WHAT HAPPENED IN 1975.
Look what happened the 1975.

A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra. (2. January 1975)

Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody. (2. January 1975)

The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. (5. January 1975)

Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. (8. January 1975)

Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther". (14. January 1975)

The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal. (15. January 1975)

An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India (19. January 1975)

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. (30. January 1975)

Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. (4. February 1975)

Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. (5. February 1975)

A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka. (6. February 1975)

The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. (9. February 1975)

Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. (21. February 1975)

In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. (28. February 1975)

First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club (5. March 1975)

For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. (6. March 1975)

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. (6. March 1975)

Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign - North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam. (10. March 1975)

Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army. (11. March 1975)

A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. (22. March 1975)