287 notable events from 1975 — murders, air crashes and wars. Page 1 of 3.
- David Berkowitz
Dec 24, 1975–Jul 31, 1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Jimmy Hoffa
Jul 30, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Cambodian genocide
Apr 17, 1975–Jan 7, 1979 · Cambodia · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Peter Sutcliffe
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1980 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Lebanese Civil War
Apr 13, 1975–Oct 13, 1990 · Lebanon · War & armed conflict
- Harold Shipman
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1998 · Murder & homicide
- SS Edmund Fitzgerald
until Nov 10, 1975 · United States · Maritime disaster
- Billy Milligan
Jan 1, 1975 · Crime & justice
- Operation Condor
Nov 25, 1975–1989 · Paraguay · Terrorism
- The Emergency (India)
Jun 25, 1975–Mar 21, 1977 · Disappearance
- Squeaky Fromme
Sep 5, 1975 · United States · Terrorism
- Travis Walton incident
Nov 5, 1975 · United States · Kidnapping & hostage
- Assassination of Sergio Ramelli
Apr 29, 1975 · Italy · Murder & homicide
- Robert Ben Rhoades
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1990 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Billy Mansfield
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1980 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Circeo massacre
Sep 29, 1975 · Italy · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Martha Moxley
Oct 30, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Himeyuri Memorial incident
Jul 17, 1975 · Japan · Terrorism
- Robert Lee Yates
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1998 · United States · War & armed conflict
- Indonesian invasion of East Timor
Dec 7, 1975–Mar 26, 1979 · Timor-Leste · Massacre
- Mayaguez incident
May 12, 1975–May 15, 1975 · Cambodia · Crisis
- Freddie Glenn
Jul 1, 1975 · United States · Attack (other)
- East Timor genocide
1975–1999 · Timor-Leste · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Operation Babylift
Apr 4, 1975 · Vietnam · War & armed conflict
- Indonesian occupation of East Timor
Dec 7, 1975–Oct 31, 1999 · Timor-Leste · Genocide & ethnic violence
- 1975 Australian constitutional crisis
1975 · Australia · Crisis
- Fall of Phnom Penh
Apr 17, 1975 · Cambodia · War & armed conflict
- Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle
Jan 1975 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant accident
Nov 30, 1975 · Russian Federation
- Moorgate tube crash
Feb 28, 1975 · United Kingdom · Rail accident
- Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in Sacramento
Sep 5, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Wednesday Strangler
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1989 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Aug 15, 1975 · Bangladesh · Murder & homicide
- Easter Sunday Massacre
Mar 30, 1975 · United States · Massacre
- West German Embassy siege in Stockholm
Apr 24, 1975 · Sweden · Kidnapping & hostage
- Kidnapping of Cristina Mazzotti
Jun 30, 1975–Aug 1, 1975 · Italy · Murder & homicide
- Auto Shankar
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1989 · India · Murder & homicide
- Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in San Francisco
Sep 22, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
Jun 24, 1975 · United States · Aviation accident
- Insurgency in Laos
from Dec 2, 1975 · Thailand · War & armed conflict
- Miami Showband killings
Jul 31, 1975 · United Kingdom · Bombing & explosion
- Battle of the Hotels
Oct 24, 1975–Mar 1976 · Lebanon · War & armed conflict
- Coup of 25 November 1975
Nov 25, 1975 · Portugal · War & armed conflict
- OPEC siege
Dec 23, 1975 · Austria · Kidnapping & hostage
- Travis Walton
Nov 5, 1975 · United States · Person
- Paweł Tuchlin
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1983 · Poland · Murder & homicide
- Bag murders
1975–1977 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Tasman Bridge disaster
Jan 5, 1975 · Australia · Maritime disaster
- Robert Alton Harris
