July 1974 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 General Augusto Pinochet becomes president and dictator of Chile

Jul 9 Pierre Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election

Jul 10 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
Jul 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 11 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
Jul 11 World Football League plays 1st games
Jul 12 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
Jul 13 India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
Jul 14 Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear, Lake Sammamish, Washington
Jul 15 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/President Makarios flees
Jul 17 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
Jul 18 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 18 World's tallest structure, 646 metre Polish radio mast, completed
Jul 19 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 lands back on earth
Jul 20 Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
Jul 20 Turkey invades Cyprus

Jul 21 US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon

Jul 23 Greek military dictatorship collapses
Jul 24 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
Jul 26 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
Jul 26 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
Jul 27 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
Jul 27 Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs
Jul 28 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
Jul 29 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
Jul 29 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
Jul 29 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
Jul 29 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
Jul 30 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

Jul 28 Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician (Greek President 2015), born in Athens

Jul 1 Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78

Jul 9 Earl Warren, governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83

Jul 11 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
Jul 13 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
Jul 14 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
Jul 14 Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, dies at 83
Jul 15 Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
Jul 21 Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
Jul 22 Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73

Jul 24 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935, discovered neutron), dies at 82