April 1974 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1974 Pioneer Hall opens
• 02 Apr 1974 46th Academy Awards - The Sting, Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win.
• 03 Apr 1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
• 05 Apr 1974 World's tallest building, the World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories).
• 06 Apr 1974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam
• 08 Apr 1974 Discovery Island opens
• 10 Apr 1974 American Boccaccio Association forms
• 11 Apr 1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested
• 13 Apr 1974 Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
• 14 Apr 1974 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278.
• 15 Apr 1974 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39.
• 16 Apr 1974 Words & Music opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
• 17 Apr 1974 Bundy victim Susan Rancourt disappears from CWU, Ellensburg, Washington
• 18 Apr 1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi.
• 19 Apr 1974 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against New York Yankees
• 20 Apr 1974 Paul McCartney releases Band on the Run
• 21 Apr 1974 28th Tony Awards: River Niger and Raisin win.
• 22 Apr 1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
• 23 Apr 1974 Carl Barnett dies at age 59 of a heart attack while conducting Bach's Come, Sweet Death at the Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 24 Apr 1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay (Buccaneers).
• 25 Apr 1974 NFL moves the goal posts and adopts sudden-death playoff.
• 26 Apr 1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province, Peru creates a natural dam.
• 27 Apr 1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107.
• 28 Apr 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic.
• 29 Apr 1974 President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
• 30 Apr 1974 US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings.

Famous Birthday

• Penélope Cruz

  Spanish actress.

• Victoria Beckham

  British musician, one of the Spice Girls, called Posh, and wife of noted English football star player David Beckham.

• Jenna Jameson

  American porn actress director and producer.

• Olivier Besancenot

  French far left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau parti...

• Anggun (singer)
• Margo Dydek

  Polish basketball player and coach (d. 2011).

• Grégory Basso

  French television personality, actor, singer and disc jockey.

• Kitty Raymond

  American astrologer and writer, the author of "Confessions of a Second Generation .

• Tricia Helfer

  TV Actress.

• Virginie Desarnauts
• Marley Shelton

  Movie Actress.

• Barry Watson

  American actor and director.

• Danny Pino

  American actor.

• Alexander Pichushkin

  Russian serial killer.

• Da Brat

  American rapper.

• Ivana Milicevic

  Croatian-American actress.

• Mathias Malzieu
• Mikael Akerfeldt

  Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth).

• Chris Kyle

  War Hero.

• Derek Luke

  American actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Agnes Moorehead

  American actress best known for her work in the 1960s American TV comedy series "Bewitched" in which she played the mother She established...

• Curt Conway
• Carl Jaffe

  Dies at 72.

• Paul Page

  Actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70.

• Patricia Collinge

  Dies at 81.

• A Y Jackson

  Canadian painter (Born 1882).

• Willem Marinus Dudok

  Dutch architect (Born 1884).

• Giovanni D'Anzi

  Italian songwriter (Born 1906).

• Willem Dudok

  Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at age 89.

• Herbert Elwell

  US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at age 75.

• Vinnie Taylor

  rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose.

• Mohammed Ayub Khan

  premier/President (Pakistan), dies.

• Sir Hudson Fysh

  Australian aviator and businessman (Born 1895).

• James Charles McGuigan

  Catholic archbishop of Toronto (Born 1894).

• Charles ''Chic'' Harley

  American football player (Born 1895).

• Roger Bastide

  French sociologist, dies at age 76.

• Stanley Smith

  Actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71.

• William Hudson

  New Zealand-Australian engineer (d. 1978).

• Frank McGee

  Monroe, Louisiana -- News anchor (NBC Evening News).

• Marcel Pagnol

  French playwright, screenwriter and film director, widely admired for his "Fanny" trilogy about ordinary waterfront people in Marseille.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
2. Elton John - Bennie And The Jets
3. MFSB - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)
4. John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders
5. Gladys Knight and the Pips - Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
2. Paper Lace - Billy, Don't Be A Hero
3. Mud - The Cat Crept In
4. Gary Glitter - Remember Me This Way
5. Slade - Everyday