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ROME, Thursday, Dec. 25—Pope Paul VI ended the Holy Yew' last night in a Christmas Eve ceremony sealing the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica.
Maurice H. Nadjari said yesterday of his dismissal by Governor Carey that “the knowledge he had about an investigation triggered his decision.”
Governor Carey granted Christmas clemency yesterday to Martin Sostre, a black Puerto Rican militant whose release has been the goal of an international campaign, and seven other convicts.
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered yesterday the suspension of the sale of the widely used pesticides chlordane and heptachlor for most agricultural and home lawn and garden uses.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24—Ron Bueckert, a 32‐year‐old electrician who can earn, more than $400 a week when times are good, drove his pickup truck here last week, 600 miles from his home and family in Northern California, in search of a job.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1975, covering December 25, 1975.
Chicago
Earth| Wind & Fire
America
KC And The Sunshine Band
Joni Mitchell
1975Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player[†]
Hideki Okajima is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Okajima pitched for the Yomiuri Giants, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. Okajima was elected to the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game as a first time All-Star via the All-Star Final Vote. He became the first Japanese-born pitcher to play in the World Series in Game 2 of the 2007 World Series. On July 18, 2016, Okajima announced his retirement.
1975Choi Sung-yong, South Korean footballer and manager[†]
Choi Sung-yong is a former South Korean footballer who played as a wing-back or midfielder. Known for his good stamina and concentration, Choi was noted for his ability for man-to-man defense. He performed a role to concentrate on marking Hidetoshi Nakata, considered the best Asian player at the time, when South Korea played against Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
1975Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer[†]
Marcus Edward Trescothick is an English former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. He was Somerset captain from 2010 to 2016 and temporary England captain for several Tests and ODIs. Since retirement he has commentated and coached at both county and international level.
1975Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (born 1881)[†]
Gaston Gallimard was a French publisher.
1975Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (born 1913)[†]
Gunnar Kangro was an Estonian mathematician. He worked mainly on summation theory. He taught various courses on mathematical analysis, functional analysis and algebra in University of Tartu and he has written several university textbooks.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]