Historical Events in 1975 (Part 3)

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• 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 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies

• Sep 28 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
• Sep 29 American television game show "Three for the Money" hosted by Dick Enberg, debuts on NBC-TV; cancelled after 8 weeks
• Sep 29 Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan

• Sep 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 29 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
• Sep 30 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel at Niagara Falls, New York
• 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 Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine
• 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 3 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap

• Oct 5 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 7 Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith

• 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 protocol for the Sinai II Agreement accord with Egypt, in Jerusalem [1]

• Oct 12 American Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon 2:38:19 in the Nike OTC Marathon, Eugene, Oregon
• Oct 12 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
• Oct 12 NASA launches space vehicle S-195

• 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 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
• Oct 20 Soviet orbiter Venera 9 becomes the 1st spacecraft to orbit Venus
• Oct 20 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

• 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 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 (Cleveland, Ohio)
• Oct 28 Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976

• Oct 29 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 5 British government sends troops to Belize
• Nov 5 Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution

• Nov 7 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
• Nov 8 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
• Nov 10 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald with crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior

• 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 11 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (the first "modern treaty") signed between Quebec government and Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec and the Northern Quebec Inuit Association [1]

• Nov 12 American Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas (77) retires after 36 years

• 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 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 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
• Nov 25 A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
• Nov 25 Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)
• Nov 25 Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases

• Nov 26 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• Nov 26 US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
• Nov 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Nov 27 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
• Nov 28 "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night", the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.

• Nov 28 Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed
• Nov 28 Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane
• Nov 28 Wings release single "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
• Nov 29 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii

• Nov 29 US President Gerald Ford signs Education for All Handicapped Children Act requiring states provide free education for children with a disability
• Nov 30 Dahomey renamed People's Republic of Benin
• Dec 1 "The Robert MacNeil Report", later "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report", currently known as "PBS NewsHour" program premieres nationally in US on PBS
• Dec 1 Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
• Dec 1 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China
• Dec 2 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster, Drente (NL), 3 killed

• Dec 2 Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
• Dec 3 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
• Dec 4 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
• Dec 5 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
• Dec 6 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
• Dec 6 Balcombe Street Siege: for 6 days, four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers hold two hostages at an apartment in London, England
• Dec 7 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
• Dec 7 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus
• Dec 7 Indonesian army occupies East Timor

• Dec 8 Radio station 4ZZZ begins transmitting in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 105.7 FM; frequency changes to 102.1 FM in 1978
• Dec 9 Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP, CFP, and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company
• Dec 9 US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 New York City Seasonal Financing Act amid fiscal crisis in the city

• Dec 11 US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
• Dec 12 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• Dec 12 Sara Jane Moore pleads guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford (serves 32 years)

• Dec 13 Australian Federal Election - Liberals with coalition under Malcolm Fraser win largest ever parliamentary majority
• Dec 13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 13 West Indian cricket opener Roy Fredericks smashes 169 in 2nd Test win v Australia in Perth; hundred in 71 balls
• Dec 14 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
• Dec 14 WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
• Dec 16 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV

• Dec 17 John Paul Stevens appointed to the US Supreme Court
• Dec 17 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Ford's life
• Dec 17 NHL NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, for 1st time in 3-0 win with Billy Smith in goal

• Dec 19 The Red Hand Commandos, a very secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk, killing 2 civilians and wounding 20
• Dec 20 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles

• Dec 21 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
• Dec 21 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
• Dec 21 Madagascar adopts constitution
• Dec 22 US President Gerald Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) - establishes National Petroleum Reserve
• Dec 23 Chairman of MLB arbitration panel Peter Seitz rules pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally to be free agents
• Dec 23 US President Gerald Ford signs Metric Conversion Act in to law
• Dec 26 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
• Dec 26 Crowd of 85,661 attend the 1st day of the Australia vs West Indies MCG cricket test
• Dec 26 George Harrison teases his hit "My Sweet Lord" before breaking into "The Pirate Song" on Eric Idle's Rutland Weekend Television Christmas Special (UK)
• Dec 27 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 in Dhanbad, India
• Dec 28 "The Hail Mary", with 32 seconds left in the NFC Divisional Playoff Game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach throws a legendary 50-yard winning touchdown pass to Drew Pearson to defeat the Minnesota Vikings, and the "Hail Mary" play gains national recognition
• Dec 28 1st broadcast of Dutch public radio service Hilversum IV; programming chiefly classical music
• Dec 28 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
• Dec 28 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
• Dec 28 In the aftermath of the Cold War, the New York Rangers become first team in NHL history to face a touring Soviet hockey squad; Soviet Army beats the Rangers, 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
• Dec 29 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC

• Dec 30 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force

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