For the year 1974 in history ..

• 01/01/1974 - Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin
• 01/01/1974 - NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead)
• 01/01/1974 - World Population Year begins
• 01/02/1974 - 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
• 01/02/1974 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
• 01/03/1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
• 01/03/1974 - Burma accepts its constitution
• 01/03/1974 - Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
• 01/03/1974 - Miguel Pi¤ero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
• 01/03/1974 - NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
• 01/04/1974 - Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
• 01/05/1974 - Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
• 01/06/1974 - "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio
• 01/06/1974 - England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
• 01/07/1974 - Dutch rations gasoline
• 01/08/1974 - E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC
• 01/08/1974 - Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
• 01/08/1974 - Loch Ness Monster photographed
• 01/08/1974 - Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
• 01/11/1974 - ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
• 01/12/1974 - "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
• 01/12/1974 - Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"
• 01/13/1974 - Superbowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minn Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Superbowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB
• 01/14/1974 - World Football League founded
• 01/15/1974 - "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
• 01/15/1974 - 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
• 01/15/1974 - Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
• 01/16/1974 - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
• 01/16/1974 - L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon
• 01/16/1974 - NY Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame
• 01/17/1974 - Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC
• 01/18/1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
• 01/18/1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
• 01/19/1974 - Belgium govt of Leburton falls
• 01/19/1974 - Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak
• 01/20/1974 - 4th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13
• 01/20/1974 - 7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
• 01/20/1974 - A college basketball game ends 210-67
• 01/20/1974 - Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball
• 01/21/1974 - Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
• 01/23/1974 - 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
• 01/25/1974 - B�lent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
• 01/25/1974 - Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
• 01/25/1974 - Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million
• 01/27/1974 - "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
• 01/28/1974 - Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
• 01/29/1974 - 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
• 01/30/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 01/31/1974 - MacDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres

• 02/01/1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
• 02/02/1974 - Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
• 02/02/1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
• 02/02/1974 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
• 02/03/1974 - "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
• 02/03/1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
• 02/04/1974 - Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
• 02/04/1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2« months
• 02/04/1974 - Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
• 02/04/1974 - Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
• 02/05/1974 - British mine strike
• 02/05/1974 - Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
• 02/05/1974 - Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
• 02/05/1974 - Patty Hearst kidnapped
• 02/05/1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
• 02/06/1974 - 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• 02/06/1974 - Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
• 02/06/1974 - US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
• 02/07/1974 - Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• 02/07/1974 - Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
• 02/08/1974 - "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV
• 02/08/1974 - Ringo releases "You're 16"
• 02/08/1974 - Skylab 4's astronauts land
• 02/08/1974 - Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
• 02/09/1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
• 02/09/1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
• 02/09/1974 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
• 02/09/1974 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
• 02/10/1974 - "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
• 02/10/1974 - Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
• 02/10/1974 - Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
• 02/10/1974 - Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
• 02/10/1974 - Silver futures hit record $4.81« an ounce in London
• 02/11/1974 - Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule
• 02/11/1974 - Titan-Centaur Test launch fails
• 02/11/1974 - 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
• 02/13/1974 - "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
• 02/13/1974 - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
• 02/13/1974 - James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
• 02/17/1974 - 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
• 02/17/1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
• 02/18/1974 - NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
• 02/18/1974 - US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
• 02/19/1974 - 1st American Music Award:
• 02/20/1974 - Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
• 02/20/1974 - Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
• 02/21/1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez
• 02/21/1974 - Silver hits record $5.96« an ounce in London
• 02/21/1974 - Yugoslavia adopts constitution
• 02/22/1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
• 02/23/1974 - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
• 02/23/1974 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
• 02/24/1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
• 02/24/1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
• 02/25/1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
• 02/26/1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
• 02/27/1974 - "People" magazine begins sales
• 02/27/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 02/28/1974 - Ethiopian govt of Makonnen forms
• 02/28/1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
• 02/28/1974 - Taiwan police shoots into crowd
• 02/28/1974 - US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years

• 03/01/1974 - George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
• 03/01/1974 - Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership v NZ cricket at Wellington
• 03/01/1974 - Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
• 03/02/1974 - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins
• 03/02/1974 - 1st class postage raised to 10› from 8›
• 03/02/1974 - Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
• 03/02/1974 - Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
• 03/03/1974 - "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 03/03/1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
• 03/03/1974 - George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
• 03/03/1974 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
• 03/03/1974 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
• 03/04/1974 - David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
• 03/04/1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
• 03/05/1974 - "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
• 03/05/1974 - Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
• 03/06/1974 - "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
• 03/06/1974 - An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
• 03/06/1974 - Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket
• 03/07/1974 - "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
• 03/07/1974 - 1st general striking in Ethiopia
• 03/08/1974 - Charles the Gaulle Airport opens in Paris
• 03/09/1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
• 03/10/1974 - "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 03/10/1974 - Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
• 03/10/1974 - Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
• 03/10/1974 - Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
• 03/11/1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
• 03/11/1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5› to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
• 03/12/1974 - Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
• 03/13/1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
• 03/13/1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
• 03/15/1974 - Brazilian president Garastazu M‚dici resigns
• 03/16/1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
• 03/17/1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
• 03/18/1974 - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
• 03/19/1974 - Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
• 03/21/1974 - Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
• 03/24/1974 - 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
• 03/25/1974 - Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
• 03/26/1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
• 03/26/1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
• 03/28/1974 - Rock group Raspberries breakup
• 03/29/1974 - Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos

• 04/01/1974 - Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
• 04/01/1974 - Pioneer Hall opens
• 04/01/1974 - Yourdon, Inc forms
• 04/02/1974 - 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win
• 04/02/1974 - Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
• 04/02/1974 - Tony Greig takes 8-86 v WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn)
• 04/03/1974 - 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
• 04/03/1974 - Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
• 04/03/1974 - Tornadoes in the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
• 04/04/1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
• 04/05/1974 - Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
• 04/05/1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
• 04/06/1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
• 04/06/1974 - Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
• 04/06/1974 - Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
• 04/07/1974 - Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
• 04/08/1974 - Discovery Island opens
• 04/08/1974 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaks Babe Ruth's record
• 04/09/1974 - Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"
• 04/10/1974 - American Boccaccio Association forms
• 04/10/1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
• 04/10/1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
• 04/11/1974 - WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
• 04/14/1974 - 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
• 04/15/1974 - 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of Calif in 2:47:11
• 04/15/1974 - 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
• 04/15/1974 - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed
• 04/16/1974 - "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
• 04/16/1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert Calif Jam I in Ontario Calif
• 04/16/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 04/17/1974 - Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, WA
• 04/17/1974 - Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt
• 04/18/1974 - Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi
• 04/19/1974 - Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
• 04/20/1974 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
• 04/21/1974 - 28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win
• 04/21/1974 - 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice
• 04/22/1974 - Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
• 04/23/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 04/24/1974 - Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
• 04/24/1974 - NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
• 04/25/1974 - Chancellor Willy Brandt sect G�nther Guillaume found to be a spy
• 04/25/1974 - Leo Tindemans forms Belgium govt
• 04/25/1974 - Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution)
• 04/25/1974 - NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
• 04/26/1974 - Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
• 04/26/1974 - Malta adopts constitution
• 04/26/1974 - Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
• 04/27/1974 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
• 04/28/1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
• 04/29/1974 - President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
• 04/30/1974 - Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

