Notable Historical Events - 1975
1975 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime |
Jan 1 |
International Women's Year begins |
Jan 1 |
Sweden adopts constitution |
Jan 1 |
U.S. Federal oil depletion allowance eliminated for large producers |
Jan 2 |
US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species |
Jan 4 |
"Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Jan 4 |
"Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances |
Jan 4 |
"Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances |
Jan 4 |
Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828) |
Jan 4 |
Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica |
Jan 4 |
Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
Jan 5 |
"Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances |
Jan 5 |
Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in NYC |
Jan 5 |
Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days |
Jan 5 |
14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks |
Jan 6 |
"AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host |
Jan 6 |
"Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv |
Jan 6 |
1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage |
Jan 7 |
"Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances |
Jan 7 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) |
Jan 7 |
Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC |
Jan 7 |
Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing $30,000 damage |
Jan 8 |
Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison |
Jan 9 |
600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike |
Jan 9 |
Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes |
Jan 11 |
Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4 |
Jan 12 |
Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates |
Jan 12 |
Super Bowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB |
Jan 13 |
Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of "actual strangulation of the industrialized world" in the wake of oil shock |
Jan 14 |
Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m |
Jan 14 |
USSR breaks trade agreement with US |
Jan 15 |
Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence |
Jan 15 |
Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) |
Jan 18 |
"Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS |
Jan 19 |
4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq |
Jan 19 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown |
Jan 19 |
Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. |
Jan 20 |
25th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10 |
Jan 20 |
Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in NYC |
Jan 21 |
28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal |
Jan 22 |
Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched |
Jan 23 |
"Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 23 |
Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
Jan 24 |
"Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 24 |
Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England |
Jan 25 |
10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st |
Jan 25 |
Bangladeshi parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
Jan 26 |
Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in NYC |
Jan 28 |
8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio |
Jan 29 |
"Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Jan 29 |
First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King |
Jan 29 |
West Indies win fifth test against India to take exciting series 3-2 |
Jan 31 |
Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold |
Jan 31 |
John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" |
Jan 31 |
UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
Feb 1 |
"Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 |
Feb 1 |
"Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Feb 1 |
1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks |
Feb 1 |
Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
Feb 1 |
Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department |
Feb 2 |
Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea |
Feb 2 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Feb 2 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
Feb 2 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
Feb 3 |
Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame |
Feb 4 |
Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
Feb 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 7 |
NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak |
Feb 8 |
1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea |
Feb 8 |
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
Feb 9 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
Feb 9 |
Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
Feb 10 |
William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 10 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces |
Feb 11 |
Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for leadership of the British Conservative Party |
Feb 13 |
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
Feb 14 |
Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station |
Feb 16 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0 |
Feb 18 |
2nd American Music Award: Olivia Newton-John & John Denver win |
Feb 18 |
Italy broadens abortion law |
Feb 20 |
Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore |
Feb 20 |
Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party |
Feb 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 20 |
A feud begains between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975 |
Feb 21 |
John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album |
Feb 21 |
John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs |
Feb 23 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Feb 23 |
In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States. |
Feb 25 |
Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured |
Feb 26 |
"Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs |
Feb 26 |
1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show) |
Feb 27 |
CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin |
Feb 27 |
House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill |
Feb 28 |
41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop |
Feb 28 |
EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries |
Feb 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 28 |
A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people. |
Mar 1 |
17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win |
Mar 1 |
Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1 |
Mar 1 |
Colour television transmissions begin in Australia. |
Mar 3 |
"Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances |
Mar 3 |
Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana |
Mar 3 |
1st People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV) |
Mar 6 |
Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. |
Mar 7 |
US Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate |
Mar 7 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 8 |
Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba |
Mar 9 |
"Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances |
Mar 9 |
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. |
Mar 10 |
"Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances |
Mar 10 |
Dog spectacles patented in England |
Mar 10 |
Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka. |
Mar 11 |
Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails |
Mar 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 12 |
Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam |
Mar 13 |
Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC |
Mar 15 |
Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo |
Mar 15 |
Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec) |
Mar 16 |
"Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances |
Mar 16 |
US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury |
Mar 17 |
Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) |
Mar 18 |
Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
Mar 19 |
"Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Mar 19 |
Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports |
Mar 21 |
Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years |
Mar 22 |
"Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival |
Mar 22 |
"Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances |
Mar 22 |
"Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs |
Mar 22 |
Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship |
Mar 22 |
Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong" |
Mar 22 |
Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens |
Mar 22 |
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels. |
Mar 23 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA Bing Crosby International Golf Classic |
Mar 24 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 26 |
"Tommy" premieres in London |
Mar 26 |
Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses |
Mar 26 |
The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force. |
Mar 28 |
Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also |
Mar 29 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open |
Mar 29 |
Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers |
Mar 30 |
Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital |
Mar 31 |
37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55 |
Mar 31 |
John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs |
Apr 1 |
Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer |
Apr 2 |
Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. |
Apr 3 |
Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it |
Apr 3 |
James Rupers kills his family to inherit |
Apr 4 |
130 killed as USAF plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes |
Apr 4 |
Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes |
Apr 4 |
USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 |
Apr 4 |
Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen. |
Apr 5 |
"Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs |
Apr 5 |
Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely |
Apr 6 |
"Night... Made America Famous" closes at Barrymore NYC after 75 perfs |
Apr 6 |
"Rocky Horror Show" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 45 perfs |
Apr 6 |
Bundy victim Denise Oliverson disappears from Grand Junction, Colo |
Apr 6 |
Fastest hat trick by a Wash Cap 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson) |
Apr 7 |
Preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries |
Apr 8 |
47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win |
Apr 8 |
Frank Robinson debuts as 1st black baseball mgr (Cleve, beats NY 5-3) |
Apr 9 |
24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices |
Apr 10 |
Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
Apr 11 |
Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewer) |
Apr 11 |
JP Parise 11 sec OT goal-Isles 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers |
Apr 12 |
Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved" |
Apr 12 |
Six Catholic civilians are killed in a Ulster Volunteer Force gun and grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast, North Ireland |
Apr 13 |
39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276 |
Apr 13 |
Chad military coup by General Odingar |
Apr 13 |
Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war |
Apr 13 |
Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 15 |
1st appearance of San Diego Chicken |
Apr 15 |
Gabon amends constitution |
Apr 15 |
Penguins 3-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead |
Apr 16 |
Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh |
Apr 17 |
Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day) |
Apr 17 |
Penguins 6-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-0 lead |
Apr 18 |
John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" |
Apr 19 |
India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR |
Apr 20 |
29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win |
Apr 20 |
4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
Apr 20 |
Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead |
Apr 21 |
4th Boston Women's Marathon won by Liane Winter of W Germ in 2:42:24 |
Apr 21 |
79th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:55 |
Apr 21 |
Last South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years |
Apr 21 |
Liane Winter wins world record female Boston marathon (2:42:24) |
Apr 22 |
Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead |
Apr 23 |
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" premieres in London |
Apr 24 |
Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 |
Apr 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 25 |
1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao |
Apr 25 |
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election |
Apr 25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Apr 25 |
West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden |
Apr 26 |
Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal |
Apr 26 |
Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3 |
Apr 26 |
Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 HRs ties NL record of 11 HRs in April |
Apr 27 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
Apr 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 28 |
John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo Starr on "Smother Brothers" |
Apr 28 |
South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
Apr 29 |
Ethiopia nationalizes all land |
Apr 29 |
Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 29 |
Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. |
Apr 30 |
Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders |
May 1 |
Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
May 2 |
Apple records closes down |
May 3 |
101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02 |
May 3 |
Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8) |
May 4 |
Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane" premieres in NYC |
May 4 |
Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots |
May 4 |
Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time |
May 4 |
Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) |
May 5 |
A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs) |
May 6 |
Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho |
May 6 |
Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only |
May 6 |
3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska |
May 7 |
Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead |
May 7 |
Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era" |
May 7 |
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays |
May 9 |
Brian Oldfield shot puts 22.86 m (world record) |
May 9 |
Flyers 1-Isles 5-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-2 lead |
May 10 |
Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75', an unofficial record |
May 11 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
May 11 |
Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games |
May 11 |
Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market |
May 12 |
US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces |
May 13 |
"Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances |
May 13 |
Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3 |
May 13 |
Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn |
May 14 |
Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II |
May 14 |
French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia |
May 14 |
US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship |
May 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 15 |
11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 |
May 15 |
Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
May 16 |
India annexes Principality of Sikkim |
May 16 |
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest |
May 16 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 16 |
Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK |
May 17 |
"Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79 |
May 17 |
101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4 |
May 17 |
10CC releases "I'm Not in Love" |
May 17 |
Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches |
May 17 |
NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time |
May 19 |
27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh win |
May 19 |
Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India |
May 21 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede |
May 21 |
Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm |
May 21 |
Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart |
May 22 |
8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
May 24 |
Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 |
May 25 |
29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Wash Bullets in 4 games |
May 25 |
Cleve's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0 |
May 25 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic |
May 25 |
Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins in 2:54:55.064 (240.135 km/h) |
May 26 |
Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes |
May 27 |
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars" |
May 27 |
Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres, 4 games to 2 |
May 27 |
Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38 |
May 28 |
Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris |
May 28 |
Soyuz 18 launches |
May 30 |
European Space Agency (ESA) forms |
May 30 |
Wings release "Venus & Mars" album |
May 31 |
"Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances |
May 31 |
Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition |
Jun 1 |
"Chicago" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 947 performances |
Jun 1 |
21st LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
Jun 1 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0 |
Jun 1 |
Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts |
Jun 1 |
Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist |
Jun 2 |
First recorded snowfall in London in June |
Jun 2 |
James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine) |
Jun 2 |
VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA |
Jun 4 |
Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC |
Jun 5 |
48th US National Spelling Bee: Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor |
Jun 5 |
British referendum agrees to European Common Market membership |
Jun 5 |
Egypt president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967) |
Jun 6 |
British voters decide to remain in Common Market |
Jun 6 |
Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning |
Jun 6 |
Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established |
Jun 7 |
"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver hits #1 |
Jun 7 |
Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup |
Jun 7 |
Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets |
Jun 7 |
Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, v WI Cricket World Cup |
Jun 7 |
Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. |
Jun 8 |
2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 |
Jun 8 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic |
Jun 8 |
USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing |
Jun 9 |
107th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Avatar wins in 2:28.2 |
Jun 9 |
Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners & 1 guard (Sanford Fla) |
Jun 9 |
UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time |
Jun 9 |
Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You" |
Jun 10 |
Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans |
Jun 10 |
Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, & another part is set afire |
Jun 11 |
1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield |
Jun 11 |
Greece adopts constitution |
Jun 11 |
One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days |
Jun 12 |
Billy Williams's 400th career HR |
Jun 12 |
Hank Aaron's 1st HR in Milwaukee since 1965 |
Jun 14 |
45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61) |
Jun 14 |
Janis Ian releases "At 17" |
Jun 14 |
USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing |
Jun 15 |
45th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Guillermo Vilas (62 63 64) |
Jun 15 |
Carol Mann wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Classic |
Jun 16 |
Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players |
Jun 16 |
Italy's Communist party PCI, wins |
Jun 16 |
Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD |
Jun 16 |
Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation |
Jun 17 |
Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US |
Jun 18 |
Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers |
Jun 18 |
Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England |
Jun 18 |
NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio |
Jun 21 |
"Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens |
Jun 21 |
Elton John, Eagles & Beach Boys play Wembley |
Jun 21 |
Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple, forms Rainbow |
Jun 21 |
Soyuz 19 returns to Earth |
Jun 21 |
West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
Jun 22 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
Jun 22 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian tries to stop the UVF volunteers, and is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion enough to let the train pass safely) |
Jun 23 |
75th US Golf Open: Lou Graham shoots a 287 at Medinah CC ILL |
Jun 23 |
Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs |
Jun 24 |
Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113 |
Jun 24 |
Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors) |
Jun 25 |
After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique. |
Jun 26 |
Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency |
Jun 26 |
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. |
Jun 28 |
David Bowie releases "Fame" |
Jun 28 |
Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill) |
Jun 28 |
The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria |
Jun 29 |
3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner |
Jun 29 |
8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec) |
Jun 30 |
Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado |
Jun 30 |
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia |
Jun 30 |
University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance |
Jul 1 |
Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 1 |
WEDway People Mover inaugurated |
Jul 4 |
82nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Evonne Goolagong (60 61) |
Jul 4 |
Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah |
Jul 5 |
89th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64) |
Jul 5 |
Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule |
Jul 6 |
