WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1975
Find out what all happened January to October 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)

Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. (3. April 1975)

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

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. (25. March 1975)

In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. (28. February 1975)

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

Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. (4. February 1975)

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

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

8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged. (9. April 1975)

Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther". (14. January 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)

General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. (28. April 1975)

Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. (27. March 1975)

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

Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. (8. January 1975)

Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls. (21. April 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)

The Comoros declares independence from France. (6. 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)