1975

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Events edit

March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
April 13 - Beginning of the Lebanese Civil War.
April 13 - Francois Tombalbaye is overthrown as President of Chad.
April 17 - The Cambodian Civil War ends when Lon Nol is deposed by the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot renames the country Democratic Kampuchea and becomes the de facto leader of the country. Beginning of the Cambodian Genocide.
April 30 - End of the Vietnam War. Vietnam is re-unified under the rule of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
May 1 - Beginning of the Third Indochina War.
May 28 - Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting
May 29 - Gustáv Husák is elected President of Czechoslovakia.
June 30 - Paul Biya is named the first Prime Minister of Cameroon.
July - Augusto Pinochet lauches Operation Colombo.
July 5 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, establishes the National Revolutionary Movement for Development to serve as the governing political party of Rwanda.
July 29 - Yakubu Gowon is overthrown as dictator of Nigeria in a military coup.
September 5 - U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt in Sacramento, California by former Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme.
October 23 - The Battle of the Hotels begins in Beirut, Lebanon.
October 27 - St. Pius X Catholic school shooting
November 11 - Agostinho Neto is named the first President of Angola. Beginning of the Angolan Civil War.
November 29 - A bomb detonates in the restroom at Dublin Airport, killing an Aer Lingus employee and injuring 11 at a bar nearby. The Ulster Defence Association claims responsibility.
December 2 - The Laotian Civil War ends when the Lao Royal Family is deposed by the Pathet Lao. The country is reorganized into the Lao People's Democratic Republic .
December 7 - Suharto, President of Indonesia, invades and occupies East Timor, and also launches a campaign of genocide against East Timor.
December 12 - The Balcombe Street Gang, a Provisional IRA unit responsible for several bombings in Great Britain, surrenders to the police, ending their campaign.
December 29 - The 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing occurs when a bomb detonates near the TWA baggage reclaim terminal at LaGuardia Airport, New York City, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 74 others. The perpetrators were never identified, although investigators and historians believe that Croatian nationalists were the most likely.
Unknown - RENAMO is founded.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 14 - Ricardo Lopez
February 7 - Mohammed Bijeh
February 12 - Shawn Allen Berry
February 22 - Stephen Port
April 4 - Mateus da Costa Meira
April 19 - Miska Toiviainen
May 11 - Ziad Jarrah
May 12 - Lawrence Phillips
May 16 - Khalid al-Mihdhar
July 15 - Said Bahaji
July 18 - Alexis Flores
August 6 - Curtis Ray Watson
October 28 - Melinda Loveless
November 4 - John Hummel
November 12 - Kyle Chapman
November 30 - Mindy McCready
Unknown - Khalid Adem
Unknown - Jamie Fuller

Victim births edit

January 1 - Tammy Homolka
May - David Johnson
July 3 - Linda Healy
July 24 - Leigh Leigh
September 20 - Colleen Slemmer
September 24 - Jessica Keen
October 14 - Rachel Hurley
Unknown - Fan Man-yee

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 5 - Gottlob Berger
January 17 - Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
February 7 - Branimir Donchev
February 25 - Elijah Muhammed
February 25 - Heung Chin
March 30 - Charles Schmid
April 5 - Chiang Kai-shek
April 13 - Francois Tombalbaye
May 28 - Michael Slobodian
June 18 - Faisal bin Musaid
October 27 - Robert Poulin
November 1 - Anthony Barbaro
November 20 - Francisco Franco
November 30 - Harry J. Anslinger
December 8 - Plínio Salgado

Victim deaths edit

February 26 - Stephen Tibble
March 25 - Faisal bin Abdulaziz al Saud
October 25 - Vladimir Herzog
October 30 - Martha Moxley
November 27 - Ross McWhirter
November 29 - John Hayes