Timeline July 1975

Events in July 1975 12

• 1975 Wimbledon 1975 Men: Arthur Ashe · Women: Billie Jean King Arthur Ashe beat Connors in a famous tactical victory.
• 1975 Cape Verde declares independence from Portugal Former Portuguese colony becomes sovereign nation Cape Verde gained independence from Portugal on 5 July 1975 following the collapse of Portugal's colonial empire after the Carnation Revolution. The PAIGC party, which had also led Guinea-Bissau's independence movement, formed the new government. Aristides Pereira became the country's first president.
• 1975 Comoros declares independence from France Islands split over independence vote Comoros unilaterally declared independence from France on 6 July 1975 after a referendum in which most islands voted to separate while Mayotte voted to remain French. Ahmed Abdallah became the country's first president. Mayotte's continued status as a French territory remained a lasting source of dispute.
• 1975 Fleetwood Mac release Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon The first album with the new line-up, a slow-building number one.
• 1975 Sao Tome and Principe declares independence Former Portuguese colony becomes sovereign nation The island nation of Sao Tome and Principe gained independence from Portugal on 12 July 1975. Manuel Pinto da Costa of the MLSTP became the country's first president. The economy remained heavily dependent on cocoa production inherited from the colonial plantation system.
• 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project US and Soviet spacecraft dock in orbit An American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked in Earth orbit on 17 July 1975, the first joint crewed space mission between the two Cold War rivals. The mission symbolized the era of detente and was the last flight of the Apollo program. Astronauts and cosmonauts shook hands and shared meals aboard the linked craft.
• 1975 – present Gareth Edwards British film director, screenwriter, and visual effects artist Gareth Edwards is an English filmmaker known for blending grounded, documentary-style realism with large-scale visual effects, a style he taught himself while working in British television before breaking into Hollywood. He rose from making a micro-budget monster movie almost single-handedly to directing two of the biggest studio franchises of the 2010s, Godzilla and Star Wars, and later returned to original filmmaking with The Creator. His career is notable for proving that photorealistic VFX could be achieved on a fraction of typical blockbuster budgets, a skill he leveraged at every stage of his career.
• 1975 Gareth Edwards born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire Gareth Edwards is born Gareth Edwards was born on 15 July 1975 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. He grew up with an early interest in filmmaking and visual art, which he pursued through higher education rather than film school in the traditional sense.
• 1975 Bob Marley records Live! at the Lyceum London The live No Woman, No Cry becomes his breakthrough hit in Britain.
• 1975 – present Ray Allen Jesus Shuttlesworth Held the record for most three-pointers for a decade; 2-time champion.
• 1975 – present Kavinsky French Electronic Musician French electronic musician and synthwave pioneer, born Vincent Belorgey, whose track Nightcall became a defining piece of 2010s popular culture after it was featured in the opening credits of Nicolas Winding Refn's film Drive (2011). He created the fictional persona of Kavinsky — a mysterious driver who crashed his Ferrari Testarossa in 1986, died, and returned as a zombie twenty years later to make electronic music. Alongside Daft Punk and Justice, he was one of the key figures of the French electronic music scene.
• 1975 Kavinsky born in Seine-Saint-Denis Born Vincent Pierre Claude Belorgey in Seine-Saint-Denis, the working-class departement northeast of Paris. Learned piano at a local youth centre, where his first instruments were a melodica, a Casio synthesiser and a Roland TR-808 drum machine.