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1975  Jan 2, US Dept of Interior designated the grizzly bear a threatened species.
 (MC, 1/2/02)

1975  Jan 3, Milton J Cross (87), TV announcer (Met Opera broadcasts), died.
 (MC, 1/3/02)

1975  Jan 4, Pres. Ford’s Executive Order No. 11828 on CIA Activities within the US, was issued.
 (MC, 1/4/02)
1975  Jan 4, Khmer Rouge launched newest assault in five year war in Phnom Penh.
 (HN, 1/4/99)

1975  Jan 5, "The Wiz," a musical version of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," opened at the Majestic Theater on Broadway with an all-black cast. It ran for 1672 performances.
 (AP, 1/5/00)(MC, 1/5/02)

1975  Jan 7, "Shenandoah" opened at Alvin Theater, NYC, for 1050 performances.
 (MC, 1/7/02)
1975  Jan 7, Hanoi troops took Phuoc Binh in new full-scale offensive.
 (HN, 1/7/99)

1975  Jan 8, Judge Sirica ordered the release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
 (MC, 1/8/02)
1975  Jan 8, Richard Tucker (61), [Reuben Ticker], US tenor, cantor (La Gioconda), died.
 (MC, 1/8/02)

1975  Jan 16, The Irish Republican Army called an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast.
 (HN, 1/16/99)

1975  Jan 17, The cease-fire in Northern Ireland ended.
 (SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)

1975  Jan 19, Thomas Hart Benson (85), US artist, died.
 (MC, 1/19/02)

1975  Jan 23, "Barney Miller" premiered on ABC. It was a sitcom based on a NYC police precinct. A spin-off called "Fish" was created in 1977 based on detective Phil Fish played by Abe Vigoda.
 (MC, 1/23/02)(SFC, 10/11/03, p.A18)

1975  Jan 27, Senate investigation of FBI and CIA activities began. On November 20 the committee released its report, charging both US government agencies with illegal activities.
 (MC, 1/27/02)

1975  Jan 31, Barry Manilow's "Mandy" went gold.
 (MC, 1/31/02)

1975  Jan, In Greece Col. Papadopoulos (d.1999 at 80) was charged with insurrection and high treason. He refused to testify, "let history judge my action," and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life in prison.
 (SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)

1975  Feb 6, President Gerald Ford asked Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
 (HN, 2/6/99)

1975  Feb 8, 1800 Unification church couples were wed in Korea.
 (MC, 2/8/02)
1975  Feb 8, Martyn Green (75), actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado), died.
 (MC, 2/8/02)

1975  Feb 11, Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the Tory Party, the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party. in England. She later became Prime Minister and held office from 1979-1990. Her second volume of memoirs is titled The Path to Power, (Harper-Collins, 1995) and documents her rise to power.
 (WSJ, 7/6/95, p. A-7)(HN, 2/11/99)

1975  Feb 14, Julian S. Huxley (87), English scholar, dir-gen (UNESCO), died.
 (MC, 2/14/02)
1975  Feb 14, Pelham Graham (PG) Wodehouse (93), English, US writer (Piccadilly Jim), died. 58 Penguin editions of his books were done by artist Jos Armitage (d.1998 at 84), who also contributed to "Punch."
 (SFC, 2/7/98, p.21)(MC, 2/14/02)

1975  Feb 17, Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh, valued at $5 million, was stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan.
 (HN, 2/17/98)

1975  Feb 18, Italy broadened its abortion law.
 (MC, 2/18/02)

1975  Feb 21, Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up.
 (AP, 2/21/00)

1975  Feb 26, "Night... Made America Famous" opened at Barrymore in NYC for 75 performances.
 (SC, 2/26/02)
1975  Feb 26, The 1st televised kidney transplant was shown on the Today Show.
 (SC, 2/26/02)

1975  Feb 28, A London subway train smashed into the end of a tunnel and 41 people were killed.
 (AP, 2/28/99)(MC, 2/28/02)

1975  Mar 1, 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch won.
 (SC, 3/1/02)
1975  Mar 1, Eagles' "Best of My Love" reached #1.
 (SC, 3/1/02)

1975  Mar 3, "Goodtime Charley" opened at Palace Theater in NYC for 104 performances.
 (SC, 3/3/02)
1975  Mar 3, Linda McCartney was charged in US with possession of marijuana.
 (SC, 3/3/02)

1975  Mar 4, Queen Elizabeth knighted Charlie Chaplin.
 (HN, 3/4/98)

1975  Mar 6, Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled the border dispute.
 (HN, 3/6/98)

1975  Mar 7, The Senate revised its filibuster rule "cloture vote," allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
 (AP, 3/7/98)(SFCM, 12/17/00, Par p.15)

1975  Mar 8, George Stevens (70), US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), died.
 (MC, 3/8/02)

1975  Mar 9, Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
 (AP, 3/9/98)
1975  Mar 9, Iraq launched an offensive against the rebellious Kurds.
 (HN, 3/9/98)

1975  Mar 10, "Rocky Horror Show" opened at Belasco Theater in NYC for 4 performances.
 (MC, 3/10/02)
1975  Mar 10, The North Vietnamese Army attacked the South Vietnamese town of Ban Me Thout, the offensive will end with victory in Vietnam.
 (HN, 3/10/99)
1975  Mar 10, Dog spectacles were patented in England.
 (MC, 3/10/02)

1975  Mar 13, Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premiered in NYC.
 (MC, 3/13/02)

1975  Mar 15, Ted Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappeared from Vail, Colo.
 (MC, 3/15/02)
1975  Mar 15, Aristotle Onassis (69) Greek shipping magnate died near Paris.
 (AP, 3/15/97)

1975  Mar 16, Mariner 10 flew past Mercury a 3rd time.
 (NH, 5/01, p.38)

1975  Mar 17, In the Dominican Republic Journalist Orlando Martinez Howley, editor of the opposition magazine Ahora and columnist for El Nacional, was slain. In 1997 police arrested retired Gen’l. Salvador Lluberes Montes, former chief of the armed forces, in connection with the slayings. In 2000 retired Gen. Joaquin Pou Castro, gunman Rafael Lluberes Ricart, former air force officer Mariano Cabrera Duran and Luis Emilio de la Rosa Beras were sentenced to 30 years in prison each for their role in the murder.
 (SFC, 11/25/96, p.A9)(SFC, 4/2/97, p.A12)(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)

1975  Mar 18, Kurds ended a fight against Iraqi army.
 (MC, 3/18/02)
1975  Mar 18, South Vietnam abandoned most of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to Hanoi.
 (HN, 3/18/02)

1975  Mar 21, Ethiopia ended its monarchy after 3000 years. [see Sep 12, 1974]
 (MC, 3/21/02)
1975  Mar 21, As North Vietnamese forces advanced, Hue and other northern towns in South Vietnam were evacuated.
 (HN, 3/21/98)

1975  Mar 25, Hue was lost and Da Nang was endangered. The U.S. ordered a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.
 (HN, 3/24/98)
1975  Mar 25, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following June.
 (AP, 3/25/00)

1975  Mar 26, "Tommy" premiered in London.
 (SS, 3/26/02)
1975  Mar 26, Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz (68), king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), was murdered.
 (SS, 3/26/02)

1975  Mar 27, Arthur Bliss (83), English composer, conductor (Checkmate), died.
 (MC, 3/27/02)

1975  Mar 29, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975.
 (HN, 3/29/98)

1975  Mar 30, As the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon, desperate South Vietnamese soldiers mobbed rescue jets.
 (HN, 3/30/98)

1975  Mar, Sylvester Stallone wrote "Rocky" and insisted on playing the lead role when he sold the script. Five Rocky films were made.
 (SFEC, 7/6/97, p.5)

1975  Apr 3, Bobby Fischer was stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend.
 (MC, 4/3/02)
1975  Apr 3, Mary Ure (42), actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare), died.
 (MC, 4/3/02)

1975  Apr 4, The first group of boat people from Vietnam began arriving in Malaysia. More than 1 million people fled from the close of the war to the early 1980s.
 (SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-9)
1975  Apr 4, Some 155 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force C-5A transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans as part of "Operation Babylift" crashed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.144 adults and 76 babies were killed. There were over 170 survivors.
 (AP, 4/4/97)(SFC, 4/3/00, p.A8)(MC, 4/4/02)

