Special Events - 1974
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1974 (01 jan) World Population Year begins
1974 (01 jan) Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin
1974 (01 jan) NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS
lead)
1974 (02 jan) 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1974 (02 jan) Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1974 (03 jan) Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
1974 (03 jan) Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1974 (03 jan) Burma accepts its constitution
1974 (03 jan) Miguel Piñero's "Short Eyes" premieres in New York City NY
1974 (03 jan) New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1974 (04 jan) Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1974 (05 jan) Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
1974 (06 jan) "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio
1974 (06 jan) England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
1974 (07 jan) Dutch rations gasoline
1974 (08 jan) Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
1974 (08 jan) Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1974 (08 jan) E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come" premieres in New York
City NY
1974 (08 jan) Loch Ness Monster photographed
1974 (11 jan) ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style"
1974 (12 jan) "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1
1974 (12 jan) Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab
Republic"
1974 (13 jan) Super Bowl VIII Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in
Houston; Super Bowl MVP Larry Csonka, Miami, Running Back
1974 (14 jan) World Football League founded
1974 (15 jan) Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate
erasures
1974 (15 jan) "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1974 (15 jan) 24th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
1974 (16 jan) L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville OR
1974 (16 jan) "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published
1974 (16 jan) New York Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford elected to Hall of
Fame
1974 (17 jan) Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei" premieres in New York
City NY
1974 (18 jan) "The $6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 (18 jan) Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1974 (19 jan) Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win
streak
1974 (19 jan) Belgium government of Leburton falls
1974 (20 jan) Essex Community College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in
basketball
1974 (20 jan) 4th NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 15-13
1974 (20 jan) 7th ABA All-Star Game East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
1974 (21 jan) Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
1974 (21 jan) Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1974 (23 jan) 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
1974 (25 jan) Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 (25 jan) Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys San Diego Padres for $12 million
1974 (25 jan) South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first
human heart without removal of the old one
1974 (27 jan) "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 320
performances
1974 (28 jan) Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of
Fame
1974 (29 jan) 27th NHL All-Star Game West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1974 (30 jan) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1974 (31 jan) McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
1974 (01 feb) "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on
CBS TV
1974 (02 feb) Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
1974 (02 feb) Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavaliers vs Golden
State-1,641)
1974 (02 feb) Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1974 (03 feb) "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65
performances
1974 (03 feb) Sandra Palmer win LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1974 (04 feb) Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1974 (04 feb) Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst
kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1974 (04 feb) Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 (04 feb) Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 (05 feb) Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
1974 (05 feb) US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud
structure
1974 (05 feb) British mine strike
1974 (05 feb) Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1974 (06 feb) 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 (06 feb) Dutch speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis
1974 (06 feb) US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for
impeachment of Nixon
1974 (07 feb) Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1974 (07 feb) Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1974 (08 feb) Ringo Starr releases "You're 16"
1974 (08 feb) Skylab 4's astronauts land
1974 (08 feb) Soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1974 (08 feb) "Good Times" debuts on CBS TV
1974 (09 feb) "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 (09 feb) "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at
#24
1974 (09 feb) US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 (09 feb) US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1974 (10 feb) Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1974 (10 feb) "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
1974 (10 feb) Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1974 (10 feb) Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 (10 feb) Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
1974 (11 feb) Titan-Centaur test launch fails
1974 (11 feb) 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking
$29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000
1974 (11 feb) Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration
rule
1974 (13 feb) Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1974 (13 feb) "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
1974 (13 feb) James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame
1974 (17 feb) 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 (17 feb) Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1974 (18 feb) NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
1974 (18 feb) US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents $2,046,700,000
check
1974 (19 feb) 1st American Music Award
1974 (20 feb) Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 million from Houston
Aeros, WHA
1974 (20 feb) Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1974 (21 feb) Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 (21 feb) Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 (21 feb) Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1974 (22 feb) Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1974 (23 feb) Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1974 (24 feb) Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1974 (24 feb) Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round skater
1974 (25 feb) Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a
record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1974 (26 feb) Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
1974 (27 feb) "People" magazine begins sales
1974 (27 feb) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 (28 feb) US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
1974 (28 feb) Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1974 (28 feb) Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 (28 feb) Taiwan police shoot into crowd
