The United Nations voted to decline South Korea's application for membership in the UN.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for ten years with one day to spare.
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Showing posts with label 1975. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 5, 1975. Ford restores Lee's citizenship. South Africa enters Angola.
President Ford signed a Senate resolution restoring the citizenship of traitor Robert E. Lee.
South African forces drove ten miles into Angolan territory in reaction to the increased presence of Cuban troops in the country.
By Sam van den Berg - Image courtesy of Sam van den Berg, from Port Elizabeth, CC BY 2.5 za, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38327611
This is one of those news stories I can recall watching on the nightly news when I was a kid.
Fairfax County, Virginian K9 Officer Bandit was killed in the line of duty chasing a suspect.
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Friday, August 1, 1975. The Helsinki Accords.
Wednesday, August 5 1925. Plaid Cymru.
The Welsh independence party Plaid Cymru was founded. At the time its goal was to make Welsh the official language of Wales.
Sefydlwyd y blaid annibyniaeth Gymreig Plaid Cymru. Ar y pryd ei nod oedd gwneud y Gymraeg yn iaith swyddogol Cymru.
Turkey's President Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) divorced his wife of less than two years, Latife Uşaki, after her public efforts to in favor of women's rights and to encourage their independence on choice of clothing.
She'd retreat into life long seclusion, passing away in 1975.
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Tuesday, August 4, 1925. Marines leaving . . .
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Friday, August 1, 1975. The Helsinki Accords.
The Helsinki Accords were signed by the leaders of 35 nations in Finland, including the 15 member states of NATO and the 7 Warsaw Pact nations.
The text: The Helsinki Accords.
The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment commenced in India. It brought television for the first time to 2,500 villages in six Indian states and territories.
"KNM ER 3733", a woman of the species Homo ergaster, assuming that's a distinct from homo erectus, which it probably is not, was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo. She'd passed away 1,750,000 prior.
The Republic of Cabinda declared independence, ineffectively.
Flag of Cabinda.
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Wednesday, July 30, 1975. Hoffa goes missing.
Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa was reported missing.
Hoffa was almost certainly murdered by Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. although that is disputed.
Be that as it may, in this era, certain unions were rather close to the mob.
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Tuesday, July 29, 1975. A Nigerian Coup.
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Tuesday, July 29, 1975. A Nigerian Coup.
The Nigerian government was overthrown in a coup.
The Chinese Army, the Communist one, killed hundreds of rebels and civilians in the Yunnan Province. Most of those killed were Muslim Hui's, of which 900 were killed in the village of Shadian. 400 Red Chinese soldiers were killed in the action.
The OAS voted to lift its embargo on Cuba.
Turkey took control of remaining US facilities in the country.
The US made its first delivery of weapons to UNITA in Angola.
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Monday, July 28, 1975. Turkey acts.
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Monday, July 28, 1975. Turkey acts.
Turkey took control of US bases at Karamürsel, Sinop, Pirinçlik, Bebasi and Karaburun, all intelligence gathering sites, and indicated it was set to take control of twenty more the following day.
American illustrator Donald Mattison died at age 70.
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Study for Martinson mural Indiana Farming (1937).
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
Sunday, July 27, 1975. Thailand gives the US military the door.
Thailand terminated military agreements with the US and ordered US forces out of hte country by March 20, 1975.
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Tuesday, July 22, 1975. The beginning of the tragedy of Afghanistan.
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Tuesday, July 22, 1975. The beginning of the tragedy of Afghanistan.
The Mujahideen began an unsuccessful revolt against the government of President Mohammed Daoud Khan in Afghanistan.
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Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
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Monday, July 21, 1975. Title IX.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect.
Senator Birch Bayh exercises with Title IX athletes at Purdue University during the 1970s.
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Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
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Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
President Ford communicated to Congress, secretly, his decision to authorize $6,000,000 for a CIA operation to combat Communists troops somewhere, but he didn't say where.
Angola was where.
Railroad workers and railroads came to an agreement, averting a strike.
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Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
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Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
An American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
Occurring at 3:19 Eastern Time, Colonel Leonov welcomed General Stafford with the English words, “Glad to see you.” General Stafford, replyied in Russian,“A, zdraystvuite, ochen rad vas videt” (“Ah, hello, very glad to see you.”).