1975  Apr 5, Chiang Kai-shek (87), Chinese statesman and president of the Republic (1943-1950) and President of the Republic of China, Taiwan (1950-1975), died at age 87. Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mayling) moved to New York following her husband's death. In 1982 Sterling Seagrave authored "The Soong Dynasty."
 (WUD, 1994, p.254)(AP, 5/5/97)(SFC, 1/27/00, p.E1,5)

1975  Apr 6, Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappeared from Grand Junction, Colo.
 (MC, 4/6/02)

1975  Apr 8, In the 47th Academy Awards "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney won.
 (MC, 4/8/02)
1975  Apr 8, Frank Robinson, major-league baseball's first black manager, got off to a winning start as his team, the Cleveland Indians, defeated the New York Yankees, 5-3.
 (AP, 4/8/97)(HN, 4/8/98)

1975  Apr 12, Josephine Baker (68), US-French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), died.
 (MC, 4/12/02)

1975  Apr 13, Christian Falange killed 27 Palestinians and began the Lebanese civil war.
 (MC, 4/13/02)

1975  Apr 15, Karen Ann Quinlan went into a coma after drinking several gin-and-tonics on top of a mild tranquilizer. She lived in a coma for over 10 more years. The New Jersey Supreme Court allowed the removal of the respirator that assisted her in 1976.
 (SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1975  Apr 15, Richard Conte (65), actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), died.
 (MC, 4/15/02)

1975  Apr 16, Cambodian Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh.
 (MC, 4/16/02)

1975  April 17, The US-backed Lon Nol government of Cambodia surrendered to the Khmer Rouge. The nominal leader of the Khmer Rouge was Khieu Samphan. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodia), occupied the capital Phnom Penh ending Cambodia's five-year war, and began the brutal regime that resulted in the death of one to three million people. Agrarian communism was forced on the people and purges extended from the leadership down to the masses. The country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
 (NG, 5/85, p.574)(WSJ,4/17/95, p.A-12)(AP, 4/17/97)(SFC, 6/14/97, p.A15)(WSJ, 6/16/97, p.8)(SFC, 4/17/98, p.A16)

1975  Apr 21, Members of the SLA robbed the Carmichael Bank in suburban Sacramento, Ca. Myrna Opsahl, a mother (42) of four, was shot dead. Patty Hearst drove the getaway car. Emily Harris shot Opsahl with a 12-gauge shotgun. 4 SLA members were arrested for the murder of Opsahl in 2002. Michael Bortin, William Harris, Sara Jane Olson and Emily Montague all pleaded guilty. Fugitive James Kilgore was arrested in South Africa Nov 8, 2002. In 2003 Montague was sentenced to 8 years, Harris to 7 years, Olson and Bortin to 6 years.
 (SFC, 2/4/99, p.A8)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 1/18/02, p.A22)(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/8/02, p.A1)(SFC, 11/9/02, p.A1)(SFC, 2/15/03, p.A3)
1975  Apr 21, Nguyen Van Thieu, the last South Vietnamese President, resigned after 10 years in office condemning the United States. Thieu resigned and was succeeded by Vice President Tran Van Huong. With the collapse of the Saigon regime imminent, Thieu addressed his nation on April 21, accused the U.S. of breaking its promises of support and military aid, and then resigned.  Huong took control but at the National Assembly meeting on April 27, he named General Duong Van Minh to become president and end the war. On April 30, President Minh announced the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.
 (AP, 4/21/97)(HN, 4/21/99)(HNQ, 6/5/00)

1975  Apr 23, Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premiered in London.
 (MC, 4/23/02)

1975  Apr 25, 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service began between Hong Kong and Macao.
 (SS, 4/25/02)
1975  Apr 25, In Vietnam former Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau (d.1998 at 84) was named prime minister.
 (SFC, 9/12/98, p.C3)

1975  Apr 26, The top Billboard song was "(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" by B.J. Thomas.
 (440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.3)

1975  Apr 27, Saigon was encircled by North Vietnamese troops.
 (HN, 4/27/99)

1975  Apr 28, Gen. Duong Van Minh was named the interim President of South Vietnam and promised to seek reconciliation with North Vietnam.
 (SFC, 8/8/01, p.A20)

1975  Apr 29, U.S. Forces pulled out of Vietnam. The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon. Just hours after the last American was lifted out by helicopter from the roof of the embassy, James Reston of the NY Times issued an apologia for the press.
 (HN, 4/29/98)(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)(HN, 4/29/00)
1975  Apr 29, William Craig Nystul, USMC Capt., became one of the last US soldiers to be killed in Vietnam.
 (MC, 4/29/02)

1975  Apr 30, The city of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front forces. The last American forces evacuated Saigon as South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally to the Communist North Vietnamese. North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon and the Vietnam war was over. Graham Martin, the US ambassador to South Vietnam, made a hasty departure. The city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City and Nguyen Huu Tho was the first mayor. The war left 58,200 Americans dead, 153,300 wounded, and 2,124 missing in action. The Communists listed 1 million dead, 300,000 missing and 2 million dead civilians. President Gerald Ford, closing a chapter in United States history, called upon Americans "to avoid recriminations about the past, to look ahead to the many goals we share."
 (SFEM, 6/9/96, p.9)(SFC, 12/27/96, p.A24)(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-19)(TMC, 1994, p.1975)(SFC, 5/9/97, p.A26)(SFC, 5/10/97, p.A1)(HN, 4/30/98)(HNPD, 4/29/99)

1975  Apr, Hanna Krabbe, a German Red Army faction guerrilla, took part in an attack on the German embassy in Stockholm in which two German diplomats died. She was arrested and sentenced to 21 years confinement.
 (SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-9)

1975  Apr, In Lebanon the ambush of a busload of Palestinians driving through a Christian area sparked a civil war that lasted to 1990.
 (SFEC, 4/13/97, p.T5)

1975  May 3, Gov. Jerry Brown of California began a round of private meetings to resolve the issues between the UFW, agribusiness, and the Teamsters Union.
 (SFEM, 4/13/97, p.22)

1975  May 5, A Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels).
 (MC, 5/5/02)

1975  May 6, Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappeared from Pocatello, Idaho.
 (MC, 5/6/02)
1975  May 6, Jozsef Mindszenty (83), [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, died.
 (MC, 5/6/02)

1975  May 7, President Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era."
 (AP, 5/7/97)(HN, 5/7/98)
1975  May 7, The Viet Cong staged a rally to celebrate the takeover of Ho Chi Minh City -- formerly Saigon.
 (AP, 5/7/97)(HN, 5/7/98)

1975  May 11, The Cambodian government seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez.
 (SFEC, 5/11/97, p.T10)

1975  May 12, The White House announced the new Cambodian government had seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, with 39 crew members in international waters. Pres. Gerald Ford sent a company of Marines to rescue the ship. The ship was freed but there were 41 Americans killed or missing and more than 50 wounded.
 (SFEC, 5/11/97, p.T10)(AP, 10/12/97)

1975  May 13,  In hockey Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers won semifinals 4-3.
 (SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1975  May 13,  Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tenn.
 (SS, Internet, 5/13/97)

1975  May 14, U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
 (AP, 5/14/97)

1975  May 15, Merchant ship U.S. Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Some 200 Marines stormed the island of Koh Tang to rescue the crew of the Mayaguez, but the crew had been moved. The Marines fought all day against the Khmer Rouge and escaped by helicopter in the evening. Three comrades were left behind and later died under the Khmer Rouge. The crew was freed about the same time that the Marine assault began.
 (HN, 5/15/98)(SFEC, 5/16/99, p.A14)

1975  May 16, Japanese climber Junko Tabei (b.1939) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
 (AP, 5/16/97)
1975  May 16, India annexed the Principality of Sikkim.
 (MC, 5/16/02)

1975  May 17, NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time.
 (MC, 5/17/02)

1975  May 18, Leroy Anderson (66), composer, died.
 (SC, 5/18/02)

1975  May 21, The trial against the Baader-Meinhof gang  began in Stuttgart.
 (MC, 5/21/02)

1975  May 23, Jackie "Moms" Mabley (81), comedienne (Amazing Grace), died.
 (MC, 5/23/02)

1975  May 29, Melanie Janine Brown "Scary Spice", vocalist (Spice Girls), was born in Leeds.
 (SC, 5/29/02)

1975  May 30, Steve Prefontaine, long distance runner, flipped his gold MG and died at age 24. Tests revealed that he was legally drunk. In 1997 two films based on his life were released.
 (SFC,1/22/97, p.E1)

