October 1974 calendar

October 1974
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 1974.
The US president was Gerald Ford (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on October 1974: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1974?

Events

01 Oct 1974 Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington DC
03 Oct 1974 Pele retires as soccer player
04 Oct 1974 John Lennon releases Walls & Bridges album
05 Oct 1974 Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
06 Oct 1974 Mack & Mabel, opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
07 Oct 1974 German DR amends constitution
08 Oct 1974 Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
09 Oct 1974 Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager
10 Oct 1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins two-year ride of 50,600 miles.
11 Oct 1974 The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.
14 Oct 1974 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
15 Oct 1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory
17 Oct 1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
18 Oct 1974 1st NBA game at Market Square Arena - Pacers beat Spurs 129-121
19 Oct 1974 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland
20 Oct 1974 1st broadcast of Derrick on ZDF
21 Oct 1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs. Caps
22 Oct 1974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
24 Oct 1974 Billy Martin named American League Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers).
25 Oct 1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM
27 Oct 1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon
28 Oct 1974 Luna 23 launched
29 Oct 1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
30 Oct 1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch
31 Oct 1974 Marines terminate gijzelingsactie in strafgevangenis Scheveningen

Famous Birthday

Joaquin Phoenix
Movie Actor.
Yann Barthes
Céline Balitran
Natalie Maines
American singer-songwriter and activist who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band the Dixie Chicks.
Matthew Macfadyen
English actor.
Dayanara Torres
Puerto Rican actress and beauty queen.
Valerie Niehaus
Layla Roberts
Naike Rivelli
Germany -- Model / Daughter of Ornella Muti.
Martin Henderson
New Zealand actor.
Cédric Yo'Grid
Paco León
Spanish actor director producer and screenwriter.
Bianca Rinaldi
Brazilian actress.
Cecilie Thomsen
Jeremy Sisto
American actor producer and screenwriter.
Doreén Dietel
Jerald Honeycutt
American basketball player: forward, Bucks.
Petra Schweers
Heather Headley
Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter producer and actress.
Kiti Kokkonen
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Famous Deaths

Oskar Schindler
Czech businessman who joined the Nazi party and became a double agent, managing to shuffle Jews through his factory rolls and getting them...
Anne Sexton
American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967.
Ed Sullivan
TV host ( Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73.
David Oistrakh
Odessa, Russia -- Violinist / prof (Moscow Conservatory).
Vasily Shukshin
Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (Born 1929).
Helmuth Koinigg
Austrian Formula One driver (Born 1948).
Ina Seidel
Writer, dies at 89.
Bidia Dandaron
Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (Born 1914).
Spyridon Marinatos
Greek archaeologist author and academic (d. 1974).
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Writer, dies at 73.
Joseph Frederick Wagner
Composer, dies at 74.
Victor E van Vriesland
Poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82.
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