Historical Events In 1975

Mar 21 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years

Mar 12 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam

Mar 29 Evacuation of Danang by sea began

Mar 22 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens

Mar 16 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd &final fly-by of Mercury

Mar 08 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba

Mar 22 Canadian classical guitarist Liona Boyd makes her New York debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall

Mar 08 Olivia Newton-John reached the top spot on the pop charts with"Have You Never Been Mellow".

Mar 03 Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana

Mar 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 21 Malcolm Fraser successfully challenges Bill Snedden for the leadership of Australia's Liberal Party;

Mar 22 Ranjit & Damayanthie married in St Anne's Church Wattala , Sri Lanka

Mar 10 "Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances

Mar 10 Dog spectacles patented in England

Mar 01 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win

Mar 15 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO

Mar 11 Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails

Mar 01 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1

Mar 18 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army

Mar 07 President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

Mar 19 Pennsylvania is first state to allow girls to compete with boys in High School sports

Mar 24 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title

Mar 26 "Tommy" premieres in London

Mar 07 Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate

Mar 01 17th Grammy Awards I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win

Mar 07 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays

Mar 25 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew

Mar 19 "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances

Mar 07 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 03 Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4,184 km Mackenzie Valley pipeline

Mar 26 Ottawa raises minimum wage for federal employees from $2.20 to $2.60 per hour.

Aug 24 Royal Commission in Australia finds women in public service work in poor conditions and are underpaid and had limited promotion prospect

Aug 20 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126

Aug 27 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world

Aug 01 Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, signed by over 35 nations

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