1975  May, The communist Pathet Lao took over Laos.
 (SFC, 4/14/96, p.C-3)

1975  Jun 1, On his 28th birthday, Ron Wood replaced Mick Taylor as the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1975  Jun 1, The Rolling Stones began their "Tour of the Americas" in Baton Rouge, LA with new member Ron Wood. Other cities they played in included, Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Jacksonville.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)

1975  Jun 2, James A. Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, was consecrated in Maine.
 (SC, 6/2/02)
1975  Jun 2, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
 (AP, 6/2/97)

1975  Jun 3, Ozzie Nelson (69), actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), died.
 (MC, 6/3/02)

1975  Jun 4, Oldest animal fossils in US were discovered in NC.
 (MC, 6/4/02)

1975  Jun 5, Gov. Jerry Brown of California announced the new Agricultural Labor Relations Act. It was a temporary truce in the struggle between the state’s  farm workers (UFW) led by Cesar Chavez and farmers. Chavez officially ended the table grape, lettuce and wine boycott Jan 31, 1978.
 (SFEM, 4/13/97, p.22)(SFC, 1/31/03, p.E4)
1975  Jun 5, British population agreed to European Common Market membership.
 (MC, 6/5/02)
1975  Jun 5, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
 (AP, 6/5/97)

1975  Jun 10, Rockefeller panel reported on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans.
 (MC, 6/10/02)

1975  Jun 16, Supreme Court ruled that uniform minimum legal fees are a violation.
 (MC, 6/16/02)

1975  Jun 18, Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, was beheaded in a Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king.
 (MC, 6/18/02)

1975  Jun 21, "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opened.
 (MC, 6/21/02)
1975  Jun 21, The West Indies, captained by Clive Lloyd won the first World Cup Cricket series, beating Australia by 17 runs at Lords.
 (Camelot, 6/21/99)

1975  Jun 24, 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
 (AP, 6/24/97)

1975  Jun 25, Mozambique became an independent state (twice the size of California), ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule and a long civil war began that lasted to 1992. The first government embraced Marxism soon after taking power. 600,000 Portuguese farmers abandoned their farms and the agricultural industry was devastated. Frelimo took power in opposition to Renamo, which was supported by white-led governments in Rhodesia and South Africa. The UN Children’s Education Fund estimated that at least 850 children were kidnapped by guerillas of Renamo. Some were forced to fight but most were put to work as cooks and cleaners.
 (WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A8)(AP, 6/25/97)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A12)

1975  Jun 26, Citing what she called a "deep and widespread conspiracy" against her government, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was convicted of election fraud.
 (AP, 6/26/97)(HN, 6/26/98)
1975  Jun 26, There was a firefight on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota as FBI agents pursued a robbery suspect. In 1977 Leonard Peltier, an Ojibwa-Sioux Indian, was found guilty of murdering 2 FBI agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler as they lay wounded. In 1983 Peter Matthiessen wrote "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," that described the related events. The book was pulled out of bookstores after an FBI agent and a former governor sued him for libel. Matthiessen claims to have spoken to the man who actually shot the agents.
 (SFC,11/22/97, p.D1)(SFEC,12/797, p.B11)(SFC, 11/9/99, p.A10)(SFC, 6/26/00, p.A4)

1975  Jun 27, Two French intelligence agents, Raymond Dous and Jean Donatini, who were investigating attacks on planes of Israel’s El Al airline at Orly Airport, were killed by Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. Sanchez was identified by an arrested Palestinian Front militant, Michel Moukharbal, and was also killed.
 (SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(SFC,12/13/97, p.A10)
1975  Jun 27, Robert Stolz (94), Austrian composer (Freuhling im Prater), died.
 (MC, 6/27/02)

1975  Jun 28, Rod Serling (b.1925), writer and director of the TV series "Twilight Zone" and "Night Gallery," died. He was remembered in the 1995 PBS production titled: "Submitted for Your Approval."
 (WSJ, 11/27/95, p.A-14)(MC, 6/28/02)

1975  Jun 30, Shelley Robertson, a Bundy victim, disappeared in Colorado.
 (MC, 6/30/02)

1975  Jun-Jul, The US launched covert operations in Angola to prevent a Communist takeover. In 2002 Dr. Piero Gleijeses authored "Conflicting Missions, Havana, Washington and Africa: 1959-1976."
 (SSFC, 3/29/02, p.A12)

1975  Jul 1, Cesar Chavez and sixty supporters of the UFW embarked on a thousand-mile march across California to rally the state’s farm workers.
 (SFEM, 4/13/97, p.23)

1975  Jul 4, Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappeared from Layton, Utah.
 (Maggio)

1975  Jul 5, Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title as he defeated Jimmy Connors.
 (AP, 7/5/97)
1975  Jul 5, The Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
 (SFC, 8/5/9, p.A8)(AP, 7/5/00)

1975  Jul 6, Argentine government of Isabella Peron fell to a military coup.
 (MC, 7/6/02)
1975  Jul 6, Otto Skorzeny, German-Austrian SS adventurer (Mussolini/Ardennen), died.
 (MC, 7/6/02)

1975  Jul 8, President Ford announced he would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976.
 (AP, 7/8/97)
1975  Jul 8, Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visited West-Germany.
 (MC, 7/8/02)

1975  Jul 11, Archaeologists unearthed an army of 8,000 life-size clay figures created more than 2,000 years ago for the Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (Shihuangdi). [see 210BC]
 (HN, 7/11/01)
1975  Jul 11, The 1st oil was pumped from North Sea oilfield.
 (MC, 7/11/02)

1975  Jul 12, The islands of Sao Tome and Principe achieved independence from Portugal.
 (AP, 7/18/03)

1975  Jul 15, Three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.
 (AP, 7/15/97)

1975  Jul 17, An Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
 (AP, 7/17/97)
1975  Jul 17, Indonesia under Suharto sealed its occupation of East Timor, a half-island 1,200 miles from Jakarta, with a formal annexation.
 (SFC, 7/21/96, zone 1, p.8)

1975  Jul 19, The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.
 (AP, 7/19/97)

1975  Jul 22, The House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
 (AP, 7/22/97)

1975  Jul 24, An "Apollo" spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a "Soyuz" capsule from the Soviet Union.
 (AP, 7/24/00)

1975  Jul 25, Jay R. Ferguson Jr., actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade), was born in Dallas, Tx.
 (SC, 7/25/02)
1975  Jul 25, "A Chorus Line," the longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiered. [see Oct 19]
 (SC, 7/25/02)

1975  Jul 29, President Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the camp's victims.
 (AP, 7/29/97)

1975  Jul 30, Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red fox Restaurant in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. He was scheduled to meet with Mafia captain Tony Jack Giacalone (d.2001 at 82) and New Jersey Teamster boss Anthony Provenzano.
 (HFA, '96, p.34)(AP, 7/30/97)(SFC, 2/26/01, p.A24)
1975  Jul 30, Representatives of 35 countries convened in Finland for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the Helsinki accords.
 (AP, 7/30/00)

1975  Aug 1, A 35-nation summit in Helsinki, Finland, concluded with the signing of an accord dealing with European security, human rights and East-West contacts.
 (AP, 8/1/00)

1975  Aug 10, Television personality David Frost announced he had purchased the exclusive rights to interview former President Nixon.
 (AP, 8/10/00)

1975  Aug 11, The United States vetoed the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations, following the Security Council's refusal to consider South Korea's application.
 (AP, 8/11/97)
1975  Aug 11, Alfred Loomis (d.1975), financier and amateur physicist, died. In 2002 Jennet Conant authored "Tuxedo Park," an account of how Loomis led research that enhanced radar and led to the atom bomb.
 (NAS-BM, V.51, 1980)

1975    Aug 15, Bangladesh army officers killed Sheik Mujibar Rahman, the country's founding leader and father of Hasina Wajed. General Ziaur Rahman, father of Khaleda Zia, became the military ruler. Rahman had introduced a one-party socialist system and assumed almost dictatorial powers. In 1997 the government charged two people with his assassination.
 (SFC, 6/12/96, p.A9)(SFC, 6/14/96, p. A14)(SFC, 4/7/97, p.A10)

