Notable Historical Events - 1974
1974 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin |
Jan 1 |
NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead) |
Jan 1 |
World Population Year begins |
Jan 1 |
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa. |
Jan 2 |
55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon |
Jan 2 |
Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres |
Jan 3 |
Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain |
Jan 3 |
Burma accepts its constitution |
Jan 3 |
Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London |
Jan 3 |
Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC |
Jan 3 |
NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager |
Jan 4 |
Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee |
Jan 5 |
Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" |
Jan 5 |
An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. |
Jan 6 |
"CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio |
Jan 6 |
England begins 3 day work week during mine strike |
Jan 6 |
In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. |
Jan 7 |
Gasoline rationed in Netherlands |
Jan 8 |
E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC |
Jan 8 |
Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London |
Jan 8 |
Loch Ness Monster photographed |
Jan 8 |
Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York |
Jan 11 |
ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style" |
Jan 12 |
"Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1 |
Jan 12 |
Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic" |
Jan 13 |
Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Super Bowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB |
Jan 13 |
Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. |
Jan 14 |
World Football League founded |
Jan 15 |
"Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC |
Jan 15 |
24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle |
Jan 15 |
Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures |
Jan 16 |
"Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published |
Jan 16 |
L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon |
Jan 17 |
Styne, Comdem & Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in NYC |
Jan 18 |
"$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 18 |
Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord |
Jan 19 |
Belgium government of Leburton falls |
Jan 19 |
Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak |
Jan 20 |
24th NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-13 |
Jan 20 |
7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia |
Jan 20 |
A college basketball game ends 210-67 |
Jan 20 |
Essex Comm College beats Englewood Cliffs 210-67 in basketball |
Jan 21 |
Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London |
Jan 23 |
1st edition of women's magazine "Story" |
Jan 25 |
Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
Jan 25 |
Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old |
Jan 25 |
Ray Kroc, CEO (McDonald's), buys SD Padres for $12 million |
Jan 27 |
"Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances |
Jan 28 |
Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 29 |
27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago |
Jan 29 |
Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession |
Jan 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jan 31 |
McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres |
Feb 1 |
"Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV |
Feb 1 |
Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. |
Feb 2 |
Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" |
Feb 2 |
Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary" |
Feb 2 |
Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641) |
Feb 2 |
The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. |
Feb 3 |
"Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs |
Feb 3 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Feb 4 |
Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months |
Feb 4 |
Petroleum rationing ends in Netherlands |
Feb 4 |
Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
Feb 4 |
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus as it traveled along the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire, England carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members; nine British Army soldiers and three civilians are killed |
Feb 5 |
British mine strike |
Feb 5 |
Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win |
Feb 5 |
Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph |
Feb 5 |
US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
Feb 5 |
John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. |
Feb 6 |
3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
Feb 6 |
Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis |
Feb 6 |
US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon |
Feb 7 |
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Feb 7 |
Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters |
Feb 8 |
"Good Times," debuts on CBS TV |
Feb 8 |
Ringo releases "You're 16" |
Feb 8 |
Skylab 4's astronauts land |
Feb 8 |
Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run |
Feb 9 |
"Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41 |
Feb 9 |
"The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 |
Feb 9 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
Feb 9 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
Feb 10 |
"Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances |
Feb 10 |
Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
Feb 10 |
Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out |
Feb 10 |
Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17) |
Feb 10 |
Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London |
Feb 11 |
Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule |
Feb 11 |
Titan-Centaur rocket test launch fails |
Feb 11 |
1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 |
Feb 11 |
Henry Kissinger unveils Nixon Administration's seven-point "Project Independence" plan to make the U.S. energy independent |
Feb 11 |
Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September |
Feb 12 |
Heads of state of Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement |
Feb 13 |
"Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC |
Feb 13 |
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR |
Feb 13 |
James 'cool papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame |
Feb 13 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship |
Feb 17 |
49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt |
Feb 17 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
Feb 17 |
Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter. |
Feb 18 |
NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) |
Feb 18 |
US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check |
Feb 19 |
1st American Music Award: Helen Reddy & Jim Croce win |
Feb 20 |
Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono |
Feb 20 |
Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA |
Feb 21 |
Israeli forces leave western Suez |
Feb 21 |
Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London |
Feb 21 |
Yugoslavia adopts constitution |
Feb 22 |
Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators |
Feb 23 |
Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth" |
Feb 24 |
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater |
Feb 24 |
Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh |
Feb 25 |
Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975 |
Feb 26 |
Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris |
Feb 27 |
"People" magazine begins sales |
Feb 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 28 |
Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms |
Feb 28 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
Feb 28 |
Taiwan police shoots into crowd |
Feb 28 |
US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years |
Mar 1 |
George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November |
Mar 1 |
Ian & Greg Chappell make 264 partnership v NZ cricket at Wellington |
Mar 1 |
Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides |
Mar 2 |
16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly, Bette Midler wins |
Mar 2 |
1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents |
Mar 2 |
Grand jury concludes Pres Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up |
Mar 2 |
Greg Chappell makes 247* v NZ, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
Mar 3 |
"Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances |
Mar 3 |
Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4 |
Mar 3 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Mar 3 |
World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) |
Mar 4 |
David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London |
Mar 4 |
Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier |
Mar 5 |
"Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances |
Mar 5 |
Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot |
Mar 6 |
"Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances |
Mar 6 |
An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo |
Mar 6 |
Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket |
Mar 7 |
"Monitor" (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC |
Mar 7 |
1st general strike in Ethiopia |
Mar 8 |
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France |
Mar 9 |
Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended |
Mar 10 |
"Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances |
Mar 10 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
Mar 10 |
Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
Mar 10 |
Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six |
Mar 11 |
Mount Etna in Sicily erupted |
Mar 11 |
Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album |
Mar 12 |
Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash |
Mar 13 |
Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust |
Mar 15 |
Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns |
Mar 16 |
1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville |
Mar 17 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International |
Mar 18 |
Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US |
Mar 19 |
Jefferson Starship begins their 1st tour |
Mar 21 |
Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall |
Mar 24 |
36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64 |
Mar 25 |
Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly" |
Mar 26 |
George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title in Caracas, Venezuela |
Mar 26 |
Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president |
Mar 28 |
Rock group Raspberries breakup |
Mar 29 |
Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos |
Apr 1 |
Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran |
Apr 1 |
Pioneer Hall opens |
Apr 1 |
Yourdon, Inc forms |
Apr 1 |
In the England the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. |
Apr 2 |
46th Academy Awards - "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win |
Apr 2 |
Arganat Comm publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War |
Apr 2 |
Tony Greig takes 8-86 v WI Port-of-Spain (later 5-70 in 2nd inn) |
Apr 3 |
148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states |
Apr 3 |
Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris |
Apr 3 |
The Super Outbreak : tornadoes in the east, south & midwest United States killed approximately 315 people, with nearly 5,500 injured |
Apr 4 |
Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th |
Apr 5 |
Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai |
Apr 5 |
Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories) |
Apr 6 |
200,000 attend rock concert "California Jam" in Ontario |
Apr 6 |
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16 |
Apr 6 |
Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1 |
Apr 7 |
Herb Gardner's "Thieves" premieres in NYC |
Apr 8 |
Discovery Island opens |
Apr 8 |
Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaking Babe Ruth's record in Atlanta |
Apr 9 |
Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life" |
Apr 10 |
American Boccaccio Association forms |
Apr 10 |
Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet |
Apr 10 |
Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir |
Apr 11 |
WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested |
Apr 14 |
38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278 |
Apr 15 |
3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11 |
Apr 15 |
78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39 |
Apr 15 |
Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed |
Apr 16 |
"Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances |
Apr 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 17 |
Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, WA |
Apr 17 |
Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt |
Apr 18 |
Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi |
Apr 19 |
Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees |
Apr 20 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run" |
Apr 20 |
'The Troubles', a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British security forces, and civil rights groups. claims its 1000th victim |
Apr 21 |
28th Tony Awards: River Niger & Raisin win |
Apr 21 |
3rd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jo Ann Prentice |
Apr 22 |
Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
Apr 23 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Apr 24 |
Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion |
Apr 24 |
NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers |
Apr 25 |
Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy |
Apr 25 |
Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government |
Apr 25 |
Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution) |
Apr 25 |
NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff |
Apr 26 |
Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam |
Apr 26 |
Malta adopts constitution |
Apr 26 |
Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline & Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow & Upshaw |
Apr 27 |
Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 |
Apr 28 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 29 |
President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House |
Apr 30 |
US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings |
May 2 |
Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred |
May 2 |
Six Catholic civilians killed and eighteen wounded when the UVF explode a bomb at Rose & Crown Bar on Ormeau Road, Belfast |
May 4 |
100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04 |
May 5 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
May 6 |
A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Balt ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games |
May 6 |
Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore |
May 6 |
Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149) |
May 6 |
Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London |
May 6 |
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) |
May 8 |
50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted |
