WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened January to December 1975

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

WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station. (29. September 1975)

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

The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. (27. November 1975)

The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. (30. January 1975)

Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. (5. July 1975)

Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody. (2. January 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)

Indonesia invades East Timor. (7. December 1975)

CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. (1. August 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 Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. (28. September 1975)

A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra. (2. January 1975)

Mozambique achieves independence. (25. June 1975)

Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. (15. August 1975)

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

Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. (5. September 1975)

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