1975

North and South Vietnam reunited as one country
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia
Lebanese civil war
Ugandan Bernadette Olowo named 1st woman ambassador to the Vatican
International Whaling Commission bans hunting of the finback whale
Burial mound containing 6,000 clay statues from the Chin Dynasty found in China
Martina Navratilova defects to the US
Polyester the fabric of choice for leisure wear
1st U.S.-Soviet link-up in space by Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft
Two assassination attempts on President Ford within 17 days
Busing employed to achieve school integration in the US
Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the 1st US-born saint
Bevery Sills makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera
Microsoft founded
James Clavell's Shogun
Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift
Laser printers
Personal computers
Push-through tabs on drink cans
Songs - Elton John's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "Jive Talkin'", "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Broadway - "A Chorus Line"
Films - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Jaws", "Nashville", "The Sunshine Boys"
TV - "Barney Miller"
Ralf Schumacher, Juan Montoya, Drew Barrymore and Tiger Woods born
Elijah Muhammad, Chiang Kai-shek, Josephine Baker, Thomas Hart Benton, Dmitri Shostakovich, Haile Selassie, Casey Stengel, Larry Fine, Rex Stout, and Francisco Franco die