WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1975
Find out what all happened February to 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)

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)

Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh. (30. 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)

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

A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka. (6. 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)

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)

Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign - North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam. (10. March 1975)

Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls. (21. April 1975)

Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. (29. April 1975)

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

Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. (5. February 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)

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

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

Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. (2. April 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)

As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam. (25. April 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)