Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. Date: August 15, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 15 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. Date: August 15, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 15 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: August 11, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 11 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅…
The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. Date: August 4, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia →…
A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. Date: August 3, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 3 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
The final act of the CSCE meeting is signed in Helsinki, Finland. Date: August 1, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 1 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland. Date: July 31, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 31 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. Date: July 30, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 30 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅…
Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead. Date: July 27, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 27 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. Date: July 17, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 17 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today)