What Happened In February 1975 In History

Historical Events for February, 1975

• 4th » 1975 Haicheng earthquake named Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter magnitude scale known as Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
• 5th » Riots break in Lima called Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike February 4 called the day before. The uprising (locally known as the 'Limazo') is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
• 6th » Kankesanthurai Electoral District by-election, 1975 or A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
• 9th » The Soyuz 17 Soviet Union known as Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• 21st » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• 28th » In London an underground train Moorgate tube crash called fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1975

• 1st » Big Boi, American rapper and producer (Outkast and Purple Ribbon All-Stars)
• 1st » Martijn Reuser, Dutch footballer
• 1st » Ekaterini Thanou, Greek sprinter
• 2nd » Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2nd » Donald Driver, American football player
• 2nd » Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
• 2nd » Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
• 3rd » Brad Thorn, New Zealand rugby player
• 4th » Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 4th » Thomas Tebbich, Austrian decathlete
• 5th » Brainpower, Belgian-Dutch rapper
• 5th » Adam Carson, American drummer (AFI (band) called AFI and Tiger Army)
• 5th » Alison Hammond, English television host
• 5th » Denys Hotfrid, Russian-Ukrainian weightlifter
• 5th » Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer
• 6th » Chad Allen (baseball) or Chad Allen, American baseball player
• 6th » Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish computer scientist and engineer, created Orkut
• 6th » Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
• 6th » Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (The Brilliant Green and Tommy heavenly6)
• 7th » Wes Borland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Limp Bizkit, Black Light Burns, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist)
• 7th » Alexandre Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 7th » Rémi Gaillard, French comedian and actor
• 9th » Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist
• 9th » Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-Australian pole vaulter
• 9th » Clinton Grybas, Australian sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 9th » Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
• 10th » Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
• 10th » Konstantin Nahk, Estonian footballer
• 10th » Kool Savas, German-Turkish rapper (Masters of Rap)
• 11th » Andy Lally, American race car driver
• 11th » Marek Špilár, Slovak footballer
• 11th » Jacque Vaughn, American basketball player
• 12th » Cliff Bleszinski, American video game designer
• 12th » Scot Pollard, American basketball player
• 13th » Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler, German politician
• 13th » Ben Collins (racing driver) or Ben Collins, English race car driver
• 13th » Tony Dalton, American-Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 14th » Xie Hui (footballer) called Xie Hui, Chinese footballer
• 14th » Yul Kwon, American lawyer and television host
• 14th » Scott Owen, Australian bassist (The Living End)
• 14th » Malik Zidi, French actor
• 15th » Serge Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 15th » Annemarie Kramer, Dutch sprinter
• 15th » Brendon Small, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 16th » Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer
• 16th » Vanina Ickx, Belgian race car driver
• 16th » Don Jeffcoat, American actor
• 17th » Harisu, South Korean singer and actress
• 17th » Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
• 17th » Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 17th » Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
• 18th » Sarah Brown (actress) known as Sarah Brown, American actress
• 18th » Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
• 18th » Simon Kvamm, Danish singer, keyboard player, and actor (Nephew (band) known as Nephew)
• 18th » Charly Manson, Mexican wrestler
• 18th » Gary Neville, English footballer
• 19th » Daniel Adair, Canadian drummer and producer (Nickelback and 3 Doors Down)
• 19th » Mikko Kavén, Finnish footballer
• 19th » Katja Schuurman, Dutch actress and singer
• 19th » Daewon Song, South Korean-American skateboarder, co-founded Almost Skateboards
• 20th » Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 20th » Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 20th » Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 21st » Wish Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
• 21st » Troy Slaten, American actor
• 22nd » Alun Armstrong (footballer) e.g Alun Armstrong, English footballer
• 22nd » Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 23rd » Michael Cornacchia, American actor
• 23rd » Robert Lopez, American composer
• 23rd » Maryse Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter
• 23rd » Natalia Verbeke, Argentinian actress
• 24th » Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler
• 25th » Mandingo (pornographic actor) called Mandingo, American porn actor
• 25th » Chelsea Handler, American comedian, actress, author, and talk show host
• 25th » Naga Munchetty, English journalist
• 25th » Dmitri Suur, Russian-Estonian ice hockey player
• 26th » Frank Busemann, German decathlete
• 27th » Nikita Gross, Czech-Russian porn actress and model
• 27th » Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
• 27th » Christopher B. Landon, American director and screenwriter
• 27th » Evgenia Manolidou, Greek composer and conductor
• 28th » Mike Rucker, American football player
• 28th » Greg Simkins, American painter

Famous Deaths for February 1975

• 2nd » Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian (b. 1883)
• 4th » Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
• 4th » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Tympany Five) (b. 1908)
• 8th » Robert Robinson (organic chemist) named Robert Robinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 9th » Pierre Dac, French activist (b. 1893)
• 10th » Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet (b. 1910)
• 11th » Maria Balcerkiewiczówna, Polish actress (b. 1903)
• 11th » Konstantin Ramul, Estonian psychologist (b. 1879)
• 11th » Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy colonel and politician, President of Madagascar (b. 1931)
• 13th » André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
• 13th » Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
• 14th » Julian Huxley, English biologist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
• 14th » P. G. Wodehouse, English author and poet (b. 1881)
• 16th » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler (b. 1903)
• 16th » Norman Treigle, American opera singer (b. 1927)
• 19th » Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
• 23rd » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 24th » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 25th » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
• 27th » Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (b. 1906)

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