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1975

Year 1975 (Roman numerals) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Year 1975 was declared International Women's Year by the United Nations.

Events of 1975 January
  • January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
  • January 1 - Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.


February

March

April
  • April 3 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.
  • April 4 - Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
  • April 4 - BBC TV: The first episode of BBC sitcom The Good Life is broadcast
  • April 9 - Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
  • April 13 - Bus massacre: 27 Palestinians killed by the kataeb militia during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, the incident triggered the Lebanese civil war.
  • April 13 - A Chadian coup of 1975 led by the military overthrows and kills the President François Tombalbaye.
  • April 17 - Following the Khmer Rouge capture of Phnom Penh, Pol Pot proclaims the Democratic Kampuchea in Cambodia and becomes its Prime Minister (1975-1979).
  • April 24 - Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police. (See 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy)
  • April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
  • April 30 - Vietnam War: The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.


May
  • May 5 - The Busch Gardens Williamsburg Theme Park opens in Virginia.
  • May 12 - Mayaguez incident: Khmer Rouge forces in Cambodia seize the United States merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
  • May 15 - Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
  • May 16 - Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum.
  • May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
  • May 25 - Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile (696 km) race.
  • May 28 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
  • May 30 - 1972 Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine dies in a car accident.


June

July
  • July 1 - The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).
  • July 4 - Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
  • July 5 - Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
  • July 6 - The Comoros declare their independence from France.
  • July 9 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system(albeit highly restricted).
  • July 12 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
  • July 17 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo program and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
  • July 31 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.


August
  • August 1 - The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
  • August 5 - President of the United States Gerald R. Ford posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee, restoring full rights of citizenship.
  • August 8 - The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after a freak typhoon; over 200,000 people perish.
  • August 8 - Samuel Bronfman, son of the president of Seagram's, is kidnapped in Purchase, New York.
  • August 11 - British Leyland Motor Corporation comes under British government control.
  • August 11 - Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
  • August 15 - The Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in Great Britain.
  • August 15 - President Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup.
  • August 20 - Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars (planet).
  • August 24 - Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
  • August 25 - Rock musician Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born to Run.
  • August 30- Noted Catholic religious educator, author and professor, Dr. Philip A. Franco is born in Brooklyn, New York.


September

October
  • October 1 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
  • October 9 - A bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills 1 and injures 20.
  • October 11 - National Broadcasting Company airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (George Carlin is the very first host; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the very first musical guests).
  • October 11 - Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he met at Yale Law School. His wife will remain known by her maiden name for a few years.
  • October 16 - Five Australian-based journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian forces, during an incursion into Portuguese Timor.
  • October 21 - Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run in Fenway Park, in the 12th inning of the 6th game of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, to win what many consider the greatest World Series game of all time.
  • October 22 - Cincinnati Reds defeat Boston Red Sox 4-3 to win 1975 World Series.
  • October 27 - Robert Poulin, 18, begins shooting at St. Pius X High School (Ottawa) in Ottawa, Canada and then shoots himself, killing 1 and wounding 5.
  • October 29 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
  • October 30 - Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting Head of State after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.


November

December

Undated
  • January - Volkswagen introduces the Volkswagen Golf, its new front-wheel-drive economy car, in the United States and Canada as the Volkswagen Rabbit.
  • In New Zealand, Maori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5000 people in support of Maori claims to their land.
  • The Third Cod War between UK and Iceland lasted between November 1975 - June 1976.
  • Government of Colombia announces finding of Ciudad Perdida.
  • Spain army quits Spanish (Western) Sahara. Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades ex-Spanish Western Sahara.
  • First use of the term fractal.
  • Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
  • South Australia becomes first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.
  • Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses, based on the group's chronology,The Watchtower, 15 August 1968, p.494-501; Awake!, 22 May 1969, p.15; The Watchtower, 15 March 1980, p.17, para.5-6 thought that Armageddon would happen in 1975 and a few of them sold their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will exist when Jesus sets up God's Kingdom on earth.


Ongoing

Fictional The following are references to year 1975 in fiction: (unknown).

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Births January February

March April

May June
  • June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
  • June 7 - Allen Iverson, American basketball player
  • June 9 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
  • June 10 - Nicole Bilderback, Asian American actress
  • June 10 - Darren Eadie, English footballer
  • June 11 - Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
  • June 14 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
  • June 17 - Chloe Jones, American actress
  • June 18 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
  • June 19 - Ed Coode, British rower
  • June 23 - KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter from St Andrews, Scotland
  • June 24 - Christie Rampone, American soccer player
  • June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
  • June 25 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
  • June 27 - Tobey Maguire, American actor


July
  • July 1 - Sufjan Stevens, American folk musician
  • July 5 - Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
  • July 5 - Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese bassist (Týr (band))
  • July 6 - Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, American rapper
  • July 8 - Dan Palmer, American musician
  • July 9 - Jack White, American rock and blues musician
  • July 9 - Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
  • July 9 - Isaac Brock (musician), American musician
  • July 9 - Shona Fraser British born music journalist and Idol Judge
  • July 10 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
  • July 12 - Hannah Waterman, British actress
  • July 15 - Jill Halfpenny, British actress
  • July 17 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
  • July 18 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
  • July 19 - Patricia Ja Lee, Korean American model/actress
  • July 23 - Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
  • July 24 - Torrie Wilson, American professional wrestler and model
  • July 25 - Håvard Ellefsen, a.k.a. Mortiis, Norwegian metal artist
  • July 27 - Shea Hillenbrand, baseball player
  • July 27 - Alex Rodriguez, baseball player
  • July 30 - Graham Nicholls, British artist
  • July 31 - Simon Hirst, British DJ
  • July 31 -
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