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Events on the year of 1975 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
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02 Jan 1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
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02 Jan 1975 Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody.
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02 Jan 1975 A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra.
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04 Jan 1975 "Good News" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 16 performances
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04 Jan 1975 "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
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04 Jan 1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
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04 Jan 1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
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04 Jan 1975 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
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05 Jan 1975 "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
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05 Jan 1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks
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05 Jan 1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
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05 Jan 1975 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
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06 Jan 1975 "AM America, " premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
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06 Jan 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune, " debuts on NBC-tv
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07 Jan 1975 "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
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07 Jan 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
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07 Jan 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
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08 Jan 1975 Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
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09 Jan 1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
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09 Jan 1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
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11 Jan 1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
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12 Jan 1975 Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, Running Back
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12 Jan 1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
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14 Jan 1975 Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
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14 Jan 1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
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14 Jan 1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 meters
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15 Jan 1975 The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
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15 Jan 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
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15 Jan 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
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18 Jan 1975 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
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18 Jan 1975 "The Jeffersons" spin-off from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
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19 Jan 1975 An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
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19 Jan 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
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19 Jan 1975 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
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20 Jan 1975 5th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 17-10
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20 Jan 1975 Terrence McNally's "Ritz" premieres in New York City NY
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21 Jan 1975 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
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22 Jan 1975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
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23 Jan 1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
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23 Jan 1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
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23 Jan 1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
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24 Jan 1975 "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
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24 Jan 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
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25 Jan 1975 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
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25 Jan 1975 Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
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26 Jan 1975 Edward Albee's "Seascape" premieres in New York City NY
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28 Jan 1975 8th ABA All-Star Game East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
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29 Jan 1975 "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
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29 Jan 1975 "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater New York City NY for 5 performances
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29 Jan 1975 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
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29 Jan 1975 W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
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30 Jan 1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
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31 Jan 1975 John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
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31 Jan 1975 John Lennon's "#9 Dream" is released
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31 Jan 1975 Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
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31 Jan 1975 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
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01 Feb 1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
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01 Feb 1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
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01 Feb 1975 1st successful Washington Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs. Vancouver Canucks
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01 Feb 1975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
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01 Feb 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
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02 Feb 1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
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02 Feb 1975 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
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02 Feb 1975 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
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03 Feb 1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
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04 Feb 1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
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05 Feb 1975 Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
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06 Feb 1975 A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
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07 Feb 1975 NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
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08 Feb 1975 Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
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09 Feb 1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
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09 Feb 1975 Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
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09 Feb 1975 The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
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10 Feb 1975 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
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11 Feb 1975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
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13 Feb 1975 Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
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14 Feb 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
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16 Feb 1975 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating Kansas City Scouts 3-0
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18 Feb 1975 2nd American Music Award
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18 Feb 1975 Italy broadens abortion law
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20 Feb 1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105 on Test Cricket debut, vs Pakistan Lahore
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20 Feb 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
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20 Feb 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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21 Feb 1975 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.
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21 Feb 1975 John Lennon's "Rock 'n' Roll" album is released
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21 Feb 1975 John Mitchell, H R Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2
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23 Feb 1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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25 Feb 1975 Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
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26 Feb 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances
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26 Feb 1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
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27 Feb 1975 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
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27 Feb 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
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28 Feb 1975 In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
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28 Feb 1975 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
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28 Feb 1975 EG signs accord of Lom
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01 Mar 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
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03 Mar 1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
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03 Mar 1975 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
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05 Mar 1975 First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
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06 Mar 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
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06 Mar 1975 For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
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07 Mar 1975 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
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08 Mar 1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
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09 Mar 1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
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10 Mar 1975 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
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10 Mar 1975 Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
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10 Mar 1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
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11 Mar 1975 Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.