Argentine government falls |
Jul 6 |
Comoros declare independence from France (most of them) |
Jul 6 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147 |
Jul 6 |
Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
Jul 7 |
TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres |
Jul 8 |
Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany |
Jul 8 |
US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for presidency |
Jul 8 |
Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated |
Jul 9 |
The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system. |
Jul 10 |
Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV |
Jul 10 |
Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair |
Jul 11 |
Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC |
Jul 12 |
104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie |
Jul 12 |
Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire |
Jul 12 |
Sao Tomé e PrÃncipe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day) |
Jul 13 |
8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record) |
Jul 13 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
Jul 14 |
EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced |
Jul 15 |
46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee |
Jul 15 |
All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets) |
Jul 15 |
Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; will rendezvous 2 days later |
Jul 16 |
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term |
Jul 17 |
Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space |
Jul 17 |
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; the attack was the first major breach of a February truce |
Jul 18 |
Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play) |
Jul 19 |
Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate |
Jul 19 |
NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are |
Jul 19 |
Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit |
Jul 20 |
30th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
Jul 20 |
India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship. |
Jul 21 |
Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager |
Jul 21 |
NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays |
Jul 22 |
US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee |
Jul 23 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends" premieres in London |
Jul 23 |
LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Jul 24 |
Apollo 18 returns to Earth |
Jul 25 |
"A Chorus Line", longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres |
Jul 26 |
Soyuz 18B returns to Earth |
Jul 27 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic |
Jul 27 |
The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops |
Jul 29 |
Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz |
Jul 29 |
Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired |
Jul 30 |
Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged" premieres in London |
Jul 30 |
US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982 |
Jul 31 |
The Miami Showband killings: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shoot dead three members of an Irish showband at Buskhill, County Down, Ireland |
Aug 1 |
38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord |
Aug 1 |
41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) |
Aug 1 |
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of NY Yankees |
Aug 1 |
Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations |
Aug 1 |
CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. |
Aug 2 |
104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record) |
Aug 2 |
107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record) |
Aug 3 |
500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River |
Aug 3 |
Louisiana Superdome is dedicated |
Aug 3 |
Poland & West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans |
Aug 3 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Aug 4 |
Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes |
Aug 5 |
Phillies 1st 8 batters get hits for a record, beat Cubs 13-5 |
Aug 5 |
Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown |
Aug 8 |
Hank Williams Jr. falls off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana |
Aug 9 |
1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7 |
Aug 9 |
Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught |
Aug 9 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open |
Aug 10 |
57th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron |
Aug 10 |
David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon |
Aug 11 |
Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game |
Aug 11 |
US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN |
Aug 13 |
Viv Richards out for 291 v England at Cricket Oval |
Aug 13 |
Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed |
Aug 14 |
-15] Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman |
Aug 14 |
Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow |
Aug 14 |
Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen |
Aug 15 |
Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed |
Aug 15 |
Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges |
Aug 15 |
Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. |
Aug 16 |
"Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs |
Aug 16 |
Peter Gabriel quits Genesis |
Aug 17 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 19 |
Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager |
Aug 20 |
Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 |
Aug 20 |
Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing |
Aug 21 |
3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway |
Aug 21 |
Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out |
Aug 21 |
US lightens trade embargo against Cuba |
Aug 22 |
McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens |
Aug 23 |
Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway |
Aug 23 |
Communists take over Laos |
Aug 23 |
Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile |
Aug 23 |
Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack |
Aug 23 |
Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland |
Aug 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 24 |
Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing |
Aug 24 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Aug 24 |
Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens |
Aug 24 |
SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0 |
Aug 24 |
Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup |
Aug 27 |
1st night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith) |
Aug 27 |
Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world |
Aug 29 |
Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky |
Aug 30 |
KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX) |
Sep 1 |
All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh |
Sep 1 |
Gunsmoke goes off the the air |
Sep 1 |
Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 1 |
KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS |
Sep 1 |
NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons |
Sep 1 |
NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents |
Sep 1 |
5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh |
Sep 1 |
US stripper well oil prices decontrolled |
Sep 3 |
Chartered Boeing 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die |
Sep 3 |
Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
Sep 4 |
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. |
Sep 5 |
First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford in Sacramento by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento |
Sep 5 |
Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns |
