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Billboard Top Hits: 1975

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1975, "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille.


Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1975

Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Ruben Amaro, Gary Bell, Roy Face, Turk Farrell, Jack Fisher, Julio Gotay, Woodie Held, Bill Henry, Al Jackson, Gene Oliver, Phil Ortega, Jim Pagliaroni, Charley Smith, Dick Stuart, Leon Wagner, Dave Wickersham and Al Worthington.

Billboard Top Hits: 1979

The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1979, "My Sharona" by The Knack.

# "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" – Rupert Holmes

Billboard Top Hits: 1984

#"What's Love Got to Do With It" — Tina Turner – 3:48

Billboard Top Hits: 1988

#"Anything for You" — Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 4:05

Billboard Top Hits: 1990

The track lineup includes four songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1990, "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips.

Billboard Top Hits: 1995

However, each of the songs peaked in the top 5 of Billboards other charts, for instance the dance, adult contemporary and rhythm and blues charts.

John Dawkins

In 1974, aged 27, Dawkins was elected to the House of Representatives for the marginal seat of Tangney, but he was defeated at the 1975 election by Liberal Peter Richardson which followed the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

John Gogo

Gogo ran in the 1975 Alberta general election as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Lethbridge West; he defeated incumbent Social Credit MLA Richard Gruenwald by a wide margin.

Jon Trickett

Formed politically in the anti-Vietnam war movement, Trickett joined the Labour Party in 1969 and was active on the Labour Left in Leeds from the late 1960s being the secretary of the 'Vote No' campaign in the Common Market referendum, and also the election agent for Michael McGowan who became the MEP for Leeds.

Keith MacDonald

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, but lost to Progressive Conservative James Taylor by 732 votes in the Prince Edward—Lennox constituency.

Michael Brotherton

During the Common Market referendum of 1975, Brotherton strongly attacked Edward du Cann who made a last minute anti-Market speech; Brotherton declared that du Cann "requires either psychiatric treatment or lessons in simple arithmetic".

Paul Wessenger

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, coming a close second to Progressive Conservative incumbent Art Evans in the riding of Simcoe Centre.

Robert Bain

Bain won the seat in the 1975 provincial election by defeating incumbent Ed Havrot of the Progressive Conservatives.

Ryan by-election, 2001

Comparisons were drawn with the 1975 by-election in the Tasmanian electorate of Bass: both had resulted from the resignation of a Defence Minister (Former Labor Deputy Prime Minister Lance Barnard in 1975), and Labor's landslide loss in Bass was linked to the defeat of the Whitlam government several months later.

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam

The government deliberately delayed holding the by-election in Kankesanthurai until 6 February 1975.

San Francisco mayoral election, 1975

In the November regular election, then-Speaker of the California State Assembly George Moscone placed first with conservative city supervisor John Barbagelata second and moderate supervisor Dianne Feinstein coming in third.

Stuart Lyon Smith

Smith was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the Ontario Liberal Party in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate and future mayor Bob Morrow by 542 votes in Hamilton West.

Tony Lupusella

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent George Nixon by 1,465 votes in the west-Toronto riding of Dovercourt.

WBKB-TV

The station first went on-the-air September 22, 1975 as the first of two stations in Alpena to sign-on that year (the other being WCMU-TV satellite WCML that launched in November).

Werner Schmidt

Under his leadership the party only won four seats in the 1975 provincial election and Schmidt, failing to win his own seat, returned to private life.

William Hamling

The resulting Woolwich West by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Peter Bottomley.

Woolwich West by-election, 1975

The result of the contest was a victory for the Conservative candidate, Peter Bottomley, who held the seat until its abolition for the 1983 general election; he had contested the seat in both 1974 general elections.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), William Hamling had died on 20 March 1975.


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