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1975
 
   
Internment is ended in Ulster after the Gardiner Report states that it brings the law into disrepute      
1975
 
    
Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing       
1975
 
    
Anatoly Karpov becomes world chess champion by default when Bobby Fischer fails to defend his title       
1975
 
    
The first series of Fawlty Towers, co-written by and starring John Cleese, is broadcast on British TV       
1975
 
     
David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne        
1975
 
    
Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space       
1975
 
    
Czech choreographer Jiri Kylián becomes director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague       
1975
 
    
Excavation of the 5200-year-old passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland is completed       
1975
 
    
The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London       
1975
 
     
Franco dies and is succeeded as Spanish head of state by Juan Carlos, heir to the Bourbon throne