1975  Aug 20, The first of 2 Viking landers was launched. It reached Mars in the summer of 1976.
 (SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)

1975  Aug 21-22, In Los Angeles Kathleen Ann Soliah (later known as Sarah Jane Olson) and other members of the SLA placed 2 pipe bombs under parked police cars at an Int'l. House of Pancakes on Sunset Blvd. They did not explode. Olson pleaded guilty to 2 felony accounts in 2001. Olson was convicted and sentenced in 2002 to 20 years to life in prison and was then arraigned with 3 others for the Apr 21 murder of Myrna Opsahl.
 (SFEC, 6/20/99, p.A3)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 11/1/01, p.A1)(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A1)

1975  Aug 27, Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, died in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after he was overthrown in a military coup. He has a religion named after him and is worshipped as the savior. Selassie was born of royal blood and originally named Ras Tafari, and is regarded as the savior by a religious sect originating in Jamaica whose members are called Rastafarians. Crowned emperor in 1930 under the title Haile Selassie I (meaning "Power of the Trinity"), he was by tradition a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He reigned as emperor of Ethiopia until 1974.
 (AP, 8/27/00)(HNQ, 2/4/00)

1975  Aug 29, Star in Cygnus went nova becoming 4th brightest in sky.
 (MC, 8/29/01)
1975  Aug 29,  Eamon de Valera (92), Irish president (1937-59), died near Dublin. De Valera was born in NYC (1882) and emigrated to Ireland as a child and joined the Easter Rebellion of 1916 against British rule. He was saved from execution because of his American citizenship, and was released under a general amnesty in 1917.
 (AP, 8/29/97)(MC, 8/29/01)

1975  Aug 31, Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa was reported missing. [see Jul 30]
 (MC, 8/31/01)

1975  Aug, In Malaysia the Japanese Red Army raided a building in Kuala Lumpur that housed US, Swedish, Japanese and Canadian embassies. 53 hostages were exchanged for Red Army members.
 (SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)

1975  Sep 1, The TV show Gunsmoke went off the air.
 (SC, 9/1/02)
1975  Sep 1, NYC transit fares rose from 35 cents to 50.
 (SC, 9/1/02)

1975  Sep 2, Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, became the state's first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.
 (HN, 9/2/98)
1975  cSep 2, Bougainville Island announced the formation of the "Republic of the North Solomons," but failed in its bid to secede from Papua New Guinea.
 (WSJ, 3/18/98, p.A14)

1975  Sep 5, President Ford escaped an attempt on his life by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, Calif. In 1997 Jess Bravin wrote her biography: "Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme."
 (SFC, 6/18/97, p.E5)(AP, 9/5/97)
1975  Sep 5, Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asked for political asylum in NYC. [see Sep 6]
 (MC, 9/5/01)

1975  Sep 6, Czechoslovak tennis star Martina Navratilova, in New York for the US Open, requested political asylum. [see Sep 5]
 (AP, 9/6/00)
1975  Sep 6, A 6.8 quake along the Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey.
 (MC, 9/6/01)

1975  Sep 8, Boston's public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
 (AP, 9/8/97)

1975  Sep 14, Rembrandt's "Nightwatch" was slashed and damaged in Amsterdam.
 (MC, 9/14/01)
1975  Sep 14, Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
 (AP, 9/14/97)(HN, 9/14/98)

1975  Sep 16, Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announced the decision to begin offering fellowships to women.
 (HN, 9/16/98)
1975  Sep 16, Papua New Guinea (PNG), a former Australian colony, became independent.
 (WSJ, 12/20/96, p.B8)(WSJ, 3/18/98, p.A14)

1975  Sep 18, Police and FBI arrested heiress Patty Hearst (Patricia Campbell Hearst), William and Emily Harris, and Wendy Yoshimura in SF. Hearst was convicted of bank robbery and served over 22 months in federal prison. Pres. Carter commuted her sentence in 1979.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)(MC, 9/18/01)

1975  Sep 19, Indonesia sent troops to Portuguese East Timor.
 (MC, 9/19/01)

1975  Sep 22, President Gerald R. Ford dodged a second assassination in less than three weeks. Sara Jane Moore, an FBI informer and self-proclaimed revolutionary, attempted to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. A bullet she fired slightly wounded a man in the crowd.
 (AP, 9/22/97)(MC, 9/22/01)

1975  Sep 28, A US bill authorized the admission of women to military academies.
 (MC, 9/28/01)

1975  Sep 30, 5 people drowned in a flash flood of sewer and water tunnel in Niagara Falls NY.
 (MC, 9/30/01)

1975  Oct 1, Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
 (MC, 10/1/01)

1975  Oct 2, President Ford welcomed Japan’s Emperor Hirohito to the United States.
 (AP, 10/2/00)

1975  Oct 5, Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho charged that the CIA tried to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro during the administrations of three US presidents.
 (MC, 10/5/01)

1975  Oct 7, US decided John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction.
 (MC, 10/7/01)

1975  Oct 9, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 (AP, 10/9/97)

1975  Oct 10, Israel formally signed the Sinai accord with Egypt.
 (MC, 10/10/01)

1975  Oct 11, The TV show "Saturday Night Live" made its debut with guest host George Carlin. Writer Michael O’Donoghue (d.1994) made his debut. In 1998 Dennis Perrin published "Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue."
 (SFEC, 8/23/98, BR p.12)(AP, 10/11/99)
1975  Oct 11, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham in Fayetteville, Ark.
 (SFEC, 3/28/99, Par p.4)

1975  Oct 12, Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became the 1st Irish-born saint in 700 years. He was  beheaded by Cromwell's troops.
 (MC, 10/12/01)

1975  Oct 14, President Ford escaped injury when his limousine was struck broadside.
 (MC, 10/14/01)

1975  Oct 15, Iceland moved its intl. boundary from 50 to 200 miles.
 (MC, 10/15/01)

1975  Oct 17, UN passed a resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism."
 (MC, 10/17/01)
1975  Oct 17, Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), died at 90.
 (MC, 10/17/01)

1975  Oct 19, "Chorus Line" opened at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances.
 (MC, 10/19/01)

1975  Oct 20, The US Supreme Court ruled that teachers could spank their pupils after warning.
 (MC, 10/20/01)

1975  Oct 21, "Treemonisha," a 1911 opera by Scott Joplin (1868-1917), opened at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances. The 1st full professional staging was done in 1975 by the Houston Grand Opera.
 (WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A20)(MC, 10/21/01)(SFC, 6/21/03, p.D1)

1975  Oct 21, Mexico City's 1st major subway accident took 26 lives.
 (MC, 10/21/01)

1975  Oct 22, Matlovich, who appeared in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine, challenged the ban against homosexuals in the US military. He was given a "general" discharge by the Air Force after publicly declaring his homosexuality.
 (MC, 10/22/01)
1975  Oct 22, Arnold Toynbee (b.1889), English historian (A Study of History) and cultural sociologist, died. "The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality."
 (AP, 3/24/98)(HN, 4/14/98)(MC, 10/22/01)

1975  Oct 23, Battle between Cuban and South Africa troops took place in Angola.
 (MC, 10/23/01)

1975  Oct 26, Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
 (AP, 10/26/97)

1975  Oct 29, Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer killed his 1st victim.
 (MC, 10/29/01)

1975  Oct 30, The New York Daily News ran the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" a day after President Ford said he would veto any proposed federal bailout of New York City.
 (HN, 10/30/98)
1975  Oct 30, Martha Moxley, 15-years-old, was bludgeoned to death with a gulf club in Greenwich, Conn., on Halloween eve. The last person to see her was 17-year-old Thomas Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy. No one has ever been charged. Michael (15) and Thomas (17) Skakel were suspects. Michael Skakel was charged with the killing in 2000. The 1993 novel "A Season in Purgatory" by Dominick Dunne, and "Murder in Greenwich" by Mark Fuhrman in 1998 were based on this murder. In 2002 a jury found Skakel guilty of murder. He was sentenced 20 years to life in prison.
 (WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A6)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 8/29/02, p.A1)
1975  Oct 30, Juan Carlos assumed power in Spain.
 (MC, 10/30/01)

