1975 - Events

Events

  • January
    • Altair 8800 is released, sparking the microcomputer revolution.
    • Volkswagen introduces the Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
  • January 1
    • Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
    • Malawi changes its capital city from Zomba to Lilongwe.
  • January 2
    • The United States Patent and Trademark Office is renamed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
    • The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
    • Bangladesh freedom fighter Shiraj Shikder was killed by country's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  • January 5 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
  • January 6
    • Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC.
    • AM America makes its television debut on ABC.
  • January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
  • January 8
    • Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first female U.S. governor who did not succeed her husband.
    • U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.
  • January 14 – Heiress Lesley Whittle, 17, is kidnapped from her home in Shropshire, England by Donald Neilson.
  • January 15
    • International Women's Year is launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.
    • Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11.
    • Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom) opens at Walt Disney World and to this day remains one of the parks most popular attractions.
  • January 18 – Atomic Energy Commission divided between ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
  • January 19
    • Earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
    • The United States Energy Research and Development Administration is founded, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.
  • January 20
    • In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
    • Michael Ovitz founds the Creative Artists Agency.
    • Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.
  • January 24 – Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation 'The Köln Concert' at the Cologne Opera, which, recorded live, becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.
  • January 26 – Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 80-48 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.
  • January 29 – The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C..

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