1975 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1975?
- February 9, 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
- February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 21, 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
- February 28, 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
- March 10, 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- March 25, 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- April 8, 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- April 9, 1975 – 8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- April 25, 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- April 29, 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
- June 7, 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- June 25, 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
- August 20, 1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- September 18, 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- September 22, 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- October 16, 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- October 22, 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- December 4, 1975 – Suriname joins the United Nations.
- December 7, 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
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