Sep 5 |
Wings release "Letting Go" |
Sep 6 |
6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey |
Sep 6 |
89th US Women's Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
Sep 6 |
Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 |
Sep 6 |
Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open |
Sep 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 7 |
95th US Men's Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63) |
Sep 7 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Sep 7 |
Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title |
Sep 7 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad |
Sep 7 |
Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open |
Sep 8 |
Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools |
Sep 8 |
Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
Sep 9 |
Viking 2 Mars probe launch |
Sep 10 |
Darryl Sittler is named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs |
Sep 13 |
-27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US |
Sep 14 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
Sep 14 |
Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI |
Sep 14 |
Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam |
Sep 14 |
Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen |
Sep 15 |
Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game |
Sep 15 |
The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. |
Sep 16 |
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) |
Sep 16 |
Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7 |
Sep 16 |
Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
Sep 16 |
The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. |
Sep 17 |
Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101) |
Sep 18 |
Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF |
Sep 19 |
Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor |
Sep 20 |
21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club (Ligonier, Pennsylvania, US) |
Sep 20 |
David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks |
Sep 20 |
Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw |
Sep 21 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
Sep 22 |
World Football League folds |
Sep 22 |
2nd assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco |
Sep 24 |
OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues |
Sep 25 |
Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma |
Sep 26 |
Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM |
Sep 27 |
Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain |
Sep 28 |
5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14 |
Sep 28 |
6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27 |
Sep 28 |
Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies |
Sep 28 |
Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0 |
Sep 28 |
The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London. |
Sep 29 |
"Three For Money" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984 |
Sep 29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 29 |
WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting |
Sep 29 |
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster. |
Sep 30 |
5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY) |
Sep 30 |
The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. |
Oct 1 |
Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles |
Oct 1 |
Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu" |
Oct 1 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila" |
Oct 1 |
Reunion Island stops printing stamps, France takes over production |
Oct 2 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian |
Oct 2 |
Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine |
Oct 3 |
George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK |
Oct 3 |
Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap |
Oct 4 |
A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair. |
Oct 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 7 |
Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith |
Oct 7 |
US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction |
Oct 9 |
Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits SF |
Oct 9 |
Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 10 |
Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt |
Oct 11 |
"Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin |
Oct 11 |
Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick |
Oct 11 |
Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host |
Oct 12 |
Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries |
Oct 12 |
Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19) |
Oct 12 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-195 |
Oct 13 |
9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins |
Oct 13 |
Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery |
Oct 14 |
Pres Ford escapes injury when his limousine is struck broadside |
Oct 15 |
Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles |
Oct 17 |
1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss |
Oct 17 |
UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" |
Oct 18 |
Simon & Garfunkel reunite on Saturday Night Live, sing "My Little Town" |
Oct 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 19 |
"Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances |
Oct 19 |
Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals |
Oct 19 |
Hamlisch & Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in NYC |
Oct 19 |
Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic |
Oct 20 |
Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning |
Oct 21 |
"Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 64 performances |
Oct 21 |
Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll |
Oct 21 |
Elton John given a star in Hollywood |
Oct 21 |
Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives |
Oct 21 |
Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning HR beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS |
Oct 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 21 |
Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched |
Oct 22 |
"Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances |
Oct 22 |
Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series |
Oct 22 |
Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus |
Oct 22 |
Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
Oct 22 |
World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season |
Oct 23 |
Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola |
Oct 23 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0 |
Oct 24 |
Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
Oct 25 |
Denver Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St Louis Spirits |
Oct 25 |
USSR's Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing |
Oct 26 |
Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit US |
Oct 26 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 26 |
Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball |
Oct 26 |
Mary Bea Porter wins LPGA Golf Inns of America |
Oct 27 |
Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen |
Oct 28 |
Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
Oct 28 |
Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo |
Oct 28 |
Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976 |
Oct 29 |
Boston's Fred Lynn is the overwhelming choice as AL Rookie of Year |
Oct 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 29 |
'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills first victim, Wilma McCann |
Oct 30 |
Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year |
Oct 30 |
John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals |
Oct 30 |
King Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain |
Oct 30 |
NY Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" |
Oct 31 |
Bob Geldof's first appearance with Boomtown Rats |
Nov 2 |
Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4 |
Nov 2 |
Summit in Houston opens - Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89 |
Nov 3 |
Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) |
Nov 4 |
Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award |
Nov 5 |
British government sends troops to Belize |
Nov 5 |
Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution |
Nov 6 |
"Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances |
Nov 6 |
1st appearance of Sex Pistols |
Nov 7 |
Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland |
Nov 8 |
Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
Nov 10 |
Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior |
Nov 10 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC |
Nov 10 |
Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career |
Nov 10 |
UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism |
Nov 11 |
Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day) |
Nov 11 |
Australian PM Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs) |
Nov 12 |
NY Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award |
Nov 12 |
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years |
Nov 13 |
"Musical Jubilee" opens at St James Theater NYC for 92 performances |
Nov 14 |
Spain, Morocco & Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara |
Nov 15 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Nov 16 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open |
Nov 18 |
Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US |
Nov 18 |
Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
Nov 19 |
Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP |
Nov 19 |
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released |
Nov 20 |
Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President |
Nov 21 |
Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped |
Nov 22 |
Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain |
Nov 22 |
Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland |
Nov 23 |
63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8 |
Nov 23 |
Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal |
Nov 23 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic |
Nov 24 |
"Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Nov 25 |
Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day) |
Nov 25 |
Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases |
Nov 25 |
A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast |
Nov 26 |
US Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination |
Nov 26 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
Nov 26 |
Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP |
Nov 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 27 |
Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL) |
Nov 27 |
The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. |
Nov 28 |
Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed |
Nov 28 |
Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane |
Nov 28 |
Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley |
Nov 28 |
As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. |
Nov 28 |
Bobby Orr plays his last game for the Boston Bruins |
Nov 29 |
Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii |
Nov 29 |
Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped |
Nov 30 |
Dahomey becomes Benin |
Dec 1 |
US President Gerald Ford visits China PR |
Dec 1 |
Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization |
Dec 2 |
7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed |
Dec 2 |
G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI |
Dec 2 |
Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms |
Dec 2 |
Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day) |
Dec 3 |
Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed |
Dec 4 |
6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead |
Dec 5 |
"Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances |
Dec 5 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed |
Dec 6 |
41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
Dec 6 |
Balcombe Street Siege: for 6 days, four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers hold two hostages at an apartment in London, England |
Dec 7 |
10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres |
Dec 7 |
Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus |
Dec 7 |
Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
Dec 7 |
Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament |
Dec 8 |
"Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances |
Dec 9 |
Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize |
Dec 9 |
US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan-authorization for NYC |
Dec 9 |
Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP, CFP, and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company |
Dec 10 |
Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
Dec 10 |
Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ |
Dec 11 |
1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents |
Dec 11 |
Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich |
Dec 12 |
Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
Dec 12 |
Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford |
Dec 13 |
1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts) |
Dec 13 |
Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election |
Dec 13 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
Dec 13 |
Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls |
Dec 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 14 |
"Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances |
Dec 14 |
6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days |
Dec 14 |
WCPR (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM |
Dec 16 |
1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV |
Dec 16 |
Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn |
Dec 17 |
1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th |
Dec 17 |
John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court |
Dec 17 |
Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Ford's life |
Dec 19 |
John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice |
Dec 19 |
Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones |
Dec 19 |
The Red Hand Commandos, a very secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk, killing 2 civilians and wounding 20 |
Dec 20 |
Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles |
Dec 20 |
Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht |
Dec 21 |
"Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances |
Dec 21 |
"Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances |
Dec 21 |
1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) |
Dec 21 |
64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2) |
Dec 21 |
Madagascar adopts constitution |
Dec 21 |
Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57 |
Dec 22 |
US President Gerald Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) |
Dec 23 |
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act |
Dec 23 |
Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents |
Dec 26 |
1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144) |
Dec 26 |
A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket |
Dec 27 |
Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India) |
Dec 28 |
"Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass |
Dec 28 |
1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music) |