May 8 |
Canada government of Trudeau falls |
May 8 |
FC Magdenburg wins 14th Europe Cup II |
May 9 |
US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment |
May 10 |
7th ABA championship: NY Nets beats Utah Stars, 4 games to 1 |
May 11 |
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Frank Sinatra hits #83 |
May 11 |
"Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7 |
May 11 |
Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number" |
May 12 |
28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3 |
May 12 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
May 14 |
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed |
May 15 |
Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed |
May 15 |
Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president |
May 15 |
Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed. |
May 15 |
Beginning of the Ulster Workers' Council strike called by Ulster loyalists and unionists who were against the Sunningdale Agreement, which proposed the sharing of political power with Irish nationalists |
May 16 |
Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor |
May 16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 17 |
Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels |
May 17 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet |
May 17 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)explode four bombs in the Republic of Ireland, killing 33 civilians and wounded a further 300(This is the highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles") |
May 18 |
"Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
May 18 |
100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 |
May 18 |
India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb |
May 18 |
Nigeria announces 55 percent government participation in all oil concessions |
May 19 |
Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass |
May 19 |
Stanley Cup: Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2 |
May 19 |
Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election |
May 20 |
Soyuz 14 returns to Earth |
May 22 |
Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later |
May 22 |
Soccer team Veendam forms |
May 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 23 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 23 |
Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed |
May 24 |
Dean Martin Show last airs on NBC-TV |
May 26 |
During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14-year old is trampled |
May 26 |
Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic |
May 26 |
Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 3:09:10.094 (255.224 km/h) |
May 27 |
Pirates Ken Brett no-hits Padres until 9th inning |
May 28 |
"Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances |
May 28 |
26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win |
May 28 |
Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation |
May 28 |
Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed |
May 28 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres in NYC |
May 29 |
Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster |
May 30 |
10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 |
May 31 |
Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights |
May 31 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jun 1 |
"My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12 |
Jun 1 |
Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Wash |
Jun 1 |
Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincs kills 28 in UK |
Jun 1 |
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. |
Jun 1 |
Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia |
Jun 2 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic |
Jun 2 |
Mali adopts constitution |
Jun 2 |
Malta's constitution goes into effect |
Jun 3 |
Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
Jun 4 |
NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks |
Jun 4 |
Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th |
Jun 4 |
Saudi Arabia announces that it will increase its participation in Aramco to 60 percent |
Jun 5 |
As' Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit |
Jun 6 |
47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte |
Jun 6 |
A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. |
Jun 7 |
Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1 |
Jun 8 |
106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2 |
Jun 8 |
Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" |
Jun 8 |
US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract |
Jun 9 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Desert Inn Golf Classic |
Jun 9 |
Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert |
Jun 10 |
Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof |
Jun 10 |
Rumor's government in Italy resigns |
Jun 10 |
Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the father of Rambo the next generation. |
Jun 11 |
Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash |
Jun 11 |
Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief |
Jun 13 |
Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives |
Jun 13 |
IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices |
Jun 14 |
Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings |
Jun 15 |
"Streak" by Ray Stevens hit #1 on UK pop chart |
Jun 16 |
74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY |
Jun 16 |
Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open |
Jun 17 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage |
Jun 18 |
Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government |
Jun 19 |
KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0 |
Jun 19 |
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution |
Jun 20 |
"Chinatown", starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, is released |
Jun 23 |
1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space |
Jun 23 |
20th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
Jun 24 |
India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins |
Jun 24 |
Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired |
Jun 26 |
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio |
Jun 27 |
"Flip Wilson Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 27 |
US president Nixon visits USSR |
Jun 28 |
Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia) |
Jun 28 |
Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK |
Jun 29 |
Military coup in Ethiopia |
Jun 30 |
2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala |
Jun 30 |
Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY) |
Jun 30 |
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west |
Jul 1 |
1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF) |
Jul 1 |
General Pinochet becomes president of Chile |
Jul 1 |
Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina |
Jul 1 |
Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales |
Jul 2 |
Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81) |
Jul 3 |
Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers |
Jul 3 |
Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
Jul 3 |
Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win |
Jul 4 |
Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days |
Jul 5 |
81st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64) |
Jul 6 |
88th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64) |
Jul 7 |
Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78) |
Jul 7 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic |
Jul 7 |
West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich |
Jul 7 |
