WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1975
Find out what all happened March to June 1975

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

Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. (28. May 1975)

Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. (27. May 1975)

Mozambique achieves independence. (25. June 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)

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)

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

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)

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

The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England. (7. June 1975)

First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club (5. March 1975)

The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. (5. June 1975)

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

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

The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC). (5. June 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)

Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. (16. May 1975)