Return to home
1974 Jan 1,
The US government Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program,
established by Congress in 1972, began providing new benefits for the
aged, blind and disabled.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, Z1
p.5)(www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/416/416-0110.htm)
1974 Jan 1, Nawab Akbar Shahbaz
Khan Bugti (1927-2006), governor of Balochistan, Pakistan, resigned
shortly after Bhutto launched an army operation in Balochistan. The
army had deployed 100,000 men in Baluchistan and with the help of the
Iranian air force killed large numbers of Baluchis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawab_Akbar_Bugti)
1974 Jan 2, President Nixon signed
legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph. Federal
speed limits were abolished in 1995. The legislation was conceived by
Claude Brinegar (1926-2009), Nixon’s secretary of transportation.
(AP, 1/2/98)(http://tinyurl.com/45ywak)(SFC,
3/18/09, p.B6)
1974 Jan 2, Coleman Young
(1918-1997) was inaugurated as mayor of Detroit. In 1973 he narrowly
defeated Police Commissioner John F. Nichols, who would later become
Oakland County Sheriff, to become Detroit's first African American
mayor. Young won the four subsequent terms by very wide margins and
continued in office until December, 1993.
(WSJ, 5/28/98,
p.A20)(www.biographybase.com/biography/Young_Coleman.html)
1974 Jan 3, Following eight
years of inactivity, Bob Dylan and The Band began his 2-month concert
tour in Chicago, IL. The tour was recorded and later released as a
double-LP set titled, “Before the Flood.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan_and_The_Band_1974_Tour)
1974 Jan 4, President Nixon
refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the
Senate Watergate Committee.
(AP, 1/4/98)
1974 Jan 6, David Alfaro Siqueiros
(b.1896), Mexican artist (muralist), died. His work included the 1933
mural "Ejercicio Plastico" (Plastic Exercise), completed in Argentina
at the home of newspaper magnate Natalio Botana (d.1941). In 1994 the
650-square-foot work fell into a legal limbo.
(SFC, 2/13/99,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alfaro_Siqueiros)
1974 Jan 9, Cambodian Government
troops opened a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh.
(HN, 1/9/98)
1974 Jan 10, An Advisory Panel on
White House Tapes determined that an 18-m gap in Watergate tape was due
to erasure and of no consequence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes)
1974 Jan 15, "Happy Days" began an
11 year run on ABC.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992/)
1974 Jan 15, In Wichita, Kansas, 4
members of the Otero family were found murdered. Their murder was later
associated with the BTK serial killer. In 2005 Dennis Rader pleaded
guilty to 10-counts of 1st degree murder for killings from 1974-1991.
(SSFC, 2/27/05,
p.A3)(www.kansas.com/214/story/16542.html)
1974 Jan 16, NY Yankees Mickey
Mantle and Whitey Ford were elected to Hall of Fame.
(www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1118675)
1974 Jan 17-1974 Jan 19, China
occupied the Paracel Islands following the Battle of Hoang Sea, a
bloody skirmish with Vietnam.
(Econ, 3/31/07, SR
p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hoang_Sa)
1974 Jan 18, "$6 Million Man"
starring Lee Majors premiered on ABC TV.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)
1974 Jan 18, Israel and Egypt
signed a Separation of Forces Agreement.
(http://tinyurl.com/4z534e)
1974 Jan 20, Howard C. Ulrich was
appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan to serve as the chief of Caltrans and
served from this day to Aug 8, 1975.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, p.A14)
1974 Jan 21, The U.S. Supreme
Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take
long leaves of absence.
(HN, 1/21/99)
1974 Jan 25, Ray Kroc (1902-1984),
the head of McDonald's Corp., bought the SD Padres for $12 million and
prevented the team's planned move to Washington DC.
(www.addictsports.com/baseball/archive/index.php/t-28507.html)(SFC,
10/13/03, p.A19)
1974 Jan 25, Bulent Ecevit
(1925-2006) became prime minister of Turkey.
(www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/turkey.htm)
1974 Jan 31, Samuel Goldwyn
(b.1879), Polish-born US film magnate (MGM), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn)
1974 Jan 31, Gold hit a record
high of $195.5 an ounce.
(www.finfacts.ie/Private/curency/goldmarketprice.htm)
1974 Feb 1, Lynda Ann Healy, 1st
Bundy murder victim, was abducted in Seattle.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6664381)
1974 Feb 2, Barbra Streisand made
her 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_1974_(USA))
1974 Feb 4, Newspaper heiress
Patricia Hearst (19) was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the
Symbionese Liberation Army. Her boyfriend Steven Weed was beaten. Patty
Hearst ran away to join an underground revolutionary group, the
Symbionese Liberation Front.
(TMC, 1994, p.1974)(SFC, 2/8/97, p.A7)(AP,
2/4/97)(AP, 2/4/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974 Feb 4, Mao Tse-tung
proclaimed a new "cultural revolution" in China.
(HN, 2/4/99)
1974 Feb 6, The Committee on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives was authorized to begin
determining grounds for the impeachment of Pres. Nixon. Public hearings
began on May 9.
(http://www.watergate.info/judiciary/)
1974 Feb 7, Mel Brooks' "Blazing
Saddles" opened in movie theaters.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/combined)
1974 Feb 7, The island nation of
Grenada won independence from Britain. This included the northern
islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 2/7/97)(SSFC, 12/11/05, p.F4)
1974 Feb 8, The three-man crew of
"Skylab" space station returned to Earth after spending 84 days in
space.
(AP, 2/8/99)
1974 Feb 8, Fritz Zwicky (b.1898),
Swiss-US astronomer, died. In 1934 he and Walter Baade coined the term
"supernova" and hypothesized that they were the transition of normal
stars into neutron stars, as well as the origin of cosmic rays.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky)
1974 Feb 9, US female Figure
Skating championship was won by Dorothy Hamill.
(http://espn.go.com/abcsports/wwos/milestones/1970s.html)
1974 Feb 12, The SLA sent a letter
a tape with the voices of Patty Hearst and "general field marshal
Cinque" to KPFA. They demanded free food to the poor of the Bay Area,
prison reform and social justice. Symbionese Liberation Army asked the
Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.
(HN, 2/12/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974 Feb 12, The Russian Mars 5
Orbiter entered orbit around Mars and relayed imaging data for the Mars
6 & 7 missions.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1974 Feb 13, Alexander
Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the USSR. He wrote his novel "First
Circle" based on experiences in a Moscow prison camp, where he met Lev
Kopelev (d.1997 at 85), a dissident author and Communist
idealist. The character Rubin in "First Circle" is based on
Kopelev.
(TMC, 1994, p.1974)(SFC, 6/21/97, p.A18)(MC, 2/13/02)
1974 Feb 15, US gasoline stations
threatened to close because of federal fuel policies.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1974 Feb 16, In California Rev.
Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church received a tape from the SLA
wherein Cinque said a "reasonable" food giveaway would be acceptable as
a condition for the release of Patty Hearst.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974 Feb 17, Henry Kulbaski
(d.2007), White House Secret Service agent, ordered service agents to
shoot down a stolen helicopter that was flying around the White House.
Robert K. Preston (b.1954), a US Army private, suffered superficial
pellet wounds and was taken into custody.
(SSFC, 7/15/07,
p.B7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Preston)
1974 Feb 18, In California
Randolph Hearst was to give $2 million in free food for the poor in
order to open talks for his daughter Patty.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1974 Feb 19, Randolph Hearst
announced a $2 million food program called People in Need.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1974 Feb 21, A report claimed that
the use of defoliants by the U.S. had scarred Vietnam for century.
Defoliation was meant to save lives by denying the enemy cover. But for
some the 'cure' was worse than the problem.
(HN, 2/21/98)
1974 Feb 21, Tim Horton, hockey
player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, died at 44 in a car crash driving
back home to Buffalo after a game in Toronto. His career spanned 25
years with 6 invitations to all-star teams.
(SFC, 5/16/97, p.A19)
1974 Feb 22, Cesar Chavez began a
UFW march from Union Square in SF to Gallo headquarters in Modesto.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.11)
1974 Feb 22, Samuel Joseph Byck
(1930–1974), an unemployed former tire salesman, attempted to hijack a
plane flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport. He
intended to crash into the White House in hopes of killing US President
Richard M. Nixon. Byck killed pilot Fred Jones and a aviation officer
George Neal Ramsburg before he was shot and wounded by gunfire through
the door of a Delta DC-9 airplane. Byck then shot himself in the head.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck)
1974 Feb 22, Pakistan officially
recognized Bangladesh.
(http://pakistanspace.tripod.com/74.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/58uluz)
1974 Feb 23, William F. Knowland,
former Cal. state senator and Oakland Tribune newspaper publisher and
editor, committed suicide. In 1998 Gayle B. Montgomery and James W.
Johnson, in collaboration with Paul G. Manolis, published the biography
"One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F.
Knowland."
(SFEC, 5/17/98, BR
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Knowland)
1974 Feb 27, "People" magazine
began sales. [see Mar 4]
(MC, 2/27/02)
1974 Feb 28, The United States and
Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break.
(AP, 2/28/98)
1974 Feb 28, Labor Party won the
British parliamentary election.
(www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1974)
1974 Feb, In Portugal Marshal
Antonio de Spinola (1910-1996) published a critique of the
dictatorship's African policy.
(SFC, 8/15/96,
p.C4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola)
1974 Mar 1, A grand jury in
Washington, DC, concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved in
the Watergate cover-up. 7 people, including former Nixon White
House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney
General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert
Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in
connection with the Watergate break-in. They were convicted the
following January, although Mardian's conviction was later reversed. In
2005 Vanity Fair Magazine revealed that W. Mark Felt (91), former FBI
official, was the Watergate whistleblower Deep Throat, who helped bring
down Pres. Nixon.
(HN, 3/1/98)(AP, 3/1/99)(AP, 6/1/05)
1974 Mar 1, The Ethiopian
government of Makonnen Endelkacaw (1927-1974) formed.
(www.worldstatesmen.org/Ethiopia.html)
1974 Mar 2, In the 16th Grammy
Awards Roberta Flack won for the song “Killing Me Softly” & Bette
Midler won as Best New Artist. Stevie Wonder got five Grammy Awards for
his album, "Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The Sunshine of
My Life" and "Superstition".
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1974)
1974 Mar 2, US 1st class postage
stamps rose from 8 cents to 10 cents.
(www.akdart.com/postrate.html)
1974 Mar 3, "Sextet" opened at
Bijou Theater in NYC for 9 performances.
(www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/productions/index.php?var=2784)
1974 Mar 3, A Turkish Airlines
DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris and 346
people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.
(AP,
3/3/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981)
1974 Mar 4, The first issue of
People Magazine was dated March 4.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_(magazine))
1974 Mar 4, The play "Knuckle" by
David Hare (b.1947) premiered in London.
(www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00052/hrc-00052.html)(SC, 3/4/02)
1974 Mar 4, Harold Wilson
(1916-1995), head of the Labor Party, replaced resigning Edward Heath
as British premier. Wilson called elections for October and the Labor
Party defeated the Conservatives, after which Margaret Thatcher
replaced Heath as party leader. Wilson continued as PM to April 5, 1976.
(SFC, 7/18/05, p.B6)(SFC, 9/6.96,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson)
1974 Mar 5, A revived "Candide"
opened at Broadway Theater in NYC for 740 performances. The book and
lyrics were revised from the 1956 version.
(SFC, 1/11/05, p.E1)
1974 Mar 5, Solomon I "Sol" Hurok
(b.1888), Ukraine-born US impresario, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Hurok)
1974 Mar 6, "Over Here" opened at
Shubert Theater in NYC for 341 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Here!)
1974 Mar 7, Duke Univ. and the
North Carolina Department of Archives and History announced the
discovery of the Civil War ship USS Monitor.
(http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/monitor01/finding/finding.html)
1974 Mar 8, Charles the Gaulle
Airport (aka Roissy I) opened outside of Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_International_Airport)
1974 Mar 9, Officer Hiroo Onoda,
the last Japanese soldier operating in the Philippines, surrendered, 29
years after World War II ended.
(www.einsteinsfrig.com/onoda/index.html)
1974 Mar 9, Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
(b.1915), US pharmacologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in
Medicine (1971), died.
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1971/sutherland-cv.html)
1974 Mar 11, Iraq's "Law for
Autonomy in the Area of Kurdistan" was promulgated. It stipulated that:
"The Kurdish language shall be the official language of education for
Kurds ... Kurdish shall be the official language of education for the
Kurds."
(www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/iraq/4.html)
1974 Mar 12, Bundy victim
Donna Manson (b.1954) disappeared from Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Wa.
(www.doenetwork.org/cases/565dfwa.html)
1974 Mar 12, Billy Fox (b.1939),
Protestant Dublin MP, was assassinated.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fox_(politician))
1974 Mar 12, Carlos Andres Perez
(b.1922) began serving as president of Venezuela and continued to 1979.
Oil income exceeded $48 billion over this period. Foreign debt
meanwhile grew from $3 billion to $18 billion.
(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A14)
1974 Mar 12, The Russian Mars 6
went into orbit and the lander transmitted atmospheric data during
descent before failing.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1974 Mar 13, The Dow Jones dropped
to 577.60.
