São Tomé and Príncipe Independence from Portugal, July 12, 1975

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)…

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism. Date: November 10, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 10 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1975Cambodian Civil War Ends, Khmer Rouge Captures…

Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox. Date: October 16, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 16 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1975100,000 Armenians Gather in Beirut for Armenian Genocide Commemoration, May 6,…

The Comoros joins the United Nations. Date: November 12, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 12 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1975NASA Launches Viking 1 Mars Probe, August 20, 1975Aeroflot Flight E-15 Crashes Near Batumi, 40 Killed, July 15, 1975Ella…

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 📅…

The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. Date: November 10, 1975 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 10 📅 Events on this day in 1975 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1975Corsica Split into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud September…