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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.
•  March 27, 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
•  April 2, 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
•  April 9, 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
•  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.
•  May 12, 1975 – Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
•  August 20, 1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
•  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Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
•  December 2, 1975 – Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
•  December 7, 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.

•  January 1, 1975 – Becky Kellar-Duke, Canadian ice hockey player
•  February 18, 1975 – Gary Neville, English footballer
•  March 8, 1975 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
•  June 10, 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish football player
•  June 12, 1975 – Michael Muhney, American actor
•  July 2, 1975 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby player
•  July 9, 1975 – Nathaniel Marston, American actor
•  October 16, 1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
•  November 4, 1975 – Heather Tom, American actress
•  December 31, 1975 – Rob Penders, Dutch footballer