1974 (01 mar) George Harrison announces his concert tour of US
in November
1974 (01 mar) Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs New Zealand cricket at
Wellington
1974 (01 mar) Watergate grand jury indicts 7 Presidential aides
1974 (02 mar) 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler win
1974 (02 mar) 1st class postage raised from 8¢ to 10¢
1974 (02 mar) Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate
cover-up
1974 (02 mar) Greg Chappell makes 247 vs New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1
six
1974 (03 mar) "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances
1974 (03 mar) Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 (03 mar) George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 (03 mar) Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 (03 mar) World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris France
(346 die)
1974 (04 mar) David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London
1974 (04 mar) Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1974 (05 mar) "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1974 (05 mar) Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1974 (06 mar) "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1974 (06 mar) An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1974 (06 mar) Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket
1974 (07 mar) "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1974 (07 mar) 1st general striking in Ethiopia
1974 (08 mar) Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris France
1974 (09 mar) Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines,
surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1974 (10 mar) "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
1974 (10 mar) Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 (10 mar) Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 (10 mar) Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs England Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1974 (11 mar) Mount Etna in Sicily erupts
1974 (11 mar) Rhino Store gives people 5¢ to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1974 (12 mar) Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA
1974 (13 mar) Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
1974 (13 mar) Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against
Australia
1974 (15 mar) Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns
1974 (16 mar) 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in
Nashville
1974 (17 mar) Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1974 (18 mar) Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US
1974 (19 mar) Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour
1974 (21 mar) Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
1974 (24 mar) 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State
beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7 year reign as NCAA basketball
champions
1974 (25 mar) Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1974 (26 mar) George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 (26 mar) Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu
President
1974 (28 mar) Rock group Raspberries break up
1974 (29 mar) Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1974 (01 apr) Pioneer Hall opens
1974 (01 apr) Yourdon, Inc forms
1974 (01 apr) Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1974 (02 apr) Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War
1974 (02 apr) 46th Academy Awards - "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon
win
1974 (02 apr) Tony Greig takes 8-86 vs West Indies Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in
2nd inning)
1974 (03 apr) 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in
the east, south & midwest killed approximately 315
1974 (03 apr) Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris France
1974 (04 apr) Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1974 (05 apr) Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110
stories)
1974 (05 apr) Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
1974 (06 apr) 200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam"
1974 (06 apr) Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1974 (06 apr) Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16
1974 (07 apr) Herb Gardner's "Thieves", premieres in NYC
1974 (08 apr) Discovery Island opens
1974 (08 apr) Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th homerun, breaks Babe Ruth's record
1974 (09 apr) San Diegp Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies &
gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my
life"
1974 (10 apr) American Boccaccio Association is established
1974 (10 apr) Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1974 (10 apr) Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1974 (11 apr) WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1974 (14 apr) 38th Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
1974 (15 apr) 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in
2:47:11
1974 (15 apr) 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
1974 (15 apr) Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed
1974 (16 apr) 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario CA
1974 (16 apr) "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127
performances
1974 (16 apr) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1974 (17 apr) Ted Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from Central Washington
State College, Ellensburg WA
1974 (17 apr) Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis
Egypt
1974 (18 apr) Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi
1974 (19 apr) Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park homerun against
the New York Yankees
1974 (20 apr) Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1974 (21 apr) 28th Tony Awards River Niger & Raisin win
1974 (21 apr) 3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice
1974 (22 apr) Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of the Today Show
1974 (23 apr) USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1974 (24 apr) NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1974 (24 apr) Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974 (25 apr) NFL moves the goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
1974 (25 apr) Chancellor Willy Brandt Secretary Günther Guillaume found to be a
spy
1974 (25 apr) Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
1974 (25 apr) Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal; he is exiled to Madeira
and later to Brazil (Carnation revolution)
1974 (26 apr) Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 (26 apr) Nw York Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Cleveland
Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw
1974 (26 apr) Malta adopts constitution
1974 (27 apr) Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1974 (28 apr) Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1974 (29 apr) President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in
White House
1974 (30 apr) President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of
Watergate tape recordings
1974 (02 may) Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred
1974 (04 may) 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Cannonade wins in
2:04
1974 (05 may) Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 (06 may) A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of
6-3 loss to Baltimore ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
1974 (06 may) Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis OR
1974 (06 may) Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
1974 (06 may) Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1974 (06 may) West German chancellor W Brandt resigns
