March 7, 1975 (Friday)
- The United States Senate voted 56-27 to change the rules on ending a filibuster. Previously, the vote of 67 the 100 Senators (at least 2/3rds) was needed to end an overly long speech, and the rule was changed to 60 percent.
- The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped 7 weeks earlier by the "Black Panther", was discovered in Staffordshire, England.
- Died: Ben Blue, 73, Canadian-American comedian; and Mikhail Bakhtin, 79, Soviet author and pioneer in semiotics
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“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)