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.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

In 1975, the Birds acquired slugger Lee May in a trade with Houston, and traded Dave McNally, Rich Coggins and minor-league pitcher Bill Kirkpatrick to Montreal for star outfielder Ken Singleton, and future 20-game winner Mike Torrez.

Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.

* Gordon Bell and Bill Strecker's 1975 paper, What We Learned From the PDP-11

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* 1913 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer ( d. 1975 )

* September 30 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer ( d. 1975 )

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

( This show is not to be confused with an unrelated American show by the same name, which aired on ABC and was hosted by Bill Cullen in 1975.

Most umpires made the switch to the inside protector, led by Don Denkinger in 1975 and Jim Evans two years later, although several did not, including Bill Haller, Lou DiMuro, George Maloney and Jerry Neudecker, who became the last Major League umpire to use the outside protector in 1985.

* Voted the greatest athlete in Boston history in the Boston Globe newspaper's poll of New Englanders in 1975, beating out baseball and basketball stars such as Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Carl Yastrzemski and Bob Cousy

* 1975 Fort Terrett Ranch is purchased by the Texas oil industrrialist Bill Noël and used in part for the growing of pecans.

Lamb County was the home of the Texas House Speaker Billy Wayne " Bill " Clayton, who served from 1975 until 1983.

In 1975 he recorded a jingle for Kodak written by Bill Lane ( lyrics ) and Roger Nichols ( melody ) called " Times of Your Life ".

Since its founding in 1975, the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ) has worked closely with the bicameral and bipartisan Italian American Congressional Delegation, which is led by co-chairs Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey and Rep. Pat Tiberi of Ohio.

* Bill Willoughby ( born 1957 ), former NBA Player who, along with Darryl Dawkins, were the first high school players drafted by the National Basketball Association after they graduated in 1975.

He was replaced by Bill Rowling, who did not have the same charismatic appeal – in the 1975 election, Labour was defeated by National, which was led by Robert Muldoon.

Bill Sprouse Jr. ( aka Willy Sprouse, Jr., d. 5 September 1975 ) was a Christian evangelist, singer and songwriter, and the musical force behind two groups ( both called The Road Home ) in the early 1970s.

* 1975 Bill Gaither

* Bill Perry ( Sunday strips only, 1951 – 1975 )

The Hits list below is from Joel Whitburn's Top R & B Singles and from the Pop positions published in Bill Millar's book " The Coasters " ( 1975 ).

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

In the 1975 election Social Credit, under W. A. C's son Bill Bennett, won a snap election called by Barrett.

The album Scorching Beauty was released in January 1975 with Reitzes and Sun and Steel in October 1975 with Bill DeMartines replacing Reitzes.

* 1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer

What tends to get overlooked was that in 1975 and 1976, it was the successful changing of Rose's primary position from the outfield to fill the void at third base ( 3B ) that seemed to solidify the Reds team for these 2 championship seasons as this move enabled the Reds to use power hitting outfielder George Foster more.

* Friday Foster ( 1975 )

Foster stopped illustrating ( and signing ) the Prince Valiant pages in 1975.

Foster attended the New York ComicCon in 1969, and the OrlandoCon, in 1974 and 1975.

Hasselhoff portrayed Dr. William " Snapper " Foster, Jr. on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1982.

* 1975 – 76 Dwight Foster

The starting lineup of Bench, Rose, Morgan, Pérez, Concepción, Foster, Griffey, and Gerónimo ( collectively referred to as the " Great Eight ") played 88 games together during the 1975 and 1976 seasons, losing only 19.

* Friday Foster ( 1975 )

* Shirley Foster Hartley, Illegitimacy, University of California Press, 1975.

By 1975 Concepción joined Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Ken Griffey, Sr., George Foster and César Gerónimo in the famous " Great Eight " starting lineup of The Big Red Machine that would help the Reds win the next two World Series titles.

Foster threw Denny Doyle out at home from left field foul line in the classic Game 6 of the 1975 World series at Fenway Park.

Glenn Foster " Slats " Hardin ( July 1, 1910 – March 6, 1975 ) was an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Smith returned to the big screen with star billing in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough ( 1975 ) opposite Kirk Douglas, followed by Casey's Shadow with Walter Matthau and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane with Martin Sheen and Jodie Foster.

The London première of No Man's Land, directed by Peter Hall, opened at the Old Vic Theatre ( then home to the National Theatre ), on 24 April 1975, starring John Gielgud as Spooner and Ralph Richardson as Hirst and with Michael Kitchen as Foster and Terence Rigby as Briggs.

Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films Foxy Brown ( 1974 ), Friday Foster, and Sheba, Baby ( both 1975 ).

Sutton Lenore Foster ( born March 18, 1975 ) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

In 1975 Foster, Angie, and Pat joined their older brothers and sisters and signed an exclusive contract with Capitol Records.

Dyer has performed on stage, most notably in two plays written and directed by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter: as the Waiter in the London première of Celebration ( 2000 ), at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York, as part of the Harold Pinter Festival held there in July and August 2001 ; and as Foster in the revival of No Man's Land ( 1975 ), at the Royal National Theatre, in London, during 2001 and 2002.

* Women's basketball: The team played its first season, 1975 – 76, at Foster Auditorium.

* Margery Somers Foster ( 1967 – 1975 ): A graduate of Wellesley with a doctorate in economics from Radcliffe.