New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa |
Jul 8 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Jul 8 |
Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game |
Jul 9 |
Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election |
Jul 10 |
OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands |
Jul 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 11 |
House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry |
Jul 11 |
World Football League plays 1st games |
Jul 12 |
John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights |
Jul 13 |
103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham |
Jul 13 |
India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley) |
Jul 14 |
Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day |
Jul 14 |
Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA |
Jul 14 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic |
Jul 15 |
Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees |
Jul 17 |
1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues |
Jul 17 |
Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo) |
Jul 17 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 17 |
John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days |
Jul 18 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 18 |
World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed |
Jul 19 |
Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 |
Jul 19 |
David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC |
Jul 19 |
Soyuz 14 lands |
Jul 20 |
Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage |
Jul 20 |
Turkey invades Cyprus |
Jul 21 |
29th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
Jul 21 |
Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France |
Jul 21 |
US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon |
Jul 23 |
45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts |
Jul 23 |
All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers) |
Jul 23 |
Greek military dictatorship collapses |
Jul 24 |
Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes |
Jul 26 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 26 |
USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 |
Jul 27 |
House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment |
Jul 27 |
Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs |
Jul 28 |
69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil) |
Jul 28 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
Jul 29 |
2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee |
Jul 29 |
Episcopal Church ordained female priests |
Jul 29 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 29 |
St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base |
Jul 30 |
House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
Aug 1 |
Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr J" Erving to NY Nets |
Aug 1 |
China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine |
Aug 3 |
"Little Night Music" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 601 perfs |
Aug 3 |
"Words & Music" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 127 perfs |
Aug 3 |
Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers |
Aug 4 |
Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor |
Aug 4 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
Aug 5 |
Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways |
Aug 5 |
US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in |
Aug 6 |
6th time Phils get just 1 assist in game; no other team did it twice |
Aug 6 |
Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash |
Aug 7 |
Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers |
Aug 8 |
US President Richard Nixon announces he'll resign his office 12PM Aug 9 |
Aug 9 |
Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford swears oath of office to become 38th US president |
Aug 10 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open |
Aug 11 |
56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC |
Aug 11 |
Coup in East-Timor under UDT |
Aug 11 |
Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey) |
Aug 12 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2 |
Aug 12 |
Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st team mates inducted to hall of fame on same day |
Aug 14 |
Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold |
Aug 14 |
Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
Aug 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 14 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 15 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 15 |
Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed |
Aug 15 |
Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days)) |
Aug 15 |
South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination |
Aug 16 |
Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) |
Aug 18 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open |
Aug 20 |
Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat |
Aug 20 |
Nelson Rockefeller selected US Vice President by President Ford |
Aug 20 |
Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph) |
Aug 23 |
John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC |
Aug 23 |
Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval |
Aug 24 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Aug 25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 25 |
LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup |
Aug 26 |
Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal |
Aug 26 |
Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 |
Aug 27 |
NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat |
Aug 28 |
Soyuz 15 returns to Earth |
Aug 29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 30 |
Express train runs at full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153 |
Aug 30 |
Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg |
Aug 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 31 |
Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen harbor |
Sep 1 |
Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect |
Sep 1 |
Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
Sep 1 |
Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed |
Sep 1 |
The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds. |
Sep 2 |
Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 2 |
US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
Sep 3 |
Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut |
Sep 3 |
NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires |
Sep 3 |
US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations |
Sep 4 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Sep 6 |
Saudi Arabia increases its oil buy-back price from 93 percent to 94.9 percent of posted price |
Sep 7 |
"Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances |
Sep 7 |
Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975 |
Sep 8 |
88th US Women's Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) |
Sep 8 |
94th US Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) |
Sep 8 |
Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) |
Sep 8 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Sep 8 |
President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes |
Sep 9 |
88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) |
Sep 10 |
Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark |
Sep 10 |
NY Dolls disband |
Sep 10 |
Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau |
Sep 10 |
Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs |
Sep 11 |
Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner come to bat 12 times each |
Sep 12 |
Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
