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.
- March 5, 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
- March 27, 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- April 4, 1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- April 9, 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
- April 21, 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
- May 12, 1975 – Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
- 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 5, 1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- June 7, 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- July 30, 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
- 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.
- October 22, 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- 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 10, 1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
- November 11, 1975 – Independence of Angola.
- December 1, 1975 – Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
- December 19, 1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.
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