Historical Events In 1975

Feb 18 2nd American Music Award

Feb 26 A televised kidney transplant is shown

Feb 04 In Northeastern China a 7.4 earthquate caused heavy damage and casualties reported in Yingkou-Haicheng area.

Feb 27 House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill

Feb 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 21 John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album

Feb 02 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill

Feb 26 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 performances

Feb 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Feb 09 Soyuz 17 returns to Earth

Feb 09 USS Enterprise responded to calls for disaster relief from the island nation of Mauritius which was struck on by Typhoon Cervaise

Feb 28 More than 40 people die when a London subway train crashes into the end of a tunnel.

Feb 27 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin

Feb 01 Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department

Feb 28 EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries

Feb 13 Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation

Feb 20 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party

Feb 23 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

Feb 11 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership

Feb 02 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr

Feb 04 A strong earthquake rocks Guatemala and Honduras, killing more than 22,000 people.

Feb 14 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station

Feb 02 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia

Feb 21 Former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman receive prison terms for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.

Apr 29 US Forces pull out of Vietnam

Apr 01 Canadian radio and TV stations first start giving the temperature in Celsius, so 32 degrees becomes 0 go figure

Apr 06 Chiang Kai-Shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87

Apr 09 Frank Robinson first black baseball mgr (Cleveland, beats NY 5-3)

Apr 30 The Vietnam war ends, with the South surrendering to the North

Apr 06 Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo

Apr 21 Bill Rodgers wins his first Boston Marathon in 2:9:55

Apr 30 US civilian forces evacuate from Vietnam; Saigon surrenders

Apr 12 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"

Apr 02 The CN Tower is completed, reaching 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure

Apr 05 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances

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