September 1975 in History

Events in History

Assassination Attempt

Sep 5 First assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Sacramento, California

Sep 5 Portugal Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves dismissed
Sep 6 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice, Turkey
Sep 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 8 Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
Sep 8 Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
Sep 9 Viking 2 Mars probe launches
Sep 13 -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in the Caribbean & US

Canonization

Sep 14 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI

1st American-born Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Sep 14 Rembrandt's oil painting "The Night Watch" slashed & damaged by an unemployed school teacher, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sep 15 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
Sep 15 The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
Sep 16 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
Sep 16 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
Sep 17 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
Sep 18 American publishing heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco, California
Sep 19 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
Sep 20 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28½" draw
Sep 22 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
Sep 22 World Football League folds
Sep 24 OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues
Sep 27 Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
Sep 28 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies
Sep 28 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
Sep 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Sep 29 WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting
Sep 30 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel at Niagara Falls, New York
Sep 30 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

Birthdays in History

Sep 10 Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
Sep 18 "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
Sep 18 Youssef Chahed, Tunisian politician and Prime Minister of Tunisia (2016-present), born in Tunis, Tunisia
Sep 23 Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
Sep 24 Kyle Turley, American football offensive lineman (First-team All-Pro 2000 New Orleans Saints; Second-team All-Pro 2003 St. Louis Rams), born in Provo, Utah
Sep 24 Nick Hague, American NASA astronaut (Soyuz MS-10 & 12), born in Belleville, Kansas
Sep 30 Jay Asher, American writer, born in Arcadia, California
Sep 30 Laure Péquégnot, French skier, born in Isère, France
Sep 30 Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author, born in Baltimore, Maryland

Weddings in History

Danielle Steel

Sep 13 Novelist Danielle Steel (28) weds Danny Zugelder in the prison canteen

Deaths in History

Sep 10 George Paget Thomson, English physicist who demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937), dies at 83 [1]
Sep 10 Robert Gordon Sproul, American educator and college president (University of California), dies at 84
Sep 16 Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
Sep 18 Fairfield Porter, American painter, dies at 68
Sep 20 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
Sep 24 Earle Cabell, American politician, 48th Mayor of Dallas (1961-64), dies at 68
Sep 26 Jacob Paludan, Danish writer and critic (Jorgen Stein), dies at 79
Sep 27 Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)