WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened February to November 1975

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

Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff; 172 die. (4. April 1975)

For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. (6. March 1975)

Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. (29. June 1975)

The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. (4. September 1975)

The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests. (11. October 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)

The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. (28. September 1975)

Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. (15. August 1975)

Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. (12. May 1975)

Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December. (11. November 1975)

Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home. (1. October 1975)

The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. (27. August 1975)

The Comoros joins the United Nations. (12. November 1975)

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. (25. March 1975)

The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations. (16. September 1975)

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. (27. March 1975)

Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail. (3. November 1975)

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. (14. September 1975)

Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. (8. April 1975)

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