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.
- March 5, 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
- March 26, 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- April 3, 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
- April 8, 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball’s first African American manager.
- May 16, 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
- 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.
- June 7, 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- June 25, 1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
- August 15, 1975 – Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- September 15, 1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- September 16, 1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- September 22, 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- October 10, 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
- November 11, 1975 – Independence of Angola.
- November 12, 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- November 25, 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
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