WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened January to November 1975

Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable. (8. September 1975)

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

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

Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody. (2. January 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 Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. (30. September 1975)

The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. (1. October 1975)

The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica) (15. September 1975)

Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. (8. January 1975)

A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. (3. August 1975)

Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco. (22. November 1975)

Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. (1. October 1975)

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

Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. (5. July 1975)

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

In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day. (7. November 1975)

Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations. (10. October 1975)

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

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

Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. (17. July 1975)