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1974  Jan 3,  Following eight years of inactivity, Bob Dylan toured for 39 dates in 25 cities. His first stop was in Chicago, IL. The tour was recorded and later released as a double-LP set titled, Before the Flood.
 (440 Int'l. 1/3/99)

1974  Jan 4, President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
 (AP, 1/4/98)
1974  Jan 4, Karel Janacek (70), composer, died.
 (MC, 1/4/02)

1974  Jan 9,  Cambodian Government troops opened a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh.
 (HN, 1/9/98)

1974  Jan 15, "Happy Days" began an 11 year run on ABC.
 (MC, 1/15/02)
1974  Jan 15, An expert panel reported an 18-m gap in Watergate tape with 5 separate erasures.
 (MC, 1/15/02)

1974  Jan 16, "Jaws" by Peter Benchley was published.
 (MC, 1/16/02)
1974  Jan 16, NY Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to Hall of Fame.
 (MC, 1/16/02)

1974  Jan 18, "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premiered on ABC TV.
 (MC, 1/18/02)
1974  Jan 18, Israel and Egypt signed a weapons accord.
 (MC, 1/18/02)

1974  Jan 21, The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
 (HN, 1/21/99)

1974  Jan 25, Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), bought the SD Padres for $12 million and prevented the team's planned move to Washington DC.
 (MC, 1/25/02)(SFC, 10/13/03, p.A19)

1974  Jan 31, Samuel Goldwyn (91), Polish-English, US film magnate (MGM), died.
 (MC, 1/31/02)

1974  Feb 1, Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, was abducted in Seattle.
 (MC, 2/1/02)

1974  Feb 2, Barbra Streisand made her 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were."
 (MC, 2/2/02)

1974  Feb 4, Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst (19) was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her boyfriend Steven Weed was beaten. Patty Hearst ran away to join an underground revolutionary group, the Symbionese Liberation Front.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)(SFC, 2/8/97, p.A7)(AP, 2/4/97)(AP, 2/4/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974  Feb 4, Mao Tse-tung proclaimed a new "cultural revolution" in China.
 (HN, 2/4/99)

1974  Feb 5, Patty Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint by a white woman and two black men. [see Feb 4]
 (HN, 2/5/99)

1974  Feb 6, US House of Reps began determining grounds for the impeachment of Pres. Nixon.
 (MC, 2/6/02)

1974  Feb 7, Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opened in movie theaters.
 (MC, 2/7/02)
1974  Feb 7, The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
 (SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 2/7/97)

1974  Feb 8, The three-man crew of "Skylab" space station returned to Earth after spending 84 days in space.
 (AP, 2/8/99)
1974  Feb 8, Fritz Zwicky (75), Swiss-US astronomer (supernova), died.
 (MC, 2/8/02)

1974  Feb 9, US female Figure Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill.
 (MC, 2/9/02)

1974  Feb 12, The SLA sent a letter a tape with the voices of Patty Hearst and "general field marshal Cinque" to KPFA. They demanded free food to the poor of the Bay Area, prison reform and social justice. Symbionese Liberation Army asked the Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.
 (HN, 2/12/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974  Feb 12, The Russian Mars 5 Orbiter entered orbit around Mars and relayed imaging data for the Mars 6 & 7 missions.
 (SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)

1974  Feb 13, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the USSR. He wrote his novel "First Circle" based on experiences in a Moscow prison camp, where he met Lev Kopelev (d.1997 at 85), a dissident author and Communist idealist.  The character Rubin in "First Circle" is based on Kopelev.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)(SFC, 6/21/97, p.A18)(MC, 2/13/02)

1974  Feb 15, U.S. gas stations threatened to close because of federal fuel policies.
 (HN, 2/15/98)

1974  Feb 16, In California Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church received a tape from the SLA wherein Cinque said a "reasonable" food giveaway would be acceptable as a condition for the release of Patty Hearst.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)

1974  Feb 18, In California Randolph Hearst was to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty.
 (HN, 2/18/98)

1974  Feb 19, Randolph Hearst announced a $2 million food program called People in Need.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)

1974  Feb 21, A report claimed that the use of defoliants by the U.S. had scarred Vietnam for century. Defoliation was meant to save lives by denying the enemy cover. But for some the 'cure' was worse than the problem.
 (HN, 2/21/98)
1974  Feb 21, Tim Horton, hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, died at 44 in a car crash driving back home to Buffalo after a game in Toronto. His career spanned 25 years with 6 invitations to all-star teams.
 (SFC, 5/16/97, p.A19)

1974  Feb 22, Cesar Chavez began a UFW march from Union Square in SF to Gallo headquarters in Modesto.
 (SFEM, 4/13/97, p.11)

1974  Feb 24, Pakistan officially recognized Bangladesh.
 (MC, 2/24/02)

1974  Feb 26, Gold hit a record $188 an ounce in Paris.
 (SC, 2/26/02)

1974  Feb 27, "People" magazine began sales. [see Mar 4]
 (MC, 2/27/02)

1974  Feb 28, The United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
 (AP, 2/28/98)
1974  Feb 28, Labour Party won the British parliamentary election.
 (MC, 2/28/02)
1974  Feb 28, Ethiopian government of Makonnen formed.
 (MC, 2/28/02)
1974  Feb 28, Taiwan police shot into a crowd of people.
 (MC, 2/28/02)

1974  Feb, William F. Knowland, former Cal. state senator and Oakland Tribune newspaper publisher and editor, committed suicide. In 1998 Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson, in collaboration with Paul G. Manolis, published the biography "One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland."
 (SFEC, 5/17/98, BR p.5)

1974  Feb, In Portugal Marshal Antonio de Spinola published a critique of the dictatorship's African policy.
 (SFC, 8/15/96, p.C4)

1974  Mar 1, Seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. They were convicted the following January, although Mardian's conviction was later reversed.
 (HN, 3/1/98)(AP, 3/1/99)

1974  Mar 2, 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler won. Stevie Wonder got five Grammy Awards for his album, "Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" and "Superstition".
 (HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SC, 3/2/02)
1974  Mar 2, A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
 (HN, 3/2/99)
1974  Mar 2, US 1st class postage stamps jumped from 8-to-10 cents.
 (HC, Internet, 2/3/98)

1974  Mar 3, "Sextet" opened at Bijou Theater in NYC for 9 performances.
 (SC, 3/3/02)
1974  Mar 3, A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris and 346 people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.
 (AP, 3/3/98)(SC, 3/3/02)

1974  Mar 4, The first issue of People Magazine appeared. [see Feb 27]
 (HFA, '96, p.26)
1974  Mar 4, David Hares' "Knuckle" premiered in London.
 (SC, 3/4/02)
1974  Mar 4, Harold Wilson replaced resigning Ed Heath as British premier.
 (SC, 3/4/02)

1974  Mar 5, "Candide" opened at Broadway Theater in NYC for 740 performances.
 (MC, 3/5/02)
1974  Mar 5, Solomon I "Sol" Hurok (85), US impresario, died.
 (MC, 3/5/02)

1974  Mar 6, "Over Here" opened at Shubert Theater in NYC for 341 performances.
 (MC, 3/6/02)

1974  Mar 7, "Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) was partially restored at Cape Hatteras, NC.
 (MC, 3/7/02)

1974  Mar 8, Charles the Gaulle Airport opened in Paris.
 (MC, 3/8/02)

1974  Mar 9, Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrendered, 29 years after World War II ended.
 (MC, 3/9/02)
1974  Mar 9, Earl W. Sutherland Jr., US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), died.
 (MC, 3/9/02)

1974    Mar 12, Bundy victim Donna Manson disappeared from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wa.
 (MC, 3/12/02)
1974  Mar 12, Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, was assassinated.
 (MC, 3/12/02)
1974  Mar 12, The Russian Mars 6 went into orbit and the lander transmitted atmospheric data during descent before failing.
 (SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)

