Class of '75

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We were in 10^th grade when...

• A ceasefire was signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War.
• Eleven Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
• Skylab, the first American space station, was launched.
• Kurt Vonnegut wrote Breakfast of Champions.
• Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Godfather (but refused the award to protest U.S. government treatment of Native Americans).
• Celebrity deaths: President Lyndon B. Johnson, artist Pablo Picasso.
• The Oakland A’s defeated Cincinnati in the World Series (4-3).
• Racehorse “Secretariat” won the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes).

We were in 11^th grade when...

• Spiro T. Agnew resigned as vice president.
• Syria and Egypt attacked Israel on religious holiday Yom Kippur.
• India became the world's sixth nuclear power.
• Construction of the Alaskan pipeline was authorized.
• Patricia Hearst, 19-year-old daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• Cost of a first-class stamp was 8 cents.
• The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Boston Bruins (4-2) to win the Stanley Cup.
• Celebrity deaths: musician Duke Ellington, comedian Bud Abbott.

We were in 12^th grade when...

• H.R. Haldeman, John Erlichman and John Mitchell are convicted in the Watergate conspiracy.
• President Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for his Watergate role.
• South Vietnam surrenders to the Communists in the north, ending the Vietnam War.
• Evil Knieval makes an unsuccessful attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho.
• Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup (again!), defeating the Buffalo Sabres (2-0).
• Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings (16-6) in Super Bowl IX.
• “The Godfather, Part II” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
• Celebrity deaths: Ed Sullivan, Aristotle Onassis, Casey Stengel.