1975 in Cape Verde

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See also: Other events of 1975
Timeline of Cabo Verdean history

The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Cape Verde.

Incumbents

Events

  • The ban on music genres including tabanka, funaná and batuque were lifted in Praia and the island of Santiago
  • The island capital Porto Inglês changed its name to Vila do Maio, residents still calls it by the former name today
  • Newspaper Terra Nova founded, the first newspaper mainly served for the island
  • Santiago Maior changed its name to Pedra Badejo on Santiago Island
  • Serviço Nacional de Estatística established, became the census institute for Cape Verde, the name would be used for 21 years
  • The site that was the Tarrafal prison handed over to Cape Verde, it would be used as a military base named Tarrafal for nearly two decades
  • April 21 - Paulino do Livramento Évora became the first Cape Verdean born bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
  • June 30: the Cape Verdean parliamentary elections took place before independence
  • July 5 - Cape Verde gained independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule of the 15 inhabited islands off of the coast of West Africa. At Praia, Portugal's Prime Minister Vasco Goncalves turning over power to National Assembly President Abilio Duarte. Later in the day, the assembly elected Aristides Pereira as President and Pedro Pires as Prime Minister.[1]
  • mid-July TACV Cabo Verde Airlines became a national airline carrier for Cape Verde
  • Autumn: Empresa Pública dos Correios e Telecomunicaçöes, (CTT-EP, Portuguese for the Post and Telecommunications Public Company) founded, it existed up to 1995, one became Correios de Cabo Verde
  • September 29: Banco Nacional Ultramarino nationalized in Cape Verde, the Bank of Cape Verde was established
  • December 31: TEVEC started operating

Arts and entertainment

  • March 12: The first transmissions of television in the nation began under the name Televisão Experimental de Cabo Verde or TEVEC (now RTC)

Sports

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ "Cape Verde Islands Become Free After 500 Years of Portuguese Rule", Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune, July 6, 1975, pD-1
  2. ↑ "History of AD Bairro". Club website. 13 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14.


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