The Year 1975 From The People History

What Events Happened in 1975

• Spanish Dictator Franco Dies

• OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.

• The British Conservative Party chooses it's first women leader, Margaret Thatcher

• Oil goes over $13.00 per barrel

• The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally

• The US Carries out Vietnam "Operation Babylift" bringing Vietnamese orphans to the US

• New York City avoids bankruptcy when President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion loan

• US Pulls out of Cambodia

• The first oil pipeline to serve Forties oilfield starts pumping North Sea Oil

• An IRA hit squad takes refuge and hostages at Balcombe Street in central London

• The IRA bombs London Hilton Hotel In Park Lane

• The IRA murders Ross McWhirter the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records

• Cod War breaks out between Britain and Iceland when Iceland extends it's fishing rights to 200 miles

• The Suez Canal reopens for the first time since the Six-Day War

• "The Green March" with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans cross the border into the Spanish controlled area of Western Sahara demanding the return of Moroccan Sahara Desert

• The Unemployment Rate in the US reaches 9.2% and recession is recognized by President Ford

• King Faisal of Saudi Arabia Assassinated

• Baader-Meinhof guerrillas take 11 hostages at West German embassy in Stockholm

• The First ever strike by Doctors in the US causes hospitals to reduce services

• Britains inflation rate jumps 25%

• Dutch elm disease destroys more than three million Elm trees in the UK

• Beginning of 15 years of civil war between Maronite Christians and Muslim militias in Lebanon

• Indira Gandhi India Prime Minister is found guilty of electoral corruption

• The UK implements the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Act

• London underground train crashed into a brick wall on February 28th at Moorgate in London's Financial district

• The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum June 6th on staying in the European Community

• Angola Gains Independence From Portugal

• Jimmy Hoffa ex teamsters boss disappears never to be seen again

• Patti Hearst Becomes Most Wanted and is Arrested for armed robbery

• Suriname Gains Independence From Netherlands

Technology

• Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins



• Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC program for the Altair 8800



• The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark



• NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.



• US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 9 spacecraft link up in space and Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts shake hands



• BIC launches first disposable Razor



• The Microcomputer Altair 8800 is released



• Work on the Alaskan Oil Line begins



• Sony introduces Betamax videotapes and Matsushita / JVC introduce VHS



• Tuvalu Gains Independence From Great Britain



• Mozambique Gains Independence From Portugal



• Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, invented by Seymour Cray

Popular Culture 1975

• Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born To Run, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time
• The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London
• Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC
• Muhammad Ali beat Joe Fraser in the "Thriller In Manilla" match

Popular Films

• Jaws
• The Towering Inferno
• Benji
• Young Frankenstein
• The Godfather Part II
• Funny Lady
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Return of the Pink Panther
• Tommy
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Popular Musicians and songs

• Minnie Riperton
• Aerosmith
• Black Sabbath
• Chicago
• Bob Dylan
• David Bowie with " Fame "
• Alice Cooper
• The Eagles with " Best of My Love "
• Jefferson Starship
• Elton John with Island Girl and " Lucy in the sky with Diamonds "
• Kiss
• Led Zeppelin
• John Lennon
• Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Paul McCartney and Wings
• Pink Floyd
• Paul Simon
• Queen
• Bruce Springsteen
• The Who
• ZZ Top

Check out our Television Programmes From The 70s whenever possible we have included a trailer to jog your memory. Series trailers and more information are found on the decade they started.

Major World Political Leaders 1975