1975  Oct, Aage Nills Bohr (b.1922), Denmark-born physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the atomic nucleus
 (MC, 6/19/02)
1975  Oct, Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1999 2 collections of his poetry were translated and published in English: Collected Poems 1920-1954" and "Satura 1962-1970."
 (SFEC, 2/28/99, BR p.8)
1975  Oct, Vladimir Prelog (d.1998 at age 91), a Swiss chemist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in stereochemistry and the architecture of molecules like cholesterol and antibiotics.
 (SFC, 1/17/98, p.A19)

1975  Nov 1, Pier Paolo Pasolini (53), Italian poet, author and director was murdered.
 (MC, 11/1/01)

1975  Nov 5, The scrapped passenger ship Queen Elizabeth rolled over and disgorged several tons of oil in Hong Kong.
 (www.cunard.co.uk)

1975  Nov 6, Morocco occupied Western Sahara. King Hassan dispatched 350,000 unarmed Moroccans on a "Green March" to the former Spanish Sahara. This began a long war with the Polisario Front guerrilla group, tribal Bedouin who sought independence.
 (SFC, 5/7/97, p.C2)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A9)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/27/00, p.A8)

1975  Nov 10, The ore-hauling ship "Edmund Fitzgerald" broke in half and sank at the eastern end of Lake Superior. Its crew of 29 perished during a storm in Lake Superior.
 (AP, 11/10/97)(HN, 11/10/00)
1975  Nov 10, The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution equating Zionism with racism. However, the world body repealed the resolution in December 1991.
 (AP, 11/10/97)
1975  Nov 10, PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the UN in NYC.
 (MC, 11/10/01)

1975  Nov 11, The governor-general fired the prime minister. Australian PM was removed by crown. 1st elected PM removed in 200 years.
 (SFC, 11/2/99, p.A14)(MC, 11/11/01)

1975  Nov 12, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36-and-a-half-year term.
 (AP, 11/12/00)

1975  Nov 18, Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returned to US.
 (MC, 11/18/01)

1975  Nov 20, After nearly four decades of absolute rule (1936-1975), Spain's General Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday. Juan Carlos, grandson of King Alfonso, was his designated successor and the monarchy was restored. In 2002 Gabrielle Ashford Hodges authored "Franco: A Concise Biography."
 (SFC, 6/16/96, Zone 1 p.6)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.A17)(AP, 11/20/97)(SSFC, 4/21/02, p.M4)

1975  Nov 22, Juan Carlos was proclaimed king of Spain.
 (AP, 11/22/97)

1975  Nov 25, The Portuguese Communist Party under Alvaro Cunhal attempted a coup in Lisbon with leftist army paratroops.
 (WSJ, 10/14/98, p.A22)

1975  Nov 26, A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., found Lynette Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Ford. [see Sep 5]
 (AP, 11/26/97)(HN, 11/26/98)

1975  Nov 28, "The Edge Of Night", TV Daytime Soap; last aired on CBS who wanted to expand one of its soaps to an hour; "Edge" moved to ABC, which had a time slot available.
 (DTnet, 11/28/97)
1975  Nov 28, Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley.
 (DTnet, 11/28/97)
1975  Nov 28, President Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas.
 (AP, 11/28/97)
1975  Nov 28, The Portuguese colonial rule collapsed and East Timor proclaimed independence, but 10 days later it was invaded by Indonesia.
 (SFC, 7/21/96, Z1, p.8)(SFC, 10/16/96, p.A18)

1975  Nov 29, President Ford required states to provide free education for handicapped.
 (MC, 11/29/01)

1975  Nov, In Ebo, Angola, some 1,300 Cuban troops halted the advance of a much larger South African column.
 (SSFC, 3/29/02, p.A12)

1975  Dec 3, Laos fell to communist forces. The Lao People's Democratic Rep. was proclaimed.
 (MC, 12/3/01)

1975  Dec 5, Senate authorized a two-point-three-billion-dollar emergency loan to save New York City from bankruptcy.
 (MC, 12/5/01)

1975  Dec 6, Robert Dole, Republican presidential candidate in 1996, married Elizabeth.
 (SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.10)

1975  Dec 7, Indonesia invaded East Timor nine days after the Timorese political party Fretilin claimed independence. Some 600,000 were left dead after a prolonged war.
 (SFC, 7/21/96, Z1, p.8)(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.A19)(HNQ, 11/9/00)

1975  Dec 8, "Raisin" closed at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances.
 (MC, 12/8/01)

1975  Dec 9, President Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan-authorization that officials of New York City and State said would prevent a city default.
 (AP, 12/9/00)
1975  Dec 9, Jelena Bonner received Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize.
 (MC, 12/9/01)

1975  Dec 12, Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to a charge of trying to kill President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.
 (AP, 12/12/97)

1975  Dec 14, Six South Moluccan extremists surrendered after holding 23 hostages for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town of Beilen.
 (AP, 12/14/00)

1975  Dec 17, Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Ford.
 (AP, 12/17/97)

1975  Dec 19, John Paul Stevens, appointed by Pres. Gerald Ford, was sworn in as a US Supreme Court judge.
 (NW, 7/7/03, p.48)

1975  Dec 21, In Austria there was a terrorist kidnapping of Saudi oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani and other ministers at the OPEC gathering in Vienna, Austria. Three people were killed and 11 taken hostage. The oil ministers were taken to North Africa in a hijacked plane in a $1 billion ransom drama. Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, later admitted to planning the attack. In 2001 Germany sentenced Hans-Joachim Klein to 9 years for his role in the attack.
 (WSJ, 12/4/95, p.B-1)(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(SFC, 2/16/01, p.D2)

1975  Dec 23, Richard S. Welch, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Athens, was shot and killed outside his home. The left-wing November 17 urban guerrilla group was responsible. In 2002 Pavlos Serifis was arrested in connection with the murder.
 (AP, 12/23/00)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A9)

1975  Dec 26, The Soviet Union inaugurated the world's first supersonic transport service with a flight of its Tupolev-144 airliner from Moscow to Alma-Ata.
 (AP, 12/26/99)

1975  Dec 28, An earthquake in Pakistan killed some 4,000 people.
 (MC, 12/28/01)

1975  Dec 29, A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.
 (AP, 12/29/97)

1975  Dec 30, Tiger Woods, golfer, was born.
 (MC, 12/30/01)

1975  Alexander Calder created his monumental sculpture "The Arch."
 (WSJ, 5/18/01, p.W2)
 
1975  Jasper Johns painted "The Dutch Wives."
 (SFEC, 11/24/96, C15)

1975  Roy Lichtenstein created his work: "Purist Painting With Pitcher, Glass, Classical Column."
 (SFC, 1/16/99, p.E1)

1975  Architects Doug Michels (1943-2003) and Chip Lord, founders of the Ant Farm in SF, created the performance work "Media Burn," in which Michels drove a Cadillac through a pyramid of burning television sets. Ant Farm disbanded in 1978.
 (SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A1)

1975  Tony Smith, sculptor, began his work "Ten Elements." It was a cluster of black metal polygons completed in 1979.
 (SFC, 10/26/96, p.B1)

1975  Rufino Tamayo established a five-room museum in Oaxaca, Mexico, devoted to pre-Hispanic Mexican art.
 (Smith., 4/95, p.32)

1975  The battered suitcase containing 53 pieces of artwork by C.T. McCluskey was found at an Alameda, Ca., swapmeet. Little is known except that he worked as a circus clown, lived in Oakland in the winter months, and created wonderful paper on cardboard collages featuring circus themes.
 (SFC, 5/26/96, DB p.14)

1975  Thomas Babe (d.2000 at 59), playwright, had his first success with "Kid Champion."
 (SFC, 12/16/00, p.C4)

1975  Edward Abbey wrote "The Monkey Wrench Gang." It was inspired by the fantasy of demolishing Glen Canyon Dam.
 (SFEC, 8/24/97, p.A10)

1975  Philip Agee, former CIA agent, authored "Inside the Company."
 (SFC, 6/28/00, p.A12)

1975  Stephen Ambrose authored "Crazy Horse and Custer." In 2002 he was accused of plagiarizing from the 1955 book "Custer" by Jay Monaghan (d.1980).
 (SFC, 1/9/02, p.A2)