(WSJ, 7/22/96, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/4uu3s9)
1974 Mar 15, In Brazil General
Ernesto Geisel (1907-1996) became president and ruled for 5 years. He
gradually ended political repression, lifted press censorship and
allowed political exiles to return. Under his rule the foreign debt
doubled to $43 billion.
(SFC, 9/13/96,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Geisel)
1974 Mar 17 Arab oil ministers,
with the exception of Libya, announced the end the oil embargo on the
US.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis)
1974 Mar 17, Louis Kahn (1901),
Estonia-born architect, died. His designs included the capital building
of Bangladesh, completed in 1983. In 2004 his son Nathaniel Kahn
directed the documentary film "My Architect: A Son's Journey."
(PBS, Internet)(SFC, 2/6/04, p.D5)
1974 Mar 20, Chet Huntley
(b.1911), newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), died of lung cancer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Huntley)
1974 Mar 22, The Viet Cong
proposed a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which
includes general elections.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1974 Mar 28, In Romania the
position of President of the Republic was created especially for
Nicolae Ceausescu, who is then named President for life by Grand
National Assembly.
(www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/ceausescu_chronology.htm)
1974 Mar 29, Mariner 10 first flew
past Mercury.
(NH, 5/01, p.38)
1974 Mar 29, In Ohio 8 National
Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of
4 students at Kent State University. On Nov 8 the charges were
dismissed.
(AP, 3/29/07)
1974 Apr 2, In the 46th Academy
Awards "Sting," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win. Robert Opel (33) of
SF streaked naked across the stage. Opel was shot and killed 5 years
later during a robbery in SF.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46th_Academy_Awards)(SFEC, 3/14/99,
DB p.37)
1974 Apr 2,
French President Georges Pompidou (62) died in Paris. Alain
Pohrer (1909-1996) as president of the Senate then served as interim
president for 7 weeks.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)(AP, 4/2/97)
1974 Apr 3, A tape from the SLA
announced Patty Hearst's decision to "stay and fight" with the SLA.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22,23)
1974 Apr 3, The Joint Committee on
Internal Revenue Taxation of the Congress reported that $476,531 in
back taxes and interest was owed by President Richard Nixon. Responding
to charges of fraud, Nixon requested the committee investigation of his
taxes and, upon its report, agreed to pay. The report made no
conclusion regarding fraud.
(HNQ,
6/1/98)(www.house.gov/jct/aboutjct_mandate.html)
1974 Apr 3, A series of 148 deadly
tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping
across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed in 13 states
(Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia. Total property damage was estimated at $600 million. In 2007
Mark Levine authored “F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent
Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century.”
(AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)(WSJ, 6/16/07, p.P10)
1974 Apr 4, Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
round-tripper in Cincinnati.
(HN, 4/4/98)(AP, 4/4/99)
1974 Apr 4, In England an armed
payroll robbery took place at the London Electricity Board (LEB).
George Davis (b.1941) was arrested for the robbery and his wife, Rose
Davis (d.2009, campaigned for his release. In 1976 the conviction was
overturned as unsafe. In Sep 1977 George was again arrested for a bank
robbery and Rose promptly divorced him. In 2009 she authored “The Wars
of Rosie: Hard Knocks, Endurance and the 'George Davis Is Innocent'
Campaign.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davis_(armed_robber))(Econ,
2/14/09, p.98)
1974 Apr 5, The World Trade Center
(WTC), the tallest building in the world at 110 stories, opened in NYC.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1974 Apr 6, Willem Dudok (b.1884),
Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Marinus_Dudok)
1974 Apr 8, Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los
Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record. The round-tripper was off
pitcher Al Downing.
(HN, 4/8/98)(AP, 4/8/07)
1974 Apr 10, Golda Meir announced
her resignation as prime minister of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin replaced
Golda Meir.
(AP, 4/10/97)(HN, 4/10/98)
1974 Apr 11, The US House
Judiciary Committee votes 33-3 to issue a subpoena ordering Nixon to
turn over all tape recordings and related materials on 42 conversations.
(http://calvert.wustl.edu/PolSci3103.fall02/watergate/chronlgy.htm)
1974 Apr 11, United Mine Workers
president W. A. "Tony" Boyle was found guilty of first-degree murder,
for ordering the assassination of union reformer Joseph A. "Jock"
Yablonski in 1969. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on
December 30, 1969. Boyle had defeated Yablonski in the UMW election
earlier in the year-an election marred by intimidation and vote fraud.
In 1972 the election was set aside by a federal court after Boyle had
been convicted of illegal use of UMW funds in the federal elections of
1968. In a new election held in December, 1972, Boyle was defeated by
rank and file reformist Arnold Miller. Soon after the election Boyle
was put on trial for murdering the Yablonskis and was sentenced to
three consecutive life terms in prison.
(HNQ, 11/8/99)(SFC, 11/8/99, p.C2)
1974 Apr 15, SLA members including
Patty Hearst robbed the Sunset Branch of the Hibernia Bank in SF of
more than $10,000. While fleeing they wounded 2 people passing by.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)
1974 Apr 17, Ted Bundy victim
Susan Rancourt disappeared from CWU, Ellensburg, WA.
(www.real-crime.co.uk/Murder1/VICKR.HTML#Rancourt,%20Susan)
1974 Apr 18, In Genoa, Italy, the
Red Brigade kidnapped deputy attorney Mario Sossi. He was held for 35
days.
(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A18)(http://tinyurl.com/39vg4e)
1974 Apr 18, Marcel Pagnol
(b.1895), French writer and film director, died.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pagnol.htm)
1974 Apr 22, A Pan Am 707 crashed
into the mountains of Bali, killing 107.
(www.pan-american.de/Desasters/Tinga-Tinga.html)
1974 Apr 25, Marshal Antonio de
Spinola (1910-1996) was called to the barricades in Portugal to receive
the surrender of the 41-year old regime of Antonio Salazar. Spinola was
then named head of state by the 7-member military junta, which included
Gen. Costa Gomes. The Carnation Revolution changed the Portuguese
regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy after two
years of a transitional period known as PREC (Processo
Revolucionário Em Curso), characterized by social turmoil and
power dispute between left and right wing political forces.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution)(SFC, 8/12/99,
p.D6)(SFC, 8/4/01, p.E2)
1974 Apr 28, A federal jury in New
York acquitted former Attorney General John Mitchell and former
Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans of charges in connection with a
secret $200,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign
from financier Robert Vesco. Vesco had gained control of IOS, a mutual
fund firm, and looted hundreds of millions. In 1971 he fled to the
Bahamas, then Costa Rica and finally to Cuba where he was convicted in
1996 for economic crimes against the state and sentenced to 13 years in
prison.
(AP, 4/28/99)(WSJ, 7/10/02, p.A8)
1974 Apr 29, President Nixon
announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made
White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
(AP, 4/29/98)
1974 Apr 30, President Nixon
handed over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings.
(www.watergate.info/chronology/1974.shtml)
1974 May 1, The US Federal Hourly
Minimum Wage was set at $2.00 an hour.
(www.dol.gov/ESA/minwage/chart.htm)
1974 May 2, Former Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals,
effectively preventing him from practicing law anywhere in the United
States.
(AP, 5/2/97)
1974 May 6, Bundy victim Roberta
Parks disappeared from OSU, Corvallis, Ore.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6664391)
1974 May 7, West German chancellor
W. Brandt (1913-1992) resigned. A bizarre spy scandal brought Brandt
down after 4 years in office.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt)(WSJ,
9/11/03, p.D10)
1974 May 8, William Simon
(1927-2000), former Wall Street bond trader, began serving as the 63rd
head of the US Treasury Dept. under Pres. Nixon. Simon was reappointed
by President Ford and served until 1977. From 1977-1980 he served as
treasurer of the US Olympic Committee.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)(WSJ, 6/7/00,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Simon)
1974 May 8, In Canada the
government of Pierre Trudeau fell on a sub-amendment to the budget
(thus a question of confidence).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_governments_in_Canada)
1974 May 9, The House Judiciary
Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of
President Nixon.
(AP, 5/9/97)(HN, 5/9/98)
1974 May 11, In Argentina leftist
liberation theology priest Carlos Mugica (b.1930) was killed by
ultra-right groups.
(AP,
11/4/08)(http://news.notiemail.com/noticia.asp?nt=10955952&cty=200)
1974 May 15, PFLP terrorists took
a school in Maalot, Israel. 26 people were killed including 21 children
after an unsuccessful rescue attempt.
(www.mfa.gov.il/mfa)(WSJ, 9/14/04, p.A20)
1974 May 16, SLA members William
and Emily Harris were identified with Patty Hearst in LA during a
shoplifting attempt at a sporting good store. They escaped in a stolen
van with an 19-year-old kidnapped victim.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W23)
1974 May 16, Helmut Schmidt
(b.1918), head of the Social Democratic Party became the West German
chancellor and served until October 1, 1982.
(AP, 11/21/05)(SFC, 5/31/00,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt)
1974 May 17, LA police and FBI
agents engaged in a gun battle with SLA members in a bungalow. The
house caught fire and 6 bodies were recovered that included Cinque and
William Wolfe. Patty Hearst was not there.
(SFEC, 5/16/99,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army)
1974 May 17, In Northern Ireland
three cars exploded amidst crowds of Dublin shoppers and commuters
walking toward a train station. A fourth detonated about an hour later
outside a pub in the border town of Monaghan. In 2007 an investigation
into the bombings was finally completed by lawyer Patrick MacEntee. The
government had tasked MacEntee in 2005 with finding out why Ireland's
national police force, the Garda Siochana, closed down its
investigation in 1974 and failed to follow up important leads.
(AP, 3/13/07)
1974 May 18, "The Streak" by Ray
Stevens hits #1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streak)
1974 May 18, India became the
sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. India conducted its first
nuclear tests and then halted testing. India had exploited the civilian
nuclear help it received under America’s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.
(WSJ, 4/2/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A12)(HN,
5/18/98)(Econ, 9/13/08, p.48)
1974 May 18, World's tallest
structure, a 646-m Polish radio mast, was completed. It fell down Aug
8,1991.
(WSJ, 2/3/97,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_radio_mast)
1974 May 19, Valeri Giscard
d'Estaing won French presidential elections.
(SFEC, 11/12/00,
p.D4)(www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-008.html)
1974 May 20, Judge John Sirica
ordered President Nixon to turn over tapes and records of 64 White
House conversations regarding Watergate.
(http://law.jrank.org/pages/13513/United-States-v-Nixon.html)
1974 May 20, Ian Fairweather
(b.1891), Scotland-born Australian artist, died. He lived for much of
his life as a recluse on Bribie Island, north of Brisbane. In Murray
Bail authored “Fairweather,” a biography with color reproductions. The
book was expanded in 2009.
(Econ, 4/18/09,
p.91)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fairweather)
1974 May 24, Duke Ellington
(b.1899) died of cancer in NYC. He had composed some 2,000 works. In
1991 Mark Tucker (d.2000) authored "Ellington: The Early Years." In
1993 Tucker edited "The Duke Ellington Reader."
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.32)(SSFC, 12/10/00,
p.C17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington)
1974 May 25, Donald Crisp
(b.1882), English film actor and director, died in California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crisp)
1974 May 25, Pam Morrison
(b.1946), wife of Door's vocalist Jim, died of drug overdose in Los
Angeles.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Courson)
1974 May 26, The federal
government instituted the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
program under the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) agency.
(SFC, 5/27/99, p.A20)
1974 May 27, France’s Pres.
Valerie Giscard d’Estaing nominated Jacques Chirac (b.1932) to serve as
prime minister. Chirac served his 1st term as prime minister to Aug 26,
1976.
(Econ, 3/17/07,
p.28)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac)
1974 May 28, "Magic Show" opened
at Cort Theater in NYC for 1859 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3468)
1974 May 28, In the 26th Emmy
Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore won.
(http://tviv.org/Primetime_Emmy_Awards)
1974 May 29, President Nixon
agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
(HN, 5/29/98)
1974 May 29, Northern Ireland was
brought under direct rule from Westminster.
(www.uhb.fr/langues/cei/nicons74.htm)
1974 May 31, Israel and Syria
signed an agreement on the Golan Heights.
(HN, 5/31/98)
1974 May, Robert Kahn and Vinton
Cerf published a paper that outlined the protocols of the Internet.
Their Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) was
updated in 1978. In 2004 they received the A.M. Turing Award for their
work. By December full specifications for the new proposal were
published.
(SFC, 6/11/05, p.C1)(Econ, 6/10/06, Survey p.33)
1974 May, William Bennett (d.2002
at 78) and William Pennington bought Circus Circus Enterprises. They
took the company public in 1983.
(SFC, 12/24/02,
p.A13)(www.answers.com/topic/mandalay-resort-group-1?cat=biz-fin)
1974 May, Major Abdel Jalloud,
Libya's second in command, traveled to Moscow and concluded the first
in a series of arms sales agreements that remain the largest ever
reached by the Soviets.
(www.heritage.org/research/MiddleEast/bg362.cfm)
1974 Jun 1, The song "Midnight At
The Oasis" by Maria Muldaur peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)
1974 Jun 1, The song "Oh Very
Young" by Cat Stevens peaked at #10 on the pop singles chart.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1974.htm)
1974 Jun 2, Jigme Druk Gyalpo
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (18) was crowned king of Bhutan.
