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1974 (MCMLXXIV common year starting on Tuesday .
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown date
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December
3 Deaths
3.1 January - March 3.2 April - June 3.3 July - September 3.4 October - December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Fields Medalists 6 Templeton Prize 7 External links
Events January February February 1 - Fire breaks out in the Joelman Bank Building in São Paulo , Brazil ; 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
February 3 - In the second Bathurst Gaol riot, prisoners destroy much of the facility with petrol bombs.
February 4 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patricia Hearst , the 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst .
February 8 - After 84 days in outer space , the crew of Skylab 4 Earth .
February 12 - U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in Washington State are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S. government.
February 13 - Nobel Prize winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns May 27 , 1994 ).
February 17 - A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo , killing 49.
February 21 - The long-running comic strip "Sazae-san " is published in the Asahi Shimbun February 22 - The Second Islamic Summit Conference by Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of Pakistan , from 29 Moharram to 1st Safar , 1394 H, (22-24 Febraury, 1974).
February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst .
February 27 - People magazine is published for the first time.
February 28 - The United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party .
February 28 - Ethiopian prime minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold , who has held the position since 1961 , is dismissed by Emperor Haile Selassie and replaced with Endelkachew Makonnen .
March April May May 4 - An all female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal , becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
May 4 - The Expo '74 World's Fair opens in Spokane, Washington .
May 7 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
May 9 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon .
May 12 - Fire damages the carousel in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada, damaging 20 animals.
May 15 - German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel is elected President of Germany for a term beginning July 1 .
May 16 - Helmut Schmidt is elected West German Chancellor .
May 17 - Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing 6 members, including Camilla Hall .
May 17 - Thirty-three people die in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in Ireland . Members of the UVF are behind the blast.
May 18 - Nuclear test : Under project Smiling Buddha , India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon , becoming the sixth nation to do so.
May 18 - The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the tallest construction ever built (it collapses on August 8 , 1991 ).
May 19 - In the second round of the presidential elections in France , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins over François Mitterrand , but by a close margin.
May 19 - The Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Boston Bruins , thereby becoming the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup .
May 28 - The Italian fascist organization Ordine Nuovo bombs demonstrators in Brescia , killing 6.
May 30 - NASA 's ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June June 1 - Flixborough disaster : An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough , UK , kills 28 people.
June 4 - The Cleveland Indians stage an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium . Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
June 6 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated, making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy .
June 13 - The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany .
June 15 - Red Lion Square disorders : Members of the fascist National Front clash with leftist counter-protesters in London 's West End; one student is killed.
June 16 - The first Darwin beer-can regatta is held in Darwin , Australia ; 63 crafts made of beer cans participate.
June 17 - A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London , damaging Westminster Hall . The Provisional Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the bomb.
June 26 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
June 29 - Isabel Peron becomes interim president of Argentina , when Juan Peron falls seriously ill.
June 30 - Alberta Williams King , mother of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. , is killed during a church service in Atlanta, Georgia .
July August
