November 1974 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1974 UN affirms independence of Cyprus
• 02 Nov 1974 Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs
• 03 Nov 1974 Lorelei closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
• 05 Nov 1974 Dmitri Sjotakovitch completes Michelangelo-liederen
• 06 Nov 1974 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
• 07 Nov 1974 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in
• 08 Nov 1974 British Lord Lucan disappears
• 10 Nov 1974 2nd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets even series at 1 with 26-20 OT win
• 12 Nov 1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
• 13 Nov 1974 Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP
• 15 Nov 1974 Ringo releases Goodnight Vienna andOnly You in the UK
• 16 Nov 1974 Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record).
• 17 Nov 1974 Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
• 20 Nov 1974 The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
• 21 Nov 1974 In Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
• 22 Nov 1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
• 23 Nov 1974 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
• 24 Nov 1974 2 truck hijackers freed
• 25 Nov 1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
• 26 Nov 1974 Catfish Hunter and Charlie Finley meet in arbitration
• 27 Nov 1974 Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
• 28 Nov 1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
• 30 Nov 1974 Good Evening closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances

Famous Birthday

• Leonardo DiCaprio

  American actor, lead in a film that was the most outstanding commercial and popular success of all times, "Titanic.

• Alessandro Del Piero

  Italian footballer.

• Chloe Sevigny

  American actress.

• Nelly (rapper)
• Chad Kroeger

  Canadian singer (Nickelback).

• Florence Cassez

  French woman who was accused to belong to a kidnapping gang in Mexico (2005).

• Cedric Bixler-Zavala

  American singer-songwriter and drummer (At the Drive-In The Mars Volta Anywhere De Facto and The Fall on Deaf Ears).

• Elsa Fayer
• Ryan Adams

  American musician.

• Leslie Bibb

  American actress.

• Saku Koivu

  Turku, Finland -- NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Olympics - Bronze - 1998).

• Apldeap
• Lourdes Benedicto
• Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
• Giovanna Mezzogiorno

  Italian actress, the daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi.

• Paul Scholes

  British footballer.

• Tariq Abdul-Wahad

  French basketball coach and former player, the first player to be raised in France and play in the NBA.

• Louise Redknapp

  English singer and actress (Eternal).

• Dan Falzon

  Australian actor and musician who first appeared in "Neighbours" in 1992, filming the first episode, April 29th, while he was still in...

• Stéphane Sarrazin

  French professional racing driver.

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Famous Deaths

• Nick Drake

  Burmese-English singer-songwriter (d. 1974).

• James J Braddock

  Irish-American boxer and one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World (d. 1974).

• Vittorio de Sica

  Italian actor / director (Boccacio 70).

• Karen Silkwood

  American activist who put herself in grave danger when she reported unsafe conditions at the plant where she worked.

• Clive Brook

  Actor / director (On Approval), dies at 87.

• U Thant

  Burmese diplomat, a representative and secretary-general of the U.N.

• Charles Quinlivan

  Actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50.

• Pall Isolfsson

  Composer, dies at 81.

• Louis B Russell Jr

  Longest living heart transplant, dies at 49.

• Ralf Harolde

  Actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75.

• [Sithu] U Thant

  UN Secretary General (1961-72), dies in New York of cancer at 65.

• Eric Linklater

  British author (Born 1899).

• Alfonso Leng

  Chilean composer (Born 1894).

• John B Gambling

  American radio talk show host (Born 1897).

• Frank Martin

  British sculptor, who served as head of the sculpture department of Saint Martin's School of Art from 1952 to 1979.

• George Brunies

  American trombonist (d. 1974).

• Stafford Repp

  American actor (Born 1918).

• Rodolfo Acosta

  Chihuahua, Mexico -- Actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw).

• Cyril Connolly

  English author and critic (d. 1974).

• Bert Patenaude

  American soccer player (Born 1909).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'
2. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
3. John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
4. Billy Swan - I Can Help
5. Carole King - Jazzman

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Ken Boothe - Everything I Own
2. David Essex - Gonna Make You A Star
3. Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer
4. John Denver - Annie's Song
5. Queen - Killer Queen