What was happening in the news in 1975?
1975
ENTERTAINMENT
Crime Pays
Francis Ford Coppola wins best director award Oscar for "The Godfather, Part II. It was a sequel to his 1972 award-winning movie "The Godfather."
Jack Nicholson Opens In Cuckoo's Nest
In one of his earliest films, "The Little Shop of Horrors," Jack played a man who liked dentists to molest his molars. Pain was just marvelous. In the current "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Nicholson is again offbeat, but aching to free others from torture, leading fellow mental patients in rebellion.
Deaths
Lovely star, Susan Hayward, is dead. Her life was as sad as her film roles. She starred in the 1958 film "I Want to Live." She received five Oscar nominations.
Richard Tucker - leading tenor with Met 30 years.
Josephine Baker, who led a host of black Americans to Paris in search of artistic freedom.
Frederick March - Leading actor in a multitude of films.
New York, New York
"The Wiz" brings black musical artistry to an American classic.
Jaws
Just when you thought it was safe to go into a theatre "Jaws" snaps to your attention. It was directed by 27-year-old Steven Spielberg, whose only success has been "The
Sugar land Express."
Opera
Beverly Sills, one of America's foremost sopranos, made her debut at the Met in Rossini's "Siege of Corinth."
NEWS:
Apollo and Soyuz Reach Detente in Space
The link-up in space proves Americans and Russians can work together.
Astronaut Thomas Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksei Leonove shook hands as the Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 docked in the first joint American-Soviet space mission.
What Are You Smiling About?
Watergate co-conspirators, Haldeman and Erlichman, are sentenced to 2 1/2 to eight years for their roles in the cover-up.
They'll Never Wear Jeans.
Denim, the familiar blue-jeans material, moved into fashion respectability as young and old flocked to wear it in a wide variety of costumes.
Headlines:
British Conservative Party elects Margaret Thatcher as first British female Prime Minister.
Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies. So does Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Suez Canal opened after eight years.
Patty Hearst found.
Two attempts made on President Ford.
Juan Carlos ascends throne as Franco dies.
Who Lost This War?
Viet Cong sweep through Hue as they head for Saigon.
South Vietnamese desperately seek a way out as Saigon falls.
The Vietnam War ended on April 30th with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese
forces to the Communist Vietcong.
Mafia Reportedly Asked to Kill Castro
Two former aides to the late Robert Kennedy said Kennedy stopped the CIA after it asked a Mafia crime family to
assinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
Thrilla in Manila
Sports
In one of the greatest bouts of all time, Muhammad Ali won by a TKO after surviving 14 rounds of punishment by challenger Joe Frazier.
Football
The UCLA Bruins upset the Ohio State Buckeyes 23-10 in the Rose Bowl.
The Steeler defense held Tarkenton and the Vikings to a standstill in New Orleans, leading Pittsburgh to a 16-6 Super Bowl victory.
Baseball
With one of the best records in modern baseball, the Cincinnati Reds won in one of the best World Series ever.
Frank Robinson became the first black manager in major-league history.
Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of Yankees.
Basketball
The Golden State Warriors, the Kentucky Colonels and UCLA won the major basketball titles.
Track
New Zealand's John Walker, at 3.49.4, is first to break 3.50 in mile.
. For! Or is it "Four!"
President Ford teams up with pro golfer Jack Nicklaus, who has won the Masters five times, the PGA four times, and the U.S. Open three times.
Mighty Casey Strikes Out
Casey Stengel is dead. The garrulous, wrinkled baseball wizard who led the New York Yankees to new heights and the Mets to their earliest depths succumed to lymph cancer at age 85.
Chess anyone?
New world chess champion Anatoly Karpov gets laurel wreath in Moscow ceremony after Bobby Fischer of the US defaulted.
Heads Up!
Brazilian star Pele joined the New York Cosmos, and North American Soccer League attendance immediately increased. Pele gets $7 million over 3 years.
Hockey
The Philadelphia Flyers capture hockey's Stanley Cup.
Boxing
Ezzard Charles, ex-heavyweight boxing champ dies.
Tennis
Arthur Ashe wins over Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon and Billie Jean King defeats Evonne Goolagong for the women's title.
Cycling
Bernard Thevenet wins Tour de France.
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