1974  Mar 13, The U.S. Senate voted 54-33 to restore the death penalty.
 (HN, 3/13/98)
1974  Mar 13, Arab nations decided to end the oil embargo on the U.S.
 (HN, 3/13/98)

1974  Mar 18, Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their embargo against the United States.
 (AP, 3/18/97)

1974  Mar 20, Chet Huntley (62), newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), died.
 (MC, 3/20/02)

1974  Mar 22, The Viet Cong proposed a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which includes general elections.
 (AP, 3/22/99)

1974  Mar 26, Romanian communist party named party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President.
 (SS, 3/26/02)

1974  Mar 29, Mariner 10 first flew past Mercury.
 (NH, 5/01, p.38)
1974  Mar 29, Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. The guardsmen were later acquitted. [see Nov 8]
 (AP, 3/29/97)

1974  Apr 1, Ayatollah Khomeini called for an Islamic Republic in Iran.
 (MC, 4/1/02)

1974  Apr 2, In the 46th Academy Awards "Sting," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win. Robert Opel (33) of SF streaked naked across the stage. Opel was shot and killed 5 years later during a robbery in SF.
 (MC, 4/2/02)(SFEC, 3/14/99, DB p.37)
1974  Apr 2, French President Georges Pompidou (62) died in Paris. Alain Pohrer (1909-1996) as president of the Senate then served as interim president for 7 weeks.
 (SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)(AP, 4/2/97)(MC, 4/2/02)

1974  Apr 3, A tape from the SLA announced Patty Hearst's decision to "stay and fight" with the SLA.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22,23)
1974  Apr 3, The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation of the Congress reported that $476,531 in back taxes and interest was owed by President Richard Nixon. Responding to charges of fraud, Nixon requested the committee investigation of his taxes and, upon its report, agreed to pay. The report made no conclusion regarding fraud.
 (HNQ, 6/1/98)
1974  Apr 3, A series of 148 deadly tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; some 315 fatalities resulted. Some 330 people were killed in 13 states.
 (AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(MC, 4/3/02)

1974  Apr 4, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th round-tripper in Cincinnati.
 (HN, 4/4/98)(AP, 4/4/99)

1974  Apr 5, The World Trade Center, the tallest building in the world at 110 stories, opened in NYC.
 (HN, 5/5/97)

1974  Apr 6, Willem Dudok (89), Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), died.
 (MC, 4/6/02)

1974  Apr 8, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
 (AP, 4/8/97)(HN, 4/8/98)

1974  Apr 10, Sherry Johnson, Miss America-Minnesota (1996), was born in Owatonna, Minnesota.
 (MC, 4/10/02)
1974  Apr 10, Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin replaced Golda Meir.
 (AP, 4/10/97)(HN, 4/10/98)

1974  Apr 11, The Judiciary committee presented a subpoena to President Richard Nixon to produce tapes for impeachment inquiry.
 (HN, 4/11/98)
1974  Apr 11, United Mine Workers president W. A. "Tony" Boyle was found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the assassination of union reformer Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski in 1969. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. Boyle had defeated Yablonski in the UMW election earlier in the year-an election marred by intimidation and vote fraud. In 1972 the election was set aside by a federal court after Boyle had been convicted of illegal use of UMW funds in the federal elections of 1968. In a new election held in December, 1972, Boyle was defeated by rank and file reformist Arnold Miller. Soon after the election Boyle was put on trial for murdering the Yablonskis and was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison.
 (HNQ, 11/8/99)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2)

1974  Apr 15, SLA members including Patty Hearst robbed the Sunset Branch of the Hibernia Bank in SF of more than $10,000. The wounded 2 passersby as they fled.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)

1974  Apr 17, Ted Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappeared from CWU, Ellensburg, WA.
 (MC, 4/17/02)

1974  Apr 18, Red Brigade kidnapped Italian attorney general Mario Sossi.
 (MC, 4/18/02)
1974  Apr 18, Marcel Pagnol (79), French writer, movie (Topaz), died.
 (MC, 4/18/02)

1974  Apr 20, Paul McCartney released "Band on the Run."
 (MC, 4/20/02)

1974  Apr 25, Marshal Antonio de Spinola (1910-1996), was called to the barricades in Portugal to receive the surrender of the 41-year old regime of Antonio Salazar. He was then named head of state by the military junta. This has been called the Carnation Revolution. The 7-member junta included Gen. Costa Gomes.
 (SFC, 8/15/96, p.C4)(SFC, 8/12/99, p.D6)(SFC, 8/4/01, p.E2)

1974  Apr 27, Pan Am 707 crashed into the mountains of Bali, killing 107.
 (MC, 4/27/02)

1974  Apr 28, The last Americans were evacuated from Saigon. [see Apr 29, 1975]
 (HN, 4/28/98)
1974  Apr 28, A federal jury in New York acquitted former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans of charges in connection with a secret $200,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign from financier Robert Vesco. Vesco gained control of IOS, a mutual fund firm, and looted hundreds of millions. He later fled to Costa Rica and then to Cuba where he was convicted in 1996 for economic crimes against the state and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
 (AP, 4/28/99)(WSJ, 7/10/02, p.A8)

1974  Apr 29, President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
 (AP, 4/29/98)

1974  Apr 30, President Nixon handed over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings.
 (MC, 4/30/02)

1974  May 2, Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals, effectively preventing him from practicing law anywhere in the United States.
 (AP, 5/2/97)

1974  May 6, Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappeared from OSU, Corvallis, Ore.
 (MC, 5/6/02)
1974  May 6, West German chancellor W. Brandt resigned. A bizarre spy scandal brought Brandt down after 4 years in office.
 (MC, 5/6/02)(WSJ, 9/11/03, p.D10)

1974  May 8, Canada government of Trudeau fell.
 (MC, 5/8/02)

1974  May 9, The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon.
 (AP, 5/9/97)(HN, 5/9/98)

1974  May 15, Mail truck terrorists took a school in Maillot, Israel, and 30 people were killed.
 (MC, 5/15/02)

1974  May 16, SLA members William and Emily Harris were identified with Patty Hearst in LA during a shoplifting attempt at a sporting good store. They escaped in a stolen van with an 19-year-old kidnapped victim.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)
1974  May 16, Helmut Schmidt became the West German chancellor.
 (MC, 5/16/02)

1974  May 17, LA police and FBI agents engaged in a gun battle with SLA members in a bungalow. The house caught fire and 6 [5] bodies were recovered that included Cinque and William Wolfe. Patty Hearst was not there.
 (SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)(SFEC, 5/16/99, p.A10)

1974  May 18, "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1.
 (SC, 5/18/02)
1974  May 18, India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. India conducted its first nuclear tests and then halted testing.
 (WSJ, 4/2/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A12)(HN, 5/18/98)

1974  May 19, Valeri Giscard d'Estaing won French presidential elections.
 (SFEC, 11/12/00, p.D4)(MC, 5/19/02)

1974  May 20, Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over tapes and records of 64 White House conversations regarding Watergate.
 (MC, 5/20/02)
 
1974  May 24, Duke Ellington (75) died of cancer. He had composed some 2,000 works. In 1991 Mark Tucker (d.2000) authored "Ellington: The Early Years." In 1993 Tucker edited "The Duke Ellington Reader."
 (SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.32)(SSFC, 12/10/00, p.C17)(MC, 5/24/02)

1974  May 25, Donald Crisp (91), actor, director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), died.
 (SC, 5/25/02)
1974  May 25, Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, died of drug overdose.
 (SC, 5/25/02)

1974  May 26, The federal government instituted the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program under the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) agency.
 (SFC, 5/27/99, p.A20)

1974  May 28, "Magic Show" opened at Cort Theater in NYC for 1859 performances.
 (MC, 5/28/02)
1974  May 28, In the 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore won.
 (MC, 5/28/02)

