Events in History
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- 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 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 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.
The Great Lord Lucan Mystery
Nov 8 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
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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
- 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
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Nov 29 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

Coco the Clown
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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
‘My Name is Jimmy Carter and I’m Running for President’
Dec 12 50‐year‐old Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President [1]
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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
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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
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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
- 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