cannes
- May 14 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
- May 14 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
- May 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- May 16 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
- May 16 Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest
- May 16 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
- May 16 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
- May 17 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
- May 17 10CC releases "I'm Not in Love"
- May 17 NBC pays $5M for rights to show "Gone With The Wind" one time
Music History
May 17 Singer Mick Jagger (31) punches a restaurant window, needs 20 stitches for repairs
27th Emmy Awards
May 19 27th Emmy Awards: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", Robert Blake & Jean Marsh win
- May 19 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
- May 21 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of US Equal Opportunity Commission
- May 21 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
- May 23 28th Cannes Film Festival: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina wins the Palme d'Or
- May 24 Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
- May 25 Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shutting out the A's 6-0
Rhinestone Cowboy
May 26 "Rhinestone Cowboy" single released by Glen Campbell (Billboard Song of the Year, 1975)
- May 26 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
- May 27 Paul McCartney & Wings release their "Venus and Mars" album
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