1975 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1975?
- January 8, 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
- January 30, 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 10, 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- 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 – President Richard Nixon signs into law federal legislation authorizing the establishment of Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.
- April 9, 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- April 19, 1975 – India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 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.
- June 26, 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
- July 5, 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- July 15, 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- September 8, 1975 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “I Am A Homosexual”. He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
- September 16, 1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- 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.
- November 11, 1975 – Independence of Angola.
- November 12, 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- November 14, 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- December 6, 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- December 29, 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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