Events in History
Events 301 - 400 of 404
- 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
Election of Interest
Oct 10 Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins UK general election
Harold Wilson
- 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 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
- Nov 1 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
- Nov 1 UN affirms independence of Cyprus
- Nov 2 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Nov 2 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
- Nov 5 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor
- Nov 5 Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Nov 8 Britiish peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
- Nov 8 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Nov 12 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
- Nov 12 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
Event of Interest
Nov 15 Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
Ringo Starr
- Nov 15 International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis
- Nov 16 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
- Nov 16 ABBA begin their first tour of Europe - their first tour outside of Sweden
- Nov 17 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
- Nov 17 Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
- Nov 20 Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
- Nov 20 The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
- Nov 21 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
- Nov 21 Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles")
- Nov 22 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
- Nov 22 UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
- Nov 23 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
- Nov 24 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)
Treaty of Interest
Nov 24 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-2 treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear weapons
Leonid Brezhnev
Gerald Ford
Event of Interest
Nov 28 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
George Steinbrenner
Event of Interest
Nov 29 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Coco the Clown
- Nov 30 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
- Dec 1 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
- Dec 1 LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
- Dec 2 Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
- Dec 2 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
- Dec 4 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims
Event of Interest
Dec 4 Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison
Jean-Paul Sartre
- Dec 5 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
- Dec 5 Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17
- Dec 5 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
- Dec 8 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
- Dec 8 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
- Dec 8 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
- Dec 9 Dow Jones index hits 570.01
- Dec 9 Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
- Dec 9 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
- Dec 10 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
- Dec 10 Helios 1 launched by US and Germany; later makes closest flyby of the Sun
- Dec 13 Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
- Dec 13 Malta becomes a republic
- Dec 14 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
- Dec 15 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
- Dec 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 18 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens
Event of Interest
Dec 19 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States
Nelson Rockefeller
- Dec 20 Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
- Dec 21 Raiders RB Clarence Davis somehow catches game-winning touchdown pass among "the sea of hands" of three Dolphins defenders with 24 seconds left in the game, eliminating Miami from the playoffs, 1st time in 3 years
- Dec 22 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
- Dec 22 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
Event of Interest
Dec 22 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath, just before announcing Christmas ceasefire
Edward Heath
- Dec 22 Iraq announces plans to increase its oil production capacity
Event of Interest
Dec 24 Former US astronaut John Glenn join the Senate for Ohio
John Glenn
- Dec 25 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia
- Dec 25 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
- Dec 27 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
- Dec 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 28 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed