1974 (MCMLXXIV )
was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium , the 74th year of the 20th century , and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
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 .
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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
February
Satyendra Nath Bose
March
April
Georges Pompidou
Ayub Khan
Franz Jonas
Agnes Moorehead
May
Duke Ellington
June
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Georgy Zhukov
July
Juan Perón
Earl Warren
James Chadwick
Cass Elliot
Erich Kästner
August
Charles Lindbergh
September
Walter Brennan
October
Zalman Shazar
Oskar Schindler
Ed Sullivan
Everaldo
November
Vittorio De Sica
U Thant
December
Nobel Prizes