May 1975 in History

Events in History

May 7 US President Gerald Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

May 10 Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75', an unofficial record
May 11 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
May 12 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
May 13 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville, Tennessee
May 14 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
May 14 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
May 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 16 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
May 16 Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest
May 17 10CC releases "I'm Not in Love"
May 19 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
May 21 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of US Equal Opportunity Commission
May 21 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
May 24 Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
May 26 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
May 27 Worst motor vehicle disaster in UK; brakes fail on a bus full of elderly women and it plunges 17 feet off the road at Dibble's Bridge, Yorkshire, killing 33; a similar accident occurred there killing 11 in 1925
May 28 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is established by the Treaty of Lagos
May 28 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 launches
May 30 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
May 31 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition

May 4 Laci Peterson, American murder victim, born in Modesto, California (d. 2002)
May 12 Jared Polis, American businessman and politician, Governor of Colorado (2018-), born in Boulder, Colorado
May 14 Nicki Sørensen, Danish road cyclist
May 17 Cheick Kongo, French martial artist
May 17 Jonti Picking, British cartoonist
May 26 Kwasi Kwarteng, British politician (Chancellor of the Exchequer), born in London, England
May 30 Marissa Mayer, American technology executive (CEO of Yahoo, designed Google home page), born in Wausau, Wisconsin

May 3 Samuel Gonard, Swiss lawyer and chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
May 6 József Mindszenty [József Pehm], Hungarian cardinal who opposed fascism and communism in Hungary, dies at 83
May 14 Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American television pioneer (Alexanderson alternator), dies at 97 [1]
May 16 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder

May 18 Polish-American physical chemist (Fajans' rules), dies at 84

May 20 Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
May 28 Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies
May 30 Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist and founder of Isshinryu Karate, dies at 66