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11 Mar 1975 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
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11 Mar 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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12 Mar 1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
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13 Mar 1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in New York NY
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15 Mar 1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colorado
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15 Mar 1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 meter (37.99 seconds)
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16 Mar 1975 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
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16 Mar 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
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17 Mar 1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
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18 Mar 1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
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19 Mar 1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in High School sports
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21 Mar 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
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22 Mar 1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
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22 Mar 1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
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22 Mar 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
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22 Mar 1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
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22 Mar 1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
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22 Mar 1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
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22 Mar 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
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23 Mar 1975 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic
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24 Mar 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
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25 Mar 1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
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25 Mar 1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew
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26 Mar 1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
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26 Mar 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
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26 Mar 1975 "Tommy" premieres in London
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26 Mar 1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight losses
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27 Mar 1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
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28 Mar 1975 Washington Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also
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28 Mar 1975 Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses
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29 Mar 1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
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29 Mar 1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
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30 Mar 1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
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31 Mar 1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55; this is John Wooden's final game & UCLA's 10th NCAA championship in 12 years
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01 Apr 1975 Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer
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02 Apr 1975 Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
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02 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
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03 Apr 1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend
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03 Apr 1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
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03 Apr 1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
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04 Apr 1975 130, killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes
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04 Apr 1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
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04 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Babylift: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff killing 172 people.
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04 Apr 1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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05 Apr 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
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05 Apr 1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; Cosmonauts return safely
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06 Apr 1975 "Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 performances
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06 Apr 1975 "Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 performances
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06 Apr 1975 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colorado
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06 Apr 1975 Fastest hat trick by a Washington Cap 3 minutes 26 seconds (Stan Gilbertson)
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08 Apr 1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II, " Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win
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08 Apr 1975 Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats New York 5-3)
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08 Apr 1975 Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
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09 Apr 1975 Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
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09 Apr 1975 The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
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10 Apr 1975 New York Rangers score 8 goals against New York Islanders in playoffs
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11 Apr 1975 JP Parise 11 second OT goal-Islanders 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
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11 Apr 1975 Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewers)
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12 Apr 1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
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13 Apr 1975 Penguins 5-Isles 4 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 1-0 lead
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13 Apr 1975 Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
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13 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
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13 Apr 1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar
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13 Apr 1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
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15 Apr 1975 Penguins 3-Isles 1 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1975 1st appearance of the San Diego Chicken
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15 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1975 Gabon amends constitution
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16 Apr 1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
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17 Apr 1975 Penguins 6-Isles 4 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 3-0 lead
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17 Apr 1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
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17 Apr 1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)
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17 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 6-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead
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17 Apr 1975 Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
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18 Apr 1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
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18 Apr 1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
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19 Apr 1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of the USSR
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19 Apr 1975 India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
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20 Apr 1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
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20 Apr 1975 29th Tony Awards Equus & The Wiz win
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20 Apr 1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
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21 Apr 1975 Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24)
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21 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
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21 Apr 1975 Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years
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21 Apr 1975 4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of West Germany in 2:42:24
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22 Apr 1975 Penguins 2-Isles 4 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 3-2 lead
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22 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 2-New York Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
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23 Apr 1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land", premieres in London
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24 Apr 1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
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24 Apr 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Apr 1975 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.
