Historical Events in 1974

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• Jan 1 Ernie DiGregorio of Buffalo hands out 25 assists in the Braves' 120-119 win over Portland, establishing an NBA single-game record for assists by a rookie

• Jan 1 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
• Jan 1 With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa
• Jan 1 World Population Year begins

• Jan 2 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
• Jan 3 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as Premier of Spain
• Jan 3 Burma accepts its constitution
• Jan 3 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
• Jan 3 Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
• Jan 4 US President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
• Jan 5 An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses

• Jan 6 "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio
• Jan 6 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• Jan 6 United Kingdom begins three-day work week during energy crisis
• Jan 7 Gasoline rationing begins in the Netherlands
• Jan 8 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come" premieres in NYC
• Jan 8 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
• Jan 8 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
• Jan 11 ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"

• Jan 12 Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
• Jan 13 Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
• Jan 13 Super Bowl VIII, Rice Stadium, Houston, TX: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7; MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB
• Jan 14 World Football League founded
• Jan 15 Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures

• Jan 16 Landslide kills 9 in Canyonville, Oregon

• Jan 18 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
• Jan 18 Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
• Jan 19 Belgium government of Leburton falls
• Jan 19 China and South Vietnam clash over the Paracel Islands, resulting in a Chinese victory
• Jan 19 Notre Dame beats UCLA, 71-70 in South Bend, Indiana to end Bruins' NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
• Jan 20 Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
• Jan 21 Gold hits record $161.31, silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
• Jan 23 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
• Jan 24 10th British Commonwealth Games open in Christchurch, New Zealand

• Jan 29 1974 NFL Draft: Ed Jones from Tennessee State first pick by Dallas Cowboys
• Jan 29 Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession
• Jan 30 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Feb 1 Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.

• Feb 2 Playmobil toys debut at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, designed by Hans Beck and produced by the Brandstätter Group

• Feb 2 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
• Feb 2 The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.

• Feb 4 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
• Feb 4 Gasoline rationing ends in the Netherlands
• Feb 4 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire, England, carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members
• Feb 5 John Murtha of Pennsylvania becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the United States Congress
• Feb 5 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
• Feb 5 Maximum speed on Germany's Autobahn highway reduced to 100 kph
• Feb 5 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
• Feb 6 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• Feb 6 Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
• Feb 6 US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon
• Feb 7 American left-wing guerilla group Symbionese Liberation Army claim responsibility for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, daughter of American publishing heir Randolph Hearst
• Feb 7 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)

• Feb 8 American television soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run on CBS

• Feb 8 Three US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station, Skylab
• Feb 8 TV sitcom "Good Times", spin-off from "Maude", starring Esther Rolle, John Amos, and J.J. Walker, premieres on CBS TV
• Feb 9 "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
• Feb 9 "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
• Feb 9 British miners begin a strike in reaction to a wage dispute, prompting Prime Minister Edward Heath to declare a state of emergency and call for a special election
• Feb 10 Iran / Iraqi border fight breaks out
• Feb 10 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
• Feb 10 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
• Feb 11 First Major League Baseball arbitration case; Minnesota Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins; Twins offered $23,000
• Feb 11 Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September
• Feb 11 Titan-Centaur rocket test launch fails

• Feb 12 Heads of state of Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement

• Feb 17 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
• Feb 17 Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
• Feb 18 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
• Feb 18 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check

• Feb 21 Israeli forces leave western Suez
• Feb 21 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
• Feb 21 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
• Feb 22 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
• Feb 23 Teri Garr appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Confessions of an Orthodontist"
• Feb 24 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Heerenveen, Netherlands, her third consecutive title and fourth in 5 years
• Feb 24 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
• Feb 25 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
• Feb 26 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
• Feb 27 "People" magazine begins sales
• Feb 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Feb 28 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
• Feb 28 Taiwan police shoots into crowd
• Feb 28 UK general election results in a hung parliament
• Feb 28 US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years

• Mar 1 Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides

• Mar 2 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
• Mar 2 Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington; also hits 133 in 2nd innings; brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries
• Mar 2 Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
• Mar 3 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes in the Ermenonville Forest outside Paris, killing all 346 people onboard
• Mar 4 David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London
• Mar 4 Educational series "The Letter People" debuts on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis, Missouri

• Mar 5 First performance in 3,000 years of world's oldest known song "Hymn to Nikkal" a 3,400 year old Hurrian hymn to moon god Nikkal from Ugarit in Syria, played at Berkeley University by Anne Kilmer and Richard Crocker [1]
• Mar 5 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
• Mar 6 An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
• Mar 6 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 & 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington
• Mar 7 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras
• Mar 7 1st general strike in Ethiopia
• Mar 8 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France

• Mar 10 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
• Mar 10 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
• Mar 11 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
• Mar 11 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album

• Mar 13 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
• Mar 15 Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
• Mar 16 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
• Mar 18 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
• Mar 19 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
• Mar 20 "The Super Cops" directed by Gordon Parks premieres in NYC, New York
• Mar 21 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
• Mar 23 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beat Mississippi College 68-53 in Manhattan, Kansas
• Mar 25 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
• Mar 25 Chipko forest conservation movement begins in Reni Village, Western Himalayas, India, when local woman Gaura Devi hugs a tree to prevent its logging [1]

• Mar 26 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
• Mar 28 Rock group Raspberries breakup

• Mar 29 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos

• Apr 1 In England, "Local Government Act 1972" redraws the administrative map and creates six new Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties; Newport and Monmouthshire transferred from England to Wales
• Apr 1 Pioneer Hall opens at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Florida
• Apr 1 Yourdon Inc consulting formed by Edward Yourdon

• Apr 2 Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War

• Apr 3 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
• Apr 3 The Super Outbreak: 2nd largest tornado outbreak over 24hr period with 148 confirmed tornadoes in 13 US states, killing approximately 315 people and injuring nearly 5,500

• Apr 6 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California; line-up includes Earth, Wind & Fire; Black Sabbath; Deep Purple; and Emerson, Lake & Palmer

• Apr 6 Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, while Yankee Stadium is renovated; beat Cleveland Indians 6-1
• Apr 7 Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC
• Apr 8 Discovery Island opens at Walt Disney World, Florida
• Apr 8 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, off of L.A. Dodger Al Downing, breaking Babe Ruth's record in Atlanta

• Apr 9 San Diego Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"
• Apr 10 American Boccaccio Association forms

• Apr 11 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
• Apr 15 Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
• Apr 16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Apr 17 Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, Washington
• Apr 17 Muslim fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis, Egypt
• Apr 18 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi
• Apr 19 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
• Apr 20 'The Troubles', the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim

• Apr 21 28th Tony Awards: "The River Niger" (play) & "Raisin" (musical) win
• Apr 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• Apr 24 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
• Apr 24 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• Apr 25 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
• Apr 25 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
• Apr 25 Portuguese Prime Minister Marcello Caetano is overthrown in the Carnation revolution, bringing Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) government to an end
• Apr 26 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
• Apr 26 Malta adopts constitution
• Apr 26 Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
• Apr 27 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
• Apr 29 US President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in the White House
• Apr 30 US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

• May 2 Six Catholic civilians killed and eighteen wounded when the UVF explode a bomb at Rose & Crown Bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast

• May 6 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore

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