Neil Sedaka 'Laughter In The Rain' 1975

• January 6 – Wheel of Fortune premieres on NBC.
• January 15 – Portugal grants independence to Angola.
• March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew; the killer is beheaded on June 18. (King Khalid succeeds Faisal.)
• April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
• April 9 – Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
• April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
• April 30 – Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
• June 25 – Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
• September 16 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
• September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• October 1 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
• November 11 – Angola becomes independent from Portugal; civil war soon erupts.
• November 28 – Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
• November 29 – The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
• December 7 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
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Rank Title Studio Gross
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