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July 6, 1975

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Jury Awards Going Up In Personal Injury Suits

By Lesley Oelsner Special to The New York Times

NY Times survey finds that throughout US, in rural areas as well as large cities, juries are awarding more money than ever before to people injured because of other people's negligence or misconduct, and to estates of people who died because of somebody else's negligence or misconduct; before '62, a million dollar award for personal injuries or libel was unheard of but since then there have been dozens; examples cited; statistics; effect on high money awards on med malpractice ins discussed (L)

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Big‐City Mayors Ask U.S. For Emergency $2‐Billion

By John Kifner Special to The New York Times

NYC fiscal crisis looms over US Mayors Conf meeting, Boston; conf chmn Mayor Joseph L Alioto warns 'seeds of NY are in every Amer city,' news conf; Boston Mayor Kevin H White blames crisis in NY and other cities on fact that they lacked resources to pay for soc demands of late '60s (S)

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Ford to Seek Gun Control By a Reduction in Dealers

By Nancy Hicks Special to The New York Times

Ford Adm is preparing gun control bill that seeks to limit proliferation of handguns through changes in laws affecting gun dealers; Adm sources say that measure will probably be intoduced soon, possibly when Cong returns from July 4 recess; bill would change laws on issuances of licenses to gun dealers, drastically limiting number issued each yr; Adm hopes to reduce to 40,000 from 156,000 number of persons who can sell guns to weed out those who do not carefully check credentials of gun purchasers; thrust of bill, however, will focus on banning mfr and sale of cheap handguns known as 'Saturday Night Specials'; bill's proposals noted (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 2, 1975, covering July 6, 1975.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John

    Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

    Elton John

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    1
    Peak
    1
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    5
  2. 2
    Album cover for Venus And Mars by Wings

    Venus And Mars

    Wings

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
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    4
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    Album cover for That's The Way Of The World (Soundtrack) by Earth| Wind & Fire

    That's The Way Of The World (Soundtrack)

    Earth| Wind & Fire

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
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    17
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    Album cover for Stampede by The Doobie Brothers

    Stampede

    The Doobie Brothers

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
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    8
  5. 5
    Album cover for Four Wheel Drive by Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    Four Wheel Drive

    Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    5
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    6

Notable Births

50 Cent

197550 Cent, American rapper and actor[†]

Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, and television producer. Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, Jackson began pursuing a musical career in 1996. In 1999–2000, he recorded his debut album Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records; however, he was struck by nine bullets during a shooting in May 2000, causing its release to be cancelled and Jackson to be dropped from the label. His 2002 mixtape, Guess Who's Back?, was discovered by Detroit rapper Eminem, who signed Jackson to his label Shady Records, an imprint of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records that same year.

Sebastián Rulli

1975Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-Mexican actor and model[†]

Sebastián Oscar Rulli is an Argentine-Mexican actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen.

Amir Abbas Fakhravar

1975Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist[†]

Amir Abbas Fakhravar, former research fellow at the Center for the Study of Culture and Security at The Institute of World Politics, is an Iranian dissident. Fakhravar served as the Secretary General of the Confederation of Iranian Students and President of the "Iranian Freedom Institute" in Washington, D.C.

Kristian Woolf

1975Kristian Woolf, Australian rugby league player and coach[†]

Kristian Woolf is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL). At international level, he has coached Tonga.

Notable Deaths

Reşad Ekrem Koçu

1975Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (born 1905)[†]

Reşad Ekrem Koçu was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia, which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times. Koçu and his colorful depictions of Ottoman Istanbul are celebrated in Orhan Pamuk's book Istanbul: Memories and the City.

Historical Events

Comoros

1975The Comoros declares independence from France.[†]

The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. Comoros proclaimed its independence from France on 6 July 1975. The Comoros is the only country of the Arab League which is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a member state of the African Union, the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, and the Indian Ocean Commission. The country has three official languages: Shikomori, French and Arabic.

Historical Context for July 6, 1975

In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]