1975 @ Nostalgia Central

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01 - Aides of former President Nixon (John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman) are found guilty of Watergate cover-up

04 - Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, besiege Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia

05 - Ship brings down Tasmanian bridge

20 - The Channel Tunnel between England and France is abandoned

29 - Actress Sara Gilbert (Darlene from Roseanne) is born

11 - Margaret Thatcher is elected as new Tory leader in Britain

13 - Turkish Cypriots declare the northern part of the island independent

14 - P G Wodehouse, author and creator of Jeeves and Wooster dies

20 - New £10 notes are issued in Britain. One side shows Florence Nightingale carrying a lamp while she tends wounded soldiers during the Crimean War

21 - Haldeman, Ehrlicman and Mitchell are each sentenced to 30 months in prison for their part in the Watergate break-ins

28 - In West Germany, Opposition Leader Peter Lorenz is kidnapped by anarchists, who demand the release of five other anarchists in prison

28 - An underground train crash at Moorgate in London kills 42. The train shoots through platform nine at Moorgate tube station without stopping and rams into a dead-end tunnel

01 - Colour TV officially introduced in Australia

04 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

05 - Palestinian guerrillas raid a hotel in Tel Aviv, taking 30 hostages. Israeli troops storm the hotel killing seven of eight terrorists, with the loss of 11 other lives

14 - Actress Susan Hayward dies

15 - Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis dies

25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia killed by crazed nephew

30 - North Vietnamese troops take Da Nang as South Vietnamese resistance collapses

17 - Khmer Rouge takes Phnom Penh

23 - Pete Ham of UK band Badfinger commits suicide by hanging himself

25 - Portugal holds its first free elections for 50 years and the three main non-Communist parties win a large majority

29 - Last US helicopter leaves Saigon

30 - Saigon falls as the South Vietnamese government surrenders unconditionally to the Vietcong. Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City

14 - Frank Sinatra wins libel action after being linked to the Mafia by the BBC

14 - The crew of the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued in an operation by US Navy and Marines, 15 of whom are killed with another 50 wounded

01 - Police shoot 13 Africans dead when a crowd of 2,000 riot in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

03 - Ozzie Nelson, star of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and father of pop star Ricky Nelson, dies aged 68

05 - Suez Canal re-opens (to all but Israeli shipping) after eight years

07 - Greek parliament adopts a new constitution

12 - Indian prime minister Indira Ghandi is found guilty of corrupt electoral practices, but she refuses to resign

18 - Britain's first North Sea oil flows ashore from a Liberian tanker to BP's Isle of Grain refinery. The oil comes from the Argyll field in the North Sea, 200 miles east of Edinburgh

21 - West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs at Lord's and win cricket's first World Cup

24 - 109 die in New York plane crash at JFK airport

25 - Mozambique gains its independence from Portugal

26 - The Indian government declares a state of emergency. Opposition leaders are imprisoned and press censorship is imposed

29 - US musician Tim Buckley dies in hospital in California after taking a fatal overdose of heroin and morphine, believing it to be cocaine

01 - Medibank health scheme introduced in Australia

02 - Jim Cairns sacked as Deputy Prime Minister in Australia

04 - Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears and is never seen again

11 - English police admit alleged Birmingham IRA bombers were bashed in custody

11 - Chinese archaeologists uncover a "terracotta army" of 6,000 life sized warriors, with their chariots, spears and horses drawn up in battle formation, near the ancient Chinese capital of Xian. The figures guard the tomb of the first Ch'in emperor, who died in 206BC

17 - Handshakes in space as US meets USSR when Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 perform first international space rendezvous

18 - Former Labour minister John Stonehouse returns to Britain to face 21 charges of fraud, forgery and conspiracy

29 - A military coup in Nigeria deposes General Gowon

30 - In the USA, former Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa disappears after making a phone call from the Manchus Red Fox Restaurant in suburban Detroit. He is presumed murdered by underworld figures, but his fate has never been officially determined

01 - Human Rights Pacts signed in Helsinki

04 - Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and his wife are seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece. Plant has to be flown back to England in plaster to recuperate

29 - Spain sentences Basque terrorists to death by garrotting

04 - Egypt and Israel sign a military disengagement treaty concerning the Sinai peninsular

05 - President Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento, California

06 - A massive earthquake in Turkey results in nearly 3,000 deaths

09 - Young Czech tennis champion Martina Navratilova defects, requesting political asylum in the USA

18 - Heiress Patricia Hearst (who had been kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army) is captured by the FBI in San Francisco. She is indicted on October 2 on charges of assault, robbery and kidnapping

22 - President Ford escapes second assassination attempt in 17 days when a woman fires a gun at him as he leaves a hotel in San Francisco

29 - Soul singer Jackie Wilson falls into a coma from which he will never recover. Wilson dies in January 1984 after nine years in the coma

01 - Al Jackson, 39, drummer with Stax legends, Booker T & The MGs, is shot and killed when he confronts an intruder in his Memphis home

07 - John Lennon wins court battle to stay in the USA

09 - Sean Ono Lennon is born to John Lennon and Yoko Ono

10 - Richard Burton re-marries Elizabeth Taylor in Botswana

15 - "Cod War" breaks out between Britain and Iceland

15 - Australian Opposition leader Malcolm Fraser blocks Supply in Federal parliament

02 - The first Israeli ship uses the Suez Canal

06 - The Sex Pistols play their first live gig at London's St Martin's School of Art. Their set lasts 10 minutes before organisers turn off the electricity

10 - The New Jersey Superior Court denies the parents of Karen Anne Quinlan the right to turn off their comatose daughter's life-support system. Although Karen Anne's condition is irreversible, the court rules that she is not legally or medically dead. The New Jersey Supreme Court reverses the decision in March 1976

11 - Australian PM Gough Whitlam is sacked by Governor-General Sir John Kerr

20 - Spanish ruler Generalissimo Francisco Franco dies, aged 82. Crown Prince Juan Carlos takes over power and is sworn in as Spain's King

26 - President Ford announces his support for a short-term federal loan of $2.3 billion to New York City, in order to help America's largest city avoid bankruptcy

27 - Guinness Book of Records guru Ross McWhirter is shot dead on doorstep of his home by IRA gunman

29 - British Formula 1 racing champ Graham Hill, 46, dies in air crash when the light aircraft he is piloting crashes in freezing fog near Elstree, England

29 - After New Zealand's general election, National Party leader Robert Muldoon becomes prime minister

02 - Dutch East Indies immigrants hijack a train in the Netherlands, killing the driver and two passengers, and holding captive 50 others

04 - Another group of East Indies immigrants seizes the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam

12 - Six day siege by IRA on a flat in London's Balcolme Street ends without casualties as IRA gunmen surrender

13 - Malcolm Fraser sweeps to power with Liberal Party in Australia after bitter campaign

14 - The terrorists on the train in the Netherlands surrender and all hostages are freed

19 - The siege in the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam ends when the terrorists surrender and free their hostages

21 - Palestinian terrorists in Vienna seize 70 hostages at a meeting of OPEC ministers

22 - Austrians agree to Palestinian terrorists demand to be flown out with their hostages. The hostages are later freed and the terrorists surrender in Algiers

25 - In Kings Cross, Sydney (Australia), a hotel inferno kills 13

31 - Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act pass into law in the UK

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