(www.worldwhoswho.com)
1974 Jun 3, The last Air America
aircraft crossed the border from Laos into Thailand. American forces
left Laos and abandoned some 36,000 Laotians hired to battle North
Vietnamese troops. The Hmong and Iu Mien were 2 hill tribes hired by
the Americans to break codes and rescue downed pilots. Many of the
soldiers fled to Thailand where they lived in refugee camps. Some
35,000 Iu Mien later moved to the US.
(SFC,12/27/97, p.A15)(SFEC, 1/24/99,
p.A8)(http://tinyurl.com/3mzgcy)
1974 Jun 3, Charles Colson, an
aide to President Richard Nixon, pleaded guilty to obstruction of
justice.
(HN, 6/3/98)
1974 Jun 3, Yitzhak Rabin
(1922-1995) formed a new Israeli government.
(www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Government/Memorial/PrimeMinisters/Rabin.htm)
1974 Jun 4, Ten Cent Beer Night
was an ill-fated promotion held by the American League's Cleveland
Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal
Stadium.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night)
1974 Jun 6, James Quisenberry
(26), in prison for aggravated assault and armed robbery, escaped from
a New Jersey prison. In 2007 he was found and arrested in California.
(SFC, 2/22/07, p.B2)
1974 Jun 7, The Steve Silver show
"Beach Blanket Babylon" premiered at the Savoy Tivoli in San Francisco.
Nancy Bleiweiss was the original star of the show.
(www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/sponsors/beach-blanket-babylon.asp)(SFEC,
8/1/99, DB p.48)
1974 Jun 11, Georgann Hawkins,
Bundy victim, disappeared from UW, in Seattle, Wash.
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hawkins_georgeann.html)
1974 Jun 14, Leonard K. Firestone
(1907-1996), son of Harvey Firestone (1868-1938) - the founder of the
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., began serving as US ambassador to
Belgium. He continued as ambassador there until January 20, 1977.
(SFC, 12/25/96,
p.A22)(www.nndb.com/gov/489/000120129/)
1974 Jun 17, In Italy 2 people
died in a Red Brigades attack on a right-wing party’s office.
(WSJ, 12/13/07,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades)
1974 Jun 19, Pres. Nixon returned
from a 9-day visit to the Middle-East, where he met with leaders of
Egypt, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=4267)
1974 Jun 26, At the Marsh
Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, Sharon Buchanon became the 1st cashier to
scan a Universal Product Code (UPC) code. The 59 black and white bar
code was used on a 67 cent 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing
gum. The scanner was a Spectra-Physics Model A. Norman Joseph Woodland
and Bernard Silver (d.1962) had patented the 1st bar code scanner in
1952. In 1977 an int’l. version was created.
(SFC, 7/5/04, p.E3)(SSFC, 11/6/05, p.B5)(SFC,
6/26/09, p.C3)
1974 Jun 27, Pres. Nixon arrived
in Moscow for his 3rd summit. During the summit the US and Russia
approved a partial atomic test ban treaty.
(http://tinyurl.com/5yvrog)
1974 Jun 27, In Chile Gen. Augusto
Pinochet proclaimed himself "Supreme Chief of the Nation" (de facto
provisional president).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet)
1974 Jun 28, Mario J. Molina and
F. Sherwood Rowland of UCLA, Irvine, proposed an alarming hypothesis in
Nature that the use of chlorofluorocarbons added chlorine to the
environment in steadily increasing amounts.
(www.ciesin.org/docs/011-464/011-464.html)
1974 Jun 29, In Fresno, Ca.,
Clarence Ray Allen (44) robbed Fran’s market. Soon after Mary Sue Kitts
(17) was murdered on orders from Allen (44) for revealing Allen’s role
in a robbery. In 1997 Allen was convicted for her murder and was
sentenced to life in prison. Allen faced execution in 2006.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.B3)(SFC, 1/13/06,
p.A15)(http://tinyurl.com/4s4pqp)
1974 Jun 29, Russian ballet dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada.
(http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/dance/clips/13363/&ref=rss)
1974 Jun 30, Alberta King
(b.1903), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia by Marcus Chenault, a
twenty-one year old from Ohio who claimed that "all Christians are my
enemies."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Williams_King)
1974 Jul 1, Juan D. Peron
(b.1895), president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), died. Isabel Peron
succeeded her husband Juan as president.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n)
1974 Jul 6, Garrison Keillor made
his 1st live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" from Macalester
College in St. Paul, Minn. In 2003 the show drew some 3.9 million
listeners weekly. The show ended in 1987 and resumed in New York in
1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.13)(SFC, 12/20/00, p.E5)(SFC,
9/4/03, p.E12)
1974 Jul 8, The SF Chronicle
received the last verified letter from the Zodiac killer with a
complaint about the columnist Count Marco.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A19)
1974 Jul 8, Trudeau's Liberal
Party won Canadian parliamentary election.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_1974)
1974 Jul 9, Earl Warren
(83), former California governor and US Chief Justice (1953-68) died in
Washington D.C. In 1997 Ed Cray authored the Warren biography "Chief
Justice." In 2006 Jim Newton authored “Justice for All: Earl Warren and
the Nation He Made.”
(AP, 7/9/99)(SFC, 2/28/01, p.A18)(SSFC, 12/3/06,
p.M3)
1974 Jul 10, The World Football
League played its first games.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_League)
1974 Jul 11, John W. Dean
testified before the US House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment
inquiry of Pres. Nixon.
(www.watergate.info/judiciary/BKIITOW.PDF)
1974 Jul 12, President Richard
Nixon's aides G. Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman and two others were
convicted of conspiracy and perjury in connection with the Watergate
scandal. They were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights
of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
(AP, 7/12/97)(HN, 7/12/98)
1974 Jul 12, The US Budget Control
Act was signed into law. It stripped away from the president the power
to withhold appropriated spending, and placed it in the hands of
Congress. The Congressional budget Office was formed.
(WSJ, 2/27/00,
p.A1)(http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/index.html?pagenum=28)
1974 July 13, The US Senate
Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms to prevent another
Watergate scandal.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1974 Jul 14, Bundy victims Janice
Ott and Denise Naslund disappeared at Lake Sammamish, WA.
(http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/drlarry/bundy3.htm)
1974 Jul
14, Carl A. Spaats (b.1891), 1st chief of staff of USAF, died at age 83.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spaatz)
1974 Jul 15, Greek troops and the
Greek Cypriot National Guard staged a military coup on Cyprus and
archbishop-president Makarios fled. Nikos Giorgiades Sampson (d.2001 at
66) served as president for 8 days following the military coup that
overthrew Archbishop Makarios. PM Bulent Ecevit ordered Turkish troops
to invade Cyprus following the Greek Cypriot coup.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/Greek%20v%20Turk%20narr%20-%201974.htm)
1974 Jul 17, Jay Hanna "Dizzy"
Dean (b.1910), pitcher (St Louis Cards), died in Nevada.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Dean)
1974 Jul 19, The House Judiciary
Committee recommended that President Richard Nixon should stand trial
in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
(HN, 7/19/98)
1974 Jul 19, In the Philippines a
Miss Universe beauty pageant was held and thousands of squatters around
Manila were forcibly moved out of sight. Amparo Munoz of Spain won.
(SFC, 11/18/96,
p.A12)(www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3Gcv41T7I&feature=related)
1974 Jul 20, Turkey invaded Cyprus.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus)
1974 Jul 22, Wayne L. Morse
(b.1900), US Senator from Oregon (1945-1969), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse)
1974 Jul 23, Greece's military
rulers announced they would turn the nation back to civilian rule.
Constantine Karamanlis returned from 11 years of self-imposed exile and
was sworn in as premier. Karamanlis later won a landslide election and
served as prime minister until 1980. The Ioannides regime collapsed
after plotting an aborted military takeover of Cyprus.
(AP, 7/23/97)(SFC, 4/23/98, p.B4)(SFC, 6/28/99,
p.A19)
1974 Jul 24, The U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over
subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special
prosecutor.
(AP, 7/24/97)(HN, 7/24/98)
1974 Jul 24, Fernando Bujones
(1955-2005), American-Cuban ballet virtuoso, won ballet’s gold medal at
Varna, Bulgaria.
(www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/ballet_performance_videos.htm)
1974 Jul 25, The US Supreme Court
ruled in Milliken v Bradley that desegregation cannot be required
across school district lines. The case had originated in Detroit.
(Econ, 4/28/07,
p.32)(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley)
1974 Jul 25, T. Smirnova, Russian
astronomer, discovered asteroid #2345 Fucik.
(http://tinyurl.com/4lx b4w)
1974 Jul 27, The House Judiciary
Committee voted 27-11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a
charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed
to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
(AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/98)
1974 Jul 28, Truman Bradley
(b.1905), host (Science Fiction Theater), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0103423/)
1974 Jul 29, The Episcopal Church
ordained female priests in Philadelphia.
(www.episcopalchurch.org/41685_42321_ENG_HTM.htm)
1974 Jul 29, The House Judiciary
Committee approved Article 2 in the impeachment against Pres. Nixon.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm)
1974 Jul 29, Cass Elliot (b.1941),
singer (Mamas and Papas), was found dead in London from an apparent
heart attack.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliot)
1974 Jul 30, The House Judiciary
Committee voted down an article of impeachment against President
Richard Nixon relating to demeaning his office by misconduct of
personal financial affairs. In April, 1974, a congressional inquiry
into possible tax fraud revealed that Nixon owed $476,531 in back taxes
for the period 1969-72. He agreed to pay and no conclusion was drawn by
the congress regarding fraud. The Judiciary Committee vote against the
article of impeachment was 26-12. Article 3 of the impeachment was
passed. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Peter Rodino presided over
the impeachment hearings.
(http://tinyurl.com/5doffx)(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/nixon.htm)(SFC,
12/15/98, p.A3)
1974 Jul 30, The prime ministers
of Greece and Turkey and the British Foreign Secretary signed a peace
agreement to settle the Cyprus crisis.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/low/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2492000/2492515.stm)
1974 Aug 3, Jenny Beck, TV and
film actress, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Beck_(actress))
1974 Aug 5, President Richard
Nixon admitted that he ordered a cover-up of the Watergate break-in for
political as well as national security reasons. One of the secret
recordings, known as the "smoking gun" tape, was released. It revealed
that Nixon authorized hush money to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt,
and also revealed that Nixon ordered the CIA to tell the FBI to stop
investigating certain topics because of "the Bay of Pigs thing."
(HN, 8/5/98)(SFC, 12/6/99,
p.B8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)
1974 Aug 7, French stuntman
Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New
York's World Trade Center. In 2002 Petit authored "To Reach the Clouds:
My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers." In 2003 Steven Galloway
authored "Ascension," a novel that featured a fictional Gypsy tightrope
walker named Ursari, who makes a final, fateful skywalk between the
Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on July 4, 1976. In 2008 James
Marsh produced his documentary film of the event: Man On Wire.”
(AP, 8/7/97)(SSFC, 9/8/02, p.M4)(SSFC, 10/11/03,
p.M3)(WSJ, 8/8/08, p.W1)
1974 Aug 8, President Nixon
announced he would resign his office 12PM Aug 9, following damaging
revelations in the Watergate scandal.
(AP,
8/8/97)(www.watergate.info/nixon/resignation-speech.shtml)
1974 Aug 8, Baldur von Schirach
(b.1907), Nazi youth leader, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur_von_Schirach)
1974 Aug 9, President Nixon's
resignation took effect. Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th US
President (1974-1976). Ford said "Our long national nightmare is over"
after he assumed the presidency following Richard Nixon‘s resignation.
After being sworn in, Ford spoke in the White House‘s East Room and
said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." It
was a line that Ford initially objected to saying, feeling it was a
little hard on Nixon. In 2007 Robert Dallek authored “Nixon and
Kissinger: Partners in Power.”
(SFEC, 5/11/97, p.T8,9)(HN, 8/9/98)(HNQ,
6/23/00)(Econ, 5/19/07, p.87)
1974 Aug 9, Bill Chase and 3
members of the Chase Band died in a plane crash while enroute to a
performance in Minnesota. Lead guitarist Angel South (aka Lucien
Gondron d. 1998 at 55) had struck out on his own solo career.
(http://jazzworks.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/bill-chase-1934-1974/)
1974 Aug 14, The 93rd Congress
authorized US citizens to own gold. The Gold ownership ban from 1933
was rescinded by Public Law 93-373.
(www.simpleliberty.org/aamht/1900-present.htm)
1974 Aug 14, The Turkish army
mounted a second full-scale offensive in Cyprus, despite the fact that
talks were still being held in Geneva and just as agreement was about
to be reached. 37% of the area of Cyprus came under Turkish military
occupation.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/Greek%20v%20Turk%20narr%20-%201974.htm)
1974 Aug 14, Greek Cypriots began
a 2-day massacre that killed 83 Turkish Cypriot men in Taskent.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/www.cyprus-conflict.net/birgin%20-%2074%20narratives.html)
1974 Aug 15, South Korean
President Park Chung-hee escaped an assassination attempt in which his
wife was killed. Park’s daughter took over as 1st lady.
