WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1975
Find out what all happened January to June 1975

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

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

Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. (2. April 1975)

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

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

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

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

The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. (26. March 1975)

Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure. (2. April 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)

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

Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther". (14. January 1975)

Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. (26. June 1975)

The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC). (5. June 1975)

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