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Key Events of 1975

Test your knowledge of significant events that occurred in 1975 with this engaging quiz.

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1 ________ – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

2 President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the ________.

3 October 30 – ________, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.

4 ________ – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.

5 ________ – A blast at an explosives factory kills 6 in Beloeil, Quebec.

6 ________ – N'Garta Tombalbaye, President of Chad (b.

7 May 8 – ________, Finnish hockey player

8 ________ – Following several weeks of successful fighting, the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh, prompting a forcible mass evacuation of the city.

9 December 16 – Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian rock lead singer (________)

10 ________ – David Zingler, American writer

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline.
  • the Angolan War of Independence lasted from 1961 until 1989, even though Portugal left Angola in 1975.
  • the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, launched in 1975, was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media.
  • in 1975 a freak typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people.
  • in 1975 a freak Typhoon caused the Banqiao Dam in China's Henan Province to fail, killing over 200,000 people.
  • public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975.
  • J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975.
  • footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition.
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