(AP, 8/15/97)(Econ, 5/21/05, p.44)
1974 Aug 16, The Ramones 1st
performed at the CBGB in NYC. Dee Dee Ramone (d.2002) had formed the
Ramones punk rock band in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens along
with Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings (aka Johnny Ramone, d.2004) and Tom
Erdelyi.
(SFC, 6/8/02, p.D4)(Econ, 9/25/04, p.100)
1974 Aug 19, US Ambassador Rodger
P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet that penetrated the American
embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.
(AP, 8/19/04)
1974 Aug 20, Pres. Gerald Ford
selected Nelson Rockefeller as VP.
(http://archive.rockefeller.edu/collections/family/nar/narvp.php)
1974 Aug 22, Jacob Bronowski
(b.1908), British mathematician, cultural historian, died in East
Hampton, NY.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski)
1974 Aug 23, In Northern Ireland
Sean O'Callaghan, IRA member, and 2 other teenagers gunned down police
inspector Peter Flanagan in Broderick's Bar in Omagh. O'Callaghan later
served 8 years of a 539-year terrorism sentence and was released in
Dec, 1996 for becoming an informer.
(SFC, 3/1/97,
p.C2)(http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1974.html)
1974 Aug 26, Charles Lindbergh
(72), the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died at
his home in Hawaii. Lindbergh had 3 illegitimate children in Germany
with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a Munich hat maker. In 1998 A. Scott Berg
authored "Lindbergh." Earlier Lindbergh's daughter authored her memoir
"Under a Wing."
(AP, 8/26/97)(SFEC, 11/15/98, Par p.29)(SSFC,
10/24/04, Par p.2)
1974 Aug 29, Moses Malone became
the first basketball player to go straight from high school to the pros
when he joined the Utah Stars.
(SFC, 7/7/96, Z1 p.5)
1974 Aug 30, In Yugoslavia an
express train ran full speed into a Zagreb, Croatia, rail yard killing
152.
(www.cmj.hr/2001/42/6/12.htm)
1974 Aug 31, William P. Benedict,
was killed while dropping fire retardant in the Ukiah area of
California on the labor day weekend. In 1952 Lieutenant Colonel
Benedict and Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher of Oklahoma piloted
the 1st airplane to land at the geographic North Pole. In 2002 Charles
B. Compton later authored "Born to Fly: Some Life Sketches of
Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict."
(CBC, 11/13/03)
1974 Aug, Monsoon floods ravaged
Bangladesh and some 2,500 were killed.
(http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/flooding/casestudies.shtml#49)
1974 Sep 1, Jack Shelley (b.1905),
former SF mayor (1964-1968), died.
(SFC, 9/1/00,
p.D6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelley)
1974 Sep 1, In the Netherlands
laws prohibiting pirate radio came into effect.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline)
1974 Sep 2, Pres. Ford signed the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), to protect pension
accounts. It was passed partly in response to Studebaker employee
pension losses in 1963. The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(PBGC) was set up to insure the bulk of corporate America’s pension
plans. It was expanded to include 401(k) accounts in 1978.
(WSJ, 6/5/96,
p.A1,8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Retirement_Income_Security_Act)
1974 Sep 4, The US & German DR
established diplomatic relations.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xdex7)
1974 Sep 4, General Creighton
Williams Abrams, US commander in Vietnam (1968-1972), died in
Washington DC of lung cancer. In 2005 the “Vietnam Chronicles:
The Abrams Tapes” transcribed and edited by Lewis Sorley was published.
(WSJ, 3/18/05, p.W6)
1974 Sep 5, Charles Dean (23),
brother of 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean, was captured by
Pathet Lao. He was executed on or about December 14, 1974. In 2003 his
remains were reported found along with Australian companion Neil
Sharman.
(SFC, 11/19/03,
p.A3)(www.crocuta.net/Dean/Charlie_Dean.htm)
1974 Sep 7, The musical "Irene"
closed at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances.
(www.debbiereynoldsonline.com/irene.htm)
1974 Sep 8, President Gerald Ford
pardoned former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from
the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.
(AP, 9/8/97)(HN, 9/8/98)
1974 Sep 8, Evel Knievel
(b.1938) attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his
rocket-powered motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down.
(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A1)(www.evelknievel.com/bio.html)
1974 Sep 8, In Italy Renato Curcio
and another Red Brigades leader were arrested.
(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A18)
1974 Sep 9, in Boston,
Massachusetts, a group called Restore Our Alienated Rights (R.O.A.R.)
held a rally at City Hall Plaza a few days before the start of school.
When Senator Ted Kennedy took the stage to speak in favor of busing,
the crowd reacted in anger. Protests and violence continued for three
years.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/maps/maps_pop.html)
1974 Sep 11, In North Carolina an
Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas
Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two
crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days after the
crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One survivor died of
injuries 29 days after the accident.
(AP,
9/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines)
1974 Sep 12, The start of
court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration in Boston's public
schools was marred by violence in South Boston. The Boston
desegregation plan had been drafted by Robert Dentler (1928-2008) and
Marvin Scott of Boston Univ.
(AP, 9/12/99)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.B5)
1974 Sep 12, Haile Selassie I,
"King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of
Judah," was deposed by the military from the Ethiopian throne. A
military committee (known as the Dergue) was established from several
divisions of the Ethiopian Armed forces. General Aman Amdon was elected
as spokesperson for the Dergue and implemented policies for the
country, which included land distribution to peasants, nationalizing
industries and services under public ownership and led Ethiopia into
the Socialism.
(AP, 9/12/99)(http://tinyurl.com/7lnnz)
1974 Sep 12, In its 1st major
attack ETA killed 12 people with a bomb at a Madrid cafe.
(AP, 3/22/06)
1974 Sep 13, The "Rockford Files,"
starring James Garner, was first broadcast on NBC-TV.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0071042/)
1974 Sep 13, In the Netherlands
the French embassy at the Hague was taken over by Haruo Wako and 2
other Japanese Red Army militants. A 4-day standoff ended with the
release of comrade Yutaka Suyaka from a French jail. The attack was
linked to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. In 2005 a Tokyo
District Court sentenced Wako to life imprisonment.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)(SFC, 11/9/00,
p.C2)(http://my-my-miyuki.blogspot.com/)
1974 Sep 16, President Ford
announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and
draft-evaders. Limited amnesty was offered to Vietnam-era draft
resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and
perform two years of public service.
(AP, 9/16/97)(HN, 9/16/98)
1974 Sep 18, Hurricane Fifi struck
Honduras with 110 mph winds and killed about 8,000. The hurricane made
landfall as a Category 2 storm in Belize on the next day, and continued
through Guatemala and Mexico as a tropical system. After weakening to a
depression, Fifi emerged into the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first
crossover storm since Hurricane Irene-Olivia in 1971.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fifi-Orlene)
1974 Sep 20, Gail A. Cobb (24), a
member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington, D.C., became the
first female police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Cobb was
murdered by a robbery suspect in an underground garage in downtown
Washington.
(http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1231,q,538639.asp)
1974 Sep 21, US Mariner 10 made a
2nd fly-by of Mercury.
(NH, 5/01,
p.38)(www.astronautix.com/craft/marner10.htm)
1974 Sep 21, Jacqueline Susann
(b.1918), author, died of cancer. Her books included "Valley of the
Dolls" (1966). In 1987 Barbara Seaman authored Susann's biography:
"Lovely Me." In 2000 the film "Isn't She Great" starred Bette Midler as
Susann.
(SFC, 1/26/00,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann)
1974 Sep 23, The 1959 Broadway
show "Gypsy" reopened on Broadway with Angel Lansbury (b.1925),
following a 1973 run in London.
(SFEC, 12/8/96, Par
p.18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy:_A_Musical_Fable)
1974 Sep 23, Cliff Arquette
(b.1905), TV actor, died. He invented the character of Charley Weaver
for a 1959 appearance on Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show,” and in 1962
became a regular on “The Roy Rogers Show.”
(SFC, 2/21/07,
p.G3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Arquette)
1974 Sep 25, Scientists warned
that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which
will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather
changes.
(HN, 9/25/98)(www.todayinsci.com/9/9_25.htm)
1974 Sep 26, The NYT published a
front page article on the impact of the chlorofluorocarbon, used in
aerosols, on the ozone.
(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1974 Sep 28, First lady Betty Ford
underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland,
following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.
(AP, 9/28/97)
1974 Sep 30, Argentina passed the
economic-subversion law that provided prosecutors with a legal umbrella
to pursue anyone suspected of undermining public disorder. It was
repealed in 2002 under IMF pressure.
(WSJ, 5/31/02,
p.A7)(www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=93488)
1974 Sep 30, Gen. Carlo Prats, a
former Chilean army chief, was killed with his wife by a car bomb in
Buenos Aires. In 2000 an Argentine judge called for the extradition of
Augusto Pinochet for the slaying. In 2000 Enrique Arancibia Clavel was
sentenced in Argentina to life in prison for his role in the murder.
(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/22/00, p.C6)
1974 Sep 30, In Portugal Marshal
de Spinola (1910-1996) resigned as head of state in protest against
rushed attempts to dismantle the colonial empire.
(SFC, 8/15/96,
p.C4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_de_Sp%C3%ADnola)
1974 Sep, In Pakistan the army put
down a tribal rebellion in Baluchistan, reportedly leaving about 3,000
dead. Some 15,000 Balochs fought the Pakistani Army and the Air Force.
(AP,
8/28/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloch_Insurgency_and_Rahimuddin's_Stabilization)
1974 Oct 1, Five Nixon
aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R.
Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell--
went on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
Ehrlichman was convicted in the Watergate cover-up with Haldeman and
Mitchell and for the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg.
Ehrlichman served 18 months in federal prison.
(HN, 10/1/98)(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A18)
1974 Oct 2, Nancy Wilcox, believed
to have been a victim of the serial killer Ted Bundy (d.1989),
disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wilcox_nancy.html)
1974 Oct 2, Pele (b.1940),
Brazilian soccer player born as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, came out
of retirement to join the NY Cosmos of the North American Soccer
League. Steve Ross (1927-1992), chairman of Warner Brothers and founder
of the Cosmos, offered him a reported $7 million for a 3-year contract.
In 2006 Gavin Newsham authored “Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible
Story of the New York Cosmos.”
(SFC, 6/26/06,
p.E3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9)
1974 Oct 3, Frank Robinson was
named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed in
charge of the Cleveland Indians.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1974 Oct 4, Anne Sexton (b.1928),
American poet, committed suicide in Massachusetts. In 1991 Diane
Middlebrook (1939-2007), authored “Anne Sexton: A Biography.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton)(SSFC,
12/16/07, p.A1)
1974 Oct 4, In Greece the New
Democracy party (ND), was founded. It became the main center-right
political party.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democracy_(Greece))
1974 Oct 5, Eugene McQuaid, a
Catholic civilian, was killed near a British army checkpoint on
Northern Ireland's border on the main Belfast-Dublin road. In 2006 the
IRA leadership offered its sincere apologies to the McQuaid family for
the death of Eugene and for the heartache and trauma that the IRA
actions caused.
(AP, 4/14/06)
1974 Oct 5, in Chile Miguel
Enriquez (b.1944), physician and founder (1965) of the Movimiento de
Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), was shot dead by Pinochet’s security
forces.
(Econ, 5/30/09,
p.39)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Enriquez)
1974 Oct 8, President Gerald
Ford's WIN (Whip Inflation Now) program was announced in response to a
high inflation rate. Consumer prices rose 12.2 percent in 1974. The WIN
program, introduced by Ford to a national television audience, included
tax and spending assistance to hard-pressed industries, a five percent
tax surcharge, reduced federal spending and tight monetary policies.
During 1974 unemployment jumped from 5 percent to more than 7 percent,
interest rates climbed to 12 percent, the stock market fell 28 percent,
automobile sales collapsed. In 1974 real economic growth was negative 5
percent.
(HNQ, 11/1/99)
1974 Oct 8, The Franklin National
Bank, the 20th largest US bank, collapsed in obscure circumstances. A
Fed bailout pumped money into Franklin National Bank, which was later
merged into a large bank owned by six foreign banks.
(WSJ, 9/25/98,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_National_Bank)
1974 Oct 9, Czech-born German
businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews
during the Holocaust, died in Frankfurt, West Germany; at his request,
he was buried in Jerusalem. His wife Emilie died in 2001.
(AP, 10/9/99)(SSFC, 10/7/01, p.A29)
1974 Oct 13, Ed Sullivan (72),
longtime television, host died in New York City.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1974 Oct 15, Pres. Ford signed
legislation limiting campaign spending by political parties. Congress
amended the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 to set limits
on contributions by individuals, political parties and PACs.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/6zvcpc)
1974 Oct 15, Nobel prize for
chemistry was awarded to Paul J. Flory of Stanford Univ. for his work
on macro molecules.
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1974/press.html)
1974 Oct 15, The National Guard
was mobilized to restore order in Boston school busing.
(http://main.wgbh.org/ton/programs/1472_02)
1974 Oct 24, David Oistrach
(b.1908), virtuoso Russian violinist, died of a heart attack in
Amsterdam.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oistrakh)
1974 Oct 25, The US Air Force
fired its 1st ICBM. The Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO)
successfully launched a Minuteman I from a C-5A cargo aircraft.