1974  May 29, President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
 (HN, 5/29/98)
1974  May 29, Northern Ireland was brought under direct rule from Westminster.
 (SC, 5/29/02)

1974  May 31, Israel and Syria signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
 (HN, 5/31/98)

1974  May, In Northern Ireland Sean O'Callaghan, IRA member, and 2 other teenagers gunned down police inspector Peter Flanagan in Broderick's Bar in Omagh. O'Callaghan later served 8 years of a 539-year terrorism sentence and was released in Dec, 1996 for becoming an informer.
 (SFC, 3/1/97, p.C2)

1974  Jun 1, R.C., "Midnight At The Oasis" by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1974  Jun 1, R.C., "Oh Very Young" by Cat Stevens peaked at #10 on the pop singles chart.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1974  Jun 1, R.C., "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford peaked at #12 on the pop singles chart.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1974  Jun 1, R.C., "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" by Stevie Wonder peaked at #16 on the pop singles chart.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1974  Jun 1, R.C., "I'm In Love" by Aretha Franklin peaked at #19 on the pop singles chart.
 (DTnet, 6/1/97)

1974  Jun 3, Charles Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
 (HN, 6/3/98)
1974  Jun 3, Yitzhak Rabin formed a new Israeli government.
 (MC, 6/3/02)

1974  Jun 11, Georgann Hawkins, Bundy victim, disappeared from UW, in Seattle, Wash.
 (SC, 6/11/02)

1974  Jun 30, Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia by Marcus Chenault, a twenty-one year old from Ohio who claimed that "all Christians are my enemies."
 (MC, 6/30/02)(Internet)
1974  Jun 30, Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada.
 (HN, 6/30/98)

1974  Jul 1, Juan D. Peron (78), president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), died.
 (MC, 7/1/02)
1974  Jul 1, Isabel Peron succeeded her husband Juan as president of Argentina.
 (MC, 7/1/02)
1974  Jul 1, General Augusto Pinochet became president of Chile.
 (MC, 7/1/02)

1974  Jul 6, Garrison Keillor made his 1st live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. In 2003 the show drew some 3.9 million listeners weekly. The show ended in 1987 and resumed in New York in 1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.
 (SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.13)(SFC, 12/20/00, p.E5)(SFC, 9/4/03, p.E12)

1974  Jul 9,  Earl Warren (83), former California governor and US Chief Justice (1953-68) died in Washington D.C. In 1997 Ed Cray authored the Warren biography "Chief Justice."
 (AP, 7/9/99)(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A18)
1974  Jul 9, Trudeau's Liberal Party won Canadian parliamentary election.
 (MC, 7/9/02)

1974  Jul 11, The World Football League played its first games.
 (PGA, 12/9/98)
1974  Jul 11, House Judiciary Committee released evidence on the Watergate inquiry.
 (PGA, 12/9/98)

1974  Jul 12, President Richard Nixon's aides G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others were convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate scandal. They were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
 (AP, 7/12/97)(HN, 7/12/98)

1974  July 13, The Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms to prevent another Watergate scandal.
 (AP, 7/13/99)

1974  Jul 14, Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappeared at Lake Sammamish, WA.
 (MC, 7/14/02)
1974  Jul 14, Carl A. Spaats (83), 1st chief of staff of USAF, died.
 (MC, 7/14/02)

1974  Jul 15, A military coup took place on Cyprus and archbishop-president Makarios fled. Nikos Giorgiades Sampson (d.2001 at 66) served as president for 8 days following the military coup that overthrew Archbishop Makarios. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit ordered Turkish troops to invade Cyprus following the Greek Cypriot coup.
 (SFC, 7/1/97, p.A10)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(BS, 5/12/01, p.5B)(MC, 7/15/02)

1974  Jul 17, Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (63), pitcher (St Louis Cards), died.
 (MC, 7/17/02)

1974  Jul 18, World's tallest structure, a 646-m Polish radio mast, was completed. It fell down Aug 18,1991.
 (WSJ, 2/3/97, p.A12)(MC, 7/18/02)

1974  Jul 19, The House Judiciary Committee recommended that President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
 (HN, 7/19/98)

1974  Jul 20, Turkey invaded Cyprus. [see Jul 23]
 (MC, 7/20/02)

1974  Jul 21, US House Judiciary approved 2 Articles of Impeachment against Pres. Nixon.
 (MC, 7/21/02)

1974  Jul 22, Wayne L. Morse (73), (Sen-D-Oregon), died.
 (MC, 7/22/02)

1974  Jul 23, Greece's military rulers announced they would turn the nation back to civilian rule. Constantine Karamanlis returned from 11 years of self-imposed exile and was sworn in as premier. Karamanlis later won a landslide election and served as prime minister until 1980. The Ioannides regime collapsed after plotting an aborted military takeover of Cyprus. The coup provoked a Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
 (AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)

1974  Jul 24, The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
 (AP, 7/24/97)(HN, 7/24/98)

1974  Jul 25, T. Smirnova discovered asteroid #2345 Fucik.
 (SC, 7/25/02)

1974  Jul 27, The House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
 (AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/98)

1974  Jul 28, Truman Bradley (69), host (Science Fiction Theater), died.
 (SC, 7/28/02)
1974  Jul 28,  In Belem, Brazil, 69 died when packed bus struck heavy truck.
 (SC, 7/28/02)

1974  Jul 29, Episcopal Church ordained female priests.
 (MC, 7/29/02)
1974  Jul 29, The 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon was by the House Judiciary Committee.
 (MC, 7/29/02)
1974  Jul 29, Cass Elliot (32), singer (Mamas and Papas), choked to death in London.
 (MC, 7/29/02)

1974  Jul 30, The House Judiciary Committee voted down an article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon relating to demeaning his office by misconduct of personal financial affairs. In April, 1974, a congressional inquiry into possible tax fraud revealed that Nixon owed $476,531 in back taxes for the period 1969-72. He agreed to pay and no conclusion was drawn by the congress regarding fraud. The Judiciary Committee vote against the article of impeachment was 26-12. Three articles of impeachment were passed and Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Peter Rodino presided over the impeachment hearings.
 (HNQ, 9/22/98)(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A3)

1974  Aug 5, President Richard Nixon admitted that he ordered a cover-up of the Watergate break-in for political as well as national security reasons. He was forced to release tapes that proved he had ordered a cover-up, which became know as the "smoking gun."
 (HN, 8/5/98)(SFC, 12/6/99, p.B8)(MC, 8/5/02)

1974  Aug 7, French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. In 2002 Petit authored "To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers."
 (AP, 8/7/97)(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.M4)

1974   Aug 8, President Nixon announced he would resign his office 12PM Aug 9, following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
 (AP, 8/8/97)(HN, 8/8/98)(MC, 8/8/02)

1974  Aug 9, President Nixon resigned. Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th US President. Ford said "Our long national nightmare is over" after he assumed the presidency following Richard Nixon's resignation. After being sworn in, Ford spoke in the White House's East Room and said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." It was a line that Ford initially objected to saying, feeling it was a little hard on Nixon.
 (HFA, '96, p.36)(SFEC, 5/11/97, p.T8,9)(HN, 8/9/98)(HNQ, 6/23/00)

1974  Aug 15, South Korean President Park Chung-hee escaped an assassination attempt in which his wife was killed.
 (AP, 8/15/97)

1974  Aug 19, U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was shot and killed at the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
 (AP, 8/19/99)

1974  Aug 26, Charles Lindbergh (72), the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died at his home in Hawaii. In 1998 A. Scott Berg authored "Lindbergh." Earlier Lindbergh's daughter authored her memoir "Under a Wing."
 (AP, 8/26/97)(SFEC, 11/15/98, Par p.29)

1974  Aug 29, Moses Malone was the first basketball player to go straight from high school to the pros when he joined the Utah Stars.
 (SFC, 7/7/96, zone 1 p.5)