• 05/02/1974 - Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
• 05/04/1974 - 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
• 05/05/1974 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
• 05/06/1974 - A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Balt ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
• 05/06/1974 - Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
• 05/06/1974 - Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
• 05/06/1974 - Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
• 05/06/1974 - W German chancellor W Brandt resigns
• 05/07/1974 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
• 05/08/1974 - 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
• 05/08/1974 - Canada govt of Trudeau falls
• 05/08/1974 - FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
• 05/09/1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
• 05/10/1974 - 7th ABA championship: NY Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1
• 05/11/1974 - "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83
• 05/11/1974 - "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
• 05/11/1974 - Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
• 05/12/1974 - 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3
• 05/12/1974 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
• 05/14/1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
• 05/15/1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Ma„lot, 30 killed
• 05/15/1974 - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
• 05/16/1974 - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
• 05/16/1974 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 05/17/1974 - Bayern M�nchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
• 05/17/1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
• 05/18/1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
• 05/18/1974 - 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6
• 05/18/1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
• 05/19/1974 - Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
• 05/19/1974 - Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
• 05/19/1974 - Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
• 05/20/1974 - Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
• 05/22/1974 - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
• 05/22/1974 - Soccer team Veendam forms
• 05/22/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 05/23/1974 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 05/23/1974 - Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
• 05/24/1974 - Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• 05/26/1974 - During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
• 05/26/1974 - Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic
• 05/27/1974 - Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
• 05/28/1974 - "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
• 05/28/1974 - 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
• 05/28/1974 - Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
• 05/28/1974 - Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
• 05/28/1974 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC
• 05/29/1974 - Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
• 05/30/1974 - 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
• 05/31/1974 - Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
• 05/31/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 06/01/1974 - "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
• 06/01/1974 - Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash
• 06/01/1974 - Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 29 in UK
• 06/02/1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
• 06/02/1974 - Mali adopts constitution
• 06/02/1974 - Malta's constitution goes into effect
• 06/03/1974 - Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
• 06/04/1974 - NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
• 06/04/1974 - Never-to-be-repeated 10› Beer Night at Cleveland Stadium occurs
• 06/04/1974 - 10› Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
• 06/05/1974 - A's Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
• 06/06/1974 - 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
• 06/07/1974 - Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
• 06/08/1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
• 06/08/1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
• 06/08/1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
• 06/09/1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic
• 06/09/1974 - Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
• 06/10/1974 - Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
• 06/10/1974 - Rumor's govt in Italy resigns
• 06/11/1974 - Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
• 06/11/1974 - Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
• 06/13/1974 - Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
• 06/14/1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
• 06/15/1974 - "Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart
• 06/16/1974 - 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
• 06/16/1974 - Homer Simpson & Marge Bouvier wed
• 06/16/1974 - Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open
• 06/18/1974 - Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg govt
• 06/19/1974 - KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
• 06/19/1974 - Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
• 06/23/1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
• 06/23/1974 - 20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
• 06/24/1974 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
• 06/24/1974 - Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
• 06/26/1974 - Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
• 06/27/1974 - "Flip Wilson Show," last airs on NBC-TV
• 06/27/1974 - US president Nixon visits USSR
• 06/28/1974 - Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)
• 06/28/1974 - Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
• 06/29/1974 - Milt coup in Ethiopia
• 06/30/1974 - 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
• 06/30/1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY)
• 06/30/1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west

• 07/01/1974 - 1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF)
• 07/01/1974 - General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
• 07/01/1974 - Isabel Per¢n succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
• 07/01/1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
• 07/02/1974 - Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
• 07/03/1974 - Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
• 07/03/1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
• 07/03/1974 - Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win
• 07/04/1974 - Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
• 07/05/1974 - 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
• 07/06/1974 - 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
• 07/07/1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)
• 07/07/1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
• 07/07/1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
• 07/08/1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 07/08/1974 - Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game
• 07/09/1974 - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
• 07/10/1974 - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
• 07/10/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 07/11/1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
• 07/11/1974 - World Football League plays 1st games
• 07/12/1974 - John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
• 07/13/1974 - 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
• 07/13/1974 - India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
• 07/14/1974 - Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
• 07/14/1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
• 07/14/1974 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
• 07/15/1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
• 07/17/1974 - 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
• 07/17/1974 - Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
• 07/17/1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
• 07/17/1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
• 07/18/1974 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 07/18/1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
• 07/19/1974 - Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
• 07/19/1974 - David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC
• 07/19/1974 - Soyuz 14 lands
• 07/20/1974 - Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
• 07/20/1974 - Turkey invades Cyprus
• 07/21/1974 - 29th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie
• 07/21/1974 - Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
• 07/21/1974 - House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against Pres Nixon
• 07/23/1974 - 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
• 07/23/1974 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
• 07/23/1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses
• 07/24/1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
• 07/26/1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
• 07/26/1974 - USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
• 07/27/1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
• 07/27/1974 - Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs
• 07/28/1974 - 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
• 07/28/1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
• 07/29/1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
• 07/29/1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
• 07/29/1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
• 07/29/1974 - St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
• 07/30/1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

