Timeline February 1975

Events in February 1975 6

• 1881 – 1975 P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Died 14 February 1975, aged 93 P. G. Wodehouse was an English author best known for his Jeeves and Wooster comic novels. He was knighted just weeks before his death, resolving a controversy over wartime broadcasts he had made while interned by Germany. He died in Southampton, New York, having become a naturalized American citizen.
• 1975 Parliament release Chocolate City Washington, D.C. A tribute to the Black majority of Washington.
• 1975 Publishes Discipline and Punish Traces the birth of the modern prison and disciplinary power Surveiller et punir opened with a gruesome account of a public execution before tracing the shift from spectacular corporal punishment to the modern prison's subtler discipline of the body and soul, using Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon as its central image of pervasive surveillance. It became one of the most cited works in the humanities and social sciences, extending Foucault's analysis of power well beyond prisons to schools, hospitals, factories, and the military.
• 1975 Margaret Thatcher elected Conservative Party leader First woman to lead a major UK political party Margaret Thatcher defeated incumbent Edward Heath to become leader of Britain's Conservative Party on 11 February 1975. She was the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She went on to become prime minister in 1979.
• 1975 – present Elena Ferrante Italian novelist Ferrante is known for the Neapolitan Novels exploring friendship, class, and female identity.
• 1975 Led Zeppelin release Physical Graffiti Kashmir A double album with Kashmir.