1974  Aug 30, An express train ran full speed into a Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153.
 (MC, 8/30/01)

1974  Aug, Greek Cypriots massacred 83 Turkish Cypriot men in Taskent, Cyprus.
 (WSJ, 7/23/03, p.A1)
1974  Aug, The Cyprus coup collapsed and Pres. Makarios was restored. Turkish troops held 37% of the island.
 (SFC, 3/13/02, p.A26)

1974  Sep 2, Pres. Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
 (MC, 9/2/01)

1974  Sep 3, US & German DR established diplomatic relations.
 (MC, 9/3/01)

1974  Sep 7, "Irene" closed at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances.
 (MC, 9/7/01)

1974  Sep 8, President Gerald Ford pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.
 (AP, 9/8/97)(HN, 9/8/98)

1974  Sep 11, Haile Selassie I, "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah," was deposed from the Ethiopian throne. [see Sep 12]
 (HN, 9/11/98)

1974  Sep 12, The start of court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration in Boston's public schools was marred by violence in South Boston.
 (AP, 9/12/99)
1974  Sep 12, Emperor Haile Selassie, ruler for 58 years, was deposed by Ethiopia's military. [see Sep 11]
 (AP, 9/12/99)

1974  Sep 13, The 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV.
 (MC, 9/13/01)

1974  Sep 15, President Ford offered conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. He said they could come home if they performed up to two years of public service. [see Sep 16]
 (MC, 9/15/01)

1974  Sep 16, President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders. Limited amnesty was offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service. [see Sep 15]
 (AP, 9/16/97)(HN, 9/16/98)

1974  Sep 18, Hurricane Fifi struck Honduras with 110 mph winds. 5,000 died.
 (MC, 9/18/01)

1974  Sep 19, Hurricane Fifi hit the coast of Honduras; about 5,000 died. [see Sep 18]
 (MC, 9/19/01)

1974  Sep 20, Gail A. Cobb, a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington, D.C., became the first female police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Cobb was murdered by a robbery suspect in an underground garage in downtown Washington.
 (MC, 9/20/01)

1974  Sep 21, US Mariner 10 made a 2nd fly-by of Mercury.
 (NH, 5/01, p.38)(MC, 9/21/01)
1974  Sep 21, Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), died of cancer at 53 (56). Her books included "Valley of the Dolls" (1966). In 1987 Barbara Seaman authored Susann's biography: "Lovely Me." In 2000 the film "Isn't She Great" starred Bette Midler as Susann.
 (SFC, 1/26/00, p.B1)(MC, 9/21/01)

1974  Sep 25, Scientists warned that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes.
 (HN, 9/25/98)

1974  Sep 27, The Austria National Gallery bought W. de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000.
 (MC, 9/27/01)

1974  Sep 28, First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.
 (AP, 9/28/97)

1974  Sep 30, Gen. Carlo Prats, a former Chilean army chief, was killed with his wife by a car bomb in Buenos Aires. In 2000 an Argentine judge called for the extradition of Augusto Pinochet for the slaying. In 2000 Enrique Arancibia Clavel was sentenced in Argentina to life in prison for his role in the murder.
 (SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)

1974  Sep, In the Netherlands the French embassy at the Hague was taken over by Japanese Red Army militants. A 4-day standoff ended with the release of comrade Yutaka Suyaka from a French jail. The attack was linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
 (SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)

1974  Sep, In Portugal Marshal de Spinola resigned as head of state in protest against rushed attempts to dismantle the colonial empire.
 (SFC, 8/15/96, p.C4)

1974  Oct 1, Five Nixon aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell-- went on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation. Ehrlichman was convicted in the Watergate cover-up with Haldeman and Mitchell and for the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg. Ehrlichman served 18 months in federal prison.
 (HN, 10/1/98)(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A18)

1974  Oct 3, Frank Robinson was named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
 (AP, 10/3/97)
1974  Oct 3, Watergate trial began.
 (MC, 10/3/01)
1974  Oct 3, Bundy (d.1989) victim Nancy Wilcox disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 (MC, 10/3/01)

1974  Oct 8, President Gerald Ford's WIN (Whip Inflation Now) program was announced in response to a high inflation rate. Consumer prices rose 12.2 percent in 1974. The WIN program, introduced by Ford to a national television audience, included tax and spending assistance to hard-pressed industries, a five percent tax surcharge, reduced federal spending and tight monetary policies. During 1974 unemployment jumped from 5 percent to more than 7 percent, interest rates climbed to 12 percent, the stock market fell 28 percent, automobile sales collapsed. In 1974 real economic growth was negative 5 percent.
 (HNQ, 11/1/99)

1974  Oct 9, Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians, became 1st Black baseball manager.
 (MC, 10/9/01)
1974  Oct 9, Race riot in Boston due to "busing."
 (MC, 10/9/01)
1974  Oct 9, Czech-born German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request, he was buried in Jerusalem. His wife Emilie died in 2001.
 (AP, 10/9/99)(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A29)

1974  Oct 13, Ed Sullivan (72), longtime television, host died in New York City.
 (AP, 10/13/99)

1974  Oct 15, Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to Paul J. Flory for his work on macro molecules.
 (MC, 10/15/01)
1974  Oct 15, National Guard mobilized to restore order in Boston school busing.
 (MC, 10/15/01)

1974  Oct 17, "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closed at Playhouse NYC after 1065 performances.
 (MC, 10/17/01)

1974  Oct 24, David Oistrach (65), virtuoso Russian violinist, died.
 (MC, 10/24/01)

1974  Oct 25, The US Air Force fired its 1st ICBM.
 (MC, 10/25/01)
1974  Oct 25, Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premiered in Leningrad.
 (MC, 10/25/01)

1974  Oct 27, Chantal Langlace ran a female world record marathon (2:46:24).
 (MC, 10/27/01)

1974  Oct 28, Missionaries Mark Fischer (19) of Milwaukee, Wis., and Gary Darley (20) of Simi Valley, Calif., disappeared in Austin, Texas. Their bodies were never found. Robert Elmer Kleasen, taxidermist, was convicted for their murder and sentenced to death in 1975, but was released after 2 years due to a faulty search warrant. He moved to Britain and in 2001 was convicted again based on DNA evidence, but died in 2003 while awaiting possible extradition.
 (AP, 4/21/03)

1974  Oct 29, A US law banned discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application.
 (MC, 10/29/01)

1974  Oct 30, The film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was released in Los Angeles. It was narrated by John Larroquette and was first shown in San Francisco. The film was based on the story of Edward Gein, a handyman in Plainfield, Wis., who liked to dig up fresh graves, cut the skin off corpses, wear the skin on his own body and dance in the moonlight. He was picked up in this year and evidence showed that he'd been  collecting body parts for years.  He had skulls on bedposts, a human heart in a saucepan, and a lady out in his barn dressed like a deer.
 (SFC, 5/18/96, p.E-4)
1974  Oct 30, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held their "Rumble In the Jungle" boxing match in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout to regain his world heavyweight title, that was taken from him for refusing military service.
 (SFC, 2/10/97, p.E3)(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A12)(AP, 10/30/97)

1974  Oct 31, Suspected Bundy victim Laura Aime disappeared in Utah.
 (MC, 10/31/01)

1974  Nov 5, Ella T. Grasso was elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
 (AP, 11/5/98)

1974   Nov 7, Richard John Bingham (39), the Seventh Earl of Lucan, disappeared after nanny Sandra Rivett was battered to death in the family's home in London's wealthy Belgravia district.  Lady Lucan escaped with severe head wounds. In 2001 Muriel spark authored "Aiding and Abetting," a novel based on Lucan’s imagined reappearance. In 2003 former policeman Duncan MacLaughlin claimed in the book, "Dead Lucky," that Lucan lived in India under the name Barry Halpin in India from 1975 until his death in 1996.
 (SSFC, 2/18/01, BR p.3)(AP, 9/8/03)