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25 Apr 1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
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25 Apr 1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
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25 Apr 1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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25 Apr 1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
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26 Apr 1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1 - Quarterfinals - Isles win series 4-3
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26 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 0-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Islanders win series 4-3
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26 Apr 1975 Philadelphia Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 homeruns ties National League record of 11 homeruns in April
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27 Apr 1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
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27 Apr 1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 Apr 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" andRingo on "Smother Brothers"
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28 Apr 1975 General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
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28 Apr 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers"
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28 Apr 1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
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28 Apr 1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
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29 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
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29 Apr 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
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29 Apr 1975 Flyers 4-Islanders 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
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29 Apr 1975 US Forces pull out of Vietnam
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29 Apr 1975 Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
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30 Apr 1975 Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
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30 Apr 1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
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01 May 1975 Islander Parise and Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4 - Semifinals - Flyers hold 2-0 lead
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02 May 1975 Apple records closes down
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03 May 1975 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
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03 May 1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
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04 May 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
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04 May 1975 Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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05 May 1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
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06 May 1975 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
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06 May 1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
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06 May 1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
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06 May 1975 During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
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07 May 1975 Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT) - Semifinals - Flyers hold 3-1 lead
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07 May 1975 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
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07 May 1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
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09 May 1975 Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record)
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09 May 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 5 - Semifinals - Flyers hold 3-2 lead
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10 May 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
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10 May 1975 Brian Oldfield of the US put the shotput 75', an unofficial record
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11 May 1975 Flyers 1-Isles 2 - Semifinals - Series tied at 3 games
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11 May 1975 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
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11 May 1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
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12 May 1975 Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
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12 May 1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
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13 May 1975 "Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
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13 May 1975 Flyers 4-Isles 1 - Semifinals - Flyers win semifinals 4-3
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13 May 1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee
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13 May 1975 Stanley Cup ; Philadelphia Flyers beat New York Islanders 4-3
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14 May 1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
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14 May 1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
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14 May 1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
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14 May 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 May 1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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15 May 1975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
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16 May 1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in the UK
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16 May 1975 India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
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16 May 1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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16 May 1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
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16 May 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit
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16 May 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 May 1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
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17 May 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
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17 May 1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
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17 May 1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
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17 May 1975 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
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17 May 1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
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17 May 1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
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17 May 1975 NBC paid $5 million for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
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19 May 1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
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19 May 1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona India
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19 May 1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
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21 May 1975 Borussia M
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21 May 1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of the Equal Opportunity Commission
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21 May 1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
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22 May 1975 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
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24 May 1975 Dutch Government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
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24 May 1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
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25 May 1975 29th NBA Championship: Golden State Warriors sweep Washington Bullets in 4 games
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25 May 1975 Cleveland's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0
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25 May 1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
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26 May 1975 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
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27 May 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
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27 May 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
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27 May 1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
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27 May 1975 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2
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27 May 1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges from Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
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28 May 1975 Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
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28 May 1975 Bayern M
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28 May 1975 Soyuz 18 launches
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30 May 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
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30 May 1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
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30 May 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
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31 May 1975 "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
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31 May 1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
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01 Jun 1975 "Chicago" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 947 performances
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01 Jun 1975 21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
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01 Jun 1975 California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Baltimore Orioles, 1-0
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01 Jun 1975 Cars in the Netherlands must have seatbelts
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01 Jun 1975 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist
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02 Jun 1975 1st time snow fell in London in June
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02 Jun 1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
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02 Jun 1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
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04 Jun 1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina
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04 Jun 1975 The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
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05 Jun 1975 48th National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
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05 Jun 1975 British population agrees to European Common Market membership
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05 Jun 1975 Egypt President Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
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05 Jun 1975 The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
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05 Jun 1975 The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
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06 Jun 1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
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06 Jun 1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
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07 Jun 1975 Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 vs. Pakistan World Cup
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07 Jun 1975 The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
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08 Jun 1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
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08 Jun 1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
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08 Jun 1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
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09 Jun 1975 107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2
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09 Jun 1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford, Florida)
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09 Jun 1975 House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time
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10 Jun 1975 Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire
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10 Jun 1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
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11 Jun 1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
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11 Jun 1975 Greece adopts constitution
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13 Jun 1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci
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14 Jun 1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
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14 Jun 1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
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14 Jun 1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
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14 Jun 1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
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16 Jun 1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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16 Jun 1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
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16 Jun 1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
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17 Jun 1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
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18 Jun 1975 NBC News and Information Service (24 hour news) premieres on radio
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18 Jun 1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
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21 Jun 1975 "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
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21 Jun 1975 Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley
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21 Jun 1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow
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21 Jun 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
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22 Jun 1975 Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
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23 Jun 1975 75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah Country Club - Illinois
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23 Jun 1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
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24 Jun 1975 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
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24 Jun 1975 113 killed in Eastern Boeing 727 crash at JFK
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24 Jun 1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
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25 Jun 1975 Mozambique achieves independence.
