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* 1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the P. F. L.
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* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1975 and Bus
In 1975, when plans were under way to introduce the London Transport Silver Jubilee Bus fleet, the then Sales Manager of London Transport Advertising, Geoffrey Holliman, proposed to the Chairman of LTE, Kenneth Robinson, that the Fleet line should be renamed the Jubilee line.
Hustle " began in a small Los Angeles disco in the Summer of 1975, and hit the East Coast ( with modified steps ) in Spring of ' 76 as the " Bus Stop.
In April 1975 Phalangist militiamen were involved in the Bus massacre, commonly considered as the spark that set-off the Lebanese Civil War.
In 1975, after the publication of the Ryder Report, BLMC nationalised as British Leyland ( BL ) and split into 4 divisions with the bus and truck production becoming the Leyland Truck & Bus division within the Land Rover Leyland Group.
In 1974, the NFTA purchased the street transportation rights from a number of other agencies, starting with the Niagara Falls Municipal Transit System on September 8, 1974, D & F ( Dunkirk and Fredonia ) Transit on September 15, T-NT ( Tonawanda-North Tonawanda ) Transit on October 7, Lockport Bus Lines on March 15, 1975, and Grand Island Transit on April 20, 1975.
Earle Gilmore " Bus " Wheeler, ( January 13, 1908 – December 18, 1975 ) was a United States Army General who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army ( 1962 – 1964 ) and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( 1964 – 1970 ), holding the latter position during the Vietnam War.
In 1975, he was arrested and convicted for an act of " gross indecency " in the toilets of Gloucester Bus Station, which followed an arrest and caution for similar activities in the toilets at Kennedy Gardens in Birmingham the previous year.
1975 and massacre
In Yunnan Province, the palace of the Dai people's king was torched, and an infamous massacre of Hui Muslim people at the hands of the People's Liberation Army in Yunnan, known as the “ Shadian incident ”, reportedly claimed over 1, 600 lives in 1975.
In April 1975, a series of tit-for-tat killings culminating in a Phalangist massacre of Palestinian guerillas, prompted full-blown fighting in Beirut.
His son Birendra assumed the throne on 24 February 1975 but died 1 June 2001 along with siblings Dhirendra, Shanti and Sharada in the Nepalese royal massacre.
He attended Brampton Centennial Secondary School and was a witness of the 1975 Centennial Secondary School massacre.
The Trelew massacre of 1972, the actions of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance since 1973 and Isabel Martínez de Perón's " annihilation decrees " against left-wing guerrillas during Operativo Independencia in 1975, have all been suggested as dates for the beginning of the Dirty War.
Evans continues to be strongly criticised by many commentators – most prominently Noam Chomsky and John Pilger – for supporting Australia ’ s recognition of Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor following its military invasion in 1975, negotiating ( and celebrating ‘ replete with champagne ’) with then Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas the Timor Gap Treaty, and describing the 1991 Dili massacre as ' an aberration, not an act of state policy '.
More attacks on northern Israel followed by Palestinian insurgents, including the Ma ' alot massacre the same year, the Savoy Hotel Attack and Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and multiple airplane hijacking acts, the most notable being Entebbe Operation in 1976.
Karhu was formed after the Munich massacre in 1972 to provide security for the OSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe that was held in Helsinki in 1975.
This town was the site of a terrible massacre by the Dergue military junta in Ethiopia in 1975, during the Eritrean War of Independence.
Between the beginning of the truce ( 10 February 1975 ) and the Kingsmill massacre, loyalist paramilitaries killed 25 Catholic civilians in County Armagh and just over the border in County Louth.
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