(www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/icbm/lgm-118.htm)
1974 Oct 26, Mathieu Kerekou
(b.1933) seized power in Dahomey (later Benin) and ruled until 1991. He
was elected president in 1996 and served until 2006.
(WSJ, 3/20/96,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_K%C3%A9r%C3%A9kou)
1974 Oct 27, "Don't Bother Me, I
Can't Cope" closed at the Edison Theater in NYC after 1065 performances.
(http://tinyurl.com/3r9pv9)
1974 Oct 27, Chantal Langlace of
France ran a female world record marathon (2:46:24).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_best_progression)
1974 Oct 28, A US law banned
discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application.
(www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-1200.html)
1974 Oct 28, Missionaries Mark
Fischer (19) of Milwaukee, Wis., and Gary Darley (20) of Simi Valley,
Calif., disappeared in Austin, Texas. Their bodies were never found.
Robert Elmer Kleasen, taxidermist, was convicted for their murder and
sentenced to death in 1975, but was released after 2 years due to a
faulty search warrant. He moved to Britain and in 2001 was convicted
again based on DNA evidence, but died in 2003 while awaiting possible
extradition.
(AP, 4/21/03)
1974 Oct 30, The film "The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre" was released in Los Angeles. It was narrated by John
Larroquette and was first shown in San Francisco. The film was based on
the story of Edward Gein, a handyman in Plainfield, Wis., who liked to
dig up fresh graves, cut the skin off corpses, wear the skin on his own
body and dance in the moonlight. He was picked up in this year and
evidence showed that he'd been collecting body parts for
years. He had skulls on bedposts, a human heart in a saucepan,
and a lady out in his barn dressed like a deer.
(SFC, 5/18/96, p.E-4)
1974 Oct 30, An Arab summit in
Rabat, Jordon, decided that King Hussein would no longer speak for the
Palestinians and named the PLO under Yasir Arafat as the sole,
legitimate representative.
(SFC, 2/6/99,
p.A13)(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_rabat_1974.php)
1974 Oct 30, Muhammad Ali and
George Foreman held their "Rumble In the Jungle" boxing match in
Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of
a 15-round bout to regain his world heavyweight title, that was taken
from him for refusing military service.
(SFC, 2/10/97, p.E3)(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A12)(AP,
10/30/97)
1974 Oct 31, Suspected Bundy
victim Laura Aime disappeared in Utah.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy)
1974 Oct, The Politburo in North
Vietnam decided to launch an invasion of South Vietnam in 1975.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1974 Nov 1, Yuko Shimizu, Sanrio
designer and creator of Hello Kitty, set Nov 1 as Hello Kitty’s
birthday and her parents as George and Mary White of London.
(SSFC, 12/26/04, p.M2)
1974 Nov 1, The UN General
Assembly unanimously passed the first of countless resolutions calling
all states to respect the sovereignty, independence, territorial
integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus.
(www.cyprus-conflict.net/Greek%20v%20Turk%20narr%20-%201974.htm)
1974 Nov 5, The Eagles hit, "Best
of My Love", was released. It did not reach #1 spot until March 1, 1975.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_My_Love_(Eagles_song))
1974 Nov 5, The Republicans lost
40 seats in the House and 4 in the Senate, widening the Democratic
majority in Congress during the mid-term elections.
(www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/timeline.asp)
1974 Nov 5, Ella T. Grasso was
elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial
office without succeeding her husband.
(AP, 11/5/98)
1974 Nov 5, Walter Washington
(1915-2003) was elected mayor of Washington DC, the 1st black mayor
there in 104 years. He had been appointed mayor-commissioner in 1967.
(WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A1)(www.narpac.org/ITXDCHIS.HTM)
1974 Nov 5, Jomo Kenyatta
(1894-1978), a Kikuyu, began his 3rd term as president of Kenya.
(WSJ, 1/30/08,
p.A18)(http://kenya.rcbowen.com/government/kenyatta.html)
1974 Nov 7, Richard John Bingham
(39), the Seventh Earl of Lucan, disappeared after nanny Sandra Rivett
was battered to death in the family's home in London's wealthy
Belgravia district. Lady Lucan escaped with severe head wounds.
In 2001 Muriel spark authored "Aiding and Abetting," a novel based on
Lucan’s imagined reappearance. In 2003 former policeman Duncan
MacLaughlin claimed in the book, "Dead Lucky," that Lucan lived in
India under the name Barry Halpin in India from 1975 until his death in
1996.
(SSFC, 2/18/01, BR p.3)(AP, 9/8/03)
1974 Nov 8, Charges were dropped
against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the deaths of
four anti-war protestors at Kent State University. On March 29 a
federal grand jury had indicted 8 National Guardsmen for the May 4,
1970 Kent State shootings.
(SFC, 4/11/98,
p.A15)(http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/legalchronology.html)
1974 Nov 8, Singer Connie Francis
(b.1938) was raped in her hotel room after a concert at the Westbury
Music Fair on Long Island, NY.
(SFC, 9/1/96, Par.
p.2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Francis)
1974 Nov 8, Debi Kent
disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was later identified as
another victim of Theodore “Ted” Bundy (1946-1989), the Green River
Murderer, who would be officially convicted of killing 36 women and
executed on January 24, 1989, in Florida.
(www.crimelibrary.com/bundy/attack.htm)
1974 Nov 12, South Africa was
suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies.
(www.anc.org.za/un/un-chron.html)
1974 Nov 13, Karen Silkwood, a
technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium
plant near Crescent, Okla., was killed in a car crash while on her way
to meet a reporter.
(AP, 11/13/07)
1974 Nov 13, In Amityville, NY, 6
members of the DeFeo family were shot and killed in their home. Ronald
DeFeo Jr., the oldest son, was convicted of the murders. A year later
George Lutz (1947-2006) and his family moved into the Long Island house
at 112 Ocean Ave. and stayed for 28 days before being driven out by the
alleged spirits of the DeFeos. In 1977 Jay Anson authored “The
Amityville Horror.” In 1979 the book was turned into a movie, which was
remade in 2005. In 1979 Austrian-born paranormal investigator Hans
Holzer (d.2009 at 89) authored “Murder in Amityville,” which formed the
basis for the 1982 film “Amityville II: The Possession.” In 1977 Holzer
and medium Ethel Johnson-Myers allegedly channeled the spirit of a
Shinnecock Indian chief, who said the house stood on an ancient Indian
burial ground.
(SSFC, 5/14/06,
p.B6)(www.warrens.net/amityvill.htm)(SFC, 5/2/09, p.B4)
1974 Nov 13, Vittorio de Sica
(b.1902), Italian film actor and director, died in France.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001120/)
1974 Nov 13, Yasser Arafat
addressed the UN General Assembly on behalf of Palestine.
(SFC, 11/11/04, p.A18)
1974 Nov 15, The 15th String
Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovitch (1906-1975) premiered in Leningrad.
(www.carnegiehall.org/textSite/box_office/events/evt_6301.html)
1974 Nov 16, In Rome the first UN
World Food Conference ended. At the conference, which had opened on
Nov. 5, governments examined the global problem of food production and
consumption, and solemnly proclaimed that "every man, woman and child
has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in
order to develop their physical and mental faculties."
(SFC, 11/18/96,
p.A10)(www.un.org/esa/devagenda/food.html)
1974 Nov 16, Walther Meissner
(b.1882), German physicist (Meissner Effect), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Mei%C3%9Fner)
1974 Nov 20, The US Dept. of
Justice filed an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
(HN, 11/20/98)(www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul05/1571)
1974 Nov 21, The Freedom of
Information Act was passed by Congress over Pres. Ford's veto.
(www.usdoj.gov/oip/1974attachb.htm)
1974 Nov 22, UN General Assembly
recognized Palestine's right to sovereignty and national independence.
(SFC, 2/8/99, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/52x3eg)
1974 Nov 23-1974 Nov 24, US Pres.
Gerald Ford attended a summit in Vladivostok, USSR, with Soviet Pres.
Brezhnev. They reached a tentative agreement to limit the number of
nuclear weapons.
(SFC, 12/27/06, p.A11)
1974 Nov 23, Cornelius Ryan
(b.1920), war reporter, historian, author, died. His books included "A
Bridge Too Far."
(HC,
12/12/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Ryan)
1974 Nov 23, In Ethiopia 60
government officials were executed.
(http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/ethiopia/ethiopia39.html)
1974 Nov 25, Irish Republican Army
was outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21. IRA bombs in British
pubs killed 28 and wounded over 200 in the last 2 months.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Act_(Northern_Ireland))(WSJ,
3/12/04, p.A11)
1974 Nov 25, Nick Drake (b.1948),
English musician and composer, died from an overdose of prescription
drugs. His albums included "Five Leaves Left" (1969), "Bryter Layter,"
and "Pink Moon" (1971). Paul Humphries in 1997 authored the biography
"Nick Drake: A Biography."
(WSJ, 2/10/99,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake)
1974 Nov 25, U Thant (b.1909),
Burmese diplomat and former UN Secretary-General, died in New York at
age 65.
(AP, 11/25/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant)
1974 Nov 28, John Lennon
(1940-1980) made what would become his last concert appearance at an
Elton John concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. Lennon joined
Elton John to sing "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Lucy In The
Sky With Diamonds", as well as "I Saw Her Standing There". Backstage,
Lennon has a brief reunion with Yoko Ono, from whom he'd been separated
for over a year.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon)
1974 Nov 28, Konstantin Melnikov
(b.1890), Russian architect, died. His Melnikov House in Moscow was
built from 1927-1931 with fees from commissions.
(WSJ, 10/3/07,
p.D10)(www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Melnikov_House.html)
1974 Nov 29, Haroldson L. Hunt
(b.1889), Texas oil man and multi-millionaire, died.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntHL.htm)
1974 Nov 30, "Good Evening" with
Dudley Moore and Peter Cook closed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in NYC
after 438 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=3658)
1974 Nov 30, India and Pakistan in
accordance with the Simla Agreement, signed a Protocol for Trade. This
Protocol ended a 10-year trade ban and expired in 1978.
(http://publishedforscholar.wordpress.com/2006/12/18/india-pakistan-relations/)
1974 Nov, In Greece the army
crushed a student pro-democracy uprising. Following the uprising junta
leader George Papadopoulos tried to slowly introduce some democratic
reforms, prompting a second coup by army hard-liners who toppled his
government.
(AP, 8/6/09)
1974 Dec 1, The L.A. Skid Row
slasher killed Charles Jackson (46), an alcoholic drifter. In 1975
police arrested Vaughn Greenwood, a black loner and homosexual, who had
drifted back and forth between Chicago and California. In 1977
Greenwood, who was indicted on 11 counts of murder, was convicted on 9
counts and sentenced to life in prison.
(www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/G/GREENWOOD_vaughn_orrin.php)
1974 Dec 2, Lucio Cabanas, leader
of a communist rebel group called the Party of the Poor, was killed in
a shootout with Mexican soldiers. In 2002 his remains were found in a
makeshift grave in Atoyac de Alvarez, a city outside a major military
base near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. Lino Rosas Perez and
Esteban Mesino Martinez were killed along with Cabanas, in a gunbattle
with authorities in the village of Otatal in southern Guerrero state.
Perez and Martinez were identified in 2006 using DNA evidence.
(AP, 8/13/02)(AP, 11/15/06)
1974 Dec 4, Pioneer II made its
closest approach to Jupiter.
(www.astronautix.com/project/pioneer.htm)
1974 Dec 5, The TV show "Monty
Python's Flying Circus" was last shown on BBC. It had premiered on Oct
5, 1969.
(www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/montypython/montypython.htm)
1974 Dec 8, The Greek monarchy was
rejected by referendum. Constantine Karamanlis organized a referendum
that abolished the monarchy.
(SFC, 4/23/98,
p.B4)(www.traveldocs.com/gr/history.htm)
1974 Dec 10, Ed Wood (b.1924),
credited as the worst filmmaker of all time, died a penniless drunk.
His films included "Jail Bait," "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Bride of
the Monster," "Glen or Glenda?" and "Night of the Ghouls." His 1948
"Crossroads of Loredo" was unreleased. In 1996 a documentary by Brett
Thompson was released titled "The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood."
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.E6)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000248/)
1974 Dec 11, In Chile General
Augusto Pinochet took the title of president of the republic.
(SFC, 12/11/06, p.A4)
1974 Dec 16, The US Safe Drinking
Water Act was passed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act)
1974 Dec 18, The Broadway
production "Of Mice and Men" opened. It starred James Earl Jones and
featured Joe Seneca (d.1996). The first stage production was in 1937.
(SFC, 8/17/96,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men)
1974 Dec 18, In Greece Michalis
Stasinopoulos (d.2002), legal scholar, was elected president 10 days
following the referendum that abolished the monarchy.
(AP, 11/1/02)(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A22)
1974 Dec 19, Nelson A. Rockefeller
was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States after a
House vote.
(AP, 12/19/97)(HN, 12/19/98)
1974 Dec 19, Former Pres. Nixon's
presidential papers were seized by an act of Congress. A court later
ruled that much of the material belonged to Nixon and that he deserved
compensation. In 1998 there was still no settlement on value.
(WSJ, 11/27/98, p.W10)
1974 Dec 20, In Northern Ireland a
temporary cease fire was established.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)
1974 Dec 23, Faidon (Phaedon)
Gizikis (1917-1999), Greek Gen'l. and former president (1973-1974),
resigned and retired from the army.
