June 1975 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jun 5 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

President of Egypt and Nobel Laureate Anwar Sadat

Jun 5 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA), which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers, becomes law
Jun 5 United Kingdom electorate votes 67% to 33% in a referendum to remain part of the European Common Market
Jun 6 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
Jun 6 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
Jun 8 2 passenger trains collided near Munich, Germany killing 35
Jun 8 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
Jun 9 Fire in prison hospital at Sanford, Florida, kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard
Jun 9 Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"
Jun 9 UK House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for first time
Jun 10 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
Jun 11 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
Jun 11 Greece adopts constitution
Jun 12 Billy Williams's 400th career HR
Jun 14 Janis Ian releases "At Seventeen"
Jun 14 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
Jun 16 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
Jun 16 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Jun 16 US Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
Jun 17 Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US
Jun 22 Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)
Jun 24 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113
Jun 24 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
Jun 25 After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique

State of Emergency

Jun 26 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

Jun 26 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
Jun 26 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
Jun 29 8.10" (20.57 cm) of rainfall, Litchville No Dakota (state 24-hr rec)
Jun 30 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
Jun 30 University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance

Birthdays in History

Jun 1 Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian politician, Prime Minister of Armenia (2018-), born in Ijevan, Soviet Union
Jun 13 Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
Jun 14 Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
Jun 22 Andreas Klöden, German professional road cyclist
Jun 26 KJ-52 [Jonah Kirsten Sorrentino], American hip hop artist, born in Tampa, Florida

Weddings in History

Jun 7 Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (21) weds Cheryl Alley (21) at Magnolia Park United Methodist Church in Burbank, California

Deaths in History

Eisaku Satō (1901-1975)

Jun 2 Prime Minister of Japan (1963-72) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974), dies of a stroke at 74

Jun 3 Satō Eisaku, Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72), (Nobel Peace Prize 1974), dies at 74
Jun 5 Kenneth Horne, British writer and playwright (Fools Rush In; The Coming-Out Party), dies of cancer at 75
Jun 8 Murray Leinster [William Fitzgerald Jenkins], American science-fiction author (Time Tunnel; Land of the Giants), dies at 78
Jun 12 Alfred Kurella, German author and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, dies at 80
Jun 14 Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
Jun 18 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king

Sam Giancana (1908-1975)

Jun 19 American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit (1957-66), dies of multiple gunshot wounds at 67

Jun 26 St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei, dies of cardiac arrest at 73
Jun 28 Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)