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1975
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1975

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Saigon fell to North Vietnamese tanks in April, ending the Vietnam War as the last Americans fled by helicopter, while Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh. The Helsinki Accords eased Cold War tensions, Spain's Franco died, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the Oscars.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nobel · Literature
The Prize Was Divided Equally Between: J
World Series
Cincinnati Reds vs. Boston Red Sox Serie
No. 1 Song
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Jack Nicholson

Major Events of 1975

8 events
Helsinki AccordsFrancisco Franco diesAngola IndependentSoviets Buy GrainPol Pot Takes Over CambodiaMozambique IndependentMayaguezCommunist Capture S. Vietnam

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1975

Champions

NBAGolden Statea Warriors vs. Washington Bullets Series: 4-0
NCAA FootballOklahoma Record: 11-1-0
Heisman TrophyArchie Griffin, Ohio State, RB points: 1,800
Stanley CupPhiladelphia Flyers vs. Buffalo Sabres Series: 4-2 Super Bowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Minnesota Vikings Score: 16-6 US Open Golf: Lou Graham Score: 287 Course: Medinah CC Location: Medinah, Il
World SeriesCincinnati Reds vs. Boston Red Sox Series: 4-3

Top Music of 1975

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Elton John
  2. Mandy Barry Manilow
  3. Please! Mr. Postman Carpenters
  4. Laughter in the Rain Neil Sedaka
  5. Fire Ohio Players
  6. You're No Good Linda Ronstadt
  7. Pick Up the Pieces Linda Ronstadt
  8. Best of My Love Average White Band
  9. Have You Ever Been Mellow Eagles
  10. Black Water Olivia Newton-John

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
"Love Will Keep Us Together" ... The Captain and Tenille Best Song: "Send in the Clowns" ... Stephen Sondheim Best Album: "Still Crazy After All These Years " ... Paul Simon Male Vocalist: Paul Simon ... ""Still Crazy After All These Years " Female Vocalist: Janis Ian ... "At Seventeen"

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Jaws
  2. The Towering Inferno
  3. Benji
  4. Young Frankenstein
  5. The Godfather Part II
  6. Shampoo
  7. Funny Lady
  8. Murder on the Orient Express
  9. Return of the Pink Panther
  10. Tommy

Academy Awards

Honoring 1975
Best Picture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director
Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between: CORNFORTH, Sir JOHN WARCUP, Australia and Great Britain, University of Sussex, Brighton, b. 1917: "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"; and PRELOG, VLADIMIR, Switzerland,
Literature
The prize was divided equally between: JOHNSON, EYVIND, Sweden, b. 1900, d. 1976: "for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"; and MARTINSON, HARRY, Sweden, b. 1904, d. 1978: "for writings that catch the d
Peace
SAKHAROV, ANDREI DMITRIEVICH, USSR, b. 1921, d. 1990: Soviet nuclear physicist. Campaigner for human rights
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: BALTIMORE, DAVID, U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, b. 1938; DULBECCO, RENATO, U.S.A., Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, London, b. 1914 (in Catanzaro, Italy);and T
Physics
The prize was awarded jointly to: BOHR, AAGE, Denmark, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1922; MOTTELSON, BEN, Denmark, Nordita, Copenhagen, b. 1926 (in Chicago, U.S.A.); and RAINWATER, JAMES, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Edward Albee ... "Seascape"
Fiction
Michael Shaara ... "The Killer Angels"
History
Dumas Malone ... "Jefferson and His Time" International Reporting: William Mullen & Ovie Carter ... "Chicago Tribune" National Reporting: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele ... "Philadelphia Inquirer"
Public Service
"Boston Globe"