1975

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 - 1975 - 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980

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Births

• February 11 - [Chuck Watanabe]?, kayaker.
• May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer
• August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
• Angelina Jolie, US actress

Deaths

• July 29 - James Blish, U.S. science fiction author
• August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, aged 68, Russian composer
• November 20 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain

Events

• January 1 - [John N. Mitchell]?, [H. R. Haldeman]?, [John D. Ehrlichman]? are found guilty of the Watergate? cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21
• February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats [Edward Heath]? for Conservative Party leadership.
• May 15 - The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in operation by U.S. Navy and Marines. 38 are killed.
• July 15 - Apollo and Soyuz? spacecraft take off for U.S.-Soviet link-up in space
• September 5 - President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt in Sacramento?, California.
• September 22 - President Ford survives a second assassination attempt.
• November 11 - Independence of Angola.
• November 25 - Suriname indendent from the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Pol Pot proclaims the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1976-1979).

Sport

• May 3 - FA Cup final - Fulham F.C. 0 - 2 [West Ham United F.C.]? played at [Wembley Stadium]? in front of 100,000
• January 12 - Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers (16) def. Minnesota Vikings (6)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics Aage Niels Bohr, [Ben Roy Mottelson]?, [Leo James Rainwater]?
• Chemistry - [John Warcup Cornforth]?, [Vladimir Prelog]?
• Medicine - [David Baltimore]?, [Renato Dulbecco]?, [Howard Martin Temin]?
• Literature - [Eugenio Montale]?
• Peace - [Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov]?
• Economics - [Leonid Kantorovich]?, [Tjalling Koopmans]?