1974  Nov 8, Charges were dropped against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the deaths of four anti-war protestors at Kent State University. A federal grand jury had indicted 8 National Guardsmen for the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings. [see Mar 29]
 (SFC, 4/11/98, p.A15)(MC, 11/8/01)
1974  Nov 8, Bundy victim Debi Kent disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 (MC, 11/8/01)

1974  Nov 12, South Africa was suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies.
 (MC, 11/12/01)

1974  Nov 13, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash.
 (AP, 11/13/97)
1974  Nov 13, Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), died.
 (MC, 11/13/01)

1974  Nov 16, Walther Meissner (91), German physicist (Meissner Effect), died.
 (MC, 11/16/01)

1974  Nov 20, U.S. filed antitrust suit to break up ATT.
 (HN, 11/20/98)

1974  Nov 21, The Freedom of Information Act was passed by Congress over Pres. Ford's veto.
 (MC, 11/21/01)

1974  Nov 22, UN General Assembly recognized Palestine's right to sovereignty and national independence.
 (SFC, 2/8/99, p.A6)(MC, 11/22/01)

1974  Nov 23, Cornelius Ryan (54), war reporter, historian, author, died. His books included "A Bridge Too Far."
 (HC, 12/12/01)(MC, 11/23/01)
1974  Nov 23, In  Ethiopia 60 government officials were executed.
 (MC, 11/23/01)

1974  Nov 25, Irish Republican Army was outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21.
 (MC, 11/25/01)
1974  Nov 25, Nick Drake (26), musician and composer, died from an overdose of prescription drugs. His albums included "Five Leaves Left" (1969), "Bryter Layter," and "Pink Moon" (1971). Paul Humphries in 1997 authored the biography "Nick Drake: A Biography."
 (WSJ, 2/10/99, p.A20)
1974  Nov 25, Former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant died in New York at age 65.
 (AP, 11/25/97)

1974  Nov 28, John Lennon made what would become his last concert appearance at an Elton John concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Lennon joined Elton John to sing "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", as well as "I Saw Her Standing There". Backstage, Lennon has a brief reunion with Yoko Ono, from whom he'd been separated for over a year.
 (DTnet, 11/28/97)

1974  Nov 29, Haroldson L. Hunt (85), US multi-millionaire, died.
 (MC, 11/29/01)

1974  Nov 30, "Good Evening" with Dudley Moore and Peter Cook closed at Plymouth Theater in NYC after 438 performances.
 (MC, 11/30/01)
1974  Nov 30, The Eagles hit, "Best of My Love", was released. It did not reach #1 spot until March 1, 1975.
 (MC, 11/30/01)
1974  Nov 30, Pioneer II sent photos back to NASA as it neared Jupiter.
 (HN, 11/30/98)
1974  Nov 30, India and Pakistan decided to end a 10-year trade ban.
 (HN, 11/30/98)

1974  Dec 1, L.A. Skid Row slasher killed 1st of 8 victims.
 (MC, 12/1/01)

1974  Dec 2, Lucio Cabanas, leader a communist rebel group called the Party of the Poor, was killed in a shootout with Mexican soldiers. In 2002 his remains were found in a makeshift grave in Atoyac de Alvarez, a city outside a major military base near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
 (AP, 8/13/02)

1974  Dec 5, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" was last shown on BBC.
 (MC, 12/5/01)

1974  Dec 8, The Greek monarchy was rejected by referendum. Constantine Karamanlis organized a referendum that abolished the monarchy.
 (SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(MC, 12/8/01)

1974  Dec 18, In Greece Michalis Stasinopoulos (d.2002), legal scholar, was elected president 10 days following the referendum that abolished the monarchy.
 (AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)

1974  Dec 19, Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States after a House vote.
 (AP, 12/19/97)(HN, 12/19/98)
1974  Dec 19, Former Pres. Nixon's presidential papers were seized by an act of Congress. A court later ruled that much of the material belonged to Nixon and that he deserved compensation. In 1998 there was still no settlement on value.
 (WSJ, 11/27/98, p.W10)

1974  Dec 20, In Northern Ireland a temporary cease fire was established.
 (SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)

1974  Dec 23, The B-1 bomber made its first successful test flight.
 (HN, 12/23/98)

1974  Dec 24, An oil spill polluted 1,600 square miles of scenic Inland Sea in Japan.
 (HN, 12/24/98)

1974  Dec 25, Cyclone Tracy reduced 90% of Darwin, Australia, to rubble.
 (SFEC, 9/10/00, p.T10)

1974  Dec 26, Comedian Jack Benny died in Los Angeles at age 80.
 (AP, 12/26/98)

1974  Dec 30, Beatles were legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought).
 (MC, 12/30/01)

1974  Dec 31, Private U.S. citizens were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40 years.
 (AP, 12/31/97)

1974  Dec, In Greece Constantine Karamanlis organized a referendum that abolished the monarchy.
 (SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)

1974  The New York Museum of Modern Art instituted a permanent video program.
 (WSJ, 12/2/96, p.A16)

1974  Antonio Henrique Amaral of Brazil painted his "Battlefield," a phalanx of menacing forks with shreds of banana.
 (WSJ, 3/17/00, p.W12)

1974  Joseph Beuys (d.1986), German artist, created his performance piece: "I like America, and America likes Me," in which he lived with a coyote in a New York gallery for 5 days. In 1997 an English edition of "The Essential Joseph Beuys" by Alain Borer was published.
 (SFEC, 8/31/97, BR p.8)

1974  Jasper Johns painted his "Corpse and Mirror." In 1997 it sold for $8.3 million.
 (WSJ, 11/25/97, p.A20)

1974  Sol LeWitt (b.1928), pioneer of the Conceptual Art Movement, created his "Incomplete Open Cube."
 (WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A38)

1974  Architects Doug Michels (1943-2003) and Chip Lord, founders the Ant Farm in SF, created "Cadillac Ranch," a sculpture of 10 planted Cadillacs, in Amarillo, Texas.
 (SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A1)

1974  Ron Link (d.1999 at 58) produced the off-Broadway play "Women Behind Bars" with author Tom Eyen. The prison spoof play ran for over a year at the Astor Place theater in NYC.
 (SFC, 6/14/99, p.A24)

1974  Robert Pirsig published "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself."
 (SFEC, 1/3/99, BR p.4)

1974  Woodward and Bernstein wrote "All the President's Men." A film based on the book was made in 1976. In 2003 Woodward and Bernstein sold their Watergate research papers to the Univ. of Texas for $5 million.
 (SFC, 12/30/99, p.E3)(WSJ, 4/18/03, p.W13)

1974  Robert A. Caro authored "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York."
 (WSJ, 5/1/02, p.D7)(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.M2)

1974  Joe Seneca (d.1996) played in the Broadway production "Of Mice and Men" that starred James Earl Jones.
 (SFC, 8/17/96, p.A24)

1974  Sam Shepard wrote his plays "Action" and "Killer's Head."
 (WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A12)

1974  Neil Simon wrote his play "God's Favorite," a dark comedy based on the Book of Job.
 (SFEC, 9/29/96, BR p.5)(SFC, 10/11/96, p.C5)

1974  Cleveland Amory authored "Man Kind," a seminal book on his work with animals.
 (SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)

1974  Raoul Berger (d.2000 at 99), constitutional scholar, authored "Executive Privilege," which helped undermine Nixon's claims for executive privilege. Executive privilege 1st gained recognition with a 1974 Supreme Court ruling that endorsed a president's right to keep internal office communications private.
 (SFC, 9/27/00, p.A25)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A10)

1974   Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman edited "The Book of secrets of Albertus Magnus," which contained a recipe for Greek Fire.
 (AM, May/Jun 97 p.10)

