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1974
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- Not to be confused with 1974 (Robbie Williams album) .
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1974 in other calendars
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1974
MCMLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita |
2727 |
| Armenian calendar |
1423
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ |
| Chinese calendar |
4670 – 4671
癸丑 – 甲寅 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1966 – 1967 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5734 – 5735 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
2029 – 2030 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1896 – 1897 |
| - Kali Yuga |
5075 – 5076 |
| Iranian calendar |
1352 – 1353 |
| Islamic calendar |
1394 – 1395 |
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday.
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 - The second Bathurst Gaol riots; 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 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 20 - Following a visit to his home from a woman wearing a strange pendant, Phillip K. Dick begins to receive a series of visions which he refers to as 2-3-74, shorthand for February/March of 1974.
- 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 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 (UK) having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party (UK).
- February 28 - Ethiopian prime minister Tsehafi Aklilu Habte-Wold, who has held the position since 1961, is dismissed by Emperor Haile Selassie and replaced with Endelkachew Makonnen.
March
- 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 - Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
- March 10 - Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
- 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 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 6 - ABBA starts their road to fame, after winning The Eurovision Song Contest.
- April 8 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves broke 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 17 - Three Symbionese Liberation Army members die when their apartment catches fire during a shootout with the LAPD.
- April 25 - Carnation Revolution): A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
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 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
- 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 promotion 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 - The Red Lion Square disorders: Members of the fascist National Front clash with leftist counter-protesters in London's West End; 1 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 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 assassinated during a church service.
July
- July 7 - West Germany beat 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 they order him to surrender the tapes 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
September
- September 1 - Daredevil Bob Gill fails a world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in West Virginia.
- September 8 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- September 8 - Professional stuntman Evel Knievel fails to cross the Snake River Canyon in Idaho, when a drogue parachute deploys prematurely on his rocket-powered Skycycle X-2.
- September 8 - TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea, 18 minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, killing 88 people.
- September 13 - Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. They secure the release of member Yatuka Fumiya, $300,000 and a flight to Aden.
- September 23 - Ceefax is started by the BBC - one of the first public service information systems.
October
- October 5 - The Guildford pub bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill five people, and lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year.
- October 10 - The second United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by Harold Wilson.
- October 15 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signs a campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations for federal campaigns, in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
- October 30 - The "Rumble in the Jungle" between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Using his new "rope-a-dope" strategy, Ali knocks down an exhausted Foreman after eight rounds, and regains the Heavyweight Boxing Title.
November
- November 5 - Democrats make significant gains in the U.S. Congressional midterm elections, as voters punish the Republican Party over the Watergate scandal.
- November 7 - Lord Lucan disappears in England.
- November 7 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Kings Arms, Woolwich.
- November 8 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
- November 10 - Movement 2 June members try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is fatally shot during the attempt.
- November 13 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and his 4 siblings in what would later become known as "The Amityville Horror House".
- November 16 - The Arecibo radio telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards the M 13 Great Globular Cluster.
- November 17 - Irish President Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the Republic of Ireland, in the middle of a public speech.
- November 20 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and the Bell System.
- November 21 - In Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
- November 22 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- November 27 - The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the United Kingdom.
- November 30 - A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
December
- December 1 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
- December 8 - Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
- December 19 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
- December 19 - Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
- December 23 - Former British minister John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in Melbourne, Australia.
- December 24-December 25 - Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
- December 31 - Restrictions on holding private gold within the United States, implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, are removed.
Unknown date
- The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.
- Baltimore police strike
- Volkswagen's Golf automobile first enters production. VW will go on to sell 22 million Golfs, and the model is still in full scale production as of 2006.
- World population reaches four billion
- The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra is founded by Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Victor Feldbrill
Births
January
- January 3 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
- January 10- Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood Actor
- January 11 - The Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town, South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy.
- January 11 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
- January 12 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
- January 16 - Kate Moss, English model
- January 17 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- January 23 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- January 27 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
- January 28 - Tony Delk, American basketball player
- January 30 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
- January 31 - Ian Huntley, English murderer
February
- February 7 - Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- February 7 - J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
- February 8 - Seth Green, American actor
- February 8 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey
- February 11 - D'Angelo, American singer
- February 13 - Robbie Williams, English singer
- February 15 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
- February 22 - Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
- February 15 - Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- February 24 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
March
- March 1 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
- March 4 - Edward Hancock II, American author
- March 5 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 8 - Fardeen Khan, Bollywood Actor
- March 11 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- March 11 - Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
- March 20 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
- March 20 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
- March 20 - Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
- March 22 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- March 22 - Kidada jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
- March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- March 25 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
- March 25 - Tapani Mokko, Finnish Artist
April
- April 1 - Richard Christy, American musician and radio writer
- April 4 - Dave Mirra, American athlete
- April 9 - Jenna Jameson, American actress
- April 11 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
- April 12 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
- April 14 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
- April 14 - Da Brat, American rapper
- April 14 - George D. Sax, American bank innovator
- April 15 - Josh Todd, American musician and singer (Buckcherry)
- April 17 - Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
- April 22 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
- April 28 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
- April 28 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
May
- May 8 - Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
- May 11 - Billy Kidman, American Professional Wrestler
- May 17 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
- May 21 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- May 23 - Ken Jennings, American game show winner
- May 23 - Jewel, American singer
- May 23 - Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
- May 24 - Daniel Lorenz Johnson, Social activist/artist
- May 26 - Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
- May 27 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
- May 30 - Big L, American rapper
- May 31- Adrian Tomine American Cartoonist
June
- June 1 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- June 2 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
- June 2 - Matt Serra, American mixed martial arts fighter.
- June 7 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- June 12 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- June 13 - Brande Roderick, American actress
- June 13 - Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
- June 13 - Steve-O, American actor, Jackass
- June 20 - Steve 'Flash' Juon, American webmaster and writer
- June 21 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
- June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- June 26 - Derek Jeter, baseball player
July
- July 2 - Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
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