WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1975
Find out what all happened August to November 1975

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

The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica) (15. September 1975)

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

Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. (25. November 1975)

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

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

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

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

Spain abandons Western Sahara. (14. November 1975)

The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. (4. September 1975)

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

Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. (16. October 1975)

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

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

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

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple. (22. September 1975)

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

East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. (28. November 1975)