Sep 12 |
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers |
Sep 13 |
-17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
Sep 13 |
1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV |
Sep 13 |
Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 |
Sep 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 13 |
OPEC instructs its Secretary General to "carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls" |
Sep 14 |
Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter |
Sep 15 |
Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens |
Sep 15 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 15 |
Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. |
Sep 16 |
BART begins regular transbay service |
Sep 16 |
Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks |
Sep 16 |
Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters |
Sep 16 |
US General Haig becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe |
Sep 17 |
Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup |
Sep 18 |
Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die |
Sep 19 |
-20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die |
Sep 19 |
The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents |
Sep 21 |
US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury |
Sep 23 |
"Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances |
Sep 23 |
BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service |
Sep 24 |
Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits |
Sep 24 |
Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title |
Sep 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 25 |
Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer |
Sep 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 27 |
-10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod |
Sep 27 |
Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 |
Sep 28 |
"Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47 |
Sep 28 |
"I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 |
Sep 28 |
"Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52 |
Sep 28 |
"Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31 |
Sep 28 |
"Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1 |
Sep 28 |
"Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36 |
Sep 28 |
US 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy |
Sep 28 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0 |
Sep 28 |
John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC) |
Sep 28 |
Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople |
Sep 29 |
4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29 |
Sep 29 |
5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30 |
Sep 29 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic |
Sep 30 |
Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Spinola as pres of Portugal |
Oct 1 |
Watergate cover-up trial opens in Wash DC |
Oct 2 |
Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat |
Oct 3 |
Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah |
Oct 3 |
Pele retires as soccer player |
Oct 3 |
Watergate trial begins |
Oct 4 |
John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album |
Oct 5 |
Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured. |
Oct 6 |
"Mack & Mabel" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances |
Oct 6 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic |
Oct 7 |
German Democratic Republic amends constitution |
Oct 8 |
Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. |
Oct 9 |
Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians) |
Oct 9 |
Race riot in Boston due to "bussing" |
Oct 9 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden Wash Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak |
Oct 10 |
A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley |
Oct 10 |
Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles |
Oct 10 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
Oct 10 |
US Gen George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in US over his treatment during the 1973 World Series |
Oct 10 |
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin |
Oct 11 |
A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract |
Oct 12 |
1st time Wash Caps are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota |
Oct 14 |
8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich |
Oct 15 |
National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing |
Oct 15 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) |
Oct 15 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie |
Oct 16 |
As' Ken Holtzman, who hasn't batted all season, belts 3rd inning home run in Game 4 & gets the win, 5-2 |
Oct 17 |
"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per |
Oct 17 |
NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak |
Oct 17 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3 |
Oct 17 |
Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series |
Oct 18 |
1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121 |
Oct 18 |
Andre van de Louw appointed mayor of Rotterdam |
Oct 18 |
Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise" |
Oct 18 |
Chicago Bull Nate Thurmond becomes 1st in NBA to complete a quadruple double-22 pts, 14 rebounds, 13 assists & 12 blocks |
Oct 19 |
Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps |
Oct 19 |
Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) |
Oct 19 |
Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand |
Oct 20 |
1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF |
Oct 20 |
Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC |
Oct 21 |
1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps |
Oct 21 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic |
Oct 22 |
Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds |
Oct 23 |
Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles & Locker |
Oct 23 |
Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated |
Oct 24 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers) |
Oct 25 |
US Air Force fires 1st ICBM |
Oct 25 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad |
Oct 25 |
Wings release "Junior's Farm" |
Oct 26 |
Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch |
Oct 27 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) |
Oct 28 |
1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall |
Oct 28 |
Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon) |
Oct 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 29 |
Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application |
Oct 30 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH) |
Oct 30 |
Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award |
Oct 30 |
Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire ('The Rumble in the Jungle') |
Oct 31 |
Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah |
Oct 31 |
Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison |
Nov 1 |
Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil) |
Nov 1 |
UN affirms independence of Cyprus |
Nov 2 |
Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleve Brown game in 33 yrs |
Nov 2 |
Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May |
Nov 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Nov 2 |
78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. |
Nov 3 |
"Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances |
Nov 3 |
Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic |
Nov 5 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Michelangelo songs |
Nov 5 |
Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor |
Nov 5 |
Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Wash DC |
Nov 6 |
Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award |
Nov 7 |
63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o) |
Nov 8 |
British Lord ('Lucky') Lucan disappears |
Nov 8 |
Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah |
Nov 10 |
2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win |
Nov 10 |
Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0 |
Nov 12 |
South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies |
Nov 12 |
A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833 |
Nov 13 |
Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP |
Nov 15 |
Ringo Starr releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK |
Nov 15 |
International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis |
Nov 16 |
1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away |
Nov 16 |
John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" |
Nov 16 |
Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record) |
Nov 16 |
ABBA begin their first tour of Europe - their first tour outside of Sweden |
Nov 17 |
Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic |
Nov 17 |
Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms |
Nov 17 |
Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l). |
Nov 20 |
Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP |
Nov 20 |
The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T |
Nov 21 |
Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto |
Nov 21 |
Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (This was the deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles") |
Nov 22 |
Lake Buena Vista Club opens |
Nov 22 |
Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore |
Nov 22 |
UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty |
Nov 23 |
60 Ethiopia government officials executed |
Nov 24 |
2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974) |
Nov 24 |
62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7 |
Nov 24 |
Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty |
Nov 24 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
Nov 25 |
Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21 |
Nov 25 |
Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 26 |
Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal |
Nov 26 |
Catfish Hunter & Charlie Finley meet in arbitration |
Nov 26 |
Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India |
Nov 27 |
Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 28 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years |
Nov 28 |
John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC) |
Nov 30 |
"Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances |
Nov 30 |
"Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances |
Nov 30 |
20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks) |
Nov 30 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Nov 30 |
Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. |
Dec 1 |
Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died |
Dec 1 |
Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) |
Dec 1 |
LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8 |
Dec 2 |
Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs |
Dec 2 |
Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ |
Dec 2 |
Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days |
Dec 4 |
Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims |
Dec 4 |
Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison |
Dec 5 |
1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres |
Dec 5 |
1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida |
Dec 5 |
Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) |
Dec 5 |
Monty Python's Flying Circus final episode airs on BBC |
Dec 5 |
NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms |
Dec 5 |
Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named |
Dec 5 |
Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot |
Dec 5 |
Birmingham Americans defeat the Florida Blazers 22-21 in the WFL's World Bowl |
Dec 6 |
George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" |
Dec 8 |
Greek monarchy rejected by referendum |
Dec 8 |
Irish Republican Socialist Party forms |
Dec 8 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
Dec 8 |
Soyuz 16 returns to Earth |
Dec 9 |
Dow Jones index hits 570.01 |
Dec 9 |
Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Dec 9 |
Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana |
Dec 10 |
European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament |
Dec 10 |
Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun |
Dec 10 |
Space probe Helios 1 launched |
Dec 13 |
Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley |
Dec 13 |
Malta becomes a republic |
Dec 14 |
Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0 |
Dec 14 |
Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes |
Dec 15 |
A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
Dec 16 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 18 |
SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens |
Dec 19 |
"Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US |
Dec 19 |
Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal |
Dec 19 |
Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP |
Dec 20 |
Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state |
Dec 20 |
George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK |
Dec 20 |
"The Godfather Part II", starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, is released |
Dec 21 |
"The Sea of Hands", Raiders RB Clarence Davis somehow catches game-winning touchdown pass among "the sea of hands" of three Dolphins defenders with 24 seconds left in the game, eliminating Miami from the playoffs after they had made it to the Super Bowl in each of the last 3 seasons |
Dec 22 |
2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975 |
Dec 22 |
Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals |
Dec 22 |
Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
Dec 22 |
Ted Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. |
Dec 22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a Christmas ceasefire; before the ceasefire, they carry out a bomb attack on the home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath |
Dec 22 |
Iraq announces plans to increase its oil production capacity |
Dec 23 |
"Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Dec 23 |
Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen |
Dec 24 |
Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year |
Dec 25 |
Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia |
Dec 25 |
Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. |
Dec 26 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout |
Dec 27 |
40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
Dec 27 |
Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years |
Dec 27 |
FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party |
Dec 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 28 |
6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed |
Dec 28 |
Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress. |
Dec 29 |
Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC |
Dec 30 |
Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) |
Dec 31 |
41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10 |
Dec 31 |
Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin |
Dec 31 |
Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac |
Dec 31 |
NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter for 5 yrs for a record $3.75 million |
Dec 31 |
Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer |
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