1975
ID: 1932
Senate votes 82-4 to form Church Committee investigation
ID: 1932
1975
ID: 1933
Rockefeller Commission issues initial report on CIA activities
ID: 1933
1975
ID: 1934
Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission reports reveal MKUltra to public
ID: 1934
1975
ID: 1935
British Sunday Times reports 90% of Israeli Defense Ministry budget flowed through Rosenbaum's ICB
ID: 1935
1975
ID: 1936
Helsinki Accords - German Ostpolitik strategy legitimizes Eastern European influence
ID: 1936
1975
ID: 1937
Otto Skorzeny dies in Madrid; funeral becomes international neo-Nazi pilgrimage site
ID: 1937
1975
ID: 1938
International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) founded to coordinate global accounting standards
ID: 1938
1975
ID: 1939
Benoit Mandelbrot publishes work on fractals - 'Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones'
ID: 1939
1975
ID: 1940
Personal computer revolution begins with Altair 8800 using mathematical logic circuits
ID: 1940
1975
ID: 1941
Travis Walton Abduction - Seven loggers encounter glowing disc; Walton missing 5 days; witnesses pass polygraph
ID: 1941
1975
ID: 1942
Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) first commercialized using liquid crystal materials
ID: 1942
1975
ID: 1943
PVC siding becomes widely available for residential construction
ID: 1943
1975
ID: 4427
Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman create Scheme at MIT - minimalist Lisp dialect with lexical scoping
ID: 4427
1975
ID: 4428
Niklaus Wirth designs Modula - successor to Pascal with modules for systems programming
ID: 4428
1975
ID: 5076
Cologne Mani Codex published - reveals Mani raised in Jewish-Christian baptist sect of Elchasaites, transforms scholarly understanding
ID: 5076
1975
ID: 5316
Le Roy Ladurie publishes 'Montaillou' - uses Fournier's inquisition records to reconstruct medieval village life and Cathar beliefs
ID: 5316
1975
ID: 4334
January 1975
MITS Altair 8800 featured in Popular Electronics - first commercially successful microcomputer kit, sparks revolution
ID: 4334
1975
ID: 4335
April 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft to develop BASIC interpreter for Altair 8800
ID: 4335
1975
ID: 4336
September 1975
Chuck Peddle designs MOS 6502 processor for $25 - enables affordable home computers
ID: 4336
1975
ID: 1931
December 8, 1975
Pope Paul VI publishes 'Evangelii Nuntiandi' on evangelization in the modern world
ID: 1931