1974 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 383 of 383

Oct 31 Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah

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 British 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

Nov 15 Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK

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 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT-2 treaty to reduce each side's number of nuclear weapons

Nov 24 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 [1] [2]
Nov 25 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
Nov 25 Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
Nov 26 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal

Nov 29 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

Dec 4 Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison

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 12 50‐year‐old Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President [1]

Dec 19 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States

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

Dec 22 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath, just before announcing Christmas ceasefire

Dec 24 Former US astronaut John Glenn join the Senate for Ohio

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
Dec 28 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
Dec 29 Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" premieres in NYC
Dec 31 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
Dec 31 Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer