A YEAR TO REMEMBER
June 1975 -until- May 1976 these are events that have continued to shape us
as well as the world around us.
TRIVIA
Suez Canal was reoppened
Mozambique gains independence from Portugal
PM Indira Ghandi declares state of Emergency in India
Eastern Flight 66 crashes in NYC
First McDonalds drive-through (Sierra Vista, AZ)
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - 2 FBI Agens & 1 AIM member (dead)
6.4 Earthquake in Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming)
Angelina Jolie
Russell Brand
Allen Iverson
Tobey McGuire
Ozzie Nelson (69)
Sam Giancana (murdered)
Rod Serling (50)
Jaws - Steven Spielberg
Broadway musical Chicago opens
Milwaukee Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the LA Lakers
Nolan Ryan tied MLB recrod of 4 no-hitter
Avatar wins the Belmont
Pelé signs with the New York Cosmos
Refrigerator bomb kills 13 in Jerusalem, Zion Square
Pakistan bus accident kills 52
China places satellite in orbit
ARPNET operational (the Internet is born)
Ann Landers announces she is getting a divorce
Federeal ban on hiring gay/lesbian workers lifted
Mauna Loa volcano erupts in Hawaii
Apollo 18 launch
50 Cent (Curtis Jackson III)
Alex Rodriguez
Jimmy Hoffa disappears
For Colored Girls opened on Broadway
A Chorus Line opens
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Walking Tall Part 2
Billie Jean King wins Wimbledon
Arthur Ashe first African American man to win wimbledon
Typhoon Nina kills 12 in Taiwan
Banqiao Dam (China) breaks and drowning over 26,000
Bangladesh president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated
60 Minutes interview with Betty Ford broadcast
Frost/Nixon contract signed
Serial Killer Ted Bundy arrested
Bicentenial Quarter put in circulation
Charlize Theron
Hank Patterson (73)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Billy Martin manages first game as a NY Yankee
Louisiana Superdome opens in New Orleans
John Walker - first sub 3 min 50 sec mile
Concorde crosses Atlantic 4 times in one day
USAF LtGen Daniel James - first African-American 4 star General
Grizzley Bear - Endangered species list
"Squeaky" Fromme attempts to shoot President Ford
First cell-phone patent (#3,906,166) issued
Fugitive Patricia Hearst captured
Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate President Ford
Michael Bublé
Jimmy Johnson
Matt Hasselbeck
John McGiver (61)
Charlie Monroe
Dog Day Afternoon
Three Days of the Condor
Shivers
Steve Garvey began record MLB consecutive games played streak of 1,207
Riverfront Coliseum opens (Cincinatti)
Long Beach Grand Prix held on the streets of Long Beach, CA
Andrei Sakharov wins 1975 Nobel Peace Prize
Balibo Five murdered
First Chevy Chevette (Scooter) on sale
John Lennon avoids deportation from the USA
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remarry
SNL aired first episode - George Carlin, Billy Preson, Janis Ian
Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
Bicentenial American Dollar coin put in circulation
U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Baker v. Owen
Kate Winslet
Sean Lennon
Marion Jones
Al Lettieri (47)
Mahogany
Rooster Cogburn
Hearts of the West
Hester Street
The Thrilla in Manila (Ali v Frasier)
Doug Jarvis plays his first (of 964 consecutive) NHL game
Cincinatti Reds win the World Series 4-3
First UK petroleum pipeline opens
Fidel Castro orders 650 troops to Angola
The "Green March" began
The "G-6" formed
Total Lunar Eclipse visible from 5 continents
Spain abolishes the death penalty
The "Halloween Massacre"
USA withdraws from the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Travis Walton claims he was abducted by aliens
SS Edmond Fitzgerald sinks in a storm on Lake Superior
George C. Wallace declares candidacy for President
"Squeaky" Fromme convicted of attempted murder of President Ford
David Ortez
Francisco Franco
Good Morning America premiers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Sunshine Boys
