WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened February to September 1975

The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland. (31. July 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 first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. (16. September 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)

India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched. (19. 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 inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England. (7. June 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)

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

The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. (17. April 1975)

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

The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. (30. September 1975)

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

The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI. (14. September 1975)

Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. (20. August 1975)

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

Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. (8. April 1975)

Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia. (16. September 1975)

Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. (15. July 1975)

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