INPUT 1975
Setting the scene for 1975:
- MUAC: EGATS ascended to become a member of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Associations' - IFATCA
- MUAC: German military sectors (Lippe Radar) moved to Maastricht UAC. This initiative marked the start of exemplary cooperation between civil and military air traffic services.
- Portugal grants independence to Angola;
- Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom;
- A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people;
- Color television transmissions begin in Australia;
- Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;
- The killing of 27 Palestinians in Lebanon triggers the Lebanese Civil War;
- Pol Pot proclaims the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979);
- The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese;
- Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest;
- The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum to stay in the European Community;
- Jaws is released, a thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg;
- An American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations;
- Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing;
- NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars;
- Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at a gallery in Amsterdam;
- Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern;
- Rockband Queen release their most famous single Bohemian Rhapsody;
- Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
- A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 11;
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1975 - Issue 1 (April)
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1975 - Issue 2 (September)
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