1974  Steward Brand published "II Cybernetic Frontiers."
 (Wired, 5/97, p.101)

1974  Leo Buscaglia (d.1998 at 74), published his book "The Way of the Bull."
 (SFC, 6/13/98, p.A21)

1974  Emily Hahn (1905-1997) wrote: "Once Upon a Pedestal: An Informal History of Women's Lib."
 (SFC, 2/19/96, p.A20)

1974  Prof. Charles M. Hardin (1908-1997) wrote "Presidential Power and Accountability."
 (SFC, 7/4/97, p.E2)

1974  Peter Maas (d.2001 at 72) published his book "King of the Gypsies." It highlighted the Tene-Bimbo Gypsy clan in New York City.
 (SFC,11/6/97, p.A21)(SFC, 8/24/01, p.D7)

1974  Anica Vesel Mander (d.2002), Yugoslavian-born prof. of Women's Studies, authored "Feminism as Therapy."
 (SFC, 6/22/02, p.A18)

1974  James Michener published "Centennial."
 (SFC,10/17/97, p.A12)

1974  Robert Nozick (d.2002 at 63), Harvard philosopher, authored "Anarchy, State and Utopia" in which he attacked forms of paternalistic government.
 (SFC, 1/25/02, p.A32)

1974  John Paterson (d.2002), UC Berkeley professor, authored "The Novel as Faith: The Gospel According to James, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence and Virginia Woolf."
 (SFC, 4/19/02, p.A27)

1974  Dr. John Weir Perry (d.1998 at 84), psychiatrist, published "The Far Side of Madness." He believed that psychotic states could lead to a higher state of consciousness.
 (SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)

1974  Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "The Gulag Archipelago." [see Dec 28, 1973]
 (SFEC, 11/10/96, zone 1 p.2)

1974  Patricia Nell Warren published the groundbreaking gay novel "The Front Runner." It was about a gay track coach who falls in love with his star runner.
 (SFC, 1/7/98, p.E3)

1974  Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) received the National Book Award for "The Court of the Stone Children." She wrote 17 books for children and one novel, "The Unheard Music," and 2 collections of criticism on children's literature.
 (SFEC, 10/13/96, p.B6)

1974  The book "Polinuro of Mexico" won the Premio de Mexico in manuscript form but was not published until 1980.
 (SFEC, 10/6/96, BR p.4)

1974  The National Book Critics Circle was founded.
 (SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)

1974  The SF show "Beach Blanket Babylon" began.
 (SFC, 5/21/97, p.D1)

1974   "Gypsy" played with Angel Lansbury.
 (SFEC, 12/8/96, Par p.18)

1974  The TV series "Get Christie Love" starred Teresa Graves (d.2002 at 54) and lasted one season. Graves played the 1st black woman hired by a big-city police department.
 (SFC, 10/12/02, p.A19)

1974  The TV sitcom "Good Times" began and ran to 1979. It featured Esther Rolle (d.1998) as a strong-willed Black mother that kept her family together. The show was created by Norman Lear.
 (SFC, 11/19/98, p.C9)

1974  The TV game show "Name That Tune" was hosted by Dennis James (d.1997) up to 1975.
 (SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)

1974  The TV "Donny and Marie Show" featured Donny and 14-year-old Marie Osmond. Their recorded songs included: "Make the World Go Away," "I'm Leaving it All Up to You," and "Deep Purple."
 (WSJ, 2/19/98, p.A20)

1974  Garrison Keillor began his Prairie Home Companion radio show in St. Paul. The show ended in 1987 and resumed in New York in 1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.
 (SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.13)

1974  Stan Getz, tenor sax, and the Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez on bass and Marty Morell on drums recorded 2 sessions. A CD was re-issued in 1996 titled "But Beautiful."
 (SFEM, 7/21/96, p.4)

1974  Billy Joel broke into the charts with his song "Piano Man."
 (USAT, 3/24/99, p.5E)

1974  Joni Mitchell released her album "Court and Spark."
 (SFEM, 11/1/98, p.6)

1974  Mocedades made a hit with "Eres Tu."
 (SFC, 11/30/02, p.D1)

1974  Dee Dee Ramone (d.2002) formed the Ramones punk rock band in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens along with Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings and Tom Erdelyi.
 (SFC, 6/8/02, p.D4)

1974  Wayne Shorter recorded his "Native Dancer" album that featured Herbie Hancock and introduced the Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento.
 (SFEC, 8/31/97, DB p.35)

1974  John Whelan, button accordionist, recorded his first solo album in England: "Pride of Wexford."
 (WSJ, 3/17/97, p.A16)

1974  The German group Kraftwork recorded "Autobahn."
 (SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.28)

1974  The Bellefonte nuclear power plant was begun by the TVA in Hollywood, Ala. Construction was halted in 1988 amid soaring costs.
 (WSJ, 7/18/01, p.B1)

1974  The J. Paul Getty Museum was established in Malibu, Ca., by the billionaire oilman.
 (WSJ, 1/30/97, p.A14)

1974  The Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington opened.
 (SFC, 12/30/99, p.E1)

1974  The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Ca., was built.
 (SFC, 6/16/98, p.A15)

1974  The South course for golf at Kaanapali on Maui was designed by Arthur Snyder.
 (Hem, 4/96, p.42)

1974  Jennie Farley and other women at Cornell Univ. began to first use the term "sexual harassment."
 (WSJ, 6/27/96, p.A19)

1974  In San Francisco the Shanti project was founded to treat residents suffering from terminal illnesses. In 1981 the program was expanded to include AIDS.
 (SFC, 7/9/96, p.A17)

1974  Amateur and professional archeologists met in New Mexico and created the American Rock Art Research Assoc. (ARARA) for the study and conservation of rock art.
 (PacDis, Summer '97, p.12)

1974  Diane DiPrima joined Chogyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg, and others to found the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo.
 (SFC, 5/26/96, Zone 1 p.3)

1974  Oakland, Ca., held the first annual Black Cowboys Parade, the only one of its kind in the country.
 (SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.6)

1974  The Human Family and Educational Cultural Institute established its Humanitas Prize in recognition of film and TV scripts the illuminate life and foster compassion.
 (SFC, 7/10/98, p.C14)

1974  The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering was founded.
 (WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A1)

1974  Rudi Gernreich introduced the first "thong bikini."
 (WSJ, 6/7/99, p.A8)

1974  Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in Montana on his rocket-powered motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down.
 (WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)

1974  Friedrich August von Hayek won the Nobel Prize for Economics Science. He was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Pres. George Bush.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R20)(WSJ, 5/7/99, p.A18)
1974  Paul Flory of Stanford Univ. won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 (SFC, 10/8/01, p.A17)

1974  A World Food Summit pledged to feed all the hungry people of the world.
 (SFC, 11/18/96, p.A10)

1974  Nixon went to the Middle-East and to Russia.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)

1974  Pres. Gerald R. Ford appointed Edward H. Levi (d.2000), president of the Univ. of Chicago, as his attorney general.
 (WSJ, 3/13/00, p.A46)

1974  Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik amendment for economic sanctions on Russia to pressure the Soviet Union to allow unfettered emigration for Soviet Jews. Pres. Bush in 2001 proposed that it be lifted.
 (WSJ, 11/5/01, p.A1)

1974  The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It allowed ordinary citizens to hold the US government accountable by requesting public documents and records.
 (SSFC, 1/6/02, p.D4)

1974  The Air Force established a requirement that flight recorders be installed on all newly purchased aircraft.
 (SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-17)

1974  The CIA attempted to recover the Soviet submarine that had sunk in the Pacific on 3/8/68.  A 100 foot section was pulled in by the Glomar Explorer with 2 nuclear tipped torpedoes and the bodies of 6 Russian sailors. In 1996 it began under going remodeling for work as a deep-sea drilling ship.
 (SFC, 7/15/96, p.A6)