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25 Jun 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of internal Emergency declared in India.
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25 Jun 1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
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26 Jun 1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
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26 Jun 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
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26 Jun 1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
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28 Jun 1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"
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28 Jun 1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"
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28 Jun 1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
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29 Jun 1975 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner
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29 Jun 1975 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
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29 Jun 1975 Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
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30 Jun 1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
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30 Jun 1975 University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
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30 Jun 1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
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30 Jun 1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
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01 Jul 1975 Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 Jul 1975 Ringo Starr and Maureen, divorce
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01 Jul 1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated
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04 Jul 1975 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
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04 Jul 1975 Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
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05 Jul 1975 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
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05 Jul 1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
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05 Jul 1975 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
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05 Jul 1975 Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
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06 Jul 1975 Argentine government falls
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06 Jul 1975 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
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06 Jul 1975 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
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06 Jul 1975 Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
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06 Jul 1975 The Comoros declares independence from France.
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08 Jul 1975 Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
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08 Jul 1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
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10 Jul 1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
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10 Jul 1975 Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
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11 Jul 1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
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11 Jul 1975 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2489 Suvorov
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12 Jul 1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
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12 Jul 1975 Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire vs. Yorkshire
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12 Jul 1975 São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
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12 Jul 1975 Sao Tom
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13 Jul 1975 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
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13 Jul 1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
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14 Jul 1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
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15 Jul 1975 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
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15 Jul 1975 All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (NY Mets)
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15 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
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15 Jul 1975 Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
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15 Jul 1975 NL beats AL 6-3 in 46th All Star Game (Milwaukee's County Stadium)
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15 Jul 1975 Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
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16 Jul 1975 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
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17 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US / USSR linkup in space
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17 Jul 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
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17 Jul 1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
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18 Jul 1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins
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19 Jul 1975 Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
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19 Jul 1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
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21 Jul 1975 New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
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21 Jul 1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
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22 Jul 1975 House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E Lee
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23 Jul 1975 LA Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
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24 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
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25 Jul 1975 "A Chorus Line, " longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
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26 Jul 1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
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27 Jul 1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
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29 Jul 1975 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
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29 Jul 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed / President Jakubu Gowon fired
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30 Jul 1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
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30 Jul 1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
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01 Aug 1975 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord
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01 Aug 1975 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103)
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01 Aug 1975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees
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01 Aug 1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations
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01 Aug 1975 CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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03 Aug 1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
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03 Aug 1975 Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans
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03 Aug 1975 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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04 Aug 1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
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04 Aug 1975 The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
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05 Aug 1975 Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5
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05 Aug 1975 Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown
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09 Aug 1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
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09 Aug 1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consecutive base without being caught
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09 Aug 1975 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open
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10 Aug 1975 57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
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10 Aug 1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
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11 Aug 1975 East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
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11 Aug 1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
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11 Aug 1975 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
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14 Aug 1975 Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
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14 Aug 1975 Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
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14 Aug 1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
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15 Aug 1975 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
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15 Aug 1975 Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
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15 Aug 1975 Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
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15 Aug 1975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
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16 Aug 1975 "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 performances
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16 Aug 1975 Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
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17 Aug 1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
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19 Aug 1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
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20 Aug 1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
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20 Aug 1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing
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21 Aug 1975 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
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21 Aug 1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
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21 Aug 1975 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
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22 Aug 1975 Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford
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22 Aug 1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
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23 Aug 1975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
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23 Aug 1975 Communists take over Laos
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23 Aug 1975 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
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23 Aug 1975 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
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23 Aug 1975 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
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24 Aug 1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
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24 Aug 1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
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24 Aug 1975 Papadopoulos / Pattakos / Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
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24 Aug 1975 SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
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24 Aug 1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
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27 Aug 1975 1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
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27 Aug 1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
