News and Events from 1975
The Top 40 Singles of 1975:
1. "Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille (First chart appearance: 5/24/75; Highest position: #1)
2. "Rhinestone Cowboy" - Glen Campbell (6/21/75; #1)
3. "Fame" - David Bowie (8/2/75; #1)
4. "Shining Star" - Earth, Wind and Fire (3/22/75; #1)
5. "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli (1/18/75; #1)
6. "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" - John Denver (4/5/75; #1)
7. "Philadelphia Freedom" - Elton John (3/15/75; #1)
8. "One Of These Nights" - Eagles (6/14/75; #1)
9. "Pick Up The Pieces" - Average White Band (12/21/74; #1)
10. "At Seventeen" - Janis Ian (7/12/75; #3)
11. "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas (12/21/74; #1)
12. "Boogie On Reggae Woman" - Stevie Wonder (11/30/74; #3)
13. "Laughter In The Rain" - Neil Sedaka (11/16/74; #1)
14. "Black Water" - The Doobie Brothers (1/11/75; #1)
15. "Lady Marmalade - LaBelle (2/1/75; #1)
16. "Why Can't We Be Friends" - War (6/14/75; #6)
17. "The Hustle" - Van McCoy (5/31/75; #1)
18. "Best Of My Love" - Eagles (12/28/74; #1)
19. "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" - Freddy Fender (7/19/75; #8)
20. "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" - Freddy Fender (3/8/75; #1)
21. "Some Kind Of Wonderful" - Grand Funk (12/21/74; #3)
22. "Island Girl" - Elton John (10/18/75; #1)
23. "Lovin' You" - Minnie Ripperton (2/15/75; #1)
24. "Jive Talkin'" - Bee Gees (6/28/75; #1)
25. "Mandy" - Barry Manilow (12/7/74; #1)
26. "Please Mr. Postman" - Carpenters (12/7/74; #1)
27. "Have You Never Been Mellow" - Olivia Newton-John (2/8/75; #1)
28. "Jackie Blue" - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils (3/22/75; #3)
29. "Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet (8/2/75; #5)
30. "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" - B.J. Thomas (3/1/75; #1)
31. "He Don't Love You" - Tony Orlando & Dawn (3/29/75; #1)
32. "Feelings" - Morris Albert (8/23/75; #6)
33. "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc (6/14/75; #2)
34. "Games People Play (They Just Can't Help It)" - Spinners (8/30/75; #5)
35. "Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Harris (4/19/75; #5)
36. "Angie Baby" - Helen Reddy (11/2/74; #1)
37. "I'm Sorry" - John Denver (8/30/75; #1)
38. "Fight The Power (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers (7/12/75; #4)
39. "Lady" - Styx (1/18/75; #6)
40. "Fire" - Ohio Players (12/28/74; #1)

Top Albums of 1975:

AWB - Average White Band
Back Home Again - John Denver
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt *
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tennille
One Of These Nights - Eagles *
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin *
Phoebe Snow
Red Octopus - The Jefferson Starship
That's The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind & Fire
Venus And Mars - Wings *
Windsong - John Denver
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd *

20 Popular Movies of 1975:

1. Jaws
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Shampoo
5. Dog Day Afternoon
6. Barry Lyndon
7. Emmanuelle
8. Farewell, My Lovely
9. Hester Street
10. Barry Lyndon
11. Breakout
12. The Day of the Locust
13. The French Connection II
14. The Hindenburg
15. The Man Who Would Be King
16. Nashville
17. Rooster Cogburn
18. Shining Star
19. Tommy
20. Janis: A Film

The Top 20 Television Shows of 1975:

1. All in the Family
2. Rich Man, Poor Man
3. Laverne & Shirley
4. Maude
5. The Bionic Woman
6. Phyllis
7. Sanford and Son
8. Rhoda
9. The Six Million Dollar Man
10. The ABC Monday Night Movie
11. Happy Days
12. One Day at a Time
13. The ABC Sunday Night Movie
14. The Waltons
15. M*A*S*H
16. Starsky and Hutch
17. Good Heavens
18. Welcome Back, Kotter
19. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
20. Kojak