1975  Ernest Callenbach published his novel "Ecotopia." It was based on strict bioregional and green city principles.
 (PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 30)

1975  Truman Capote published a chapter from his never-completed novel "Answered Prayers" in Esquire Magazine. It covered society secrets of his two best friends, Babe Paley and Slim Keith, who immediately broke ties with him.
 (SFEC,12/14/97, p.D9)

1975  Lew Dietz (d.1997 at 90) co-authored "A Seal Called Andre"  with Harry Goodridge. Dietz also wrote "The Allagash," in the rivers of America series and "A Touch of Wilderness."
 (SFC, 4/30/97, p.A18)

1975  E.L. Doctorow wrote "Ragtime," a novel about pre-WW I America.
 (SFEC, 12/8/96, p.C21)(SFC, 6/17/97, p.E1)

1975  Rev. Billy Graham wrote his book "Angels." It sold a million copies in 90 days.
 (SFEC, 10/20/96, Par, p.4)

1975  V.S, Naipaul (b.1932), Trinidad-born English novelist, authored "Guerrillas."
 (SFC, 10/12/01, p.C1)

1975  Georgia O’Keeffe, painter, authored her autobiography.
 (WSJ, 1/02/00, p.A20)

1975  Ronald Sheridan and Ann Ross wrote "Gargoyles and Grotesques: Paganism in the Medieval Church."
 (Hem, 4/96, p.121)

1975  Judith Rossner published "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
 (SFEC, 10/5/97, BR p.4)

1975  Edward Said, Prof. of literature at Columbia, introduced the poststructuralism ideas of Michel Foucault to American literary criticism in his book "Beginnings."
 (WSJ, 9/30/99, p.A26)

1975  Jack Sarfatti, Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf wrote: "Space-Time and Beyond."
 (SFEC, 8/17/97, Z1 p.3)

1975  Michael Shaara wrote the Civil War novel "The Killer Angels."
 (WSJ, 5/14/97, p.A20)

1975  Peter Singer authored "Animal Liberation," in which he argued that the life of a person is not necessarily more valuable than that of an animal.
 (SFC, 10/4/99, p.A10)

1975  Samuel Beckett, playwright, wrote "Footfalls."
 (WSJ, 8/5/96, p.A10)

1975  David Mamet wrote his play "American Buffalo." It was made into a film in 1996 with Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz.
 (SFC, 9/13/96, p.D17)(SFC, 1/24/03, p.D3)

1975  Edward Albee won a 2nd Pulitzer Prize for his play "Seascape," in which a pair of talking lizards are injected into a married couple’s beach picnic.
 (SFC, 9/5/96, p.B2)(SFC, 10/19/96, E1)

1975  "Turtle Island," poems by Gary Snyder, won the Pulitzer prize.
 (SFC, 9/1/96, DB p.30)

1975  Garry Trudeau won a Pulitzer Prize for his social and political satire in the Doonesbury cartoon.
 (USAT, 5/4/98, p.1D)

1975  The musical "Chicago" was produced with a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, and music by John Kander.
 (WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A14)

1975  "The Wiz," based on the classic Frank Baum tale, was produced on Broadway as a musical.
 (SFC, 6/13/97, p.C1)

1975  The Kansas City Lyric Opera premiered Jack Beeson’s "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines." It was commissioned to celebrate founder and director Russell Patterson’s 40th and final year with the company.
 (WSJ, 4/1/98, p.A16)

1975  John Cleese created the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers." Six episodes aired in this year and 6 more in 1979. PBS brought the show to America in 1980.
 (WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A16)

1975  The TV situation comedy series "The Jeffersons" with Sherman Helmsley began and ran through 1985. The spin-off from "All in the Family," premiered on CBS-TV.
 (SFEC, 11/17/96, Par p.24)(AP, 1/18/00)

1975  Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and his girlfriend Stevie Nicks joined the Fleetwood Mac band led by drummer Mick Fleetwood with bassist John McVie and keyboardist Christine McVie.
 (SFC, 10/12/97, DB p.44)

1975  Bob Dylan released his "Blood on the Tracks" album.
 (WSJ, 10/9/97, p.A16)

1975  The Band, the backup group for Bob Dylan, released "The Basement Tapes" album. The music was recorded in 1967 in a pink house in West Saugerties rented by bass player Rick Danko (d.1999 at 56).
 (WSJ, 12/15/99, p.A20)

1975  Freddie Mercury (d.1991) and the rock group Queen made a hit with "Bohemian Rhapsody." The song became a hit a 2nd time when Mercury died. In 2002 a British poll voted it the greatest hit of the last 50 years.
 (SSFC, 11/10/02, p.A2)

1975  Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson made a hit with their duet: "Good Hearted Woman."
 (SFC, 2/14/02, p.A2)

1975  Zakir Hussain, drummer, co-founded the India-Jazz band Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar.
 (SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.34)

1975  Joonas Kokkonen (1922-19960, Finnish composer, had his opera "The Last Temptations" first performed by the Finnish National Opera. He also composed 4 symphonies and numerous chamber and choral pieces.
 (SFC, 10/3/96, p.C6)

1975  The opera "Die Tote Stadt" by Erich Korngold was first recorded in a production by Charles Allan Gerhardt (d.1999 at 72).
 (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A20)

1975  Willie Nelson sang "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."
 (WSJ, 7/10/98, p.W3)

1975  Bos Scaggs recorded his multi-million selling album "Silk Degrees."
 (SFEC, 4/6/97, DB p.36)

1975  Sir Michael Tippett, British composer, premiered his 4th opera "The Ice Break," which featured a race riot and a psychedelic sequence.
 (SFC, 1/10/98, p.A19)

1975  Singer Paul Williams popularized the song "Feelings."
 (SFC, 9/13/99, p.A10)

1975  The USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) was restored and reopened to the public in Boston Harbor.
 (SFEC, 7/13/97, Par p.14)

1975  Robert Hoffmann (d.1997 at 74), human potential movement pioneer, established the Quadrinity Center in San Anselmo, Ca., to promote his holistic model of the human being that included physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual elements.
 (SFC, 8/21/97, p.C4)

c1975  Rev. Don Wildmon of Tupelo, Miss., founded the National Federation for Decency. It was later renamed the American Family Association.
 (WSJ, 8/14/01, p.A1)

1975  The Maharishi Yogi pushed meditation.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  Gary Dahl, a California advertising man, dreamed up the pet rock fad.
 (SFC, 7/12/00, p.A16)

1975  The Elderhostel program was begun on a few college campuses as a learning experience for older adults. By 1998 some 2,300 institutions participated in the program.
 (SFEC, 3/22/98, p.T6)

1975  It was a good year for Burgundy wines made from the Pinot Noir grapes of Oregon.
 (SFC, 8/28/96, zz-1 p.4)

1975  Proctor & Gambol introduced the dehydrated potato flakes known as Pringles. Chip makers filed suit on the chip name and Pringles were redefined as potato crisps.
 (WSJ, 9/5/96, p.A4)

1975  W. Donald Fletcher (1908-1996) founded the Liaison Citizen Program in Los Angeles to encourage citizen involvement in government.
 (SFC, 8/29/96, p.C4)

1975  The Millard Fillmore Society was founded "for the enhancement of the recognition of Millard Fillmore , last of the Whigs." The society held Fillmore to have been the dullest and unluckiest president, whose only accomplishment was to have kept Texas from annexing New Mexico.
 (SFC, 2/21/97, p.A25)

1975  Robert H. Clampitt (1927-1996) founded Children’s Express. It was a non-profit news service that rained children 8-18 to be reporters and editors.
 (SFC, 8/10/96, p.A20)

1975  Leslie C. Quick (d.2001 at 75) founded Quick & Reilly, the 1st discount brokerage house. He sold the operation to Fleet Financial in 1998 for $1.7 billion.
 (SFC, 3/10/01, p.A17)

1975  The Women's Ordination Conference was founded to push for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church. In 1997 Sheila Dierks published "Women Eucharist," a study of the underground movement for women's ordination.
 (SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A12)

1975  The first UN Women’s Conference was held in Mexico City.
 (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A27)

1975  Gov. Brendan Byrne of New Jersey appointed Constance Woodruff (1922-1996) as the first chairwoman of the Advisory Commission on the Status of Women.
 (SFC, 10/24/96, p.C7)