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29 Aug 1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
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30 Aug 1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
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01 Sep 1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
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01 Sep 1975 Gunsmoke resigns the air
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01 Sep 1975 KOL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KMPS
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01 Sep 1975 New York Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
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01 Sep 1975 New York City transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
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03 Sep 1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
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03 Sep 1975 Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
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04 Sep 1975 The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
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05 Sep 1975 Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City
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05 Sep 1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento
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05 Sep 1975 Wings release "Letting Go"
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05 Sep 1975 Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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06 Sep 1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
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06 Sep 1975 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
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06 Sep 1975 Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
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06 Sep 1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
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06 Sep 1975 Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum
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07 Sep 1975 95th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63)
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07 Sep 1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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07 Sep 1975 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
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07 Sep 1975 Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open
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08 Sep 1975 Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools
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08 Sep 1975 Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
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08 Sep 1975 Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
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09 Sep 1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum
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09 Sep 1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launch
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14 Sep 1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
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14 Sep 1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US Saint
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14 Sep 1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam
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14 Sep 1975 The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
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14 Sep 1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
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15 Sep 1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
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15 Sep 1975 The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica)
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16 Sep 1975 Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
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16 Sep 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
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16 Sep 1975 The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
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16 Sep 1975 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
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16 Sep 1975 Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
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17 Sep 1975 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
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18 Sep 1975 Heiress / bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
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18 Sep 1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
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19 Sep 1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
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20 Sep 1975 21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club - Pennsylvania
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20 Sep 1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
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20 Sep 1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28
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21 Sep 1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
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22 Sep 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco, California
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22 Sep 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
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22 Sep 1975 World Football League folds
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24 Sep 1975 Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
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25 Sep 1975 Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack and lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
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26 Sep 1975 Phillies and New York Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
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27 Sep 1975 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
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28 Sep 1975 6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27
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28 Sep 1975 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
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28 Sep 1975 Oakland Athletics Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad and Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0
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28 Sep 1975 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
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29 Sep 1975 "Three For Money, " debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1975 Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984
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29 Sep 1975 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
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29 Sep 1975 WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
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30 Sep 1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
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30 Sep 1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
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01 Oct 1975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles
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01 Oct 1975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu"
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01 Oct 1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla
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01 Oct 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 Oct 1975 The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
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01 Oct 1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
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01 Oct 1975 Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
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03 Oct 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in the UK
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03 Oct 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
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05 Oct 1975 Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
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09 Oct 1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
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09 Oct 1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Oct 1975 Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
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10 Oct 1975 Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
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11 Oct 1975 "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin
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11 Oct 1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
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11 Oct 1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
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11 Oct 1975 The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
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11 Oct 1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
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12 Oct 1975 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
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12 Oct 1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-195
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13 Oct 1975 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
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13 Oct 1975 Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
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14 Oct 1975 President Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside
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16 Oct 1975 The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
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16 Oct 1975 Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
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16 Oct 1975 The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
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17 Oct 1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Mississippi
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17 Oct 1975 Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
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17 Oct 1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
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18 Oct 1975 Simon and Garfunkel reunite on SNL, sing "My Little Town"
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19 Oct 1975 "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
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19 Oct 1975 Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City
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19 Oct 1975 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic
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20 Oct 1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning
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21 Oct 1975 "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances
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21 Oct 1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
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21 Oct 1975 Elton John given a star in Hollywood
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21 Oct 1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
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21 Oct 1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
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21 Oct 1975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched
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22 Oct 1975 "Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
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22 Oct 1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
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22 Oct 1975 The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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22 Oct 1975 Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
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22 Oct 1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
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22 Oct 1975 World Football League disbands
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23 Oct 1975 Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola
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23 Oct 1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
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24 Oct 1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
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24 Oct 1975 In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality.
