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

• Portuguese Cape Verde:
  • Provincial high commissioner: Vicente Almeida d'Eça (until July 5)
• Republic of Cape Verde (July 5 and after):
  • President: Aristides Pereira
  • Prime Minister: Pedro Pires

• April 21: Paulino do Livramento Évora became the first Cape Verdean born bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
• June 30: the first Cape Verdean parliamentary elections took place
• July 5 - Cape Verde gained independence after over 500 years of Portuguese rule. The National Assembly elected Aristides Pereira as President and Pedro Pires as Prime Minister.^[1]

• Mindelo-based newspaper Terra Nova established
• March 12: The first transmission of television in the nation began under the name Televisão Experimental de Cabo Verde or TEVEC (now RTC)

• January 20: Boss AC, rapper
• February 3: Lito, footballer and manager
• November 5: Crispina Correia, basketball player
• November 10: Suzanna Lubrano, singer
• December 7: Mateus Lopes, footballer

• May 29: Sergio Frusoni (b. 1901), writer