1974 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1974?
- January 5, 1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
- January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- February 17, 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
- February 21, 1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
- February 22, 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- March 29, 1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- April 8, 1974 – at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
- May 16, 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
- May 17, 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army’s headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
- May 18, 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- June 9, 1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
- June 27, 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
- July 23, 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
- August 14, 1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Elsewhere, 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred.
- October 4, 1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
- October 8, 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- November 21, 1974 – The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
- December 13, 1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
- December 22, 1974 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
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