1974 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1974?
- January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 2, 1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
- February 22, 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- March 3, 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
- March 8, 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- 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 17, 1974 – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Thirty-three civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
- May 18, 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
- June 1, 1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
- June 4, 1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
- 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.
- June 29, 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
- July 26, 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
- July 27, 1974 – Watergate Scandal: the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
- July 30, 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
- September 11, 1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
- 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 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.
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