1975 Calendar
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1975 Historical Event(s)
- February 11, 1975 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- June 24, 1975 – An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
- July 5, 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
- July 12, 1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
- August 11, 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- September 4, 1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
- September 29, 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world’s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
- October 11, 1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
- 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 14, 1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
Who Were Born On 1975?
- March 19, 1975 – Brann Dailor, American drummer
- March 21, 1975 – Vitaly Potapenko, Ukrainian basketball player
- March 25, 1975 – Anne Dudek, American actress
- April 21, 1975 – Tha Trademarc, American hip hop artist
- July 10, 1975 – Brendan Gaughan, American stock car driver
- August 2, 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
- August 4, 1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician
- August 19, 1975 – Marco Coti Zelati, Italian bassist (Lacuna Coil)
- August 22, 1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- November 19, 1975 – Toby Bailey, American basketball player