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1978 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Jim Sullivan (musician)
Mar 6, 1975 · United States · Disappearance
- Charles Rodman Campbell
Jan 1, 1975–Apr 14, 1982 · United States · Attack (other)
- Murder of Lesley Molseed
Oct 5, 1975 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Altemio Sanchez
Jan 1, 1975–Sep 29, 2006 · Murder & homicide
- Jérôme Carrein
Oct 27, 1975 · Murder & homicide
- 1975 AIA building hostage crisis
Aug 4, 1975 · Malaysia · Kidnapping & hostage
- Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident
Feb 3, 1975 · Denmark · Epidemic & disease
- 1975 Beirut bus massacre
Apr 13, 1975 · Lebanon · Murder & homicide
- 1975 Tan Son Nhut Lockheed C-5 crash
Apr 4, 1975 · Vietnam · Aviation accident
- Murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon
Sep 10, 1975 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Bas Jan Ader
Aug 1, 1975 · Brazil · Disappearance
- Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting
May 28, 1975 · Canada · Shooting
- Balcombe Street siege
Dec 6, 1975–Dec 12, 1975 · United Kingdom · Kidnapping & hostage
- Great Oil Sniffer Hoax
1975 · France · Crime & justice
- Kidnapping of Carlo Saronio
Apr 14, 1975 · Italy · Kidnapping & hostage
- Los Galindos case
Jul 22, 1975 · Spain · Murder & homicide
- Sokolniki disaster
Mar 10, 1975 · Russian Federation · Stampede & crowd crush
- Assassination of Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Mar 25, 1975 · Saudi Arabia · Murder & homicide
- 1975 Dutch train hijacking
Dec 14, 1975 · Netherlands · Aviation accident
- Via Caravaggio massacre
Oct 31, 1975 · Italy · Massacre
- Spaghetti House siege
Sep 28, 1975–Oct 3, 1975 · United Kingdom · Kidnapping & hostage
- 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash
May 27, 1975 · United Kingdom · Road accident
- Black Saturday (Lebanon)
Dec 6, 1975 · Lebanon · Massacre
- Juanita Nielsen
Jul 4, 1975 · Disappearance
- 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash
Aug 3, 1975 · Morocco · Aviation accident
- 1975 Omaha tornado outbreak
1975 · United States · Natural disaster
- 1975 Lake Aoki bus crash
Jan 1, 1975 · Japan · Road accident
- Ann Arbor Hospital murders
1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Denver Prostitute Killer
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1995 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Malév Flight 240
Sep 30, 1975 · Italy · Aviation accident
- Flat-Tire murders
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1976 · United States · Murder & homicide
- 1975 New York City fiscal crisis
1975 · United States · Crisis
- Barbecue murders
Jun 21, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Shadian incident
1975 · China · Riot & unrest
- Graneris Case
Nov 13, 1975 · Italy · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Marcia Trimble
Feb 25, 1975 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Chukaku-ha secretary-general internal factional murder case
Mar 14, 1975 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Graham Hill plane crash
Nov 29, 1975 · United Kingdom · Aviation accident
- March 1975 Portuguese coup d'état attempt
Mar 11, 1975 · Portugal · War & armed conflict
- Chasnala mining disaster
Dec 27, 1975 · India · Industrial & structural disaster
- Columba McVeigh
Nov 1, 1975 · Terrorism
- Horst David
Jan 1, 1975–Jan 1, 1993 · Germany · Murder & homicide
- Aleria standoff
Aug 21, 1975–Aug 22, 1975 · France · War & armed conflict
- Overseas National Airways Flight 032
Nov 12, 1975 · United States · Aviation accident
- St. Pius X High School shooting
Oct 27, 1975 · Canada · Shooting
- Fire on the Lüneburg Heath
Aug 1975 · Germany · Fire
- ČSA Flight 540
Aug 20, 1975 · Syrian Arab Republic · Aviation accident
- Operation Colombo
1975 · Chile · Massacre
- 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing
Dec 29, 1975 · United States · Bombing & explosion
- 1975 World Trade Center fire
Feb 12, 1975 · United States · Fire
- Murder of Alceste Campanile
Jun 12, 1975 · Italy · Murder & homicide