1974  American forces left Laos and abandoned some 36,000 Laotians hired to battle North Vietnamese troops.
 (SFC,12/27/97, p.A15)

1974  The Democrats swept congressional elections.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)

1974  Walter Washington (d.2003 at 88) was elected mayor of Washington DC, the 1st black mayor there in 104 years. He had been appointed mayor-commissioner in 1967.
 (WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A1)

1974  The Dow Jones dropped to 577.60.
 (WSJ, 7/22/96, p.B1)

1974  The US economy cooled, prices climbed with much wealth transferred to the Arabs for oil.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)

1974  The Budget Control Act stripped away from the president the power to withhold appropriated spending, and placed it in the hands of Congress. The Congressional budget Office was formed.
 (WSJ, 3/12/97, p.A18)(WSJ, 2/27/00, p.A1)

1974  The government Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was passed partly in response to Studebaker employee pension losses in 1963. It was set up to protect pension accounts. It was expanded to include 401 (k) accounts in 1978.
 (WSJ, 6/5/96, p.A1,8)(SFC, 2/14/02, p.B1)

1974  The government Supplemental Security Income program provided new benefits for the aged, blind and disabled.
 (SFEC, 1/5/97, zone 1 p.5)

1974  The US government Witness Security Program grew to $3.1 million for 647 people.
 (SFC, 6/9/96, p.A-10)

1974  The FBI counterintelligence program, known as Cointelpro, was directed against Marxist and student-radical groups. Charles W. Bates (d.1999 at 79) led 8 full-time employees in the SF Bay Area and 22 informants worked the local campuses.
 (SFC, 2/26/99, p.A25)

1974  A Fed bailout pumped money into Franklin National Bank, which was later merged into a large bank owned by six foreign banks.
 (WSJ, 9/25/98, p.A8)

1974  In the US a limit on campaign spending by political parties was established.
 (SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)

1974  In the US a 55 mph speed limit was imposed.
 (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)

1974  A federal grand jury indicted 8 National Guardsmen for the May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings. [see Mar 29, 1976]
 (SFC, 4/11/98, p.A15)

1974  Nicholas Sand was convicted of making, selling and distributing LSD. He was an associate of Timothy Leary and LSD guru Stanley Owsley. He was released on bail and went underground. He was found by Canadian investigators in 1996 running a drug lab near Vancouver. Leary was also caught this year and revealed his 1970 collaborators to the FBI.
 (SFC, 6/6/98, p.A24)(SFC, 7/1/99, p.A9)

1974  Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Frank K. Richardson (d.1999 at age 85) to the California Supreme Court. Richardson retired in 1983. Regan served as governor from 1966-1974. In 2003 Lou Cannon authored "Governor Reagan."
 (SFC, 10/7/99, p.C4)(WSJ, 10/7/03, p.D10)

1974  In New Jersey Rev. S. Howard Woodson Jr. (d.1999 at 83) became the first black speaker of a state legislature.
 (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A23)

1974  In Pennsylvania the firefly was decreed as the official insect.
 (SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)

1974  William Bennett (d.2002 at 78) and William Pennington bought Circus Circus Enterprises. He took the company public in 1983.
 (SFC, 12/24/02, p.A13)

1974  Charles Schwab opened a securities firm to take advantage of the 1975 rule change that ended fixed commissions on stock trades.
 (SFC, 12/28/99, p.D2)

1974  Irving Shapiro became the CEO of DuPont.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R46)

1974  GM began to offer the first airbags in Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs.
 (F, 10/7/96, p.71)

1974  Mobil Oil gained control of Montgomery Ward.
 (SFC, 12/29/00, p.A12)

1974  Knight Newspapers Inc. (Miami Herald) merged with Ridder Publications (Detroit Free Press). Bernard Ridder Jr. (d.2002 at 85) led Ridder in the merger.
 (SFC, 2/5/00, p.A19)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A24)

1974  The McDonald's food company founded the Ronald McDonald House program for families of seriously ill children. By 1997 there were 180 houses in 14 countries.
 (Hem., 1/97, p.36)

1974  Pepsi entered the market of the Soviet Union.
 (WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A9C)

1974  Harvard created Harvard Management, a wholly owned subsidiary charged with managing the school's entire investment portfolio.
 (WSJ, 7/25/96, p.C1)

1974  Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf published a paper that outlined the protocols of the Internet.
 (SFEC, 3/16/97, z1 p.3)

1974  Intel Corp. introduced the 8080 microprocessor. It became the heart of the first microcomputer, the 1975 MITS Altair.
 (TAR, 1996, p.21)(WSJ, 11/16/98, p.R10)

1974  Motorola helped launch the smartcard market by building the first smartcard chip with Groupe Bull of France.
 (FT, 3/4/98, p.21)

1974  Jerome Lemelson (d. 1997 at 74) licensed patents for his audio cassette drive mechanism to Sony Corp of Japan. Sony was founded after the war by Masaru Ibuka (d.1997 at 89), Akio Morita and others as a radio shop that was later renamed Sony.
 (SFC, 10/4/97, p.A20)

1974  Hungarian professor Erno Rubik designed the Rubik's Cube. Sales peaked at 100 million in 1980. Some 250 million units were sold worldwide.
 (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(SFC, 8/8/03, p.D1)

1974  Tandem Computers was founded.
 (SFEM,11/2/97, p.15)

1974  Dr. Joachim Burhenne (1926-1996) developed the Burhenne Technique for removing gallstones through bile ducts. He practiced in SF from 1959-1977. He performed the procedure on the Shah of Iran in 1979.
 (SFC, 6/5/96, C5)

1974  Cesare Sirtori, a Milan heart researcher, encountered a patient with a high cholesterol level. In 1979 Sirtori found that the patient carried a mutant gene, apolipoprotein A-1, a crucial component of HDL involved in clearing LDL from the body. This led to a new drug in 2003 that seemed to shrink arterial blockages.
 (WSJ, 11/5/03, p.B3)(SFC, 11/5/03, p.A15)

1974  Tuberculosis was reported to have been transmitted by an accidental needle stick.
 (SFC, 4/13/98, p.A6)

1974  A US moratorium on genetic research ended. It had been feared that such research would lead to dangerous breeds of microbes.
 (SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A16)

1974  The US National History Day project began as a yearlong program for junior and senior high school students.
 (SSFC, 12/17/00, p.17)

1974  Joel Scherk and John Schwarz published a paper in which they show that string theory could describe the gravitational force if the tension in the string were very high.
 (BHT, Hawking, p.161)

1974  Dr. Glenn Seaborg co-discovered element 106, which was named seaborgium.
 (SFC, 2/27/99, p.A19)

1974  Steven Weinberg, Howard Georgi, and Helen Quinn, all at Harvard Univ., proposed the grand unification scheme  (GUT) and made the first prediction for the lifetime of the proton.
 (JST-TMC,1983, p.130)

1974  Burton Richter and Samuel Ting found evidence for a fourth quark.
 (NG, May 1985, J. Boslough, p. 650)

1974  Dr. Donald C. Johanson and an international team at Hadar, Ethiopia, discovered a female skeleton in 3 million year old strata and name it Lucy. Subsequent found there and at Laetoli, Tanzania, led to the naming of a new species: Australopithecus afarensis.
 (NG, Nov. 1985, p. 564)

1974  America was producing 125 million tons of trash per year, 7% of it as throwaway bottles and cans.
 (Smith., 4/95, p.32)

1974  The Chatooga River between South Carolina and Georgia was designated a National Wild and Scenic River. It carves through the Chattahoochee and Sumter National Forest and was made famous in the 1972 movie "Deliverance."
 (Hem, 8/96, p.33)(SFC,1/21/97, p.A20)

