In November 1975, Comoros became the 143rd member of the United Nations.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

It was formed in 1975 ( Naval squadron Royal Fiji Military Forces ), following the government's ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea convention.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2 – 0 to West Ham United.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Rahman and Nahid Toubia write, doctors in Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria began to speak out about the health consequences of FGM, and opposition gathered pace during the United Nations Decade for Women ( 1975 – 1985 ).

It joined the United Nations in 1974, and the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Organization of American States in 1975.

In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a Republican to the United States Senate representing New Mexico.

The United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification of cruisers, frigates, and ocean escorts brought U. S. Navy classifications into line with other nations ' classifications, and at least cosmetically.

This was the case in a famous United States Supreme Court decision in 1975, O ' Connor v. Donaldson, when Kenneth Donaldson, a patient committed to Florida State Hospital, sued the hospital and staff for confining him for 15 years against his will.

* 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.

* 1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community ( EEC ).

* 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.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

He returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

Category: 1975 murders in the United States

* In the United Kingdom, the term was used until 1974 in England and Wales, and until 1975 in Scotland and 1976 in Northern Ireland, " both for a city or town which is organized for self-government under a municipal corporation, and also for the governing body itself.

Formed in 1975, the RENAMO ( Mozambican National Resistance ), an anti-communist group sponsored by the Rhodesian Intelligence Service, and sponsored by the apartheid government in South Africa as well as the United States after Zimbabwe's independence, launched a series of attacks on transport routes, schools and health clinics, and the country descended into civil war.

* 1975 – Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 ( d. 2001 )

* 1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

* 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.

* 1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism ( the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686 ).

In 1975, the United States National Research Council ( NRC ) reported on ozone depletion following nuclear war, judging that the effect of dust would probably be slight climatic cooling.

Category: States and territories established in 1975

As an example of Ghana's interest in regional cooperation, the country enthusiastically endorsed formation of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) in 1975.

* 1975 – Space Race: Apollo – Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight.

* 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

During the production run of May 1975 to July 1976, Porsche manufactured nearly 2, 100 of the 912E, targeted to the United States market.

In the United States, the nonpartisan blanket primary, introduced in Louisiana for partisan state elections in 1975 and federal elections in 1978 ( with a short return to a closed primary system in 2010 ), is virtually identical to the two-round system.

Scientists analyzing photographs taken by United States astronauts on the joint United States-Soviet space mission in July 1975 detected a vast fan-shaped complex of cracks and fault lines extending north and east from the Golan Heights.

Category: 1975 establishments in the United States

* United States bicentennial coinage ( 1975 – 1976 )

In 1975, the Family Viewing Hour was introduced in the United States, in which broadcasters had to play TV content suitable for all ages.

* Vienna Convention on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations of a Universal Character ( 1975 ),

Although the Soviet Union and the United States never directly entered military conflict with each other, several proxy wars, such as the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) and the Vietnam War ( 1957 – 1975 ), were waged as the United States implemented its worldwide " containment " policy against communism.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

* 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* Grey's Scouts ( Rhodesian Army 1975 – 80 )

On 5 March 1975, a Montoneros bomb detonates in the underground parking at Plaza Colón of the Argentine Army High Command and a garbage truck driver, Alberto Blas García is killed and 28 others are wounded, including four colonels and 18 other ranks. On 3 June 1975, Montoneros guerrillas murdered Raul Amelong, manager of the Acindar steel firm in Rosario, in reprisal for alleged repression against striking employes.

The Symbionese Liberation Army ( SLA ) was an American self-styled left-wing revolutionary group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army.

Although exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, it is safe to say that several million people served in the South Vietnamese armed forces, the vast majority of them in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN )— between 1956 and 1975.

Before Mauritania signed the Madrid Accords and after the withdrawal of the last Spanish forces, in late 1975, the Mauritanian Army invaded the southern part of Western Sahara, while the Moroccan Army did the same in the north.

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 July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.

Tactics for employing technicals were pioneered by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Polisario Front, fighting for independence against Mauritania ( 1975 – 79 ) and Morocco ( 1975 – present ) from headquarters in Tindouf, Algeria.

It has also recently been claimed by some in the Republican Socialist Movement that one of their members killed in 1975, Brendan McNamee ( who was involved in the killing of Billy McMillen ), was actually killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army members.

It became the provisional government of South Vietnam following the military defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam on April 30, 1975.

Martin was a committed anti-Communist, but he seriously underestimated the severity of the South Vietnamese situation, to the point that in the spring of 1975, when most American officials were convinced that South Vietnam was doomed to collapse, he continued to believe that Saigon and the Mekong Delta area could be held because of the tenacity of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) in the Battle of Xuan Loc under the command of General Le Minh Dao.

* Tommy West ( October 1975 – 1976 ) A former British Army soldier, West was already the Chief of Staff at the time UVF volunteer Noel " Nogi " Shaw was killed by Lenny Murphy in November 1975 as part of an internal feud.

These included the Miami Showband killings of 31 July 1975 – when three members of the popular showband from the Republic of Ireland were killed having been stopped at a fake British Army checkpoint outside of Newry in County Down.

Colin Wallace, part of the intelligence apparatus of the British Army, asserted in an internal memo in 1975 that MI6 and RUC Special Branch formed a pseudo-gang within the UVF, designed to engage in violence and to subvert moves of the UVF towards the political process.

* George W. Petrie Jr., Major, United States Army ( Retired ), a Green Beret, first man on the ground on the Son Tay Raid to rescue prisoners of war held in North Vietnam in 1970 ; Caldwell County's most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war ; planned and coordinated the Evacuation of Saigon, last U. S. Army Special Forces Officer to leave South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975 ; two time recipient of the Silver Star.

* August 1975: The Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* Suatu Ketika ... Soldadu Merah ( Once Upon A Time ... Red Soldier ), an 8 episode Malaysian TV drama series based on the Japanese Red Army attack in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1975.

Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954 – 1975.