January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
Day of death December 10, 1975
The temperature on December 10, 1975 was between 3.9 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
July 12 » São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
August 15 » Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
September 29 » WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
November 10 » The 729-foot-long freighter SSEdmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
Day of cremation December 15, 1975
The average temperature on December 15, 1975 was -4.5 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 5 » Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
September 4 » The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
November 11 » Independence of Angola.
November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.
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