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1974

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1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a 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

January
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  • January 4 - Citing executive privilege, U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the United States.
  • January 19 - In college (men's) basketball, Notre Dame defeats UCLA 71-70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
  • January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia is flooded.
  • January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of Watergate charges.
  • January 30 - In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Richard Nixon declares, "One year of Watergate is enough."

February

February
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  • 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 returns to 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 for the final time, after 28 years of daily installments.
  • 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

March
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  • March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven former White House officials are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
  • March 1 - Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France.
  • March 3 - A Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
  • March 8 - The Brady Bunch, starring Robert Reed & Florence Henderson, is cancelled after 5 seasons.
  • March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
  • March 10 - Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
  • March 18 - Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
  • March 18 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
  • March 20 - Ian Balls fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace.
  • March 29 - Mariner 10 approaches Mercury.

April

April
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  • April 1 - The Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in England and Wales, creating six new metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map.
  • April 2 - French President Georges Pompidou dies; Senate President Alain Poher becomes Acting President for the second time.
  • April 3 - The Super Outbreak, the largest series of tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 149 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 die and over 5,000 are injured.
  • April 8 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
  • April 10 - In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
  • April 15 - In San Francisco, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army rob a branch of the Hibernia National Bank, joined by Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile captive.
  • April 25 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.

May

May
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  • 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
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  • 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

July
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  • July 1 - Juan Peron, President of Argentina dies. He's succeeded by his wife, Vice President Isabel Peron. She becomes the first female Head of State in South America.
  • July 7 - West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
  • July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, U.S. television presenter for WXLT-TV, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
  • July 15 - A military coup overthrows President Makarios in Cyprus.
  • July 17 - An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the White Tower at the Tower of London, killing 1 person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South London.
  • July 20 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after the coup d'etat by EOKA B.
  • July 22 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced with Mikael Imru.
  • July 23 - The Greek military junta government collapses.
  • July 24 - Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Greece.
  • July 24 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules (United States v. Nixon) that President Richard Nixon can not withhold subpoenaed White House tapes, and orders him to surrender them to the Watergate special prosecutor.
  • July 27-July 30 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of impeachment charging President Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.

August

August
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Nixon Resigns
  • August 4 - A bomb explodes in an Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
  • August 5 - Watergate scandal: The "smoking gun" tape of