WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1975
Find out what all happened February to May 1975

First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club (5. March 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)

The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. (26. March 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)

Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (16. May 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)

India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched. (19. April 1975)

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

India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India. (16. May 1975)

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

Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. (6. March 1975)

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

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

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

The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. (9. February 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)

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