FAME – David Bowie
#1 September 20th, 1975
NEWS
• President Ford escapes 2 assassination attempts!
• John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
• NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
• The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks into immortality.
• Jimmy Hoffa disappears!
• The Weather Underground bombs the U.S. State Department main office in Washington, D.C.. (The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization.)
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: “Jaws” “Dog Day Afternoon” & “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”
• T.V.: “Saturday Night Live”, “Wheel of Fortune”, “Baretta”, “Barney Miller”, and “Welcome Back, Kotter”
• The skateboarding fad put an average of 20 boarders a week in the hospital.
• The Pet Rock thought up by Gary Dahl made him rich overnight.
• The “VCR” would wildly change how we watched TV.
• Mohammad Ali beat Joe Frazier in the “Thrilla in Manila”
• Foolish Pleasure won the Kentucky Derby
• Microsoft is founded.
• Atari’s home version of “Pong” was the hot video game.
DEAD
• Rod Serling
• Larry & Moe of the 3 Stooges
#1@1
• From the Young Americans album.
• Lennon's voice is heard singing the repeated words "FAME, FAME, FAME" with his voice heard at a fast, normal, and slow track, making it sound like a recording on the fast and slow speeds.
• David Bowie took the top slot for the very first time with “Fame” Your #1 @ 1 from September 1975.
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