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The following events occurred in March 1975: ==March 1, 1975 (Saturday)== *Color television broadcasting was officially introduced in Australia, where black and white TV had started in 1956. ATV (Australia) used the slogan "First in Color" while the Nine Network described its new programming as "Living Color".〔Albert Moran and Chris Keating, ''The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television'' (Scarecrow Press, 2009) pp99-100〕 *The Covenant of the Goddess was founded in Oakland, California, by 40 witches from 15 Wicca covens.〔Rosemary Radford Ruether, ''Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History'' (University of California Press, 2005) p292〕 *The popularity of CB radio in the United States was fueled by a decision of the Federal Communications Commission to lower the cost of the required citizens band radio license from twenty dollars to four dollars.〔"CB: more channels, easier regulations, new hardware", ''Popular Mechanics'' (November 1975) p98〕 *Vietnam War: The army of North Vietnam, led by General Văn Tiến Dũng, began an attack on the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, starting at Pleiku, before moving on to Ban Mê Thuột.〔 Mai Elliott, ''RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era'' (Rand Corporation, 2010) p525〕 *Aston Villa won the Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in the final. *The factory of the Sponge Rubber Products Company, located in Shelton, Connecticut, was destroyed by a bomb planted by the Weather Underground terrorist group. The three security guards at the plant were overpowered and kidnapped by three masked men, who detonated the bombs, and freed the men later.〔"Plant Leveled; Radicals Linked", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', March 3, 1975, p1〕 Although nobody was hurt, the destruction caused the loss of 1,100 jobs.〔Derby Historical Society, ''Images of America: Derby'' (Arcadia Publishing, 1999) p128〕 *An Iraqi Airways airliner was hijacked by three Kurdish gunmen, shortly after taking off from Mosul to Baghdad with 93 people on board. The hijackers (Ahmad Hasan, Taha Naimi and Faud al-Qeitan) demanded that 85 Kurdish political prisoners be released, that they receive five million dollars, and that they be flown to Iran. After the plane made a forced landing in Tehran on a blocked runway, a gunbattle ensued between Iraqi security guards onboard and the gunmen. One passenger were killed and ten others wounded, including Hasan, who later died of his wounds. Taimi and al-Qeitan were executed a month later by a firing squad in Iran.〔"Guards Nab Hijackers in Airliner Shootout", ''Daytona Beach (FL) Morning Journal'', March 1, 1975, p8A "Two Iraqi Hijakers Executed", ''Newburgh (NY) Evening News'', April 7, 1975, p7A; Michael Newton, ''The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings'' (Infobase Publishing, 2002) p133〕 *Died: Clarence Ray Carpenter, 69, American primatologist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「March 1975」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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