1974 (07 may) Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1974 (08 may) 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1974 (08 may) Canadian Government of Trudeau falls
1974 (08 may) FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II
1974 (09 may) House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon
impeachment
1974 (10 may) 7th ABA championship: New York Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1
1974 (11 may) "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83
1974 (11 may) "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1974 (11 may) Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
1974 (12 may) 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee Bucks, 4
games to 3
1974 (12 may) Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1974 (14 may) Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1974 (15 may) Mail truck terrorists take school in Maälot, 30 killed
1974 (15 may) Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1974 (16 may) Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 (16 may) USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1974 (17 may) Bayern München wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 (17 may) Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet
1974 (18 may) "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1974 (18 may) 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in
1:54.6
1974 (18 may) India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1974 (19 may) Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 (19 may) Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1974 (19 may) Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1974 (20 may) Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1974 (22 may) Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
1974 (22 may) Soccer team Veendam forms
1974 (22 may) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 (23 may) Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 (23 may) Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1974 (24 may) Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1974 (26 may) During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
1974 (26 may) Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic
1974 (27 may) Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning
1974 (28 may) 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
1974 (28 may) Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
1974 (28 may) Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
1974 (28 may) Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater
NYC for 1859 performances
1974 (29 may) Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
1974 (30 may) 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
1974 (31 may) Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 (31 may) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1974 (01 jun) Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien,
Wash
1974 (04 jun) NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1974 (08 jun) Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits the rock group "Yes"
1974 (09 jun) Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert
1974 (11 jun) Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
1974 (17 jun) Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroids #2997 & #3083
1974 (19 jun) KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
1974 (20 jun) Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2124 Nissen
1974 (23 jun) Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA byh 2 strokes over JoAnne Carner
1974 (26 jun) Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1974 (28 jun) Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia)
1974 (28 jun) Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
1974 (30 jun) Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches
"Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
1974 (01 jul) Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of
Wales
1974 (02 jul) Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1974 (03 jul) Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 (07 jul) West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
1974 (08 jul) Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 innings
1974 (11 jul) House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 (11 jul) World Football League plays 1st games
1974 (14 jul) Bundy victms Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish,
WA
1974 (16 jul) Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2964
1974 (17 jul) 1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues
1974 (17 jul) Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000
1974 (17 jul) John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days
1974 (18 jul) World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1974 (19 jul) Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 (19 jul) David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC
1974 (19 jul) Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118
1974 (20 jul) Turkey invades Cyprus
1974 (23 jul) Greek military dictatorship collapses
1974 (23 jul) NL beats AL 7-2 in 45th All Star Game (3 Rivers, Pittsburgh)
1974 (24 jul) Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate
tapes
1974 (25 jul) T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2345 Fucik
1974 (26 jul) USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1974 (27 jul) House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 (28 jul) 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1974 (29 jul) 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary
Committee
1974 (29 jul) St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1974 (30 jul) House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon
1974 (01 aug) Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to the
NY Nets
1974 (03 aug) Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
1974 (04 aug) Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1974 (05 aug) Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways
1974 (06 aug) 6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it
twice
1974 (06 aug) Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
1974 (07 aug) Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between the twin towers of
the World Trade Center
1974 (08 aug) Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09
1974 (09 aug) Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1974 (11 aug) Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1974 (11 aug) Lee Trevino wins PGA championship
1974 (12 aug) Nolan Ryan strikes-out 19 Red Sox
1974 (12 aug) Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected
to hall of fame on the same day
1974 (14 aug) Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1974 (15 aug) Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52
days))
1974 (15 aug) South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1974 (20 aug) Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 (25 aug) LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1974 (26 aug) Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 (27 aug) NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1974 (28 aug) Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1974 (30 aug) Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing
153
1974 (03 sep) NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires
1974 (08 sep) Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes
1974 (10 sep) Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1974 (10 sep) Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 (10 sep) Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24
hrs
1974 (11 sep) Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances,
Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1974 (12 sep) Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1974 (13 sep) Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses
