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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1974


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 2 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
  • January 3 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
  • January 5 - Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
  • January 13 - Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
  • January 13 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
  • January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
  • February 4 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
  • February 14 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
  • February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
  • February 16 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
  • February 20 - David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (b. 1888)
  • February 21 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
  • February 22 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
  • February 23 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
  • February 28 - Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)
  • March 1 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
  • March 2 - Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
  • March 4 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
  • March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
  • March 5 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
  • March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
  • March 9 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist
  • March 12 - George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
  • March 17 - Louis Kahn, American architect
  • March 19 - Anne Klein, American fashion designer (b. 1923)
  • March 19 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
  • March 20 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
  • March 22 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b.1939)
  • March 28 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
  • April 2 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
  • April 5 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
  • April 6 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
  • April 6 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
  • April 8 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
  • April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
  • April 18 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist
  • April 21 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
  • April 24 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
  • April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
  • May 10 - Hal Mohr, Cinematographer
  • May 13 - Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
  • May 17 - Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)
  • May 24 - Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (b. 1899)
  • May 26 - Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
  • June 2 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
  • June 9 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer
  • June 10 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
  • June 11 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
  • June 11 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
  • June 17 - Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
  • June 18 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
  • June 18 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
  • June 22 - Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
  • June 22 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
  • June 25 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
  • June 28 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
  • June 30 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
  • July 1 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
  • July 9 - Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
  • July 11 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer
  • July 13 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • July 14 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (b. 1891)
  • July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
  • July 17 - Dizzy Dean, Major League baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
  • July 19 - Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
  • July 19 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
  • July 22 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
  • July 24 - James Chadwick, English physicist
  • July 29 - Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
  • July 29 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
  • August 1 - Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
  • August 2 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
  • August 6 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
  • August 7 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
  • August 7 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • August 8 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907)
  • August 9 - Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
  • August 11 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician.
  • August 11 - Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
  • August 22 - Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
  • August 23 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
  • August 24 - Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
  • August 26 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
  • August 31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
  • August 31 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923
  • September 3 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
  • September 4 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
  • September 4 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
  • September 4 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
  • September 6 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (b. 1896)
  • September 11 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
  • September 14 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
  • September 21 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
  • September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
  • September 23 - Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
  • September 27 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer
  • September 30 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General
  • October 1 - Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
  • October 2 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer
  • October 4 - Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
  • October 6 - Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1948)
  • October 9 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
  • October 13 - Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
  • October 16 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
  • October 24 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
  • November 4 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
  • November 5 - Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
  • November 7 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
  • November 8 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer
  • November 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
  • November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
  • November 13 - Karen Silkwood, American activist (b. 1946)
  • November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
  • November 19 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
  • November 21 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
  • November 21 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
  • November 23 - Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author (b. 1920)
  • November 25 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
  • November 25 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
  • November 26 - Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10
  • November 29 - James J. Braddock, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1905)
  • December 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
  • December 14 - Walter Lippman, American writer
  • December 15 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
  • December 18 - Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b. 1887)
  • December 20 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
  • December 21 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
  • December 21 - Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927)
  • December 26 - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer
  • December 26 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
  • December 27 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (b. 1898)

Events
  • January 2 - President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
  • January 4 - United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • January 5 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
  • January 6 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
  • January 13 - Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
  • January 18 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
  • January 27 - Brisbane river floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City in the 20th Century
  • February 1 - A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
  • February 1 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
  • February 2 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
  • February 4 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
  • February 5 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
  • February 7 - Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • February 8 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth.
  • February 8 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
  • February 13 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
  • February 17 - Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
  • February 21 - The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
  • February 22 - Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognized Bangladesh.
  • February 22 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
  • February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
  • February 27 - People magazine is published for the first time.
  • February 28 - After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
  • March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
  • March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
  • March 3 - Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
  • March 5 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
  • March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
  • March 18 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
  • March 20 - Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
  • March 29 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
  • April 1 - In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
  • April 3 - The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
  • April 5 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth with his 714th home run.
  • April 8 - Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714.
  • April 13 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the U.S.'s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
  • April 18 - The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
  • April 25 - Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate fascist state.
  • April 27 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
  • April 29 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
  • May 4 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
  • May 7 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
  • May 9 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
  • May 16 - Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
  • May 17 - Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
  • May 17 - Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
  • May 18 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
  • May 18 - Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
  • May 28 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
  • June 1 - Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
  • June 1 - The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
  • June 6 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
  • June 8 - An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
  • June 9 - Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union are established.
  • June 10 - Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the father of Rambo the next generation.
  • June 26 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
  • June 27 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
  • June 29 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
  • July 15 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
  • July 20 - Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert.
  • July 24 - Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
  • July 24 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
  • July 26 - Greek Prime Minister Constantin Caramanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
  • July 27 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.
  • July 30 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
  • August 5 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
  • August 7 - Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 ft (417.0 m) in the air.
  • August 8 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
  • August 9 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
  • August 15 - Seoul Subway Line 1 is opened, connecting Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station.
  • August 15 - Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
  • August 15 - The Turkish invasion of Cyprus continues, and 37% of the island's area comes under Turkish control.
  • August 30 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
  • August 30 - Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
  • September 1 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
  • September 8 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
  • September 10 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
  • September 11 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
  • September 12 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
  • September 12 - Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
  • September 15 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
  • September 18 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
  • October 5 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.
  • October 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.
  • October 19 - Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
  • October 30 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
  • November 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.
  • November 17 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
  • November 20 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.
  • November 21 - The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this but subsequently acquitted.
  • November 22 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
  • November 24 - Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
  • November 30 - Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
  • December 1 - TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board.
  • December 1 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  • December 8 - A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
  • December 13 - Malta becomes a republic.
  • December 22 - Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
  • December 22 - Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
  • December 24 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
  • December 25 - Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.
  • December 25 - Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
  • December 26 - Salyut 4 is launched.
  • December 28 - Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.


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