About the day » Tuesday May 6, 1975Calender converter

• Christopher John HAYES († 2003)
• Dennis Antonio Faber, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1975)
• Mickaëlle LEPERLIER, Saint-Louis,97421,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1975)
• Dennis Antonio Faber, Nieuw-Buinen Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland († 1975)
• Dennis Antonio * Faber, Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1975)

• Anna Maria Cornelia SPRONK (69), Wageningen
• Adriana Maria Gertruda Souwen (74), Tilburg
• Alida Reinalda van Buggenum (68), Beverwijk
• Adrianus Raaijmakers (53), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Renalda Van Buggenum (68), Doetinchem
• Anna Hermina HEERINGS (87), Den Haag (NL/ZH)
• Andries Altenburg (57), Voorschoten
• Alijda Jacoba Poots (80), Rotterdam
• Arnold ADEGEEST (76), Nieuwerkerk
• Bartholomeus Johannes Westerbeek van Eerten (86), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1972 » Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 » Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
• 1974 » Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
• 1975 » Alan Richardson, English cricketer and coach
• 1976 » Dean Chandler, English footballer
• 1976 » Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer
• 1977 » Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver
• 1977 » Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
• 1977 » Marc Chouinard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
• 1973 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1975 » József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
• 1980 » María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
• 1983 » Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bonner Pink, English politician (b. 1912)
• 1984 » Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (b. 1904)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 13.6 million citizens.
• January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• June 1 » The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
• 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 11 » East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
• October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
• November 10 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.

The temperature on May 6, 1975 was between 7.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.