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 28, 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
- 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 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 – 8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People’s Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
- April 28, 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
- 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.
- June 4, 1975 – Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
- June 5, 1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
- June 7, 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- July 6, 1975 – The Comoros declare independence from France.
- 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.
- October 1, 1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- November 12, 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- December 6, 1975 – Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- December 7, 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
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