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| 1975 |
| | | Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague | |
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| 1975 |
| | | US director Steven Spielberg has a major success with his second feature film, Jaws | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Mujibur Rahman, with most of his family, is assassinated by junior officers in a coup in Bangladesh | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The island of Papua New Guinea wins independence from Australia | |
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| 1975 |
| | | School friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software firm, calling it Microsoft | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed | |
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| c. 1975 |
| | | Mark Brown is the last craftsman to build and hire rowing boats in the St Helena Boathouses, as the arches gradually become adapted to non-commercial purposes | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda wins the first of three Formula One world championship titles | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London | |
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