February 1974 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1974 Good Times (spinoff from Maude) premieres on CBS TV
• 02 Feb 1974 Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary".
• 03 Feb 1974 Pajama Game closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
• 04 Feb 1974 Benzine rationing ends in the Netherlands
• 05 Feb 1974 British mine strike
• 06 Feb 1974 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
• 07 Feb 1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain
• 08 Feb 1974 Good Times, debuts on CBS TV
• 09 Feb 1974 Daddy What If by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
• 10 Feb 1974 Gigi closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
• 11 Feb 1974 Titan-Centaur test launch fails.
• 12 Feb 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
• 13 Feb 1974 Rainbow Jones opens and closes at Music Box Theater, New York City
• 17 Feb 1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic.
• 18 Feb 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2
• 19 Feb 1974 1st American Music Award
• 20 Feb 1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
• 21 Feb 1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez.
• 22 Feb 1974 Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 23 Feb 1974 Patty Hearst, Daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
• 24 Feb 1974 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round skater.
• 25 Feb 1974 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975.
• 26 Feb 1974 Gold hits record US$188 an ounce in Paris, France. Silver peaks at US$6.70 per ounce.
• 27 Feb 1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 28 Feb 1974 Taiwan police shoots into crowd

Famous Birthday

• Robbie Williams

  British entertainer, singer and songwriter with record sales at over 55 million.

• James Blunt

  British singer born in a family of militaries.

• Ophélie Winter

  French actress and singer.

• Amber Valletta

  American model and actress.

• Elizabeth Banks

  American actress who portrayed Marcela Howard in the movie "Seabiscuit.

• Seth Green

  Movie Actor.

• Julie Andrieu

  French radio and television host.

• Alex Jones

  American radio host.

• Sébastien Loeb

  French racer who won, with his co-driver, the World Rally Championships for five consecutive years from 2004.

• Jillian Michaels

  American fitness trainer.

• Jerry O'Connell

  TV Actor.

• Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

  French disc jockey (Daft Punk).

• Steve Nash

  African-American basketball player: guard, Suns.

• Urmila Matondkar

  Indian actress.

• Mr Lordi
• Lisa Marie Scott

  Pensacola, Florida -- Playmate (Feb, 1994).

• Omarosa
• Fred Testot
• Mahershala Ali

  American actor.

• Miranda July

  American actress and screen-writer, she wrote and starred in the 2005 movie, "Me, You, and Everyone We Know," an offbeat romance that won...

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Famous Deaths

• Fern Andra

  Dies at 80.

• Anna Q Nilsson

  Actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell & Son), dies at 85.

• Kurt Magnus Atterberg

  Composer, dies at 86.

• David Monrad Johansen

  Norwegian composer (Born 1888).

• Pat Brady

  Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59.

• Satyendra Nath Bose

  Indian physicist (Born 1894).

• Bobby Bloom

  American singer/songwriter (Born 1946).

• Lynda Ann Healy is abducted in Seattle

  Washington (first Ted Bundy murder victim).

• Cees de Lange

  Dutch conferencier, dies at age 60.

• Mees Toxopeus

  Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at age 89.

• Ustad Amir Khan

  Indian classical singer (Born 1912).

• Tim Horton

  Canadian hockey player (Born 1930).

• John Garand

  Canadian-American engineer designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974).

• Harry Ruby

  American composer and screenwriter (d. 1974).

• Fritz Zwicky

  Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974).

• Imre Lakatos

  Hungarian mathematician philosopher and academic (d. 1974).

• Stewie Dempster

  New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974).

• Kurt Atterberg

  Swedish composer and engineer (d. 1974).

• Florence Rice

  Actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63.

• Mihail Andricu

  Composer, dies at 79.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
2. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme
3. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
4. Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen
5. Aretha Franklin - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The New Seekers - You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
2. Mud - Tiger Feet
3. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
4. The Sweet - Teenage Rampage
5. Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On