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To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher. [5] In 1975, a State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) was introduced. A new ...
The 94th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from January 3, 1975, to January 3, 1977, during the last two years of Gerald Ford 's presidency .
October 21 – 1975 World Series: US baseball team the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 off Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run in one of the most famous World Series games ever played. [7] The following day, the series ends with Game 7 victory by the Reds, in a broadcast that breaks records for a televised sporting event.
The Khmer Rouge take over the country on April 17, 1975. April 23 – In a speech at Tulane University, President Ford declares that the Vietnam War "is finished as far as America is concerned." Evacuees from Saigon, South Vietnam are offloaded onto the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway, during "Operation Frequent Wind", April 29, 1975.
In December 1975, Ford signed a bill providing New York City with access to $2.3 billion in loans. [91] Despite his reservations about how the program ultimately would be funded in an era of tight public budgeting, Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, which established special education throughout the United ...
1975 – Fall of Saigon; 1975 – Bill Gates founds Microsoft, which will eventually dominate the home computer operating system market. 1975 – The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project begins, where an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by U.S. President Gerald Ford on December 23, 1975. [1] It declared the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce", but permitted the use of United States customary units in all activities.
Government agencies disestablished in 1975 (1 C, 12 P) Political organizations established in 1975 (4 C, 2 P) Political parties disestablished in 1975 (2 C, 30 P) A.