Historical Events in 1974 (Part 3)

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• Sep 15 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
• Sep 16 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular rail service crossing under the San Francisco Bay, through the Transbay Tube

• Sep 17 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
• Sep 18 Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras with 110 mph winds; about 5,000 die

• Sep 21 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
• Sep 23 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service

• Sep 24 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
• Sep 25 Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
• Sep 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 26 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fifth studio album, "Walls & Bridges" in US; features No. 1 single "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" (with Elton John) and "#9 Dream"
• Sep 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 27 -10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod
• Sep 27 Australian National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000

• Sep 28 "Live It Up Part 1" by the Isley Brothers peaks at #52

• Sep 28 "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1
• Sep 28 "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36
• Sep 28 British rock guitarist Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople

• Sep 28 John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC)

• Sep 30 General Francisco da Costa Gomesz succeeds General António de Spínola as President of Portugal
• Oct 1 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" horror film premieres in director Tobe Hooper's hometown, Austin, Texas in the US

• Oct 1 Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington, D.C.

• Oct 3 Watergate criminal trial begins for five advisors and aides of President Nixon
• Oct 4 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fifth studio album, "Walls & Bridges" in UK; features No. 1 single "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" (with Elton John) and "#9 Dream"
• Oct 5 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured.

• Oct 7 German Democratic Republic amends constitution
• Oct 8 Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• Oct 9 Race riot in Boston due to "bussing"
• Oct 9 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden; start of a 37 game road losing streak for Washington
• Oct 10 Canadian bicyclist John Hathaway begins 2-year ride of 50,600 miles

• Oct 10 MLB Oakland A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against team owner Charlie Finley
• Oct 10 The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin

• Oct 12 1st time Washington Capitals are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota

• Oct 15 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
• Oct 15 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J. Flory for work on macro molecules
• Oct 15 Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie

• Oct 17 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
• Oct 17 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
• Oct 17 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
• Oct 18 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121

• Oct 18 Andre van de Louw appointed Mayor of Rotterdam

• Oct 18 Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"

• Oct 19 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
• Oct 19 NHL Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Capitals
• Oct 19 Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand
• Oct 20 1st broadcast of "Derrick" on ZDF
• Oct 20 Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC
• Oct 21 NHL New York Islanders and goaltender Billy Smith's 1st shut-out win, 5-0 vs Washington Capitals

• Oct 23 Chicago Cubs trade 6-time MLB All Star outfielder Billy Williams to Oakland A's for second baseman Manny Trillo and 2 pitchers
• Oct 23 Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated

• Oct 25 US Air Force fires 1st ICBM successfully from a plane, over the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast
• Oct 25 Wings release single "Junior's Farm"
• Oct 26 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA's Cavaliers & MISL's Crunch
• Oct 27 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets female world marathon record (2:46:24) in Neuf-Brisach, France
• Oct 28 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
• Oct 28 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
• Oct 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 29 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

• Oct 30 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" horror film premieres in Los Angeles
• Oct 30 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
• Oct 30 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
• Oct 31 Dutch Marines end hostage crisis in Scheveningen prison
• Oct 31 Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah
• Nov 1 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 min (Sao Paulo Brazil)
• Nov 1 UN affirms independence of Cyprus
• Nov 2 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
• Nov 2 Atlanta Braves trade then MLB home run king Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave May
• Nov 2 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Nov 5 Dmitri Shostakovich completes Michelangelo songs
• Nov 5 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor
• Nov 5 Walter E Washington, becomes first elected mayor of Washington, D.C.
• Nov 6 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award

• Nov 8 Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Nov 10 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 11-0

• Nov 12 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
• Nov 12 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies

• Nov 15 International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis

• Nov 16 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away

• Nov 16 John Lennon's single "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", featuring Elton John, goes to #1 in US; the last of the Beatles with a solo chart-topper, it was the only one during his lifetime
• Nov 16 Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
• Nov 17 Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
• Nov 17 Bonnie Bryant becomes the only left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event; scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers, Florida
• Nov 17 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms

• Nov 20 Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
• Nov 20 The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
• Nov 21 Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act broadening public access to US government actions passed by Congress over President Gerald Ford's veto [1]
• Nov 21 Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles")
• Nov 22 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
• Nov 22 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore
• Nov 22 UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
• Nov 23 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
• Nov 23 Alexis Argüello of Nicaragua knocks out Mexican defending champion Rubén Olivares in the 13th round at the Forum in Inglewood, California, to claim the WBA world featherweight boxing title
• Nov 24 2 truck hijackers freed (3/3/1974)

• Nov 24 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression [1] [2]
• Nov 25 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
• Nov 25 Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 26 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses in Nepal
• Nov 26 Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
• Nov 27 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year

• Nov 28 John Lennon's last concert appearance, as a guest of Elton John, Madison Square Garden, New York City NYC; they perform "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"; "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"; and "I Saw Her Standing There"

• Nov 30 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
• Dec 1 American Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon 2:43:54.5 in Culver City, California
• Dec 1 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville, Virginia, killing 92
• Dec 1 LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8

• Dec 2 MLB Rules Committee changes long time philosophy to permit the use of cowhide, rather than just horsehide in the manufacture of baseballs
• Dec 2 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
• Dec 4 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims

• Dec 5 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
• Dec 5 Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17

• Dec 5 NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
• Dec 5 Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named

• Dec 8 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
• Dec 8 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
• Dec 8 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
• Dec 9 Dow Jones index hits 570.01
• Dec 9 Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
• Dec 9 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail in Indiana
• Dec 10 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
• Dec 10 Helios 1 launched by US and Germany; later makes closest flyby of the Sun

• Dec 13 Malta becomes a republic

• Dec 14 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0

• Dec 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Dec 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 18 San Francisco Visitors Center at City Hall opens

• Dec 19 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal

• Dec 20 Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
• Dec 20 George Harrison releases "Dark Horse", his fifth studio album in UK
• Dec 22 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
• Dec 22 Iraq announces plans to increase its oil production capacity

• Dec 22 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
• Dec 23 Dmitri Shostakovich' son cycle "Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti" premieres in Leningrad

• Dec 25 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia
• Dec 25 Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
• Dec 26 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
• Dec 27 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
• Dec 27 Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
• Dec 27 FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
• Dec 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Dec 28 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
• Dec 28 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
• Dec 30 Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)

• Dec 31 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin

• Dec 31 New York Yankees sign Cy Young Award winner Jim "Catfish" Hunter for 5 years for a record $3.75 million from the Oakland A's
• Dec 31 Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer

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