1974

Events

   * February 4 - Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of publisher
     William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
   * February 7 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
   * February 8 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American
     space station Skylab return to Earth
   * February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demand $4 million more to
     release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
   * February 27 - People magazine is published for the first time.
   * March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
   * March 18 - Oil embargo: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo
     against the United States, Europe and Japan.
   * March 29 - Mariner 10 approaches Mercury
   * April 25 - Coup in Portugal restores democracy (see Carnation
     Revolution)
   * May 9 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee
     opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard
     M. Nixon.
   * May 17 - Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army
     headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall
   * May 17 - Thirty-three people die from 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.
   * July 20 - War of July 1974: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus.
   * July 24 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court
     unanimously rule 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 27-30 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary
     Committee adopts three articles of impeachment charging President
     Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws,
     and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee. He
     announces he will resign the next day, the first president to do so.
     Vice President Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as 38th President of the
     United States on August 9.
   * August 8 - Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his
     resignation (effective August 9).
   * August 9 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United
     States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by
     impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice
     President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th
     president.
   * September 8 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons
     former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed
     while in office.
   * November 7 - Lord Lucan disappears
   * November 17 - President Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the
     Republic of Ireland
   * December 19 - Cearbhall î D‡laigh becomes the fifth President of
     Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle
   * December 24 - Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone
     Tracy
   * The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist
     Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An
     Experimental View.

Politics, Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1974 in film
        o May - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would
          eventually become Star Wars.
        o The Godfather, Part II
        o Chinatown
        o The Conversation
        o The Towering Inferno
   * 1974 in literature
        o Carrie by Stephen King
   * 1974 in television
        o January 15 - Happy Days premieres on NBC
        o Little House on the Prairie, starring Michael Landon.

Births

   * January 16 - Kate Moss, supermodel
   * January 23 - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, actress
   * January 27 - Bridget Fonda, actress
   * January 30 - Christian Bale, actor
   * February 8 - Seth Green, actor
   * February 11 - D'Angelo, singer
   * February 13 - Robbie Williams, singer
   * February 19 - Allison Boyer, poet
   * March 5 - Jens Jeremies, football player, National Team of Germany
   * March 20 - Carsten Ramelow, football player, National Team of Germany
   * March 20 - Paula Garces, actress
   * March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
   * April 4 - Dave Mirra, extreme sports champion
   * April 14 - Da Brat, rap singer
   * April 28 - Penelope Cruz, actress
   * June 1 - Alanis Morissette, singer
   * August 17 - Asad Makarevic, software engineer, chef, auto mechanic,
     epicurean
   * October 11 - Jens Moellenhoff
   * November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
   * November 22 - Ken Mondschein, writer.
   * December 21 - Karrie Webb, golf champion
   * Ziad Jarrah, resident of Lebanon, hijacker and alleged terrorist.

Deaths

   * January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film studio executive
   * February 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress.
   * February 23 - Harry Ruby, composer, writer
   * March 5 - Sol Hurok, impresario
   * March 20 - Chet Huntley, television journalist
   * April 2 - Georges Pompidou, President of France
   * April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor
   * June 22 - Darius Milhaud, composer
   * July 1 - Juan Domingo Per—n, Argentinean military and politician,
     president of the Republic 1946 - 1955 and 1973 until his death
   * September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author
   * September 3 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer
   * September 4 - Marcel Achard, play and scriptwriter
   * November 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer
   * November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
   * November 17 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
   * Chemistry - Paul J Flory
   * Medicine - Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E Palade
   * Literature - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
   * Peace - SŽan Mac Bride Eisaku Sato
   * Economics - Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

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