1974: Year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1971 1972 1973 – 1974 – 1975 1976 1977

Events

February 7 – Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
February 17 – Michele Catain, an American crew member and real estate agent, marries David Thomas Durboraw, an American businessman, in Los Angeles, California.
March 3 – a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes outside Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board; the cause of the crash was a design flaw in the plane's rear cargo door.
February 22 – Bangladesh is recognized by Pakistan
April 25 – Portuguese Revolution or the Carnation Revolution. – A half-century of fascist rule was ended.
May 18 – India tests nuclear weapons.
July 15- Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
August 8 – United States President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (Watergate scandal).
October 30 - Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight boxing championship in a bout billed as "The Rumble in the Jungle".
December 8 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
December 19 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
December 24-December 25 – Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.

Date unknown

The Ellice Islands decide to split from the Gilbert Islands in a referendum.

Births

January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
January 21 – Linda Rosing, Swedish model
January 28 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
January 30 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor
February 8 – Seth Green, American actor
February 8 – Kimbo Slice American mixed martial artist
February 13 – Robbie Williams, English singer
February 15 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, American television personality
February 22 – Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
March 6 – Anthony Carelli, American wrestler
March 13 – Linda Bengtzing, Swedish singer
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish lead-singer of the music group The Corrs
May 23 – Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! champion
June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
June 19 – Rossella Erra, Italian TV personality
July 28 – Justin Lee Collins, English television presenter
August 17 – Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
August 25 – Mario Jeckle, German computer scientist (d. 2004)
September 6 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
September 14 – Nas, American rapper
October 5 - Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
October 28 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer and guitarist
December 3 – Albena Denkova, Bulgarian ice dancer
December 6 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
December 10 – Meg White, American singer and drummer (The White Stripes)
December 13 – Sara Cox, English television presenter

Deaths

January

January 2 – Tex Ritter, American country musician (b. 1905)
January 6 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
January 31 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American movie producer (b. 1879)
January 31 – Glenn Morris, American track and field athlete (b. 1912)

February

1974: Events, Births, Deaths — Satyendra Nath Bose

February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and polymath from Bengal (b. 1894)

March

March 27 – Eduardo Santos Montejo, President of Colombia (b. 1888)

April

April 2 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
April 19 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
April 24 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (b. 1899)
April 24 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May

May 7 – Fred Kelly, American hurdler (b. 1891)
May 24 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (b. 1899)

June

June 4 – Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895)
June 11 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general during World War II (b. 1896)

July

July 1 – Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
July 9 – Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
July 24 – James Chadwick, English physicist (b. 1891)
July 29 – Cass Elliot, American singer and actress (b. 1941)
July 29 – Erich Kästner, German children's writer (b. 1899)

August

August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (b. 1902)

September

September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)

October

October 5 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1899)
October 9 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
October 13 – Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
October 28 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)

November

November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905)
November 25 – U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)

December

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
Chemistry – Paul J Flory
Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E Palade
Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Peace – Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

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