• 08/01/1974 - Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets
• 08/03/1974 - "Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs
• 08/03/1974 - "Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs
• 08/03/1974 - Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
• 08/04/1974 - Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
• 08/04/1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
• 08/05/1974 - Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
• 08/05/1974 - Pres Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in
• 08/06/1974 - 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice
• 08/06/1974 - Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
• 08/07/1974 - Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
• 08/07/1974 - Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers
• 08/08/1974 - Pres Richard M Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9
• 08/09/1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
• 08/10/1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
• 08/11/1974 - 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
• 08/11/1974 - Coup in East-Timor under UDT
• 08/11/1974 - Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
• 08/12/1974 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
• 08/12/1974 - Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
• 08/14/1974 - Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
• 08/14/1974 - Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
• 08/14/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 08/14/1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 08/15/1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 08/15/1974 - Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
• 08/15/1974 - Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
• 08/15/1974 - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
• 08/16/1974 - Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
• 08/18/1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
• 08/20/1974 - Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
• 08/20/1974 - Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
• 08/20/1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
• 08/20/1974 - Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
• 08/23/1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
• 08/23/1974 - Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
• 08/24/1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
• 08/25/1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 08/25/1974 - LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
• 08/26/1974 - Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
• 08/26/1974 - Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
• 08/27/1974 - NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
• 08/28/1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
• 08/29/1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 08/30/1974 - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
• 08/30/1974 - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
• 08/30/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 08/31/1974 - Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor

• 09/01/1974 - Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
• 09/01/1974 - Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
• 09/01/1974 - Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
• 09/02/1974 - Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
• 09/02/1974 - Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
• 09/03/1974 - Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut
• 09/03/1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
• 09/03/1974 - US & German DR establish diplomatic relations
• 09/04/1974 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
• 09/07/1974 - "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances
• 09/07/1974 - Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975
• 09/08/1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75)
• 09/08/1974 - 94th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61)
• 09/08/1974 - Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8)
• 09/08/1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
• 09/08/1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
• 09/09/1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75)
• 09/10/1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
• 09/10/1974 - NY Dolls disband
• 09/10/1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau
• 09/10/1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
• 09/11/1974 - Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
• 09/12/1974 - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
• 09/12/1974 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
• 09/13/1974 - -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
• 09/13/1974 - 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
• 09/13/1974 - Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
• 09/13/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 09/14/1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
• 09/15/1974 - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
• 09/15/1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
• 09/16/1974 - BART begins regular transbay service
• 09/16/1974 - Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks
• 09/16/1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters
• 09/16/1974 - US General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe
• 09/17/1974 - Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
• 09/18/1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
• 09/19/1974 - -20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
• 09/21/1974 - US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
• 09/23/1974 - "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances
• 09/23/1974 - BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service
• 09/24/1974 - Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
• 09/24/1974 - Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
• 09/25/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 09/26/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 09/27/1974 - -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
• 09/27/1974 - Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
• 09/28/1974 - "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47
• 09/28/1974 - "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75
• 09/28/1974 - "Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52
• 09/28/1974 - "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31
• 09/28/1974 - "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1
• 09/28/1974 - "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36
• 09/28/1974 - 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
• 09/28/1974 - Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
• 09/28/1974 - John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
• 09/28/1974 - Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople
• 09/29/1974 - 4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29
• 09/29/1974 - 5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30
• 09/29/1974 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
• 09/30/1974 - Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Sp¡nola as pres of Portugal

• 10/01/1974 - Watergate cover-up trial opens in Wash DC
• 10/02/1974 - Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
• 10/03/1974 - Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 10/03/1974 - Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
• 10/03/1974 - Pele retires as soccer player
• 10/03/1974 - Watergate trial begins
• 10/04/1974 - John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
• 10/06/1974 - "Mack & Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
• 10/06/1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
• 10/07/1974 - German DR amends constitution
• 10/09/1974 - Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
• 10/09/1974 - Race riot in Boston due to "busing"
• 10/09/1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at MSG Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
• 10/10/1974 - A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
• 10/10/1974 - Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
• 10/10/1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
• 10/10/1974 - US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
• 10/11/1974 - A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
• 10/12/1974 - 1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
• 10/14/1974 - 8th Country Music Assn Award: Charlie Rich
• 10/15/1974 - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
• 10/15/1974 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
• 10/15/1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
• 10/16/1974 - A's Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win, 5-2
• 10/17/1974 - "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
• 10/17/1974 - NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
• 10/17/1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
• 10/17/1974 - Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
• 10/18/1974 - 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
• 10/18/1974 - Andr‚ van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam
• 10/18/1974 - Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
• 10/18/1974 - Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
• 10/19/1974 - Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps
• 10/19/1974 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
• 10/20/1974 - 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
• 10/20/1974 - Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
• 10/21/1974 - 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
• 10/21/1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
• 10/22/1974 - Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
• 10/23/1974 - Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker
• 10/23/1974 - Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
• 10/24/1974 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
• 10/25/1974 - Air Force fires 1st ICBM
• 10/25/1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
• 10/25/1974 - Wings release "Junior's Farm"
• 10/26/1974 - Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
• 10/27/1974 - Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
• 10/28/1974 - 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
• 10/28/1974 - Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
• 10/28/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 10/29/1974 - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
• 10/30/1974 - Calif Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
• 10/30/1974 - Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
• 10/30/1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire
• 10/31/1974 - Bundy victim (?) Laura Aime disappears in Utah
• 10/31/1974 - Marines terminate gijzelingsactie in strafgevangenis Scheveningen