1974  Peter Bird and Derek King rowed 4,300 miles for 106 days east-to-west across the Atlantic from Gibraltar to the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia. The wrote of their trip in: "Small Boat Against the Sea." In 1996 he was lost at sea during an attempted crossing of the Pacific.
 (SFC, 6/6/96, C1)

1974  Singer Connie Francis was raped in her hotel room after a concert at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island, NY.
 (SFC, 9/1/96, Par. p.2)

1974  345 people died in the worst air crash ever.
 (TMC, 1994, p.1974)

1974  A train traveling from Belgrade to Germany derailed in Croatia and killed 153 people.
 (SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)

1974  Martin Luther King's mother was slain at Neary Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga.
 (SFC, 4/28/96, p.T-5)

1974  David Alfaro Siqueiros (d.1974), Mexican artist (muralist), died. His work included the 1933 mural "Ejercicio Plastico" (Plastic Exercise), completed in Argentina at the home of newspaper magnate Natalio Botana (d.1941). In 1994 the 650-square-foot work fell into a legal limbo.
 (SFC, 2/13/99, p.A24)

1974  Amy Vanderbilt (b.1908), American etiquette expert, died. "One face to the world, another at home makes for misery."
 (AP, 5/12/01)

1974  Ed Wood, credited as the worst filmmaker of all time, died a penniless drunk. His films included "Jail Bait," "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Bride of the Monster," "Glen or Glenda?" and "Night of the Ghouls." His 1948 "Crossroads of Loredo" was unreleased. In 1996 a documentary by Brett Thompson was released titled "The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood."
 (SFC, 9/26/96, p.E6)

1974  Argentina passed the economic-subversion law that provided prosecutors with a legal umbrella to pursue anyone suspected of undermining public disorder. It was repealed in 2002 under IMF pressure.
 (WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A7)

1974  In Brazil General Ernesto Geisel (1918-1996) became president and ruled for four years. He gradually ended political repression by restoring civil rights. He lifted press censorship and allowed political exiles to return. Under his rule the foreign debt doubled to $43 billion.
 (SFC, 9/13/96, p.E2)
1974  In Brazil a meningitis outbreak killed 4,000 people in a few weeks. 90 million people were soon inoculated by a new vaccine created by the French Merieux laboratory.
 (SFC, 1/27/01, p.A24)

1974  In Chile the government created a military intelligence agency that became a rogue elephant responsible for many human abuses. It was disbanded by Gen'l. Pinochet in 1978.
 (WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)

1974  In Czechoslovakia the Plastic People of the Universe band secretly  recorded its first album: "Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned."
 (WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)(SFEC, 3/7/99, DB p.35)

1974  England and France agreed to build 16 Concorde airplanes.
 (WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A26)

1974  The island of Cyprus was divided into Greek and Turkish sectors with a UN no-man's land in between. Turkish troops had invaded the island after an Athens-based coup by Greek Cypriots.
 (SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)

1974  The Charles de Gaulle Airport (aka Roissy I) opened outside of Paris.
 (Hem., 5/97, p.70)

1974  In France the economy slowed following the Arab oil embargo and the policy of recruiting foreign labor ended.
 (NG, 5/93, p.110)

1974  In France the Int'l. Energy Agency was formed in Paris to coordinate oil sharing. The US led the formation of the IEA in order to stockpile oil and help offset supply shortages.
 (WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A8)

1974  In Greece Andreas Papandreou founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
 (SFC, 6/23/96, p.B6)

1974  Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, became independent after a decade-long war.
 (SFC, 5/15/99, p.A14)(AP, 10/6/03)

1974  In Guyana a small group of pioneers from the Peoples Temple moved to what would become Jamestown after Jim Jones acquired a 25-year lease on 3,853 acres in the Orinoco River basin.
 (SFEC, 11/8/98, p.A18)

1974  In India the region of Ladakh opened to the outside world.
 (SFEC,12/14/97, p.T1)

1974  In Israel the Palestinian Democratic Front took over a school in Maalot and 20 schoolchildren were killed.
 (SFEC, 8/8/99, p.A22)

1974  In Mexico the first hotel in Cancun opened with 72 rooms.
 (SFEC, 5/17/98, p.T10)

1974  In Mozambique the Portuguese secret police (PIDE) ruled with an iron hand from its headquarters in the Villa Algarve in Maputo.
 (SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)

1974  In Northern Ireland Protestant loyalists and trade unionists stopped a power-sharing plan backed by the British government by shutting down power stations.
 (SFC, 6/3/98, p.A12)

1974  Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal split from the PLO and was sentenced to death in absentia.
 (SFC, 8/25/98, p.A6)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A7)

1974  An Arab summit decided that King Hussein would no longer speak for the Palestinians and named the PLO under Yasir Arafat as the sole, legitimate representative.
 (SFC, 2/6/99, p.A13)

1974  Pres. Ferdinand Marcos signed Presidential Order 1017 "protecting the Tasaday and other unexplored cultural communities from unauthorized entry." In 1971 Manuel Elizalde had described the Tasaday on Mindanao as a lost Stone Age tribe. In 1986 it was reported that the Tasaday story was a hoax. In 2003 Robin Hemley authored "Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday," in which he confirmed the Tasaday as a Stone Age tribe.
 (SSFC, 6/22/03, p.M1)

1974  In the Philippines a Miss Universe beauty pageant was held and thousands of squatters around Manila were forcibly moved out of sight.
 (SFC, 11/18/96, p.A12)

1974  Democracy was restored in Portugal.
 (WSJ, 1/15/96, p. A-1)

1974  After a coup in Portugal the control of East Timor was relinquished.
 (SFC, 3/3/98, p.A6)
1974  The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) was established.
 (SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)

1974  Sikkim lost its Buddhist ruler and was annexed by India. This ended a 330 year dynasty.
 (WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A1)

1974  In Yugoslavia under Tito a decentralized federal system allowed the Kosovo region to develop its own security, judiciary, defense, foreign relations and social control. Mahmut Bakalli drafted a constitution that gave the region a status equivalent in most respects to the other republics of Yugoslavia.
 (SFC, 3/3/98, p.A8)(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A16)(www, Albania, 1998) (SFC, 3/27/99, p.A13)

1974-1976 Gerald Ford became the 38th President of the US. He was elected as Vice-President under Richard Nixon and assumed the office of president upon Nixon's resignation.
 (SFEC, 5/11/97, p.T8,9)

1974-1976 Leonard K. Firestone, son of Harvey - founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., served as US ambassador to Belgium.
 (SFC, 12/25/96, p.A22)

1974-1976 Harold Wilson was the prime minister of Britain.
 (SFC, 9/6.96, p.A23)

1974-1977 William Simon (d.2000 at 72) served as the head of the US Treasury Dept.
 (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)

1974-1978 The average value of a California home rose from $34,000 to $85,000.
 (SFC, 5/20/98, p.A10)

1974-1978 In Chile the Villa Grimaldi, a 19th century estate outside of Santiago, was used by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) under Gen'l. Manuel Contreras as clandestine detention center. Some 5,000 political prisoners passed through and many suffered inside torture chambers and closet-sized cells near the stables. The main house was used as an administrative center and casino for officers.
 (SFC, 7/15/97, p.A12)

1974-1982 Helmut Schmidt served as Chancellor of Germany.
 (SFC, 5/31/00, p.A10)

1974-1983 A series of bomb attacks and robberies in the US by members of the Puerto Rican FALN left 6 people dead an scores injured. 16 separatists who were later arrested for the attacks were granted clemency by Pres. Clinton in 1999.
 (USAT, 9/17/99, p.1A)

1974-1990 A 5-year Chilean government investigation in 1996 found that under the 16-year dictatorship of General Pinochet 3,197 civilians were killed for political reasons. This included 1,102 people who disappeared after being arrested by his security forces.
 (SFC, 8/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.C12)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A11)

1974-1993 Coleman Young served as mayor of Detroit.
 (WSJ, 5/28/98, p.A20)

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