In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, a year before VHS format came out.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

In 1975 until when he continued to release singles, he released his first non-compilation LP 2023, a concept album that includes many instrumental songs.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

Three albums released in years 1975 and 1976 ( Caught in the Act, Movin ' On, Hot On The Tracks ) are considered the peak of their harder funk period.

The resulting film was the two and a half hour documentary La Spirale, released in 1975.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

The first of these was released in 1975, titled Caress of Steel.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

In 1975, Day released her autobiography, Doris Day: Her Own Story, an " as-told-to " work with A. E. Hotchner.

Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman " and " Strange Magic ".

It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.

* In addition, in 1974, Greg Lake ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ) wrote and recorded the song, " I Believe In Father Christmas ", which was released as a single in 1975.

Terror of Mechagodzilla, ( released in Japan as ) is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

The 1975 movie Inserts directed by John Byrum about a pornographic film production, which starred Richard Dreyfuss and was originally released with an X rating, took its name from the double meaning that " insert " both refers to this film technique ( often used in pornographic filmmaking ) and to sexual intercourse.

Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

His piece " American Standard " was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

In 1975, Moon released his only solo album, pop covers entitled Two Sides of the Moon.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in 1975 and was a critical failure until it started midnight screenings in the 1980s where it achieved cult status.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.

The five were convicted of the killing and imprisoned, but were released and returned to Israel in 1975.

* In 2004, Paramount bought all worldwide distribution rights to the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives ( also released by Columbia ), in connection with the release of the remake.

The first album to come out of this downtown scene was released in November 1975: Smith's debut, Horses, produced by John Cale for the major Arista label.

Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975.

In 1975 Donna Summer recorded a song which she brought to her producer Giorgio Moroder entitled " Love to Love You Baby " which contained a series of simulated orgasms The song was never intended for release but when Moroder played it in the clubs it caused a sensation.

While promoting the 1975 book, Day caused a stir by rejecting the ' girl next door ' and ' virgin ' labels so often attached to her.

Parton and Wagoner performed their last duet concert in April 1974, and she ceased appearing on his TV show in mid-1974, though they remained affiliated, with him helping to produce her records through 1975.

He later made plans with German film director Werner Herzog, whom Tom Luddy had introduced to Morris, to return in the summer of 1975 to secretly open the grave of Gein's mother to test their theory that Gein himself had already dug her up.

Her first real success came in 1975 with the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye, which established her as a disco artist.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

In 1975, the Queen, through her Private Secretary, wrote that she " has no part in the decisions which the Governor-General must take in accordance with the Constitution ".

" Gardner's biographer Philip Heselton theorised that this group consisted of Edith Woodford-Grimes ( 1887 – 1975 ), Susie Mason, her brother Ernie Mason, and their sister Rosetta Fudge, all of whom had originally come from Southampton before moving to the area around Highcliffe, where they joined the Order.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

Gandhi's yoga guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari, helped her in making certain decisions and also executed certain top level political tasks on her behalf, especially from 1975 to 1977 when Gandhi " dissolved Parliament, declared a state of emergency and suspended civil liberties.

* 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.

Their children, James Haven ( born 1973 ) and Angelina Jolie ( born 1975 ), would go on to enter the film business, Haven as an actor and producer, and Jolie as a movie star in her own right.

On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California, in the process killing 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four depositing money for her church.

Actress Jane Lapotaire portrayed her in the 13-part 1975 British series Edward the Seventh, the story of her brother-in-law.

On 24 August 1975 their frogmen planted a mine on the river's bed below the hull of a navy destroyer, the ARA Santísima Trinidad, as she remained docked at Rio Santiago before her commissioning.

Academic Alice Echols, in her 1989 book Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967 – 1975, argued that radical feminist Valerie Solanas, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968, displayed an extreme level of misandry compared to other radical feminists of the time in her tract, The SCUM Manifesto.