Editing 1975

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== Events ==
* 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 - [[Michael Slobodian|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 [[MRND|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 [[The Manson Family|Manson Family]] member [[Lynette Fromme|Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme]].
* October 23 - The Battle of the Hotels begins in Beirut, Lebanon.
* October 27 - [[Robert Poulin|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 [[Irish Republican Army|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 ==
=== Villain births ===
* 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 ===
* January 1 - Tammy Homolka
* May - David Johnson
* July 24 - Leigh Leigh
* September 20 - Colleen Slemmer 
* September 24 - Jessica Keen
* Unknown -  Fan Man-yee

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*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 ===
*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