51 events found for 1974
Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107
Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime
109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport
Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape
Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings agai
Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli
Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia
The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car
Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall
Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming th
Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists
SETA, a Finnish LGBT rights organisation, is founded in Helsinki
The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service
The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Superma
Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan
Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet
An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.