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1975 Calendar

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•  February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  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 16, 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
•  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.
•  August 4, 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
•  September 16, 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
•  November 10, 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
•  November 11, 1975 – Independence of Angola.
•  November 27, 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
•  December 7, 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.

•  January 6, 1975 – Nick Clarke, Pro Bull Rider
•  January 22, 1975 – James Murray English actor
•  March 25, 1975 – Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
•  April 2, 1975 – Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, German rower
•  April 3, 1975 – Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian basketball player
•  April 27, 1975 – Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
•  September 11, 1975 – Pierre Issa, South African footballer
•  November 18, 1975 – Jason Williams, American basketball player
•  December 8, 1975 – Jerrelle Clark, American wrestler
•  December 30, 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer