WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened April to November 1975

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

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

The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group. (27. August 1975)

CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. (1. August 1975)

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

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

Mozambique achieves independence. (25. June 1975)

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

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)

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

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

Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. (13. April 1975)

Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982. (30. July 1975)

The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. (22. October 1975)

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

The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations. (16. September 1975)

India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched. (19. April 1975)

Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog. (29. November 1975)