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This year in history
In the year 1974

	January 11th	The world's first set of sextuplets that survived birth, were born in Cape Town, South Africa.
	January 16th	British fashion model, Kate Moss, was born in Addiscombe, England.
	January 31st	Polish-born filmmaker, Samuel Goldwyn, died at the age 92. He was one of the early pioneers of movie production in the Unites States and was one of the founders of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, which eventually became the well known Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production company. However, by the time the original company was renamed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was no longer a shareholder.
	February 1st	A fire in a skyrise building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, claimed the lives of 189 people.
	February 7th	Grenada became an independent nation. It was previously part of the United Kingdom.
	February 8th	A military coup took place in Upper Volta. The country is now known as Burkina Faso, which is a landlocked nation in the western part of the African continent.
	February 22nd	A failed assassination attempt took place against United States president Richard Nixon.
	February 27th	People magazine was published for the first time. It is considered as one of the most glamorous celebrity magazines in the world.
	March 3rd	A Turkish DC-10 crashed at Ermenonville near Paris, France. All 346 aboard were killed in the crash.
	March 8th	The main airport of Paris, France, Charles de Gaulle Airport, was officially opened.
	April 6th	Music group, ABBA, win the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with their song : Waterloo.
	April 25th	The Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal overthrowing the "Estado Novo" dictaroship that had been established by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in 1933. It was called the "carnation" revolution, because the revolutionaries help carnation flowers instead of guns, urging the soldiers not to fight and join them, which eventually they did.
	May 18th	Completion of the Warsaw radio mast is completed. It was the tallest man made structure at the time. It was 646.38 meters (2,120 feet) tall, it collapsed on August 8, 1991, due to a mistake in the replacement of the support wires.
	May 24th	American musician, Duke Ellington, died at the age of 75. He was one of the most influential figures of the Jazz musical movement.
	June 1st	An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, England, resulted in the death of 28 people.
	June 29th	Isabel Peron was sworn in as interim leader of the Argentine Republic (and first ever female head of state) after her husband, Juan Peron, fell ill. She was Peron's third wife.
	July 6th	Brazilian footballer, Ze Roberto, was born in Ipiranga.
	July 7th	West Germany defeated the Netherlands by a score of 1-2 in the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup that was held in West Germany.
	July 15th	A coup d'etat took place in Cyprus, deposing president Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as president. Sampson himself was forced to resign when Turkey invaded Cyprus eight days later.
	July 20th	Turkish armed forces invaded and occupied northern Cyprus. Even after the entrance of Cyprus in the European Union, the Northern part of the island remains occupied.
	July 23th	American athlete, Maurice Greene, was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He is widely acknowledged as one of the great sprinters of the early 2000's.
	July 27th	In the United States, The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes to recommend the first article of impeachment against then president Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice.
	August 8th	U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation following the Watergate scandal.
	August 26th	American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, died at the age of 72. In 1927 he became the first man to fly solo, non-stop, from New York to Paris.
	August 30th	A passenger train travelling from Belgrade to Dortmund derailed while entering the main train station in Zagreb. 153 passengers died in the accident.
	September 1st	An SR-71 Blackbird military plane flied from New York to London in a record breaking 1hour and 54minutes. The supersonic commercial 'Concorde' airplane took approximately 3hours and 20 minutes to traverse the same distance.
	September 10th	Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal. It is one of the smallest nations in Africa, situated on the western coast of the African continent.
	September 12th	Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, was deposed after a military coup by the military committee called, the Derg. He was one of the most respected monarchs around the world and 'Messiah' of the Rastafarian movement. Under his leadership Ethiopia enjoyed a status of prestige around the world.
	September 18th	A hurricane struck the Honduras with winds measuring up to 110 mph, over 5,000 people died from the destruction it wrought.
	October 5th	The Horse and Groom pub in Guildford was bombed by the IRA resulting in the death of 5 and the wounding of 65 people.
	October 9th	Austrian businessman, Oskar Schindler, died at the age of 66. He was a business man in Nazi Germany who went to extensive lengths to save the Jewish workers of his factories from the horrors of the Holocaust. He was named a Righteous Gentile by the Jewish State, which is the highest honour conferred to a non-Jewish person by the state of Israel and was buried at the Christian Cemetery at Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
	October 13th	American television personality, Ed Sullivan, died at the age of 73. He is most remembered as being the host of "The Ed Sullivan Show", which enjoyed tremendous success and run for a staggering 23 years, between the years 1948 and 1971.
	October 19th	The island nation of Niue became independent from New Zealand.
	October 30th	Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman during the "The Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match that took place in Kinshasa, Zair, thus regaining the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship title.
	November 9th	Italian footballer, Alessandro Del Piero, was born in San Vendemiano. He was part of the team that won the 2006 world cup in Germany and is one of the most famous footballers of the 1990's and early 2000's.
	November 11th	American actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, was born in Los Angeles, California. His name is not a stage name and was actually the reason he was turned down by an agent once, as the name sounded too foreign.
	November 13th	Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his family in Amityville, New York. The event sparked the events which led to the Amityville Horror, book and movies.
	November 16th	British footballer, Paul Scholes, was born in Salford, England.
	November 21st	The Irish Republican Army group (IRA) executed the bombing of two Birmingham pubs, killing 21 people. Six people were arrested and convicted for the crime (known as The Birmingham Six) they were acquitted of the crime after spending 15 years in prison.
	November 24th	The skeleton of a child 3.18 million years old was discovered in Ethiopia.
	December 1st	A TWA passenger flight crashed north of Dulles International Airport in Washington, killing all 92 people onboard.
	December 5th	The final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on the BBC.
	December 13th	The island nation of Malta became a republic. Previously it recognized Queen Elizabeth II of England as its Queen.
	December 22nd	The islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli jointly became the independent nation of Comoros.
	December 24th	A severe cyclone devastated Darwin, Australia. The cyclone left almost 50 percent of the population homeless.

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