October 1974 in History

Events in History

Oct 3 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah

Oct 3 Watergate crinimal trial begins
Oct 5 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
Oct 7 German Democratic Republic amends constitution
Oct 8 Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
Oct 9 Race riot in Boston due to "bussing"
Oct 10 A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
Oct 10 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles

Oct 10 Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins UK general election

Oct 10 The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin
Oct 11 A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
Oct 12 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
Oct 15 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
Oct 15 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
Oct 16 As' Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win, 5-2
Oct 18 Andre van de Louw appointed Mayor of Rotterdam
Oct 19 Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand
Oct 20 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
Oct 21 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
Oct 22 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
Oct 23 Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
Oct 25 US Air Force fires 1st ICBM
Oct 25 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
Oct 28 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
Oct 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 29 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
Oct 30 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
Oct 31 Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah
Oct 31 Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison

Oct 1 Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
Oct 2 Ina Seidel, writer, dies at 89
Oct 4 Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
Oct 10 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer, dies at 73
Oct 17 René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57
Oct 27 Rudolf Dassler, German founder of sportswear company Puma, dies at 76
Oct 29 Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82