March 1975 - March 4, 1975 (Tuesday)

March 4, 1975 (Tuesday)

• Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Elizabeth II.
• Iran signed a trade deal pledging to spend 22 billion dollars in the United States over a ten-year period.
• Peter Lorenz, the Christian Democratic Union's candidate for Mayor of West Berlin, was released, unharmed, after the West German government freed five guerillas, gave each of them cash, and flew them to Aden in South Yemen.
• A Canadian parliamentary committee was televised for the first time
• Ethiopia's ruling military council, the Dergue, issued Proclamation 31, nationalizing all rural land, giving households 10 hectares apiece of land, and assigning 800 hectares apiece to local "Peasant Associations".