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1975
 
    
Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor for the second time, five years after divorcing       
1975
 
    
US author E.L. Doctorow sets his novel Ragtime in the early years of the 20th century       
1975
 
     
Milos Forman directs Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on a novel by Ken Kesey        
1975
 
    
Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space       
1975
 
    
US director Steven Spielberg has a major success with his second feature film, Jaws       
1975
 
     
School friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software firm, calling it Microsoft        
1976
 
     
Mikhail Baryshnikov dances in the New York premiere of Twyla Tharp's ballet Push Comes to Shove        
1976
 
     
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple        
1976
 
     
14-year-old Jodie Foster stars as a drug-addicted child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver        
1976
 
    
The landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 1 detaches from the orbiter and makes a successful landing on Mars