WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1975
Find out what all happened January to August 1975

Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico (4. April 1975)

Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army. (11. March 1975)

A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra. (2. January 1975)

Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure. (2. April 1975)

The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. (17. April 1975)

Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. (4. February 1975)

General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. (28. April 1975)

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982. (30. July 1975)

The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. (4. June 1975)

The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world. (9. April 1975)

The Comoros declares independence from France. (6. July 1975)

Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. (13. April 1975)

A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. (22. March 1975)

Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. (5. July 1975)

Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan. (10. May 1975)

East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. (11. August 1975)

In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. (28. February 1975)

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. (21. February 1975)

An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India (19. January 1975)

Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. (3. April 1975)