January 1974 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1974 World Population Year begins
• 02 Jan 1974 55 mph speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
• 03 Jan 1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain.
• 04 Jan 1974 United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
• 05 Jan 1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in Oh, Brother
• 06 Jan 1974 CBS Mystery Theater, premieres on radio
• 07 Jan 1974 Dutch rations gasoline
• 08 Jan 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
• 11 Jan 1974 ABC airs final episode of Love, American Style
• 12 Jan 1974 Libya and Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic".
• 13 Jan 1974 Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston, Texas; Most Valuable Player: Larry Csonka, running back.
• 14 Jan 1974 World Football League founded.
• 15 Jan 1974 Happy Days begins an 11 year run on ABC
• 16 Jan 1974 Jaws by Peter Benchley is published
• 18 Jan 1974 $6 Million Man starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
• 19 Jan 1974 Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak.
• 20 Jan 1974 A college basketball game ends 210-67
• 21 Jan 1974 Gold hits record $161.31 / silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
• 25 Jan 1974 Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
• 26 Jan 1974 Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP )
• 27 Jan 1974 Lorelei opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
• 28 Jan 1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 29 Jan 1974 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago.

Famous Birthday

• Kate Moss

  English model.

• Christian Bale

  English actor.

• Hrithik Roshan

  Indian actor.

• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
• Melanie Chisholm

  British singer (Spice Girls).

• Nazi Germany
• Jemima Khan

  English journalist and activist.

• Ary Abittan

  French actor and comedian with North-african origin.

• Ed Helms

  American actor.

• Ivonne Armant
• Fabiana Lupérini
• Jennifer Leroy
• Emily Haines

  Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Metric and Broken Social Scene).

• Yann Eliès

  French professional navigator and skipper, who won the 'Solitaire du Figaro' 2012 thirty-three years after his father, Patrick Elies, won...

• Bernard Diomède

  French football player born near Bourges (Saint-Doulchard) in a family coming from West Indies (Guadeloupe).

• Anne Marivin
• Florian Maurice

  French footballer, who played as a striker, most notably winning the 1998 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with French team Paris...

• Kim Dotcom

  Businessman.

• Steve Marlet

  French footballer and coach, who played as a forward.

• Jemaine Clement

  New Zealand actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Dino Buzzati

  Italian journalist, dramatist and novelist called, "an Italian Kafka.

• Gino Cervi

  Italian actor of both stage and screen.

• Roger Pryor

  Actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72.

• Karel Janacek

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Karel Salmon

  Composer, dies at 76.

• S v Vegesack

  Writer, dies at 85.

• Wiktor Labunski

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Paula Ludwig

  Writer, dies at 74.

• Josef Smrkovsky

  Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at age 62.

• Jan Arends

  Dutch poet/author, dies at age 48.

• Lewis L Strauss

  head US Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at age 78.

• Paul Haesaerts

  Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at age 72.

• Epameinondas Thomopoulos

  Greek artist (Born 1878).

• Princess Patricia

  of Connaught (Born 1886).

• David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco.

• Raoul Jobin

  Canadian tenor and educator (d. 1974).

• Georgios Grivas

  Greek General/opposition leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at age 75.

• Salvador Novo

  Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974).

• Lev Oborin

  Russian pianist and educator (d. 1974).

• Edmund Blunden

  English author poet and critic (d. 1974).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle
2. Steve Miller Band - The Joker
3. Al Wilson - Show And Tell
4. Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen
5. Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Mud - Lonely This Christmas
2. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
3. The New Seekers - You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
4. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
5. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet