1975 in the United States
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Events from the year 1975 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Gerald Ford (R-Michigan)
- Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller (R-New York)
- Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma)
- Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield (D-Montana)
- Congress: 93rd (until January 3), 94th (starting January 3)
Events
January
- January – Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
- January 1 – Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
- January 2 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
- January 6
- AM America makes its television debut on ABC.
- Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC.
- January 8
- Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
- U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
- January 12 – Super Bowl IX: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16–6 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- January 15 - The Carousel of Progress moves to Walt Disney World from Disneyland.
- January 29 – The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C..
February
- February 13 – Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center.
- February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
- February 23 – In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly 2 months early in the United States.
March
- March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.[1]
- March 10 – The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway in New York City with 4 performances.
- March 30 – James Ruppert murders 11 family members inside his home on Easter Sunday.
April
- April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
- April 4
- Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
- Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- April 30 – Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
May
- May – The unemployment rate peaks at 9.0% ending the Post-War Boom.
- May 5 – The Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park, originally known as Busch Gardens: The Old Country, opens in Williamsburg, Virginia.
- May 12 – Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the United States merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
- May 15 – Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
- May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.
June
- June 10 – In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.
- June 26 – Two FBI agents and 1 AIM member die in a shootout, at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
July
July 17: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project orbital docking
- July 17 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. It is also the last Apollo mission and the last manned U.S. space mission until STS-1 (the first Space Shuttle orbital flight).
- July 22 – Stanley Forman takes the photo Fire Escape Collapse.
- July 31 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
August
- August 5 – U.S. President Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee, restoring full rights of citizenship.
- August 8 – Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York.
- August 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
September
- September 5 – In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
- September 14 – Elizabeth Seton is canonized, becoming the first American Roman Catholic saint.
- September 18 – Fugitive Patricia Hearst is captured in San Francisco.
- September 22 – U.S. President Gerald Ford survives a second assassination attempt, this time by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco.
October
- October 1 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- October 11 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (George Carlin is the first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests).
- October 21–22 – 1975 World Series: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game Six off Carlton Fisk's twelfth-inning home run; the Reds would go on to win in Game Seven.
November
- November 3 – An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."
- November 5 – Travis Walton, a 22-year-old logger, was working in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest with six co-workers near Snowflake, Arizona, when he suddenly disappeared.[2] Walton was found five days later and said that he had been abducted by extraterrestrial aliens.[3] His book, The Walton Experience, would become the basis for a 1993 film, Fire in the Sky.[4]
- November 10 – The bulk carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sinks 15 miles off of Whitefish Point with all hands.
- November 20 – Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
- November 29 – The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
- November 29 – While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
December
- December 8 – New York City is approved for bailout of $2.3 billion each year through to 1978 – $6.9 billion total.
- December 23 – United States Congress passes the Metric Conversion Act which encourages, but does not mandate, metrication in the United States and establishes the Metric Board.
- December 29 – A bomb explosion at LaGuardia Airport kills 11.
Ongoing
- Cold War (1945–1991)
- Space Race (1957–1975)
- Détente (c. 1969–1979)
- Capital punishment suspended by Furman v. Georgia (1972–1976)
- 1970s energy crisis (1973–1980)
- DOCUMERICA photography project (1972-1977)
Births
- January 2 – Dax Shepard, actor
- January 20 – David Eckstein, American baseball player
- January 23
- Phil Dawson, American football player
- Tito Ortiz, mixed martial artist, referee, and actor
- March 16 – Tara Buck, actress
- May 9 - Lane Kiffin, American football player and coach
- May 12 - Lawrence Phillips, American-Canadian football player
- May 26 - Lauryn Hill, actress, singer–songwriter, rapper and producer
- June 4 – Angelina Jolie, actress and director
- June 27 – Tobey Maguire, actor and producer
- September 21 – Lil Rob
- November 14 – Stephen Guarino, actor
- December 30 - Tiger Woods, golfer
Deaths
See also: Deaths in 1975
- March 30 – Pancho Barnes, pioneer aviatrix (b. 1901)
- June 6 - Larry Blyden, actor and game show host (b. 1925)
- June 15 - William Austin, English-born actor (b. 1884)
- September 6 – Shelton Brooks, Canadian-born African American song composer (b. 1886)
- December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, composer and husband of Lucille Fletcher (b. 1911)
See also
- 1975 in American television
- List of American films of 1975
References
- ↑ Mitchell K. Hall (2008). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the Nixon-Ford Era. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6410-8.
- ↑ "Did a UFO Kidnap Navajo County Man?", Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff AZ), November 8, 1975, p1
- ↑ "Brother finds 'UFO kidnap' victim", Scottsdale (AZ) Daily Progress, November 11, 1975, p1
- ↑ Dennis William Hauck, Haunted Places: The National Directory : Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations (Penguin Books, 2002)
External links
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