1975  The first Human Powered Vehicle Speed Competition was held in Mercury, Nevada.
 (SFC, 8/18/96, p.A5)

1975  Frank Robinson joined the Cleveland Indians as the 1st African American manager in major league baseball.
 (SFC, 4/11/03, p.E15)

1975  Bill Rodgers won the Boston Marathon, the 1st local winner in 30 years.
 (WSJ, 9/30/02, p.R3)

1975  The Helsinki Accords were signed which legitimized postwar boundaries, including Soviet conquests, and had provisions on human rights.
 (WSJ, 2/26/96, p.A-10)

1975  Pres. Gerald Ford appointed Daniel Patrick Moynihan as ambassador to the United Nations.
 (SFC, 11/7/98, p.A2)

1975  Pres. Gerald Ford banned the assassination of foreign leaders by executive order after CIA assassination attempts against Fidel Castro became public.
 (SFEC, 5/16/99, p.D9)

1975  The US ratified a ban on poison gas established in the Geneva Protocol. Production, stockpiling and the use of anthrax was outlawed by an int’l. treaty of chemical and biological weapons. 140 nations adopted the Int'l. Biological Weapons Convention, but these did not include Russia. The treaty had no organization, no budget, no sanctions and no inspections provisions.
 (SFC,11/12/97, p.C2)(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)(SFC, 2/19/00, p.A14)

1975  The first Summit of 6 leading industrialist nations, G-6, met in Rambouillet, France, for discussions on currency and oil prices.
 (SFC, 6/20/97, p.A16)

1975  The US and USSR linked together in space.
 (WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)

1975  The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created to provide a guaranteed domestic supply. The oil was put into salt domes on the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Louisiana border. The storage capacity was 700 million barrels.
 (WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A15)

1975  In local elections 78.8% of the residents approved a covenant under which the Northern Marianas would become a US Commonwealth.
 (SFEC, 3/7/99,Z1 p.4)

1975  The US Supreme Court in the Goss vs. Lopez case ruled that students had the right to due process, informal hearings were considered sufficient, when threatened with suspension of more than 10 days.
 (WSJ, 5/4/99, p.A22)

1975  The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 to inquire into subversive activities in the US, was dissolved.
 (WUD, 1994, p.689)

1975  John Mitchell, former Nixon Cabinet member, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. He served 19 months behind bars.
 (SFC, 11/6/98, p.D5)

1975  Armand Hammer pleaded guilty to providing hush money in the Watergate scandal.
 (WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A26)

1975  Maurice Stans, former Nixon Cabinet member, was found guilty of violating campaign finance laws and fined $5,000.
 (SFC, 11/6/98, p.D5)

1975  Patty Hearst was captured. She was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb 4, 1974.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)(AP, 2/4/97)

1975  The Chippewa tribe of Sault Ste. Marie in Northern Michigan was awarded federal status as a tribal government.
 (MT, Fall ‘96, p.20)

1975  The US Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of turtles with shells that measured less than four inches in length. The turtles were identified as major carriers of salmonella bacterium and had been widely sold as pets for kids.
 (WSJ, 5/30/96, p.B1)

1975  A safety and performance rating system for tires, devised by F. Cecil Brenner (d.1998 at 79) was adopted as a national standard.
 (SFC, 3/24/98, p.B2)

1975  George Moscone was elected mayor of San Francisco with electoral support from the neighborhoods rather than downtown interests.
 (SF E&C, 1/15/1995, SFE Mag. p.24)

1975  California governor Jerry Brown signed the Inmate Bill of Rights. It was amended in 1994 to limit rights only to those guaranteed in the California and US constitutions. It was again amended in 1996 to make personal visits a privilege, not a right.
 (SFC, 7/9/96, p.A17)

1975  Cal. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that reduced the penalty for possession of marijuana to a $100 fine.
 (SFC, 4/7/97, p.A20)

1975  The short-handled hoe ("el cortito") was banished from California’s farm fields due to its debilitating effect on worker’s health.
 (SFEM, 4/13/97, p.28)

1975  AMC introduced the Pacer, the first wide, small car.
 (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1975  American Smelting & Refining changed its name to Asarco. The company mines about 12% of the world’s copper, 10% of its silver and 21% of its lead.
 (WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-46)

1975  Foot Locker, a division of Woolworth Stores, opened its 1st outlet.
 (WSJ, 5/13/03, p.A1)

1975  Byte Magazine began publishing with the birth of the PC. It was regarded as the most technically minded of the new computer magazines. Publication was suspended in 1998.
 (WSJ, 5/28/98, p.B4)

1975  The MITS Altair 8800 was introduced by Microinstrumentation & Telemetry Systems of Albuquerque, N.M. It was sold by mail-order and Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the first software program for it.
 (WSJ, 11/16/98, p.R10)

1975  International Paper entered the oil business by buying up General Crude Oil Co.
 (WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R46)

1975  Mattel introduced its "Growing up Skipper" doll. When her arms were twisted she would grow taller and her breasts would get larger.
 (SFC,1/22/97, z-1 p.7)

1975  Japan’s Shimano Corp. conceived the systems engineering approach to component development in bicycle part manufacturing.
 (Hem, 8/96, p.33)

1975  Dutch elm disease was first found to have spread to California.
 (SFC, 7/31/98, p.A21)

1975  Lyme disease was first recognized in Lyme, Conn.
 (SFEC, 8/15/99, Z1 p.8)

1975  Rocky Mountain Fever was reported to have been transmitted by an accidental needle stick.
 (SFC, 4/13/98, p.A6)

1975  Rohypnol was first marketed as a sleeping pill. It was 10 times more powerful than Valium
 (SFC, 6/21/96, p.A10)

1975  Dr. Hans W. Kosterlitz (1903-1996) led a team in Aberdeen, Scotland that discovered the small  enkaphalin proteins, opiate-like substances. This led to the discovery of the endorphins, larger opiate-like proteins in the brain.
 (SFC, 11/9/96, p.A22)

1975  Physicist Martin L. Perl and associates discovered a new lepton they called the tau particle and assumed the existence of the tau neutrino. The tau neutrino was detected in 2000.
 (SFC, 7/21/00, p.B2)

1975  The U of M Institute for Social Research (ISR) began a "Monitoring the Future" program. It was an annual survey of lifestyles, attitudes and substance abuse among teens and young adults.
 (MT, Fall. ‘97, p.4)

1975  A new medium priced home in the US was priced at $39,300.
 (WSJ, 6/14/96, p.B10)

1975  The American crocodile was listed as an endangered species when only 20 breeding females were counted in Florida. The crocodile is distinguished from the alligator by its more tapered snout.
 (PacDisc. Spring/’96, p.37)

1975  In Texas the fossils of a huge prehistoric flying reptile with a wingspan of 50 ft. were found.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  A tornado swept through Omaha, Nebraska along 72nd St. on a weekday noon, the site of many motels. All sorts of folks had to explain just how they wound up in a state of dishabille in a roofless motel room.
 (Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.65)

1975   Hannah Arendt (b.1906), German-born American historian and philosopher, died. Her books included "The Origins of Totalitarianism." In 2001 Lotte Kohler edited ""Within Four Walls: The Correspondence Between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher 1936-1938."
 (AP, 5/7/97)(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A22)(SSFC, 4/15/01, BR p.8)

1975  Hans Bellmer (b.1902), surrealist artist, died. He made paper-mache female dolls and photographed them in skewed configurations.
 (NW, 2/18/02, p.70)

1975  August Dvorak, designer of a keyboard much superior to the "qwerty keyboard," died.
 (SFC, 4/19/97, p.E4)

1975  Walker Evans (b.1903), photographer, died. In 1999 the biography "Walker Evans" by James R. Mellow was published.
 (WSJ, 7/27/99, p.A21)(SFC, 8/18/01, p.B3)

1975  Sam Giancana, a mob boss, was murdered. He had a romance with Phillis McGuire, of the McGuire Sisters vocal group, and was credited with assisting John F. Kennedy in efforts to win the presidential election. A movie was made in 1995 that depicts the Giancana-McGuire romance.
 (WSJ, 11/16/95, p.A-18)

1975  Elijah Muhammed [Mohammad], US leader of the Nation of Islam [black Muslims], died.
 (USAT, 2/13/97, p.6D)(SFC, 2/28/00, p.A3)

