Timeline Tuesday 15 July 1975

Events on Tuesday 15 July 1975 3

• 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project US and Soviet spacecraft dock in orbit An American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked in Earth orbit on 17 July 1975, the first joint crewed space mission between the two Cold War rivals. The mission symbolized the era of detente and was the last flight of the Apollo program. Astronauts and cosmonauts shook hands and shared meals aboard the linked craft.
• 1975 – present Gareth Edwards British film director, screenwriter, and visual effects artist Gareth Edwards is an English filmmaker known for blending grounded, documentary-style realism with large-scale visual effects, a style he taught himself while working in British television before breaking into Hollywood. He rose from making a micro-budget monster movie almost single-handedly to directing two of the biggest studio franchises of the 2010s, Godzilla and Star Wars, and later returned to original filmmaking with The Creator. His career is notable for proving that photorealistic VFX could be achieved on a fraction of typical blockbuster budgets, a skill he leveraged at every stage of his career.
• 1975 Gareth Edwards born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire Gareth Edwards is born Gareth Edwards was born on 15 July 1975 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. He grew up with an early interest in filmmaking and visual art, which he pursued through higher education rather than film school in the traditional sense.