What a decade!
Our class was special and the time we spent at Fletcher was a unique period in history. With some truly significant events taking place in 1975.
Let's take a walk down memory lane:
1975 started the year with a bang.
January 1 -- Watergate Scandal: : John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. ????
February 11 -- Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party.
March 9 -- Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
April 4 -- Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft (at this time known as Micro-Soft) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976.)
April 30 -- The Vietnam War ends with the Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War concludes as Communist forces from North Vietnam take over Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of the remaining American troops and South Vietnam civilians. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally and is replaced with a temporary Provisional Government.
May 25 -- Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 for a second time.
June 5 -- The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
July 17 -- Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: A crewed American Apollo spacecraft and the crewed Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
August 1 -- The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
August 20 -- Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
October 1 -- "Thrilla in Manila": Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. The fight is viewed live by well over 100 million people worldwide.
November 10 -- The 729-foot long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