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger plays last 27 seconds of Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game
UK passes Sex Discrimination Act
Mecca Tragedy kills 138 people
Soviet Union supersonic jet airplane Tupolev Tu-144 begins regular service
Congress votes (213-203) to rescue NYC from bankruptcy
Byte Shop (first personal computer store) opens
National Association of Black Journalists formed
Sara Jane Moore pleads guilty of trying to kill President Ford
Hooker Chemical Company (Niagra Falls, NY) explosion kills 4 and injurs 80
"Squeaky" Fromme sentenced to life in prison
Metric Conversion Act signed into law by President Ford
Bomb in luggage locker at NYC's LaGuardia Airport kills 11 and injurs 74 others
Mia Love
Kevin Harvick
Maya Bialik
Tiger Woods
Thornton Wilde (78)
Lee Wiley (67)
Arthur Treacher (81)
Euell Gibons (64)
The Man Who Would Be King
The Killer Elite
The Hindenburg
Lucky Lady
Hustle
One Day at a Time
The "rally towel" (Pittsburgh Steelers) debuted
Monteal Canadians host Soviet ice hockey champions (3-3 tie)
Archie Griffith (Ohio State) wins the Heisman
Concorde (Air France) starts commercial service Paris/Rio de Janeiro
Venezuela seizes 30 oil complany and nationalizes industry
Ontario, Canada requires seat belts
Television introduced to South Africa (airing The Bob Newhart Show)
Bells of London's Big Ben silent for 51 hours for repair
UK rejects bill (120-181) to reject corporal punishment in schools
IRA explodes 12 bombs across the West End of London
Pablo Picaso Collection (118 works) stolen from the Palais des Papes - Avignon, France
Calafornia assesses a $4.2 million dollar fine against AMC for violating anti-pollution laws
"Operation Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana" staged a mock invasion in Hawaii
Natural gas explosion kills 23 and injurs 80 at Senior Citizen apartment in Fremont, NE
George H. W. Bush becomes Director of the CIA
Alfonso Soriano
Michael Peña
Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton
Zhou Enlai (78)
Agatha Christie (85)
James Edmonson (65) - kidnapped/murdered
Ernesto Miranda (34)
Rocky
Laverne & Shirley
Bionic Woman
Donnie & Marie
Live from Lincoln Center first broadcast
UCLA upsets Ohio State (11-0) in the Rose Bowl 23-10
Oklahoma Sooners named National Champions
Buffalo Sabres beat Soviet Union Wings 12-6
Mel Blount NFL Defensive Player of the Year
Philadelphia Flyers beat Soviet Red Army in "Super Bowl of Hockey" 4-1
Pittsburgh Steelers defeat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in Super Bowl X
Julius Irving wins first ABA All-Star "Slam Dunk Contest"
7.5 magnitude earthquake rocks Guatemala/Honduras killing more than 22,000
Murita Rufai Mohammed, head of Nigeria, assassinated
Sanremo Music Festival opens at the Sanremo Casino
Israel turns over remaining sections of Sinai peninsula
Jimmy Carter wins New Hampshire primary
the birth of "Micro-soft" with Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Daniel Patrick Moynihan resigns from U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Escambia High School (Pensacola, FL) race riot
Leonard Peltier arrested
Bette Midler bails 7 member of entourage for cocaine/marijuana possession
ABA votes to allow lawyers to advertise
Mark Twain National Forest formed
NASA announced crew of the first space shuttle Enterprise
60 mobsters arrested in first ever FBI "sting operation"
Isla Fisher
Tim Heidecker
Kim Zmeskal
Charlie Day
Vince Guaraldi (47)
Percy Faith (67)
Lee J. Cobb (64)
Sal Mineo (37)
Kathryn Kuhlman (70)
Florence Ballard (32)
Taxi Driver
Thee Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Sony & Cher Show
Rich Man, Poor Man
Innsbruck Winter Olympics
Dorothy Hamill wins the Gold
Darryl Sittler (Toronto Maple Leafs) scores 10 points
NBA "All Star Game" - East beat the West 123-109
Daytona 500 - David Pearson beats Richard Petty in dramatic finish
Mohammad Ali KO's Jean-Pierre Coopman in the 5th Round
First Winter Paralympics - Sweden
UK votes to make wearing seat belts mandatory
