May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
Day of death April 1, 1975
The temperature on April 1, 1975 was between 1.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
March 6 » Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
July 17 » Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
August 3 » A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
November 28 » East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
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