1975  Shiko Munakata (b.1903), renowned Japanese artist and printmaker, died from liver cancer.
 (SFC, 8/8/02, p.D9)

1975  Fairfield Porter (68), artist, died. Much of his work was done along the Maine coastline.
 (WSJ, 9/4/03, p.D8)

1975  Dimitri Shostakovich (b.1906), Soviet composer who wrote 15 symphonies, died. His work included the Violin Concerto No. 2. Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar," was written to commemorate the massacre of Jews during WW II, and premiered in the US in 1970. Symphony No. 12, "The Year 1917," was dedicated to the memory of Lenin.
 (WUD, 1994, p.1320)(SFC, 1/30/98, p.E5)(HN, 9/25/98)(WSJ, 6/29/99, p.A12)

1975  Lionel Trilling, literary critic, died.
 (SFC, 10/25/96, p.A24)

1975  Madeleine Vionnet, French dressmaker, died at age 98. In 1999 Betty Kirke published the biography: "Madeleine Vionnet."
 (SFEC, 5/16/99, BR p.8)

1975  William Wellman (1896-1975), filmmaker, died.
 (SFC, 7/20/96, p.E1)

1975  Angola proclaimed independence from Portugal. Civil war began following the 14-year fight for independence. The Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) proclaimed unilateral independence. Jonas Savimbi led UNITA and the FLNA was backed by Zaire.
 (SFC, 6/20/96, p.A10)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A10)

1975  South Africa sent military troops into Angola.
 (NG, Oct. 1988, p. 583)

1975  In Brazil the military government launched a "pro-alcohol" program as a source of fuel in response to the first oil crisis which hit in 1973. The country at the time was importing 80% of its fuel and suffered in its balance of payments.
 (WSJ, 6/27/97, p.A9A)

1975  In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge took power and employed a system of forced marriages to help engineer a classless society.
 (SFC,1/23/97, p.A10)

1975  Chilean Vice Pres. Bernardo Leighton and his wife, Ana, were shot in Rome. In 2000 Chilean authorities arrested former Gen. Eduardo Iturriaga for the shooting.
 (SFC, 3/15/00, p.A10)

1975  In China Mou Qizhong co-authored the book "Whither China" that criticized the Cultural Revolution and earned a four-year prison term.
 (WSJ, 8/28/96, p.A1,4)

1975  In Corsica the separatist militant movement started. It initially kept its attacks limited to French government buildings.
 (SFC, 2/10/98, p.A10)

1975  In Cuba the first national congress of the Communist Party of Cuba elected Raul Castro as the 2nd in command.
 (SFC, 10/12/97, p.)

1975  In Egypt Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam was filled.
 (NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.602)

1975  In England V.S. Pritchett (1900-1997), writer, was knighted for his services to literature. He was noted for his brilliant portraits of people.
 (SFC, 3/22/97, p.A21)

1975  French law began to permit abortions.
 (SFC, 8/25/97, p.A8)

1975  In Germany Richard Weize of Hamburg founded Bear Family Records, dedicated to the preservation of American country music.
 (WSJ, 9/11/98, p.W3)

1975  In Germany with the fall of Saigon about 10,000 Vietnamese arrived in West Germany.
 (SFEC, 9/15/96, p.A14)

1975  Indira Gandhi started fitting the law to her needs in India.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  Smallpox was eradicated in India and Bangladesh.
 (SFC, 10/19/01, p.A17)

1975  In Iran future film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was imprisoned at 17 for protesting against the Shah. He was spared execution due to his youth.
 (SFC, 5/14/97, p.E6)

1975  Israel signed a treaty of association with the European Common Market.
 (SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)

1975  Civil war erupted in Beirut, Lebanon.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  In Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, father of Benazir Bhutto, was dismissed as prime minister.
 (SFC, 11/5/96, p.A9)

1975  The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) broke off from the KDP after Iran and Iraq resolved a border dispute and the US ended support for a Kurdish rebellion. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) was founded by Jalal Talabani as a breakaway faction of the KDP. The PUK favored armed struggle with other Kurdish groups against Saddam Hussein.
 (SFC, 9/4/96, p.A7)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.18A)

1975  In Madagascar military commander, Didier Ratsiraka, took power. He published a "red book" of Marxist principles and nationalized much of the economy. In the 1980s with severe economic decline Ratsiraka changed course and established ties with the world Bank and the IMF.
 (SFC, 8/19/96, p.A10)

1975  Pakistan’s atomic development program took off with the return of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, a German trained metallurgist. China was reported to have supplied highly enriched uranium and a nuclear bomb design.
 (SFC, 5/28/98, p.A9)

1975  Portugal experienced civil strife.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  In the Soviet Union the Bakkonditzioner air-conditioning manufacturer opened in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 (WSJ, 8/30/96, p.A4)

1975  Kings were crowned in Spain and Nepal.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1975)

1975  Suriname gained Independence from the Netherlands.
 (SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)

1975-1976 The "Matt Helm" TV series featured Gene Evans (d.1998 at 75).
 (SFC, 4/2/98, p.A23)

1975-1976 In the US a special Bicentennial quarter was issued with a colonial drummer on the reverse side of the G. Washington face.
 (SFC, 7/12/96, p.A11)

1975-1977 Indira Gandhi clamped down on India’s free-wheeling democracy, locked up her fractious opposition, censored the press and imposed police tyranny that included forced sterilization and slum demolitions. The 22-month period is covered in a novel by Rohinton Mistry titled "A Fine Balance." His 1991 novel "Such A Long Journey" was set in the same period.
 (WSJ, 4/29/96, p.A-20)

1975-1978 The Khmer Rouge of Cambodia executed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians and condemned more than a million to death by starvation and disease.
 (WSJ, 4/17/95, p.A-12)

1975-1979 Pol Pot, whose real name is Saloth Sar, led the Khmer Rouge and ruled Cambodia. In 1987 Joan D. Criddle and Teeda Butt Mam authored "To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family." The work was recorded on cassette in 1992 and told the extraordinary story of a Cambodian family caught up in the genocide under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. An estimated 1.7 million  people were killed under the Khmer Rouge. In 2000 Loung Ung authored "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers."
 (WSJ, 6/7/96, p.A11)(AR, 9/4/99)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A15)(SFEC, 6/11/00, BR p.6)

1975-1979 In Cambodia as many as 20,000 men, women and children entered Tuol Sleng prison and only 7 are known to have survived. In 1997 two of the administrators of the prison, known as Duch and Chan, were living openly in territory controlled by the government.
 (SFC, 8/5/97, p.A9)

1975-1979 Ray Blanton (1930-1996) served as governor of Tennessee. He was ousted from office 3 days early in a cash for clemency scandal.
 (SFC, 11/25/96, p.A3)

1975-1980 A third of the Hmong people were killed when the US withdrew from Laos.
 (SFC, 6/9/96, DB p.2)

1975-1981 Stanford Opotowsky (d. 1997 at 73) served as director of news coverage for ABC TV. He was the author of several books that included: "TV: The Big Picture," "The Longs of Louisiana," "The Kennedy Government," and "Men Behind Bars."
 (SFC, 10/3/97, p.B13)

1975-1984 In New Zealand Robert Muldoon served as prime minister. His interventionist policies threatened to send the country to the financial wall.
 (WSJ, 10/9/96, p.A16)

1975-1985 In Peru the presidency of Francisco Belaunde.
 (WSJ, 12/27/96, p.A7)

1975-1987 Daniel Boorstin, historian, ran the US Library of Congress. "When we make our history into literature--with the genius of a Shakespeare, a Parkman, a Joyce--we find refuge from the discouragement of the vast ocean. Making our history into literature becomes a way of confessing the limits of our knowledge, of expressing our hope to find some meaning in experience and of playing on the frontiers." His work includes the trilogy: "The Discoverers" publ. in 1983, "The Creators," and "The Seekers" publ. in 1998. In the last work he traced the movement of Western religious and philosophical energy from the time of the Old Testament to Einstein.
 (WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-9)(WSJ, 9/30/98, p.A16)

1975-1991 In Lebanon the civil war allowed an illicit drug trade to flourish in the Bekaa Valley.
 (SFC, 9/29/98, p.A9)

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