• 11/01/1974 - Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
• 11/01/1974 - UN affirms independence of Cyprus
• 11/02/1974 - Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs
• 11/02/1974 - Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
• 11/02/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 11/03/1974 - "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
• 11/03/1974 - Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
• 11/05/1974 - Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen
• 11/05/1974 - Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
• 11/05/1974 - Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
• 11/06/1974 - Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
• 11/07/1974 - 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
• 11/08/1974 - British Lord Lucan disappears
• 11/08/1974 - Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 11/10/1974 - 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
• 11/10/1974 - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
• 11/12/1974 - South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
• 11/13/1974 - Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
• 11/15/1974 - Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
• 11/16/1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
• 11/16/1974 - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
• 11/16/1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
• 11/17/1974 - Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
• 11/17/1974 - Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
• 11/20/1974 - Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
• 11/20/1974 - The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
• 11/21/1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto
• 11/22/1974 - Lake Buena Vista Club opens
• 11/22/1974 - Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
• 11/22/1974 - UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
• 11/23/1974 - 60 Ethiopia govt officials executed
• 11/24/1974 - 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)
• 11/24/1974 - 62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7
• 11/24/1974 - Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
• 11/24/1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
• 11/25/1974 - Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
• 11/25/1974 - Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
• 11/26/1974 - Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
• 11/26/1974 - Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
• 11/26/1974 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
• 11/27/1974 - Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
• 11/28/1974 - Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
• 11/28/1974 - John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in MSG NYC)
• 11/30/1974 - "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances
• 11/30/1974 - "Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances
• 11/30/1974 - 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
• 11/30/1974 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
• 11/30/1974 - Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson & Gray in Ethiopia)

• 12/01/1974 - Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
• 12/01/1974 - Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
• 12/01/1974 - LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
• 12/02/1974 - Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
• 12/02/1974 - Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
• 12/02/1974 - Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
• 12/04/1974 - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
• 12/04/1974 - Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
• 12/05/1974 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC
• 12/05/1974 - 1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
• 12/05/1974 - 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
• 12/05/1974 - Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
• 12/05/1974 - Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC
• 12/05/1974 - NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
• 12/05/1974 - Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
• 12/05/1974 - Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
• 12/06/1974 - George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
• 12/08/1974 - Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
• 12/08/1974 - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
• 12/08/1974 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
• 12/08/1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
• 12/09/1974 - Dow Jones index hits 570.01
• 12/09/1974 - Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
• 12/09/1974 - Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
• 12/10/1974 - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
• 12/10/1974 - Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
• 12/10/1974 - Space probe Helios 1 launched
• 12/13/1974 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
• 12/13/1974 - Malta becomes a republic
• 12/14/1974 - Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
• 12/14/1974 - Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes
• 12/15/1974 - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
• 12/16/1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 12/16/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 12/18/1974 - SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
• 12/19/1974 - "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
• 12/19/1974 - Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
• 12/19/1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
• 12/20/1974 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
• 12/20/1974 - George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
• 12/22/1974 - 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
• 12/22/1974 - Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
• 12/22/1974 - Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
• 12/23/1974 - "Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
• 12/23/1974 - Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
• 12/24/1974 - Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
• 12/25/1974 - Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
• 12/26/1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
• 12/27/1974 - 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
• 12/27/1974 - Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
• 12/27/1974 - FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
• 12/27/1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 12/28/1974 - 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
• 12/29/1974 - Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC
• 12/30/1974 - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
• 12/31/1974 - 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
• 12/31/1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract
• 12/31/1974 - Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
• 12/31/1974 - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
• 12/31/1974 - NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
• 12/31/1974 - Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer