1975 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1975?
- January 5, 1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- January 14, 1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka “the Black Panther”.
- February 4, 1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 6, 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
- March 25, 1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- April 2, 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
- April 3, 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
- June 5, 1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- June 25, 1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
- August 20, 1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- September 4, 1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
- September 16, 1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- September 29, 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- October 10, 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
- November 12, 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- December 2, 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
- December 7, 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
- December 29, 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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