(SFC, 7/29/99,
p.C4)(www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=13481)
1974 Dec 24, An oil spill polluted
1,600 square miles of scenic Inland Sea in Japan.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1974 Dec 25, The category 4
Cyclone Tracy reduced 90% of Darwin, Australia, to rubble. 65 people
died including 49 in the city and 16 at sea.
(SFEC, 9/10/00,
p.T10)(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1974 Dec 26, Comedian Jack Benny
(b.1894) died in Los Angeles at age 80.
(AP, 12/26/98)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000912/)
1974 Dec 27, Amy Vanderbilt
(b.1908), American etiquette expert, died. "One face to the world,
another at home makes for misery." In 1952 she published the best
selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette.
(AP,
5/12/01)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Vanderbilt)
1974 Dec 27, Ned Mandrell
(b.~1878), the last native speaker of Manx, died. The Goidelic
language, similar to Irish and Scots Gaelic, was once spoken on the
Isle of Man.
(Econ, 10/25/08,
p.72)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_language)
1974 Dec 28, The 6.0 Patan
earthquake in Pakistan killed some 5,300 people.
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1974_12_28.php)
1974 Dec 31, US Congress overrode
Pres. Ford’s veto of the Freedom of Information Act-strengthening
amendments in the Privacy Act of 1974. It was passed in the wake of the
Watergate scandal. It allowed ordinary citizens to hold the US
government accountable by requesting public documents and records.
(SSFC, 1/6/02,
p.D4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974)
1974 Dec 31, The Dow Jones closed
the year at 616.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.86)
1974 Dec 31, Private US citizens
were allowed to buy and own gold for the first time in more than 40
years.
(AP, 12/31/97)
1974 Dec, Thieves in San Francisco
stole the “Resting Hermes” statue from its pedestal on Nob Hill. The
University Club had purchased the statue, made by Chiurazzi of Naples,
from Italy in 1915 following the Panama Pacific Expo. In 2004 it was
stolen again.
(SFC, 8/24/04, p.A1)
1974 Dec, Allan Spear (1937-2008),
Minnesota state senator, announced that he was gay, becoming only one
of two openly gay legislators in the country.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.B5)
1974 The New York Museum of Modern
Art instituted a permanent video program.
(WSJ, 12/2/96, p.A16)
1974 Antonio Henrique Amaral of
Brazil painted his "Battlefield," a phalanx of menacing forks with
shreds of banana.
(WSJ, 3/17/00, p.W12)
1974 Joseph Beuys (1921-1986),
German artist, created his performance piece: "I like America, and
America likes Me," in which he lived with a coyote in a New York
gallery for 5 days.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, BR p.8)
1974 Jasper Johns painted his
"Corpse and Mirror." In 1997 it sold for $8.3 million.
(WSJ, 11/25/97, p.A20)
1974 Sol LeWitt (b.1928), pioneer
of the Conceptual Art Movement, created his "Incomplete Open Cube."
(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.A38)
1974 Architects Doug Michels
(1943-2003) and Chip Lord, founders of the Ant Farm in SF, created
"Cadillac Ranch," a sculpture of 10 planted Cadillacs, in Amarillo,
Texas.
(SSFC, 6/22/03, p.A1)
1974 Kent Twitchell painted the
20-foot high mural "The Old Woman of the Freeway" in Los Angeles. It
was painted over in the mid 80s and Twitchell worked to restore it in
the 90s.
(SFC, 1/25/99, p.A20)
1974 Woodward and Bernstein wrote
"All the President's Men." A film based on the book was made in 1976.
In 2003 Woodward and Bernstein sold their Watergate research papers to
the Univ. of Texas for $5 million.
(SFC, 12/30/99, p.E3)(WSJ, 4/18/03, p.W13)
1974 Robert A. Caro authored "The
Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York." Robert Moses
(1888-1981), master builder, had shaped New York City from 1924-1968.
(WSJ, 5/1/02, p.D7)(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.M2)
1974 Cleveland Amory authored "Man
Kind," a seminal book on his work with animals.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)
1974 Doubleday published the 1st
edition of "Jaws" by Peter Benchley (1940-2006). In 1975 Steven
Spielberg turned it into a movie.
(http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=Jaws)(SFC,
2/13/06, p.B3)
1974 Raoul Berger (d.2000 at 99),
constitutional scholar, authored "Executive Privilege," which helped
undermine Nixon's claims for executive privilege. Executive privilege
1st gained recognition with a 1974 Supreme Court ruling that endorsed a
president's right to keep internal office communications private.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A25)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A10)
1974 Michael R. Best and Frank H.
Brightman edited "The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus," which
contained a recipe for Greek Fire.
(AM, May/Jun 97 p.10)
1974 Heinrich Boll authored “The
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.”
(Econ, 6/9/07, p.97)
1974 Steward Brand published "II
Cybernetic Frontiers."
(Wired, 5/97, p.101)
1974 Britannica under editor
Warren Preece (d.2007) published its 15th edition (Britannica 3), which
featured three parts: the Propaedia, the Micropaedia, and the
Macropaedia.
(SFC, 4/17/07, p.D7)
1974 Leo Buscaglia (d.1998 at 74),
published his book "The Way of the Bull."
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A21)
1974 John Fell (d.2008 at 81),
jazz historian and film professor at SF State Univ., authored “Film and
the Narrative Tradition.”
(SSFC, 11/2/08, p.B3)
1974 Victor Fuchs of Stanford
authored “Who Shall Live,” an examination of the American health care
system.
(Econ, 7/17/04, Survey p.9)
1974 Emily Hahn (1905-1997) wrote:
"Once Upon a Pedestal: An Informal History of Women's Lib."
(SFC, 2/19/96, p.A20)
1974 Prof. Charles M. Hardin
(1908-1997) wrote "Presidential Power and Accountability."
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.E2)
1974 Molly Haskell (b.1939)
authored “From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of women in the Movies.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Haskell)
1974 Ken Kesey began a literary
journal titled "Spit in the Ocean." 6 of 7 issues were published by
1981.
(SSFC, 11/30/03, p.E7)
1974 Stephen Koch authored
“Stargazer,” a study of Andy Warhol as a filmmaker.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.E5)
1974 Peter Maas (d.2001 at 72)
published his book "King of the Gypsies." It highlighted the Tene-Bimbo
Gypsy clan in New York City.
(SFC,11/6/97, p.A21)(SFC, 8/24/01, p.D7)
1974 Anica Vesel Mander (d.2002),
Yugoslavian-born prof. of Women's Studies, authored "Feminism as
Therapy."
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A18)
1974 James Michener published
"Centennial."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A12)
1974 Robert Nozick (d.2002 at 63),
Harvard philosopher, authored "Anarchy, State and Utopia" in which he
attacked forms of paternalistic government.
(SFC, 1/25/02, p.A32)
1974 John Paterson (d.2002), UC
Berkeley professor, authored "The Novel as Faith: The Gospel According
to James, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence and Virginia Woolf."
(SFC, 4/19/02, p.A27)
1974 Dr. John Weir Perry (d.1998
at 84), psychiatrist, published "The Far Side of Madness." He believed
that psychotic states could lead to a higher state of consciousness.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)
1974 Robert Pirsig published "Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." "The real cycle you're working
on is a cycle called yourself."
(SFEC, 1/3/99, BR p.4)
1974 Jeraldine Saunders, cruise
ship director, authored “Love Boats.” This sparked the 1977 TV show
“The Love Boat.”
(SSFC, 8/7/05,
p.C5)(www.tvland.com/shows/loveboat/main.jhtml)
1974 Patricia Nell Warren
published the groundbreaking gay novel "The Front Runner." It was about
a gay track coach who falls in love with his star runner.
(SFC, 1/7/98, p.E3)
1974 Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996)
received the National Book Award for "The Court of the Stone Children."
She wrote 17 books for children and one novel, "The Unheard Music," and
2 collections of criticism on children's literature.
(SFEC, 10/13/96, p.B6)
1974 The book "Palinuro of Mexico"
by Fernando del Paso (b.1935) won the Premio de Mexico in manuscript
form but was not published in Mexico until 1980. The 1st edition was
published in Spain in 1977.
(SFEC, 10/6/96, BR
p.4)(www.complete-review.com/reviews/pasofd/palinuro.htm)
1974 The National Book Critics
Circle was founded.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A2)
1974 Ron Link (d.1999 at 58)
produced the off-Broadway play "Women Behind Bars" with author Tom
Eyen. The prison spoof play ran for over a year at the Astor Place
theater in NYC.
(SFC, 6/14/99, p.A24)
1974 Sam Shepard wrote his plays
"Action" and "Killer's Head."
(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A12)
1974 Neil Simon wrote his play
"God's Favorite," a dark comedy based on the Book of Job.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, BR p.5)(SFC, 10/11/96, p.C5)
1974 TV Commercials for Heinz
ketchup used Carly Simon’s song “Anticipation.”
(WSJ, 6/9/06, p.A11)
1974 "The Six Million Dollar Man"
ran as a TV series with Lee Majors. It was based on the book Cyborg by
Martin Caidin (d.1997 at 69). The series continued to 1978.
(SFC, 3/26/97,
p.C3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)
1974 The TV series "Get Christie
Love" starred Teresa Graves (d.2002 at 54) and lasted one season.
Graves played the 1st black woman hired by a big-city police department.
(SFC, 10/12/02, p.A19)
1974 The NBC TV daily game show
"Name That Tune" was hosted by Dennis James (1917-1997) up to 1975. A
weekly version was hosted by Tom Kennedy.
(SFC, 6/5/97,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_That_Tune)
1974 The TV game show "Name That
Tune" was hosted by Dennis James (d.1997) up to 1975.
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)
1974 The TV "Donny and Marie Show"
featured Donny and 14-year-old Marie Osmond. Their recorded songs
included: "Make the World Go Away," "I'm Leaving it All Up to You," and
"Deep Purple."
(WSJ, 2/19/98, p.A20)
1974 Garrison Keillor began his
Prairie Home Companion radio show in St. Paul. The show ended in 1987
and resumed in New York in 1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, DB p.13)
1974 Joe Cocker made a hit with
the song “You Are So Beautiful,” written by keyboardist Billy Preston
(1946-2006).
(SFC, 6/7/06, p.B11)
1974 Bob Dylan released his album
"Blood on the Tracks." In 2004 Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard authored "A
Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of "Blood on the Tracks."
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.M4)
1974 Stan Getz, tenor sax, and the
Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez on bass and Marty Morell on drums
recorded 2 sessions. A CD was re-issued in 1996 titled "But Beautiful."
(SFEM, 7/21/96, p.4)
1974 Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
released his “The Ramblin’ Man” album, which included his song "Amanda."
(www.slipcue.com/music/country/countryartists/waylon.html)
1974 Billy Joel broke into the
charts with his song "Piano Man."
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.5E)
1974 Joni Mitchell released her
album "Court and Spark."
(SFEM, 11/1/98, p.6)
1974 Mocedades made a hit with
"Eres Tu."
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.D1)
1974 Wayne Shorter recorded his
"Native Dancer" album that featured Herbie Hancock and introduced the
Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, DB p.35)
1974 John Whelan, button
accordionist, recorded his first solo album in England: "Pride of
Wexford."
(WSJ, 3/17/97, p.A16)
1974 The German group Kraftwork
recorded "Autobahn."
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.28)
1974 Greg Shaw (1949-2004),
pioneer of the independent record label, founded Bomp! Records to
release a single by the SF band the Flaming Groovies.
(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.B7)
1974 The Bellefonte nuclear power
plant was begun by the TVA in Hollywood, Ala. Construction was halted
in 1988 amid soaring costs.
(WSJ, 7/18/01, p.B1)
1974 Cornell Capa (1918-2008),
photojournalist and author of “The Concerned Photographer” (1968),
founded the International Center of Photography in NYC.
(SFC, 5/24/08, p.B5)
1974 Mort Walker, creator of the
Beetle Bailey cartoon character, opened the National Cartoon Museum in
Greenwich, Conn. The museum moved a few times before closing in 2002.
In 2008 Ohio State Univ. received the collection and planned to make it
available for all to see.
(WSJ, 7/16/08, p.A14)
1974 The J. Paul Getty Museum was
established in Malibu, Ca., by the billionaire oilman. It was designed
by Robert E. Langdon Jr. (d.2004) and Ernest C. Wilson Jr.
(WSJ, 1/30/97, p.A14)(SFC, 8/26/04, p.B6)
1974 The Federal Correctional
Institution in Dublin, Ca., was built.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A15)
1974 James Wishard Robertson
(d.2001 at 66) and his wife Carolyn founded the Yolla Bolly Press in
Covelo, Ca.
(SFC, 12/22/01, p.A28)
1974 The Hirshborn Museum and
Sculpture Garden in Washington opened.
(SFC, 12/30/99, p.E1)
1974 The South course for golf at
Kaanapali on Maui was designed by Arthur Snyder.
(Hem, 4/96, p.42)
1974 In NYC a 40-story building at
130 Liberty Street, named 1 Bankers Trust Plaza, was completed. In 2001
it received a 15-story gash in its façade when the South Tower
of the World Trade Center fell in the Sep 11 attack. In 2004 the
building was slated for demolition, a process that continued into 2007.
