Chronology of World History

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1974

January 2
  • Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres. [1]
January 3
  • Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain. [1]
  • Burma accepts its constitution. [1]
  • Gold hits record US$121.25 an ounce in London, England. [1]
January 5
  • In Vanda Station, Scott Coast, an Antarctican record hot temperature of 59 degrees F is recorded. [54]
January 6
  • England begins three-day work week during mine strike. [1]
January 7
  • Netherlands government imposes rationing of gasoline. [1]
January 8
  • Gold hits record US$126.50 an ounce in London, England. [1]
  • Silver hits record US$3.40 an ounce in New York. [1]
January 11
  • Birth of Rosenkowitz sextuplets in Cape Town, South Africa (first known to survive infancy). [1] [5]
January 12
  • Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic". [1]
January 18
  • Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord. [1]
January 19
  • Belgium government of Leburton falls. [1]
January 21
  • Gold hits record US$161.31 an ounce in London, England. [1]
  • Silver hits record US$3.97 an ounce in London, England. [1]
January 25
  • Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey. [1]

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  • South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplants the first human heart without removal of the old one. [1]
January 30
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk. [1]
February 2
  • Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary". [1]
February 4
  • Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands. [1]
  • Gas rationing ends in Netherlands. [1]
  • Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California. [1] [129]
February 5
  • Maximum speed on German Autobahn reduced to 100 kph. [1]
  • U.S. Mariner 10 returns the first close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure. [1] [5]
February 6
  • Dutch automobile speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis. [1]
February 7
  • Grenada gains independence from Britain. [1841.465]
February 8
  • After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab return to Earth. [1] [5]
February 10
  • Iran/Iraq border fight breaks out. [1]
  • Silver futures hit record US$4.815 an ounce in London, England. [1]
February 11
  • Titan-Centaur test launch fails. [1]
February 13
  • Dissident Nobel Prize writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR. [1]
February 18
  • NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km). [1]
  • US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presents US$2,046,700,000 check. [1]
February 21
  • Israeli forces leave western Suez. [1]
  • Silver hits record US$5.965 an ounce in London, England. [1]
  • Yugoslavia adopts constitution. [1]
February 22
  • Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators. [1]
February 24
  • Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh. [1]
February 26
  • Gold hits record US$188 an ounce in Paris, France. Silver peaks at US$6.70 per ounce. [1] [582.52] [588.72] [639.12]
February 28
  • Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms. [1]
  • Labour Party wins British parliamentary election. [1]
  • US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after seven years. [1]
March 3
  • World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris, France (346 die). [1]
March 4
  • Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier. [1]
March 6
  • An Italian loses a record US$1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo. [1]
March 7
  • Monitor (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. [1]
  • First general strike in Ethiopia. [1]
March 8
  • Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. [1]
March 9
  • Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended. [1]
March 10
  • Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election. [1]
March 11
  • Mount Etna in Sicily erupts. [1]
March 12
  • Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, is assassinated. [1]
March 13
  • Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris, France. [1]
March 15
  • Brazilian President Garastazu Médici resigns. [1]
March 18
  • Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against US. [1]
March 21
  • Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall. [1]
March 26
  • Romanian communist party names party leader Nicolae Ceausescu President. [1]
March 29
  • Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos. [1]
April 1
  • Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran. [1]
April 2
  • Arganat Committee publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War. [1]
April 3
  • In the USA, 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states in the east, south and midwest killed approximately 315. [1]
  • Gold hits record US$197 an ounce in Paris, France. [1]
April 5
  • World's tallest building, the World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories). [1]
April 6
  • Swedish music group Abba wins the Eurovision Song Festival with the song "Waterloo". [7]
April 10
  • Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. [1]
April 15
  • The first Olympic lottrery draw is held in Canada. Nine winners share the CDN$1 million top prize, while one person wins the $500,000 second prize. [40.87]
  • Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed. [1]
April 16
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
April 17
  • Muslim fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis, Egypt. [1]
April 18
  • Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi. [1]
April 21
  • 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win. [1]
April 23
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan. [1]
April 25
  • German Chancellor Willy Brandt's Secretary Günther Guillaume arrested as a spy. [1]
  • Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government. [1]
  • Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal; he is exiled to Madeira and later to Brazil (Carnation revolution). [1]
April 26
  • Landslide in Huancavelica Province, Peru creates a natural dam. [1]
  • Malta adopts constitution. [1]
April 27
  • Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107. [1]
May 6
  • West German chancellor Willy Brandt resigns. [1] [37]
May 7
  • Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin). [1]
May 8
  • 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted. [1]
  • Canadian Government of Pierre Trudeau falls. [1]
  • In Japan, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs, on the Izu Peninsula. The earthquake killed 30 people, injured 82, and destroyed 121 homes. Approximately 1,510 houses damaged. [53]
May 10
  • In China, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 20,000 dead. [53]
May 14
  • Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, six killed. [1]
May 15
  • Mail truck terrorists take school in Maälot, 30 killed. [1]
  • Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president of Germany. [1] [37]
May 16
  • Helmut Schmidt is elected German Chancellor after Willy Brandt resigns due to the spy in his office. Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) becomes vice chancellor and foreign minister. [1] [37]
  • USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
May 18
  • India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. [1]
May 19
  • Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election. [1]
May 23
  • Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
  • Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed. [1]
May 27
  • Alain Poher ceases serving as Provisional President of France. [1197.172]
May 28
  • In Switzerland, an Athenian decadrachm sells for US$272,240, a world record price. [415.52]
  • Massachusetts State Lottery begins selling first instant game lottery tickets (latex-covered scratch-off area). [86.58] [187.389]
  • Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, six killed. [1]
  • Stephen Schwartz' musical Magic Show premieres at the Cort Theater in New York City for 1859 performances. [1]
May 29
  • Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster. [1]
May 31
  • Israel and Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights. [1]
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
June 1
  • Massive explosion and fire in caprolactam plant at Flixborough, England, kills 28, injures 36 onsite, and 53 outside the works perimeter. The explosion damages 1821 houses, 167 shops and factories. [720.144]
June
  • At a coin auction in Zurich, Switzerland, a silver decadrachm of Athens sells for about US$325,000. [592.72] [594.112] [596.33]
June 26
  • The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a pack of chewing gum in Ohio. [5]
June 30
  • Alberta King [Mrs Martin Luther King Sr] is shot and killed in church. [1]
  • Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester, New York). [1]
(month unknown)
  • Japanese geologists find another 663 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]
  • The 4.45kg Mayo Belwa achondrite meteorite falls in Nigeria. [523.104]

End of 1974 January-June. Next: 1974 July.

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