24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
1974 (14 sep) Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1974 (16 sep) BART begins regular transbay service
1974 (16 sep) Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War
deserters
1974 (17 sep) Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
1974 (18 sep) Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1974 (21 sep) US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
1974 (24 sep) Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
1974 (28 sep) 1st lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 (28 sep) Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1974 (28 sep) John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1974 (03 oct) Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt
Lake City, Utah
1974 (03 oct) Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve
Indians)
1974 (03 oct) Watergate trial begins
1974 (04 oct) John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1974 (09 oct) Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak
1974 (09 oct) Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at MSG
1974 (10 oct) Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 (10 oct) 10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1974 (12 oct) 1st time Wash Caps are shut out as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
1974 (15 oct) National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 (15 oct) Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
1974 (17 oct) NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 (17 oct) Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
1974 (17 oct) Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series,
makes A's the only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
1974 (18 oct) Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
1974 (18 oct) Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a
quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks
1974 (19 oct) Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores the 1st hat trick against Wash
Caps
1974 (19 oct) Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1974 (21 oct) 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
1974 (22 oct) Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
1974 (24 oct) Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
1974 (25 oct) Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1974 (26 oct) Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
1974 (28 oct) 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1974 (30 oct) Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Za‹re
1974 (31 oct) Bundy victim (?) Laura Aime disappears in Utah
1974 (01 nov) Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo
Brazil)
1974 (05 nov) Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous
gov
1974 (05 nov) Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1974 (08 nov) Bundy victim (?) Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, UT
1974 (10 nov) 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT
win
1974 (10 nov) Montreal Candiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0
1974 (15 nov) Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
1974 (16 nov) 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope
towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1974 (16 nov) John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 (16 nov) Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
1974 (22 nov) Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 (26 nov) Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal)
1974 (28 nov) Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1974 (30 nov) 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
1974 (01 dec) Los Angeles Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
1974 (01 dec) Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville VA, 92 die
1974 (01 dec) Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
1974 (02 dec) Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1974 (02 dec) Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 (02 dec) Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champion
1974 (04 dec) Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem
pilgrims
1974 (04 dec) Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
1974 (05 dec) 1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs
Buff Sabres
1974 (05 dec) 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 (05 dec) Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
1974 (05 dec) Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
1974 (05 dec) Seattle Seahawks formed
1974 (05 dec) "Monty Python's Flying Circus" final episode airs on BBC
1974 (05 dec) NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
1974 (05 dec) Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL
penalty shot
1974 (06 dec) George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
1974 (08 dec) Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1974 (08 dec) Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 (08 dec) Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 (08 dec) Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1974 (09 dec) Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1974 (09 dec) Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 (09 dec) Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling
champion
1974 (10 dec) Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
1974 (10 dec) European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 (13 dec) Malta becomes a republic
1974 (13 dec) Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner
Finley
1974 (14 dec) Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
1974 (14 dec) Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs India 20 fours 6
sixes
1974 (15 dec) A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with
Yankees)
1974 (16 dec) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 (16 dec) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1974 (18 dec) San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1974 (19 dec) Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
1974 (19 dec) Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st Vice-President
1974 (19 dec) "The Man With the Golden Gun" premieres in US
1974 (20 dec) George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
1974 (20 dec) Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 (22 dec) Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 (22 dec) Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 (22 dec) 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately
April 1975
1974 (23 dec) "Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
1974 (23 dec) Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's Michelangelo-liederen
1974 (24 dec) Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1974 (25 dec) Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
1974 (26 dec) Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1974 (27 dec) FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
1974 (27 dec) 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1974 (27 dec) Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
1974 (27 dec) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1974 (28 dec) 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
1974 (29 dec) Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" premieres in New York NY
1974 (30 dec) Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1974 (31 dec) Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panamá's Gold 100 balboa
coin
1974 (31 dec) 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
1974 (31 dec) Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs record $3.75 million 5
year New York Yankee contract
1974 (31 dec) Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1974 (31 dec) Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
