* 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor

* 1975 – Hal Gill, American hockey player

* 1975 – Damon Pampolina, American musician and actor ( The Party )

* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.

* 1975 – Elliott Sadler, American race car driver

* 1975 – Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal vocalist ( Amorphis )

* 1975 – Michael Chaturantabut, Thai-American actor

* 1975 – Johnny Galecki, American actor

* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.

* 1975 – Blake Adams, American golfer

* 1975 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarist and songwriter ( In Flames and All Ends )

* 1975 – Jonny Moseley, American skier

* 1975 – Mark Rudan, Australian footballer

* 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier

* 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1975 – Mahesh Babu, Indian Telugu Actor

* 1975 – Mike Lamb, American baseball player

* 1975 – Robbie Middleby, Australian footballer

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1975 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1975 – Joe Perry, English snooker player

* 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.

Originally known as " Eastern Swing " by Arthur Murray Studios, the name East Coast Swing became more common between 1975 and 1980.

In 1975, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal caused authorities there to announce plans for decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, the eastern half of the island of Timor whose western half was a part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.

The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in December 1975 and its annexation in 1976 and the referendum on independence of East Timor from Indonesia in August 1999 strained Indonesia's relations with the international community.

Goa was invaded by India in 1961 and became an Indian state in 1987 ; East Timor was abandoned in 1975 and was then invaded by Indonesia.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

* 1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

* 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor ( now East Timor ), are killed by Indonesian troops.

Later, Portugal relinquished control over East Timor in 1975, at which time Indonesia promptly invaded and annexed it.

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* Lebanese Civil War ( 1975 – 1990 )-A civil war in the Middle East which at times also involved the PLO and Israel during the early 1980s.

Portugal granted independence to East Timor in 1975, but it was soon after invaded by Indonesia, which only recognized East Timorese independence in 2002.

In East Timor, which was an Indonesian province from 1975 to 1999, Indonesian is recognised by the constitution as one of the two working languages ( the other being English ), alongside the official languages of Tetum and Portuguese.

In 1975, Portuguese rule ended in East Timor.

By decision of the Ministry of Defense-Air Force, in 10 December 1975 the airport was named Tito Minniti, first pilot crashed in East Africa December 26, 1935 during the Ethiopian war.

On 28 November 1975, East Timorese declared the territory's independence.

In 1975 the currency ceased to exist as East Timor was annexed by Indonesia and began using the Indonesian rupiah.

As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor ( FRETILIN ), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor ( 1975 to 1999 ).

When Indonesia occupied East Timor between 1975 and 1999, declaring it " the Republic's 27th Province ", the use of Portuguese was banned, and Indonesian was declared the sole official language, but the Roman Catholic Church adopted Tetum as its liturgical language, making it a focus for cultural and national identity.