(WSJ, 5/23/07, p.A1)
1974 In New York the Solow
Building was completed. The 50-floor building was designed by
architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.B10)(www.thecityreview.com/57w9.html)
1974 Jennie Farley and other women
at Cornell Univ. began to first use the term "sexual harassment."
(WSJ, 6/27/96, p.A19)
1974 In San Francisco the Shanti
project was founded to treat residents suffering from terminal
illnesses. In 1981 the program was expanded to include AIDS.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A17)
1974 In SF the American
Conservatory Theater (ACT) purchased the Geary Theater. In 2006 it
renamed it as the American Conservatory Theater.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.E2)
1974 Curtis E. Green (d.2002) took
over as head of MUNI, the 1st African American to head a major US
transit system. He retired in 1982.
(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A20)
1974 The US Navy abruptly closed
its shipyard at Hunters Point in SF. In 1989 the EPA named it one of
the ten most polluted federal properties.
(SFC, 4/8/05, p.F2)
1974 Nieman Marcus, a Texas-based
retailer, acquired the City of Paris department store on Geary St.
facing Union Square in SF. In 1980 the California Supreme Court denied
an appeal by preservationists to save the building.
(SSFC, 7/21/02, p.F2)
1974 Norma Wahl acquired the lease
for the Mission Rock Resort at 817 China Basin. They lost the lease
after 22 years of operation. [see Jan 1, 1988]
(SFC,12/31/97, p.A13)
1974 California State College, SF,
was renamed to SF State Univ.
(SFEC, 3/21/99, Z1 p.4)
1974 Amateur and professional
archeologists met in New Mexico and created the American Rock Art
Research Assoc. (ARARA) for the study and conservation of rock art.
(PacDis, Summer '97, p.12)
1974 Gary Gygax (1938-2008) and
David Arneson (d.2009 at 61), having founded Tactical Studies Rules
(TSR), published Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game. Gygax and
Don Kaye had founded Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), a publishing firm in
1973. In 1997 TSR was sold to Wizards of the Coast.
(Econ, 3/15/08,
p.102)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax)(SFC, 4/11/09, p.B3)
1974 Diane DiPrima joined Chogyam
Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg, and others to found the Naropa Institute, a
non-profit liberal arts college, in Boulder, Colo.
(SFC, 5/26/96, Z1
p.3)(www.shambhalashop.com/archives/vidnaro.html)
1974 Oakland, Ca., held the first
annual Black Cowboys Parade, the only one of its kind in the country.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.6)
1974 This year's edition of the
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM), 1st
published in 1952, removed homosexuality from its list of disorders.
(WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A1)(SFC, 12/18/03, p.A25)
1974 The Human Family and
Educational Cultural Institute established its Humanitas Prize in
recognition of film and TV scripts the illuminate life and foster
compassion.
(SFC, 7/10/98,
p.C14)(www.humanitasprize.org/index.htm)
1974 The National Action Council
for Minorities in Engineering was founded.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A1)
1974 Rudi Gernreich, Austrian
engineer, introduced the first "thong bikini."
(WSJ, 6/7/99,
p.A8)(www.bikiniscience.com/chronology/1970-1975_SS/1970-1975.html)
1974 Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992) of the UK and Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) of Sweden shared
the Nobel Prize for Economics Science. Hayek was later awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by Pres. George Bush.
(WSJ, 5/7/99,
p.A18)(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1974/)
1974 Albert Claude (1899-1983),
Belgium-born biologist, won the Nobel for his work on the sub-structure
of the cell.
(www.belgium.be)
1974 Eisaku Sato (b.1901), premier
of Japan, and Ireland’s Sean MacBride, president of the Int’l. Peace
Bureau, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
(www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html)
1974 The US Air Force established
a requirement that flight recorders be installed on all newly purchased
aircraft.
(SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-17)
1974 The CIA attempted to recover
the Soviet submarine that had sunk in the Pacific on March 8, 1968. A
100 foot section was pulled in by the Glomar Explorer with 2 nuclear
tipped torpedoes and the bodies of 6 Russian sailors. In 1996 it began
under going remodeling for work as a deep-sea drilling ship. The US
Navy’s fully submersible dry dock, called the Hughes Mining Barge, was
used under the Glomar Explorer to position a claw to recover the
submarine. The barge was later used to house the Navy’s $195 million
Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship made public in 1993. In 2006
the barge and Sea Shadow were put to rest in Suisun Bay, near San
Francisco.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A6)(WSJ, 2/24/09, p.A6)
1974 Columnist Jack Anderson blew
the cover of CIA agent James Lilley, attached to the US representative
office in Beijing. In 2004 James and Jeffrey Lilley authored “China
Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy in Asia.”
(WSJ, 5/6/04, p.D10)
1974 The US economy cooled, prices
climbed with much wealth transferred to the Arabs for oil.
(TMC, 1994, p.1974)
1974 The US government Witness
Security Program grew to $3.1 million for 647 people.
(SFC, 6/9/96, p.A-10)
1974 The FBI counterintelligence
program, known as Cointelpro, was directed against Marxist and
student-radical groups. Charles W. Bates (d.1999 at 79) led 8 full-time
employees in the SF Bay Area and 22 informants worked the local
campuses.
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A25)
1974 The Jackson-Vanik amendment,
contained in Title IV of the 1974 Trade Act, authorized the President
to waive the restrictions for countries meeting minimal emigration
standards and to certify to Congress which countries are in
compliance with the provisions. It penalized countries with non-market
economies and restrictions on emigration. Pres. Ford signed the
legislation on January 3, 1975.
(www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/JV-background.shtml)
1974 Shirley Temple was appointed
US ambassador to Ghana. She served to 1976.
(SFC, 1/26/06, p.E3)
1974 Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed
Judge Frank K. Richardson (d.1999 at age 85) to the California Supreme
Court. Richardson retired in 1983. Regan served as governor from
1966-1974. In 2003 Lou Cannon authored "Governor Reagan."
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C4)(WSJ, 10/7/03, p.D10)
1974 California state spending
under Gov. Reagan increased from $4.6 to $10.2 billion when he left
office.
(SSFC, 6/6/04, A27)
1974 California enacted a
community property law.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)
1974 Janet Gray Hayes was elected
mayor of San Jose by 1,660 votes. She defeated Bart Collins, a retired
police detective.
(SFEC, 5/30/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A12)
1974 Marjorie Downing Wagner was
named the 3rd president of Sonoma State Univ.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.E2)
1974 SF Mayor Joseph Alioto made
another bid for governor of California but the campaign stumbled under
allegations that he paid no income tax from 1970-1972. He lost the
Democratic primary to Jerry Brown. Also the DA held that Alioto was in
conflict of interest in arranging the family purchase of the Pacific
Far East Line, which owned $1.7 million in back rent to the city-owned
port.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A10)
1974 Jerry Brown was elected
California state governor over Houston Flournoy.
(SFC,10/29/97, p.A16)
1974 Jerry Brown as Sec. of State
wrote the Political Reform Act, which in part precluded public
officials from decisions in which they had a financial interest.
(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A19)
1974 Walnut Creek residents voted
to spend $6.75 million to acquire the bulk of Lime Ridge as open space
property. The land was acquired in 1975 and expanded in 1993.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.A20)
1974 Gardner Kent, a resident at
the Star Mountain commune in Sonoma County, carted his family and a
number of strangers in a converted school bus across the US. This
marked the beginning of Green Tortoise Adventure Travel.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.D6)
1974 Ken Behring, a Florida land
developer, and his partners agreed to donate 2,052 acres near Danville
to the California state park system in exchange for the right to build
2,400 homes that became the Blackhawk community. The last 511-acre
parcel was transferred in 1999. In 1975 Dan Van Voorhis (1939-2005),
East Bay attorney, and Sandy Skaggs formed a new law firm to help
develop the Blackhawk project.
(SFC, 5/14/99, p.A21)(SFC, 3/17/05, p.B7)
1974 Vintner Louis M. Martini (79)
died. His son, Louis P. Martini (d.1998), took over the vineyards and
developed Merlot wine.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.E2)
1974 Harry Partch (b.1901),
California composer, instrument builder, philosopher and
multiculturalist, died. He held allegiance to just intonation and the
43 tone scale. His collection of instruments was deeded in 1990
to NY-based Dean Drummond, the director of NEWBAND, an
organization based on Partch's work.
(SFEM, 9/5/99, p.11)
1974 In New Jersey Rev. S. Howard
Woodson Jr. (d.1999 at 83) became the first black speaker of a state
legislature.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A23)
1974 In Pennsylvania the firefly
was decreed as the official insect.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)
1974 Betty Hutton (1921-2007),
former Hollywood film star underwent a detox program in Rhode Island.
Under the guidance of Father Peter McGuire she finished her high school
education and later became a faculty member at Salve Regina University
in Newport, R.I., where she taught classes in TV and cinema.
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.A2)
1974 Arthur Laffer drew his
“Laffer Curve” to illustrate how lower taxes can spur economic growth
leaving tax revenues undiminished.
(Econ, 8/20/05, p.22)
1974 Leslie C. Quick (d.2001 at
75) and Kevin Reilly founded Quick & Reilly, a brokerage firm. The
following year it became the 1st discount brokerage house. He sold the
operation to Fleet Financial in 1997 for $1.6 billion in stock.
(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E1DB173AF93AA35750C0A9679C8B63)
1974 Charles Schwab opened a
securities firm to take advantage of the 1975 rule change that ended
fixed commissions on stock trades.
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.D2)
1974 Irving Shapiro became the CEO
of DuPont.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R46)
1974 Foot Locker, a division of
Woolworth Stores, was first introduced to the retail marketplace.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_Locker)
1974 General Electric began a
joint venture with Snecma, a French state-owned enterprise, to produce
jet engines. Snecma was privatized in 2004.
(Econ, 5/5/07, p.79)
1974 GM began to offer the first
airbags in Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs.
(F, 10/7/96, p.71)
1974 International Paper bought
General Crude Oil Co. for $489 mil. In 1979 the company sold General
Crude Oil's oil and natural gas operations to Gulf Oil Corporation for
$650 million.
(http://tiny.cc/aOSus)
1974 Mobil Oil gained control of
Montgomery Ward.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A12)
1974 Knight Newspapers Inc. (Miami
Herald) merged with Ridder Publications (Detroit Free Press). Bernard
Ridder Jr. (d.2002 at 85) led Ridder in the merger.
(SFC, 2/5/00, p.A19)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A24)
1974 The McDonald's food company
founded the Ronald McDonald House program for families of seriously ill
children. By 1997 there were 180 houses in 14 countries.
(Hem., 1/97, p.36)
1974 Pepsi entered the market of
the Soviet Union.
(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A9C)
1974 Harvard created Harvard
Management, a wholly owned subsidiary charged with managing the
school's entire investment portfolio.
(WSJ, 7/25/96, p.C1)
1974 Ted Nelson authored his
manifesto “Computer Lib / Dream Machines,” in which he announced that
computing should be available to all without complication or human
servility being required.
(SSFC, 4/23/05, p.B4)
1974 Intel Corp. introduced the
8080 microprocessor. It became the heart of the first microcomputer,
the 1975 MITS Altair.
(TAR, 1996, p.21)(WSJ, 11/16/98, p.R10)
1974 Motorola helped launch the
smartcard market by building the first smartcard chip with Groupe Bull
of France.
(FT, 3/4/98, p.21)
1974 Jerome Lemelson (1923-1997)
licensed patents for his audio cassette drive mechanism to Sony Corp of
Japan. Sony was founded after the war by Masaru Ibuka (d.1997 at 89),
Akio Morita and others as a radio shop that was later renamed Sony.
(SFC, 10/4/97,
p.A20)(www.lemelson.org/about/bio_jerry.php)
1974 Richard J. Mercer
(1924-2006), advertising executive, helped create the Burger King “Have
it your way” ad campaign. Mercer also wrote the phrase.
(WSJ, 1/6/07, p.A4)
1974 Hungarian professor Erno
Rubik designed the Rubik's Cube. Sales peaked at 100 million in 1980.
Some 250 million units were sold worldwide.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(SFC, 8/8/03, p.D1)
1974 Tandem Computers was founded.
(SFEM,11/2/97,
p.15)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers)
1974 Taser, a voltage emitting
handgun, was created. In 2004 the handheld device fired 2 probes up 21
feet with a peak load of 50,000 volts. Jack Cover (d.2009 at 88), a
NASA researcher, began developing the Taser in 1969 to combat
hijackings and riots. The initial name, TSER, came from the 1911 book
“Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.” The additional “a” in the name was
added later. The Los Angeles Police Dept. began using the devices in
1980.
(USAT, 7/4/04,
p.2A)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser)(SFC, 2/16/09, p.B3)
1974 Dr. Joachim Burhenne
(1926-1996) developed the Burhenne Technique for removing gallstones
through bile ducts. He practiced in SF from 1959-1977. He performed the
procedure on the Shah of Iran in 1979.
(SFC, 6/5/96, C5)
1974 Cesare Sirtori, a Milan heart
researcher, encountered a patient with a high cholesterol level. In
1979 Sirtori found that the patient carried a mutant gene,
apolipoprotein A-1, a crucial component of HDL involved in clearing LDL
from the body. This led to a new drug in 2003 that seemed to shrink
arterial blockages.
