Editing 1975 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1975}}
* [[January 1]] – [[Watergate scandal]] (United States): [[John N. Mitchell]], [[H. R. Haldeman]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/haldeman.html |title=Washington Post profile of Haldeman |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 28, 2014 |archive-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814104855/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/haldeman.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[John Ehrlichman]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stout |first=David |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/john-d-ehrlichman-nixon-aide-jailed-for-watergate-dies-at-73.html |title=John D. Ehrlichman, Nixon Aide Jailed for Watergate, Dies at 73 |date=February 16, 1999 |work=The New York Times |access-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223220417/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/john-d-ehrlichman-nixon-aide-jailed-for-watergate-dies-at-73.html |url-status=live }}</ref> are found guilty of the [[Watergate]] cover-up.
* [[January 2]]
** The [[Federal Rules of Evidence]] are approved by the [[United States Congress]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States|title=Federal Rules of Evidence for United States Courts and Magistrates: Approved January 2, 1975, Effective July 1, 1975 ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rK1PAQAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=West Publishing Company|isbn=9780314757395 }}</ref>
** A bomb blast at [[Samastipur]], Bihar, India, fatally wounds [[Lalit Narayan Mishra]], Minister of Railways.<ref>{{cite book |title=Limca Book of Records 1991 |year=1991 |publisher=Bisleri Beverages Ltd. |location=Bombay |page=41 |isbn=81-900115-1-0}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] – [[Tasman Bridge disaster]]: The [[Tasman Bridge]] in [[Hobart]], [[Tasmania]], Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier {{MV|Lake Illawarra}}, causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianetwork.com/nexus/stories/TASMANBRIDGE.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801133559/http://australianetwork.com/nexus/stories/TASMANBRIDGE.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-08-01| title=Tasman Bridge|publisher=Australia Network|date=15 January 2007|accessdate=2008-10-02}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Alvor Agreement]]: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to [[Angola]] on [[November 11]].
* [[January 20]]
** In [[Hanoi]], [[North Vietnam]], the [[Politburo]] approves the final military offensive against [[South Vietnam]].
** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French [[Channel Tunnel]] scheme.
* [[January 24]] – [[Jazz]] [[pianist]] [[Keith Jarrett]] plays the solo [[improvisation]] ''[[The Köln Concert]]'' at the [[Cologne Opera]]. The live recording becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7984 |title=Keith Jarrett – Biography |work=[[All About Jazz]] |access-date=2011-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318092416/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=7984 |archive-date=March 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>