September 1974 in History

Events in History

Sep 2 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Sep 3 US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations
Sep 6 Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price

Sep 8 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries

Sep 8 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

Sep 10 Portugal recognizes independence of Republic of Guinea-Bissau, their foremer West African colony
Sep 11 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner come to bat 12 times each

Sep 12 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie on Ethiopia's national day

Sep 12 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
Sep 13 -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
Sep 13 OPEC instructs its Secretary General to "carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls"
Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Sep 14 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
Sep 15 Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
Sep 15 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
Sep 16 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular rail service crossing under the San Francisco Bay, through the Transbay Tube

Sep 16 US General Alexander Haig, Jr. becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe

Sep 16 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters
Sep 18 Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds; about 5,000 die

Sep 19 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents

Sep 21 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
Sep 24 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
Sep 25 Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
Sep 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 27 -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
Sep 27 Australian National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000

Sep 28 US 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy

Sep 30 General Francisco da Costa Gomesz succeeds General António de Spínola as President of Portugal

Sep 1 Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
Sep 9 Vikram Batra, Indian army officer, born in Palampur, India (d. 1999)
Sep 12 Caroline Aigle, French first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force aged 25, born in Montauban, France (d. 2007)
Sep 16 Julián Castro, American lawyer and politician (US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2014-117; Mayor of San Antonio, 2009-14), born in San Antonio, Texas
Sep 17 Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer (extreme skiing), born in Trondheim, Norway
Sep 20 Michael Waddington, American defense lawyer, born in New Castle, Pennsylvania

Sep 4 Creighton W. Abrams, US general and army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
Sep 4 Lewi Pethrus, Swedish Pentecostal minister and politician, dies at 90
Sep 4 Marcel Achard, French playwright (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
Sep 11 Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member, arrested by Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate and afterwards disappeared at 22
Sep 14 Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95

Sep 21 American author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 56

Sep 23 Gerhard Nebel, German writer, dies at 70
Sep 25 William Sloane, American publisher and writer (Edge of Running Water), dies at 68
Sep 27 Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
Sep 30 Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor