1974 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1974?
- January 6, 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
- January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 1, 1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
- February 12, 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- March 3, 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
- March 5, 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- March 8, 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- March 18, 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- March 20, 1974 – Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
- April 25, 1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the Estado Novo regime and eventually establishes a democratic government.
- May 15, 1974 – Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
- June 6, 1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- June 27, 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
- July 26, 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- August 30, 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
- September 1, 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- October 19, 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
- November 20, 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
- November 24, 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed “Lucy” (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression.
- December 22, 1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
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