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Besides the biggest new of the year being our graduation, here’s what else was happening:
World News:
In April Saigon Fell and the Viet Nam War was over. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia.
American merchant ship Mayaguez is seized by Cambodian forces and is rescued by US Navy and Marines, 38 of whom are killed (May 15).
The Suez Canal reopened.
Angola obtained its independence from Protugal.
The CN Tower was built in Toronto - at the time, the world’s tallest free-standing structure.
US News:
John Mitchell, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichmand found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and received sentences of 30 months to 8 years in jail (Feb. 21).
President Ford escapes two assassination attempts (Sept. 5 and Sept. 22)
In Space:
The first probe to return television pictures from Venus (Venera 9) and the first successful Mars lander (Viking 1) happened.
Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for US-Soviet link-up in space (July 15).
Deaths:
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. Aristotle Onassis, Haile Selassie and Casey Stengel died.
Who woulda thought?
Home videotopae systems (VCRs) are developed in Japan by Sony (Betamax) and Matsushita (VHS).
The Altair home computer kit allows consumers to build and program their own personal computers.
The Economy:
If you bought something worth a $1.00 in 1975, it would now cost you $3.20.
The Federal Debt was $541.9 billion
Median Household Income (current dollars) $11,800
CPW: 53.8
Unemployment - 5.6%
Cost of a first class stampe: 10 cents.
Sports:
Super Bowl - Pittsburgh d. Minnesota (16 -6)
World Series - Cincinnati d. Red Sox ( 4-3)
NBA Championship - Golden St. Warriors d. Washington Bullets (4-0)
Stanley Cup - Philadelphia d. Buffalo (4-2)
Wimbleton, Women - Billie Jean King, Men - Arthur Ashe
Kentucky Derby - Foolish Pleasure
NCAA Basketball - UCLA d. Kentucky (92-85)
NCAA Footbal - Oklahoma (11 -1 0)
Nobel Prizes:
Chemistry - John W. Cornforth (Australia) and Vladimir Prelog (Switzerland), for research on the structure of bilogical molecules such as antibiotics and cholesterol.
Physics - James
Rainwater (US), Ben Mottelson, and Aage N. Bohr (Denmark), for whing that the atomic nucleus is asymmetrical.
Physiology & Medicine - David Baltimore, Howard M. Hernin, and Renato Dulbecco (All US) for work
on the interacton between tumor viruses and genetic material of the cell.
Literature - Eugenio Montale (Italy)
Entertainment
Popular Books - Humboldt’s Gift - Saul Bellow, Ragine - E.L. Doctorow, The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World - Galway Kinnell, Before the Fall - William Safire, The Awful Rowing Toward
God - Anne Sexton
Pultizer Prizes
Fiction - The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Music - From the Diary of Virginia Woolf - Dominick Argento
Drama - Seascape - Edward Albee
Quincy Jones founded Qwest productions.
Saturday Night Live premieres on NBC with George Carlin as the first host.
In The Grammys:
Record of the Year: Love Will Keep Us Together, The Captian and Tonnelle
R&B Song - Where is the Love, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
Best New Artist - Natalie Cole
Best R&B Performance - This Will Be, Natalie Cole
Best Jazz - Chick Corea & Return To Forever
Best Pop Vocal By a Group - The Eagles, Your Lyin’ Eyes
Best R&B - Group - Eath, Wind and Fire, Shining Star
Best Pop Female - Janis Ian, At Seventeen
Best Pop Instrumental - The Hustle, Van McCoy
Best Country Male - Willie Nelson, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Album of the Year - Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years
Popular Movies that year were One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Jaws, Nashville, Dog Day Afternoon and Barry Lyndon.
At the Oscars:
Best Movie Script - Jaws
Best Movie - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actor - Jack Nickolson, Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actress - Louise Fletcher, Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Director - Milos Foreman, Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Song - I’m Easy, from Nashville, by Keith Carradine
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