UK PM Harold Wilson resigns at age 60 claiming mental/physical exhaustion
US Journalist Jason Rezaian jailed in Iran accused of espionage
UK's Princess Margaret announces divorce from Lord Snowdon
Queen Elizabeth became the first world leader to send an email from a head of state
The first Body Shop store opens in Brighton, UK
Sony (Japan) introduces the VCR
Asbestos discovered in 19 brands of baby powder
Explosion kills 15 coal miners in Kentucky
Second explosion at same KY coal mine kills another 11 workers
LA creates first "car pool" lane
US Naval Academy agrees to admit first women cadets
Kentucky finally ratifies the 13th Ammendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery
Patty Hearst convicted and sentenced to 35 years
3 skiers die in a gondola accident in Vail, CO
Washington (DC's) first undergroun subway began operation
NJ Supreme Court rules Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from ventilator
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Danny Masterson
Derek Chauvin
Chester Bennington
Reese Witherspoon
Keri Russell
Brandon Johnson
Busby Berkeley (80)
Paul Kossoff (25)
Joe Fulks (54)
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (88)
Charlie's Angels
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Robin and Marion
I will, I will ... for Now
WTP ranks Chris Evert as #1
Tony Innauer of Austria sets world record ski jump (577 feet)
Wilfred Benitez (17) youngest WBA pro boxing world champion in history
Arlene Hiss became first woman to drive in a major auto race
Toronto Blue Jays is founded
Kingdome opened in Seattle
Delta State College wins AIAW women's basketball championship
University of Minnesota wins NCAA hockey championship
Nadia Comaneci achieved first perfect 10 in the U.S.
Clay Regazzoni wins the US Grand Prix West
The once outlawed "slam dunk" restored in HS and College basketball
Laos government began "cultural revoltion"
PLO wins municipal elections in West Bank in Israel
Lapua, Finland ammunition plant explosion kills 40 employees
Peoples Republic of China and India restore diplomatic relations
Apple Computer Company formed
Conrail begins operation in the US
Cryonics Institute founded to preserve dead bodies
"The Soiling of Old Glory" (photo) wins Pulitzer Prize
The Screamin Eagle (tallest/fastest) roller coaster opens at Six Flags - St. Louis
US Treasury Department resumes production of the $2 bill - bicentennial commemoration
A group of 50 baboons escaped the Lion County Safari wildlife preserve (Mason, OH)
Williams v. Saxbe (first awarded damages for sexual harassment)
David Oyelowo
Candace Cameron
Jonathan Brandis
Leslie Porterfield
Melissa Joan Hart
Howard Hughes (70)
"Joey" Cappelletti (13)
Gloria Spencer (30)
Phil Ochs (35)
Santos Ortega (76)
Liam Dunn (59)
Maudie Prickett (61)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Lipstick
The Bad News Bears
All the President's Men
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Joe Niekro (Houston Astros) credited with five strike outs in one inning
NFL draft began at NYC's Roosevelt Hotel
Raymond Floyd wins The Masters (golf)
Mike Schmidt (Philadelphia Phillies) hits four consecutive home runs in a single game
Evonne Goolagong wins Virginia Slims Championship (tennis)
Boston Marathon
6.5 earthquake in Friuli, Italy killing nearly 1,000 people
West Bank and Gaza protests
Item Three
Yuba City Bus Crash killing 27 students
Atari Breakout is released
California wines beat out top French wines for the world's best wines
Cillian Murphy
Colin Rarrell
Rochelle Aytes
Kevin Garnett
Sage Stallone
Martine McCutcheon
David Bruce (60)
Keith Relf (33)
Ruth McDevitt (80)
Martha Mitchell (57)
Dan Bankhead (55)
The Missouri Breaks
Mother, Jugs and Speed
That's Entertainment Part II
1976
Stay Hungry
Mohammad Ali defendds his title against Richard Dunn
The Shortest Indy 500 on record
Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup
Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Championship