WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1975
Find out what all happened August to October 1975

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

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

The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. (1. October 1975)

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

East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. (11. August 1975)

The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests. (11. October 1975)

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

Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. (15. August 1975)

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

The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. (28. September 1975)

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

Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List. (18. September 1975)

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

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

Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable. (8. September 1975)

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

Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home. (1. October 1975)

The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. (16. October 1975)

The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. (16. September 1975)