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25 Oct 1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
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25 Oct 1975 USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
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26 Oct 1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
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26 Oct 1975 Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America
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26 Oct 1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US
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27 Oct 1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
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28 Oct 1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
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28 Oct 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
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29 Oct 1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills 1st victim
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30 Oct 1975 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
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30 Oct 1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
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30 Oct 1975 Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
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30 Oct 1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
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30 Oct 1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
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30 Oct 1975 NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
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31 Oct 1975 Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats
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02 Nov 1975 Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Madison Square Garden beats Rangers 6-4
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02 Nov 1975 Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
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03 Nov 1975 Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
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04 Nov 1975 Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
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05 Nov 1975 British government sends troops to Belize
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05 Nov 1975 Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution
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06 Nov 1975 "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
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06 Nov 1975 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
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07 Nov 1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
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08 Nov 1975 Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ
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10 Nov 1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in New York City
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10 Nov 1975 Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career
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10 Nov 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
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10 Nov 1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
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11 Nov 1975 Australian Prime Minister removed by crown (1st elected Prime Minister removed in 200 yrs)
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11 Nov 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
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11 Nov 1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years)
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12 Nov 1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
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12 Nov 1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
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13 Nov 1975 "Musical Jubilee" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 92 performances
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14 Nov 1975 Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara
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14 Nov 1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
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15 Nov 1975 Miss Teenage America Pageant
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16 Nov 1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open
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18 Nov 1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
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18 Nov 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
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19 Nov 1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
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20 Nov 1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for President
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21 Nov 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
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22 Nov 1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
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23 Nov 1975 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8
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23 Nov 1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic
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23 Nov 1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
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24 Nov 1975 "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 7 performances
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25 Nov 1975 Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
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25 Nov 1975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day)
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26 Nov 1975 Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP
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26 Nov 1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
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27 Nov 1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
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27 Nov 1975 Fred Lynn became 1st rookie to win the MVP
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28 Nov 1975 Democratic Republic East-Timor proclaimed
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28 Nov 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars / Rock Show" medley
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28 Nov 1975 East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
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28 Nov 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
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29 Nov 1975 President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
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29 Nov 1975 Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.
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29 Nov 1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
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30 Nov 1975 Dahomey becomes Benin
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01 Dec 1975 US President Gerald Ford visits China PR
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02 Dec 1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
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02 Dec 1975 Laos King Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Republic forms
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02 Dec 1975 Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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04 Dec 1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
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04 Dec 1975 Suriname joins the United Nations.
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05 Dec 1975 "Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances
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05 Dec 1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
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06 Dec 1975 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
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06 Dec 1975 Sen Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry
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06 Dec 1975 The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
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07 Dec 1975 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs. Sabres
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07 Dec 1975 Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
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07 Dec 1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor
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07 Dec 1975 Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
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07 Dec 1975 Warschauer Kniefall - German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of humility towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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07 Dec 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion begins.
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08 Dec 1975 "Raisin" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 847 performances
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09 Dec 1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City
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10 Dec 1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
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10 Dec 1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champion
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11 Dec 1975 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
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11 Dec 1975 Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
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11 Dec 1975 1st class postage rises from 10
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12 Dec 1975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
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12 Dec 1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford
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13 Dec 1975 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
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13 Dec 1975 Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
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13 Dec 1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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13 Dec 1975 Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs Australia at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
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14 Dec 1975 "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
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14 Dec 1975 WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
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14 Dec 1975 6 South Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
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16 Dec 1975 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV
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16 Dec 1975 Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
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17 Dec 1975 1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
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17 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens appointed to the Supreme Court
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17 Dec 1975 Lynette Fromme is sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life
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19 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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19 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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19 Dec 1975 Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
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20 Dec 1975 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
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20 Dec 1975 Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
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21 Dec 1975 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
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21 Dec 1975 "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
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21 Dec 1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
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21 Dec 1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Capitals 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Capitals in 4:57
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21 Dec 1975 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
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21 Dec 1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
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23 Dec 1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
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23 Dec 1975 Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents
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26 Dec 1975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
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26 Dec 1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Australia-West Indies MCG Test Cricket
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27 Dec 1975 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
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28 Dec 1975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
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28 Dec 1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
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28 Dec 1975 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
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28 Dec 1975 1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
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28 Dec 1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 vs West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
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29 Dec 1975 A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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29 Dec 1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York NY
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30 Dec 1975 "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
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30 Dec 1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
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31 Dec 1975 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
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