News Highlights of 1975:

Angola gains its independence from Portugal after centuries of foreign rule.
John N. Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate investigation.
Margaret Thatcher is the first woman elected to lead Britain's Conservative Party.
King Faaisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by a crazed nephew.
The president of South Vietnam, Duong Van Minh, surrenders to the Communists.
The busing of 21,000 students is ordered in Boston to achieve racial balance in the public schools.
Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after eight years.
President Ford escapes assassination twice within 17 days.
The Supreme Court rules that paddling of unruly students is acceptable under certain circumstances.
More than million is spent on research by the National Cancer Institute to study the relationship between diet and cancer.
President Ford meets with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to renew American use of strategic air and naval bases in the Philippines.
General Francisco Franco dies
Paving the way for democratic reforms under his heir, Juan Carlos over the next two years.

Portugal withdraws from Guinea

Lebanon civil war begins
Sparked by Christians killing a busload of Palestinians and other Muslims, the country was quickly thrown into a war between the privlidged christians and the poor muslims.

Saigon falls to communism
America suspended it's aid two years after removing it's military forces. In April, US official ordered the remaining 1000 US citizens to evacuate to the embasssy in Saigon. This lead to the now famous image of citizens climbing the ladder to helicoptors to be airlifted out of the city.

The Altair, the first home computer is introduced
No screen, no printer, not a single luxury. A kit computer you had to assemble parts for yourself, based on the Z-80 microprocessor.

Computerized Supermarket checkouts begin to appear

Disposable razors are introduced

Catalytic converters are introduced on cars

Lyme disease first discovered

First US born Roman Catholic saint

Jimmy Hoffa disappears

Ford assasination attempts
Lynette "Squaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower, pointed a gun at Ford, though no shots were fired. This was followed by Sara Jane Moore 17 days later to shoot the president in a crowd.

New York City is bailed out by federal government

Literacy requirement for voting repelled

Energy Policy and Coservation Act of 1975
Sets importation quotas on petroleum

Metric Conversion Act passed in the US
A big failure too, widely ignored by people.

Poland treaty allowing immigration to West Germany

8,000 ceramic warriors discovered in China
Life sized statues of warriors, and over 10,000 artifacts of gold, jade, silk and iron were discovered in the tomb of emperor Shih Huang-ti, ruller from 221 to 206 BC

Mayaguez Incident
The United States' merchant ship, the SS Mayaguez, was seized in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia because of alledged contraband. The 39 crew members were held captive for three days, until a rescue attempt was made by President Gerald Ford that resulted in the death of 41 American marines.



Sports Winners of 1975:
Baseball: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3.
Football: The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 on January 18, 1976, at the Orange Bowl in Miami in Super Bowl X.
Basketball: Golden State beat the Washington Bullets 4 games to 0.
Hockey: The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2.

Tiger Woods the Us golfer is born
VHS and Betamax video introduced
First woman climbs Everest
Dutch Elm kills 6.5 million trees in the UK
Paul McCartney fined for growing Marijuana

NEWS HEADLINES FROM 1975: Angola achieves independence from Portugal . . . In Beirut civil war erupts between the Christians and the Moslems . . . The QE2 sets sail from New York on her first round-the-world cruise . . . The first computers designed for home use go on sale in the USA priced at . . . Prince Juan Carlos is crowned King following the death of General Franco . . . Archeologists in China unearth the Terrecotta army . . . The Americans pull out of Vietnam . . . The Suez Canal is opened for the first time since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . . . Margaret Thatcher is elected as leader of the Conservative Party . . . Matina Navratilova asks for political asylum in the United States . . . Charlie Chaplin is knighted by the Queen . . . First live broadcast from the House Of Commons . . . Internment (detention without trial) ends in Northern Ireland . . . Pele signs a million contract to play for US soccer team New York Cosmos . . . The Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup . . . GOODBYE TO: Sam Giancarna, Chicago Mafia boss . . . PG Woodehouse, British born US author . . . Susan Hayward, US actress . . . Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping tycoon . . . Graham Hill, British racing driver . . . Dimitri Shoshtakovich, Russian composer

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