1975 in India

← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in India → 1976 1977 1978
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Events in the year 1975 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi

Events

• 19 January – The 6.8 M_s Kinnaur earthquake shook northern India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Forty-seven people were killed.
• 19 April – The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, goes into Earth's orbit.
• 16 May – Sikkim annexed to India after a deposing the monarchy.
• 25 June – A state of emergency is declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during which the press is censored and 100,000 are jailed.
• Chasnala mining disaster

Births

January to June

• 31 January – Preity Zinta, actress.
• 28 March – Akshaye Khanna, actor and son of Vinod Khanna.
• 17 May – Dinesh Nayak, field hockey player.
• 26 May – Abbas, actor.
• 4 June – Bhuvaneshwari, actress.

July to December

• 6 July – Jeevan (Tamil actor)
• 28 August – Eijaz Khan, actor.
• 16 October – Rajeev Khandelwal, actor.
• 18 October – Kunal Kapoor, actor.
• 11 November – Diwakar Pundir, actor.
• 19 November – Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994, actress.
• 9 December – Priya Gill, actress.
• 14 December – Sukhbir Singh Gill, field hockey player.

Deaths

• 17 April – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, first Vice President of India and second President of India (b. 1888).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1975