Historical Events In 1975

Jun 05 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to international shipping. The canal had been closed since the 1967 war with Israel.

Jun 09 E Roemer discovers asteroid #1983 Bok

Jun 10 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans

Jun 13 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci

Jun 14 Janis Ian releases "At 17"

Jun 01 Ron Woods replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist

Jun 28 David Bowie releases "Fame"

Jun 06 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

Jun 17 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US

Jun 26 Supreme Court of Canada upholds PEI law banning non-residents from owning more than 4 hectares of land.(a small island?)

Jun 09 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners &1 guard (Sanford Fla)

Jun 24 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113

Jun 25 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal (National Day)

Jun 28 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)

Jun 02 James A Healy, first black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)

Jun 06 British voters decide to remain in Common Market

Jun 01 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 4th no-hitter beats Balt Orioles, 1-0

Jun 26 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

Jun 27 Hunting of Finback whales banned

Jun 14 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

Jun 23 Rocker Alice Cooper falls of stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs

Dec 21 First New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)

Dec 12 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

Dec 11 First class postage rises from $0.10 to $0.13

Dec 06 H-46 Sea Knight helicopters from NAS Whidbey Island began search and rescue operations in the northwestern Washington state areas flooded by heavy rains

Dec 26 Russia begins the world's first supersonic air transport service with its Tupolev-144 run from Moscow to Alma-Ata.

Dec 12 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)

Dec 28 Rob Niedermayer hockey player, was born at Cassiar, British Columbia

Dec 09 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC

Dec 14 6 South Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days

Dec 19 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice

Dec 07 Canadian skier Ken Read is the first Canadian to win a World Cup event, a downhill racve at Val D'Isere, France

Dec 05 NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed

Dec 17 Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life

Dec 27 Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)

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