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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.
•  February 21, 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
•  June 24, 1975 – An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
•  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.
•  September 15, 1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
•  September 30, 1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
•  November 12, 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
•  December 1, 1975 – Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey.
•  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.

•  January 28, 1975 – Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer
•  February 9, 1975 – Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete
•  February 24, 1975 – Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
•  March 4, 1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
•  March 16, 1975 – Sienna Guillory, British actress
•  March 17, 1975 – Andrew “Test” Martin, Canadian wrestler (d. 2009)
•  September 3, 1975 – Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player
•  September 13, 1975 – Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
•  December 10, 1975 – Kristel Verbeke, Flemish singer, actress, host
•  December 11, 1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist