1975 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1975?
- January 19, 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- May 28, 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- June 4, 1975 – Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
- June 5, 1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
- June 25, 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
- July 6, 1975 – The Comoros declare independence from France.
- August 1, 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- August 3, 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
- August 15, 1975 – Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- September 14, 1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- September 18, 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
- September 29, 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- October 11, 1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
- November 6, 1975 – Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
- November 27, 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
- December 29, 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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