(WSJ, 11/5/03, p.B3)(SFC, 11/5/03, p.A15)
1974 Tuberculosis was reported to
have been transmitted by an accidental needle stick.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A6)
1974 A US moratorium on genetic
research ended. It had been feared that such research would lead to
dangerous breeds of microbes.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A16)
1974 The US National History Day
project began as a yearlong program for junior and senior high school
students. NHD started as a small contest in Cleveland. Members of the
history department at Case Western Reserve University developed the
initial idea for a history contest to make teaching and learning
history a fun and exciting experience.
(SSFC, 12/17/00,
p.17)(www.nationalhistoryday.org/NHDHistory.htm)
1974 Joel Scherk and John Schwarz
published a paper in which they show that string theory could describe
the gravitational force if the tension in the string were very high.
(BHT, Hawking, p.161)
1974 Ronald Aurel Lesea
(1940-2004), violinist and inventor, developed the 1st hand-held
translator. It turned 9 foreign languages into English. His inventions
also included the 1st call-forwarding device for a telephone.
(SFC, 12/6/04, p.B3)
1974 Dr. Glenn Seaborg
co-discovered element 106, which was named seaborgium.
(SFC, 2/27/99, p.A19)
1974 Steven Weinberg, Howard
Georgi, and Helen Quinn, all at Harvard Univ., proposed the grand
unification scheme (GUT) and made the first prediction for the
lifetime of the proton.
(JST-TMC,1983, p.130)
1974 Burton Richter and Samuel
Ting found evidence for a fourth quark.
(NG, May 1985, J. Boslough, p. 650)
1974 Russell Hulse and Joseph
Taylor recorded an indirect sighting of gravitational waves when they
showed a pair of stars spiraling towards each other was radiating
energy in the form of gravitational waves at exactly the same rate
predicted by Einstein.
(Econ, 6/24/06, p.94)
1974 A large radio-wave emitting
structure was discovered in the galactic center of the Milky Way, a
region called the Sagittarius A complex. At its center sits a massive
black hole, Sagittarius A*, that controls the motions of the stars in
the innermost parsec of the Galaxy.
(NH, 6/03, p.53)(http://tinyurl.com/ol335c)
1974 William K. Hartmann of the
Planetary Science Inst. In Tucson, Arizona, presented research that
proposed that the moon was formed from the remnants of a giant impact,
wherein a planet about the size of Mars struck Earth. Alastair G.W.
Cameron (1915-2005) of Harvard worked independently on the same idea.
(SFC, 10/31/05, p.B4)
1974 Dr. Donald C. Johanson and an
international team at Hadar, Ethiopia, discovered a female skeleton in
3 million year old strata and name it Lucy. Subsequent finds there and
at Laetoli, Tanzania, led to the naming of a new species:
Australopithecus afarensis.
(NG, Nov. 1985, p. 564)
1974 America was producing 125
million tons of trash per year, 7% of it as throwaway bottles and cans.
(Smith., 4/95, p.32)
1974 The Chatooga River between
South Carolina and Georgia was designated a National Wild and Scenic
River. It carves through the Chattahoochee and Sumter National Forest
and was made famous in the 1972 movie "Deliverance."
(Hem, 8/96, p.33)(SFC,1/21/97, p.A20)
1974 Peter Bird and Derek King
rowed 4,300 miles for 106 days east-to-west across the Atlantic from
Gibraltar to the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia. The wrote of their
trip in: "Small Boat Against the Sea." In 1996 he was lost at sea
during an attempted crossing of the Pacific.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C1)
1974 The Nuclear Suppliers Group
(NSG), a multinational body concerned with reducing nuclear
proliferation by controlling the export and re-transfer of materials
that may be applicable to nuclear weapon development, was founded.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Suppliers_Group)
1974 UNESCO named Herat as one of
the first cities to be designated as a part of the worlds cultural
heritage.
(www.afghan-web.com/history/)
1974 The Austria National Gallery
bought W. de Kooning's "Woman V" (1953) for $850,000.
(http://tinyurl.com/3rr4bw)
1974 Rudolf Kirchschlaeger (d.2000
at 85) began serving as president of Austria and continued to 1986.
(SFC, 3/31/00, p.E5)
1974 Bhutan opened up to limited
tourism.
(WSJ, 1/25/00, p.A1)
1974 Hugo Banzer, military
dictator of Bolivia, prohibited all political activity.
(SFC, 5/6/02, p.B5)
1974 Brazil introduced the 1st Bus
Rapid Transit (BRT) in Curitiba.
(SSFC, 8/7/05, p.A11)
1974 In Brazil Rev. Frederick
Birten Morris of the United Methodist Church was arrested. During 16
days in captivity in an army barracks he was beaten and tortured with
electric shocks several times before being released and deported. In
2008 Brazil’s Justice Ministry's Amnesty Commission decided to
compensate him 285,000 reals (US$154,000) plus a monthly pension of
2,000 reals (US$1,080).
(AP, 9/27/08)
1974 In Brazil a meningitis
outbreak killed 4,000 people in a few weeks. 90 million people were
soon inoculated by a new vaccine created by the French Merieux
laboratory.
(SFC, 1/27/01, p.A24)
1974 England and France agreed to
build 16 Concorde airplanes.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A26)
1974 In Burma Sein Lwin headed the
army unit that suppressed demonstrations by students and Buddhist monks
in connection with the funeral of former U.N. Secretary General U Thant.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1974 Ta Mok (1926-2006), a Khmer
Rouge senior advisor, cleansed Cambodia’s old royal city of Oudong of
its 30,000 residents and burned it to the ground.
(Econ, 8/5/06, p.77)
1974 Oil was discovered in Chad.
(WSJ, 6/24/03, p.A9)
1974 In Chile the government
created a military intelligence agency that became a rogue elephant
responsible for many human abuses. It was disbanded by Gen'l. Pinochet
in 1978.
(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)
1974 Ricardo Claro (1934-2008),
Chile’s ambassador at large, announced to the world, on behalf of the
Pinochet government, that Chile was once again open for business.
(WSJ, 11/8/08, p.A6)
1974 In China Wan Xizhe wrote an
anti-government petition and was sent to prison for 14 of the next 19
years for his campaign for democracy and human rights.
(SFC, 4/5/99, p.A9)
1974 In China the Li Yi Zhe
manifesto attacked communist privileges and corruption.
(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A17)
1974 Mao launched the “Learn from
Dazhai” campaign. The Chinese agricultural settlement at Dazhai was set
up as a Communist utopia and peasants were encouraged to plow deep.
(Arch, 9/00, p.37)
1974 Deaths from cancer began to
escalate in the village of Dragon Range in the mountains of Central
China. Tests in 2000 showed high levels of lead and arsenic from 4
factories in a nearby valley.
(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.F5)
1974 The island of Cyprus was
divided into Greek and Turkish sectors with a UN no-man's land in
between. Turkish troops had invaded the island after an Athens-based
coup by Greek Cypriots.
(SFC, 6/4/96, p.A11)
1974 Dr. Anastassios Simonidis
(d.2000 at 75) was made the honorary consul general of Cyprus.
(SFC, 6/27/00, p.A23)
1974 In Czechoslovakia the Plastic
People of the Universe band secretly recorded its first album:
"Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned."
(WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)(SFEC, 3/7/99, DB p.35)
1974 Soviet and Czech technicians
began carrying out what they called “chemical mining” for uranium below
the town of Straz pod Ralskem. By 1996 some 4.2 million tons of
sulphuric acid and other toxic chemicals were pumped in to leach out
the uranium. In 2008 a cleanup firm estimated that the site should be
stabilized by 2035.
(Econ, 5/31/08, SR p.11)
1974 Nawal El Saadawi of Egypt
authored "God Dies by the Nile," a novel of daughters and wives abused
by men consumed with power.
(SFC, 4/14/03, p.D1)
1974 In France the economy slowed
following the Arab oil embargo and the policy of recruiting foreign
labor ended.
(NG, 5/93, p.110)
1974 In France the Int'l. Energy
Agency was formed in Paris to coordinate oil sharing. The US led the
formation of the IEA in order to stockpile oil and help offset supply
shortages.
(WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A8)
1974 In Greece Andreas Georgios
Papandreou founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok).
(SFC, 6/23/96, p.B6)(WSJ, 1/13/04, p.A15)
1974 Melina Mercouri, film actress
(Never On Sunday), gave up acting after she was elected to the Greek
Parliament as a socialist.
(SFC, 4/1/08, p.B7)
1974 Guinea-Bissau, a former
Portuguese colony, became independent after a decade-long war.
(SFC, 5/15/99, p.A14)(AP, 10/6/03)
1974 In Guyana a small group of
pioneers from the Peoples Temple moved to what would become Jamestown
after Jim Jones acquired a 25-year lease on 3,853 acres in the Orinoco
River basin.
(SFEC, 11/8/98, p.A18)
1974 Sigurdur Hjartarson began
collecting penis memorabilia. In 1997 he opened his Icelandic
Phallological Museum in Reykjavik.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.C8)(Reuters, 5/16/08)
1974 In India the region of Ladakh
opened to the outside world.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.T1)
1974 In Israel the Palestinian
Democratic Front took over a school in Maalot and 20 schoolchildren
were killed.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, p.A22)
1974 In Mexico the first hotel in
Cancun opened with 72 rooms.
(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.T10)
1974 In Mozambique the Portuguese
secret police (PIDE) ruled with an iron hand from its headquarters in
the Villa Algarve in Maputo.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1974 In Northern Ireland
Protestant loyalists and trade unionists stopped a power-sharing plan
backed by the British government by shutting down power stations.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A12)
1974 Palestinian terrorist Abu
Nidal split from the PLO and was sentenced to death in absentia.
(SFC, 8/25/98, p.A6)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A7)
1974 In Poland an explosion killed
34 miners at the Czechowice-Dziedzice in Silesia. This was the
country’s worst mining accident to date.
(AP, 11/22/06)
1974 The process of decolonization
in Portuguese Timor began, following the change of government in
Portugal in the wake of the Carnation Revolution.
(SFC, 3/3/98,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor)
1974 The Revolutionary Front for
an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) was established.
(SFC, 9/6/01, p.E4)
1974 Under pressure from guerrilla
groups Rhodesian PM Ian Smith released all black leaders for peace
talks, but the talks failed.
(SFC, 7/2/99, p.D6)
1974 Sikkim lost its Buddhist
ruler and was annexed by India. This ended a 330 year dynasty.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A1)
1974 Temasek (Malay for sea town)
was founded to hold Singapore’s investments in various businesses. In
2004 it employed 170,000 people under Ho Ching and controlled a fifth
of the local stock market. In 2009 Charles Goodyear was named to
success Ho Ching, becoming the first foreigner to lead the sovereign
wealth fund.
(Econ, 8/14/04, p.65)(Econ, 2/14/09, p.86)
1974 Sweden established a parental
leave program for new fathers.
(Econ, 1/10/04, p.46)
1974 A Spanish census was
conducted in Western Sahara.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A12)
1974 The documentary film “General
Idi Amin (A Self Portrait)” was produced by Barbet Schroeder.
(WSJ, 9/29/06, p.W4)
1974 Venezuela’s Pres. Carlos
Andres Perez nationalized the oil industry and the central bank.
(WSJ, 1/05/00, p.A11)
1974 Venezuela set up a fund for
the future (El Fondo de Inversiones) to help spread its wealth to
future generations, but soon began to raid the kitty.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.46)
1974 In Yugoslavia under Tito a
decentralized federal system allowed the Kosovo region to develop its
own security, judiciary, defense, foreign relations and social control.
Mahmut Bakalli drafted a constitution that gave the region a status
equivalent in most respects to the other republics of Yugoslavia.
(SFC, 3/3/98, p.A8)(SFC, 11/11/98, p.A16)(www,
Albania, 1998) (SFC, 3/27/99, p.A13)
1974-1978 The average value of a California home rose
from $34,000 to $85,000.
(SFC, 5/20/98, p.A10)
1974-1978 In Chile the Villa Grimaldi, a 19th century
estate outside of Santiago, was used by the National Intelligence
Directorate (DINA) under Gen'l. Manuel Contreras as clandestine
detention center. Some 5,000 political prisoners passed through and
many suffered inside torture chambers and closet-sized cells near the
stables. The main house was used as an administrative center and casino
for officers.
(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A12)
1974-1983 A series of bomb attacks and robberies in
the US by members of the Puerto Rican FALN left 6 people dead and
scores injured. 16 separatists who were later arrested for the attacks
were granted clemency by Pres. Clinton in 1999.
(USAT, 9/17/99, p.1A)
1974-1990 In 1996 a 5-year Chilean government
investigation found that the 16-year dictatorship of General Pinochet
killed 3,197 civilians for political reasons. This included 1,102
people who disappeared after being arrested by his security forces. In
2000 a retired air force colonel charged that 500 political dissidents
were slain by security forces, and that their bodies were weighted down
and tossed into the sea.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A20)(SFC, 1/21/98, p.C12)(SFEC,
2/1/98, p.A11) (SFC, 8/4/00, p.D4)
1974-1991 The regime of Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam
ruled Ethiopia.
(SFC, 11/6/00,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam)