* 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

" The rock band The Cramps, who formed in Sacramento, California in 1972 and relocated to New York in 1975 where they became part of the city's thriving punk movement, appropriated the term from the Cash song and described their music as " psychobilly " and " rockabilly voodoo " on flyers advertising their concerts.

The National Championship game was held at Sacramento, California from 1973 – 1975.

Reagan was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on the road in Los Angeles, and then Sacramento, while his father was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

Douglas N. " Doug " Davis ( born September 21, 1975, in Sacramento, California ) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals organization.

Sax starred at James Marshall High school ( now known as River City High School ) in West Sacramento from 1975 to 1978 before being drafted by the Dodgers on June 6, 1978 in the ninth round of the 1978 Amateur Draft.

In 1975, KROY had moved to facilities in Old Sacramento.

In September 1975, Schwab opened its first branch in Sacramento, CA, and started offering discount brokerage.

In September 1975, Schwab opened its first branch in Sacramento, CA, and started offering discount brokerage.

* Dan Adams, four time Emmy award winning reporter for KXTV, News 10, Sacramento, anchored news on KCSB-FM from 1971 through 1975.

* 1975: J. D., McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California

A Seattle native, he moved to the Sacramento, California area in 1975, and now lives in the New York City area.

* 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

( Most notably, in the case Li v. Yellow Cab Co., 13 Cal. 3d 804 ( 1975 ), the California Supreme Court adopted the principle of comparative negligence in the face of a California Civil Code provision codifying the traditional common-law doctrine of contributory negligence.

degree in biochemistry in 1972, and his Ph. D. degree in physiology and pharmacology in 1975, both from the University of California, San Diego.

After Irving Stowe died in 1975, Phyllis Cormack left from Vancouver to face Soviet whalers on the coast of California.

Arn Ginsburg moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1975, where he worked as an architectural designer, designing the innovative Ginsburg House.

On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California, in the process killing 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four depositing money for her church.

He returned to the United States in 1975 and went into seclusion in the California desert.

Examples: The New School in New York City ( the first Media Studies Program in the country, created in 1975 ), The Paley Center for Media in New York City, Comparative Media Studies at MIT, Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, Rhetoric and Media Studies at Willamette University, Media Studies in Communication at Kennesaw State University, the Instructional Technology and Media Program at Columbia University, and The Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

From 1975 until his death in 1996, he and his wife spent their winters at a second home in Palm Springs, California, USA.

Nancy was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975.

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

" Faretta v. California, 422 U. S. 806, 821-22 ( 1975 ).

Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A & M.

In 1975, now having relocated to California and built their own studio, Shangri-La, The Band released Northern Lights – Southern Cross, their first album of all-new material since 1971's Cahoots.

Collins and his wife, Judy, had taken part in the triathlons staged in 1974 and 1975 by the San Diego Track Club in and around Mission Bay, California, as well as the Optimist Sports Fiesta Triathlon in Coronado, California, in 1975.

Unlike most other University of California campuses, UCI was not named for the city it was built in ; at the time of the university's founding ( 1965 ), the current city of Irvine ( established in 1975 ) did not exist.

He has also held academic positions at Cornell University ( 1972 – 73 ), University of California, Berkeley ( 1973 – 1975 ), Stanford University ( 1974 – 1980 ), and New York University ( 1981 – 1985 ).

* Days May Come and Days May Go, the California Rehearsals, June 1975 ( 2000 )

In 1975, Leonard Nimoy filmed an opening introduction to Ripley's World of the Unexplained museum located at Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Fisherman's Wharf at San Francisco, California.

* 1970 – In response to increasingly stringent federal emission standards that would ultimately lead to mandating of unleaded gasoline in 1975 and later-model cars and trucks, Texaco introduced Lead-free Texaco as the first regular-octane lead-free gasoline at stations in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California.