The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48Β km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan Date: August 23, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 23 π Events on this day in 1975 π On This Day (Today)
The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration. Date: August 23, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 23 π Events…
ΔSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people. Date: August 20, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 20 π Events on this day in 1975 π On This Day (Today)
Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. Date: August 20, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 20 π Events on this day in 1975 π On This Day (Today)
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 song by Paul Kelly and an annual celebration. Date: August 16, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events…
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 β π Other events on August 15 π Events on this day in 1975 π 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 β π Other events on August 15 π Events on this day in 1975 π On This Day (Today)
East Timor: Governor MΓ‘rio 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 β π Other events on August 11 π Events on this day in 1975 π …
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 ChargΓ© 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 β…
A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. Date: August 3, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 3 π Events on this day in 1975 π On This Day (Today)