WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1975
Find out what all happened May to August 1975

Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. (28. May 1975)

Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. (29. June 1975)

Mozambique achieves independence. (25. June 1975)

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

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of internal Emergency declared in India. (25. June 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 Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. (14. August 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)

The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. (4. June 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)

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

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

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

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

The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. (4. August 1975)

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

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

The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. (5. June 1975)

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