Protestors thew a Molotov cocktail and Crown Prince Akihito, and his wife, Princess Michito, on Okinawa.
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Wednesday, July 9, 1975. The start of the Angolan Civil War.
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Wednesday, July 9, 1975. The start of the Angolan Civil War.
Angolan liberation movements broke out in civil war, with the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), attacking the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), led by Holden Roberto. The country had not yet officially received independence.
Dutch photographer and artist Bas Jan Ader left Cape Cod in an attempt to make an unassisted voyage from west to east of the North Atlantic Ocean. He would disappear and never be heard from again.
Rock musician John Anthony Gillis, better known as Jack White, was born.
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Thursday, July 3, 1975. The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
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Thursday, July 3, 1975. The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
The U.S. Civil Service Commission ended restrictions on hiring homosexuals.
It's almost shocking to think that there was such a ban, but indeed there was. The stated purpose of the ban was to prevent embarrassment to the agency.
Las Vegas endured a terrible flash flood.
Alex Trebek before Jeopardy, in an example from today:
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Wednesday, July 2, 1975. Dead Savage Spring.
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Wednesday, July 2, 1975. Dead Savage Spring.
A child fishing with his father found the body of Old Faithful Lodge cook Donald Watt Cressey, the senior cook at Old Faithful Lodge in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
Cressey had died in the same hot spring in which Yellowstone Park concessioner employee Brian Parsons had been fatally burned in July 1967.
After Cressey's death the hot spring was named "Dead Savage Spring" by the U.S. Geological Survey, "savage" being Yellowstone Park lexicon for a park concessioner employee.
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Tuesday, July 1, 1975. ARPANET.
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Tuesday, July 1, 1975. ARPANET.
The ARPANET, the proto Internet, was declared operational within the Department of Defense.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Former President Richard Nixon said, in an affidavit to federal court, that he had secretly begun taping Oval Office conversations at the suggestion of his predecessor, President Lyndon Johnson.
Advice columnist Ann Landers announced that she and her husband were divorcing.
The name "Ann Landers" was a pen name, and was actually started by the Chicago Sun Times for their advice columnist Ruth Crowley, who died in 1955 at age 48. After that, the column was taken over by Esther Pauline Lederer, who is the person commonly associated with the pen name.
Lederer early in her career as Ann Landers.
Lederer's twin sister, Pauline Esther Phillips, followed her lead and started writing as Abigail Van Buren shortly thereafter, leading to a longstanding rift between the two.
It's hard to appreciate the extent to which both sisters, Lederer in particular, became major cultural figures. Both sisters associated with cultural figures of the the day.
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Monday, June 30, 1975. Changes in the Service.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, Aircraft, Korean War, Military, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War, Women, World War Two
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Monday, June 30, 1975. Changes in the Service.
Women could no longer be involuntarily discharged from the United States Armed Forces as a result of pregnancy, by orders of the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
30 June 1975: The last operational Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport in service with the United States Air Force, 43-49507, was retired and flown to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
This Day In Aviation.
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June 28, 1975. Death of Rod Serling.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, Health, In Memoriam, Paratroopers, Personalities, Smoking, television, The written word, tobacco, World War Two
Saturday, June 28, 2025
June 28, 1975. Death of Rod Serling.
American screenwriter and television producer Rod Sterling died at age 50 of a heart attack.
Serling was an extremely heavy smoker, which was no doubt the cause of his death. He'd been a paratrooper during World War Two, serving in the Pacific.
He's best remembered for The Twilight Zone.
Serling in 1959, at which time he would have only been 34 years old. This photo gives us a good example of what we've noted elsewhere, about how people aged more rapidly in the past. The cigarette in hand would have helped contribute to that. World War Two probably didn't help either. Serling's bracelet features Army jump wings.
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Thursday, June 12, 1975. Searching for the meaning of Vietnam.
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 1975. Searching for the meaning of Vietnam.
The New York Review of Books ran an issue on The Meaning of Vietnam.
The disaster of no fault divorce spread to Australia with the Family Law Act 1975.
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Wednesday, June 11, 1975. North Sea Oil. Reeducation. Gas Tax Rejection. MKUltra.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Central Intelligence Agency, Gerald Ford, MKUltra, North Sea, Petroleum, The Cold War, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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