Major Events of 1975

• Helsinki Accords
• Francisco Franco dies
• Angola Independent
• Soviets Buy Grain
• Pol Pot Takes Over Cambodia
• Mozambique Independent
• Mayaguez
• Communist Capture S. Vietnam

Academy Awards

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"

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"

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, Eidgensssische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, b. 1906, (in Sarajevo, Bosnia), d. 1998: "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"

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 dewdrop and reflect the cosmos"

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 TEMIN, HOWARD MARTIN, U.S.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, b. 1934, d. 1994: "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell"

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. 1917, d. 1986: "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"

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"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "Equus" ... Peter Shaffer
Best Musical: "The Wiz"
Best Actor in a play: John Kani & Winston Ntshona ... " Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" and "The Island"
Best Actress in a play: Ellen Burstyn ... "Same Time, Next Year"
Best Actor in a musical: John Cullum ... "Shenandoah"
Best Actress in a musical: Angela Lansbury ... "Gypsy"

Most Popular Books

Fiction
1."Ragtime" ... E. L. Doctorow. Random House
2."The Moneychangers" ... Arthur Hailey. Doubleday
3."Curtain" ... Agatha Christie. Dodd, Mead
4."Looking for Mister Goodbar" ... Judith Rossner. Simon & Schuster
5."The Choirboys" ... Joseph Wambaugh. Delacorte
6."The Eagle Has Landed" ... Jack Higgins. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
7."The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia
Schliemann" ... Irving Stone. Doubleday
8."The Great Train Robbery" ... Michael Crichton. Knopf
9."Shogun" ... James Clavell. Atheneum
10. "Humboldt's Gift" ... Saul Bellow. Viking
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Nonfiction
1."Angels: God's Secret Agents" ... Billy Graham. Doubleday
2."Winning through Intimidation" ... Robert Ringer. Funk & Wagnalls
3."TM: Discovering Energy and Overcoming Stress" ... Harold H.
Bloomfield. Delacorte
4."The Ascent of Man" ... Jacob Bronowski. Little, Brown
5."Sylvia Porter's Money Book" ... Sylvia Porter. Doubleday
6."Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week" ... Laurence E. Morehouse
and Leonard Gross. Simon & Schuster
7."The Bermuda Triangle" ... Charles Berlitz with J. Manson Valentine.
Doubleday
8."The Save-Your-Life Diet" ... David Reuben. Random House
9."Bring on the Empty Horses" ... David Niven. Putnam
10."Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon" ... Theodore H. White.
Atheneum/Reader's Digest Press

Most Popular Television Shows

1. All in the Family (CBS)
2. Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC)
3. Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
4. Maude (CBS)
5. The Bionic Woman (ABC)
6. Phyllis (CBS)
7. Sanford and Son (NBC)
8. Rhoda (CBS)
9. The Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
10. ABC Monday Night Movie (ABC)