1975 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1975?
- 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.
- March 6, 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
- 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 4, 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- April 8, 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- April 17, 1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
- 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.
- May 27, 1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
- July 5, 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- August 15, 1975 – Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
- August 20, 1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- September 5, 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- September 29, 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- October 1, 1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
- October 16, 1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
- October 22, 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- November 14, 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
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