July 1974
The following events occurred in July 1974:
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July 1, 1974 (Monday)
- "M-day": Road signs in Australia changed from imperial measures (e.g. miles) to metric.[1]
- The US-registered tug Aleutian Salvor burned and sank northeast of Pinta Point near Kake, Alaska, after her engine exploded. The tug Kiowa (
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United States) rescued all six crew members.[2] - While being towed by the tug Sudbury II off the Aleutian Islands in heavy seas, the US-registered Ketchikan lost 8,323 tons of oil pipe off its deck, causing it to capsize and sink.[3]
- Died: Juan Perón, 78, Argentine army general and politician, President of Argentina[4]
July 2, 1974 (Tuesday)
- The 24th Berlin International Film Festival concluded in Germany, with the Golden Bear being awarded to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravit directed by Ted Kotcheff.[5]
- Ralph Steinhauer, a Cree, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, becoming the first person of Native Canadian origin to be a Lieutenant Governor of a Canadian province.[6]
July 3, 1974 (Wednesday)
- The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow.[7]
- The Soviet Union successfully launched Soyuz 14, a crewed space mission, with cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich on board.[8]
July 4, 1974 (Thursday)
- The UK's Northern Ireland Office published a white paper, The Northern Ireland Constitution, proposing elections to a body which would attempt to develop a political settlement for the country.[9]
- Singers Barry White and Glodean James married.
- Died: Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, aged about 77, Palestinian and Muslim leader;[10] Georgette Heyer, 71, English novelist known for her Regency romances (lung cancer)[11]
July 5, 1974 (Friday)
- British commercial diver John Dimmer suffered a pneumothorax during decompression while in saturation aboard the oil platform Sedco 135F in the North Sea. The diving supervisor recognized the symptoms of pneumothorax, but the platform contacted an on-shore doctor who diagnosed Dimmer's condition as pneumonia. Dimmer's decompression continued, and he subsequently died.[12]
- Born: Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer, in Brasilia[13]
July 6, 1974 (Saturday)
- Members of the failed Northern Ireland Executive and Northern Ireland Office (NIO) ministers held talks in Oxford with Harry Murray, chairman of the Ulster Workers' Council (UWC).[14]
July 7, 1974 (Sunday)
- In the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final, West Germany defeated the Netherlands 2–1 in the final match at Olympiastadion, Munich, to win the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.[15]
- Sweden's Ronnie Peterson won the 1974 French Grand Prix motor race at Dijon.[16]
- Died: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, 76, US journalist and publisher[17]
July 8, 1974 (Monday)
- In the 1974 Canadian federal election, the Liberal Party of Canada under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was reelected with a majority.[18]
- Typhoon Gilda dissipated, having brought torrential rains and mudslides in the previous ten days, killing 128 people in Korea and Japan.[19]
- Died: Deborah Gail Stone, 18, US employee of Disney, was crushed to death by a rotating wall while working in the "America Sings" exhibit at Disneyland in California. This was the first death of a worker at a Disney park. The ride was immediately closed down for alarms to be installed.
July 9, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Impeachment process against Richard Nixon: Following the Watergate scandal, a US Judiciary Committee released an enhanced version of eight of the White House tapes previously transcribed by Nixon's team. These included potentially damaging statements suppressed in Nixon's version.[20]
- The Derg, the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army that was in the process of taking power in Ethiopia, issued its first political statement.
- Died: Earl Warren, 83, US jurist and politician, 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969)[21]
July 10, 1974 (Wednesday)
- An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 (registration SU-AXO) carrying four Soviet instructors and two EgyptAir pilots on a training flight crashed near Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing all six on board.
July 11, 1974 (Thursday)
- Died: Pär Lagerkvist, 83, Swedish writer and Nobel laureate[22]
July 12, 1974 (Friday)
- Born: Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer, in Waddinxveen[23]
July 13, 1974 (Saturday)
- Died: Patrick Blackett, 76, English physicist and Nobel laureate[24]
July 14, 1974 (Sunday)
- In the finals of the 1974 FIBA World Championship basketball competition, held in Puerto Rico, the Soviet Union won its second title.[25]
- Born: David Mitchell, British comedian and actor, in Salisbury, Wiltshire[26]
July 15, 1974 (Monday)
- 1974 Cypriot coup d'état: A military coup d'état was carried out in Cyprus by the Cypriot National Guard and the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. President Makarios III was replaced by pro-Enosis (Greek Irridentist) nationalist Nikos Sampson as dictator; Makarios is said to have been killed.[27]
- A hijacker took control of a Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 during a domestic flight from Osaka to Tokyo, Japan.[28]
- Died: Christine Chubbuck, 29, US news announcer on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida; Chubbuck committed suicide by shooting herself, becoming the first person ever to commit suicide on live television.[29]
July 16, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Archbishop Makarios III, Greek Cypriot leader, was rescued by British troops from Paphos and flown to Malta and on to the UK.[30]
- 18-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the "Houston Mass Murders" carried out by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973.[31]
July 17, 1974 (Wednesday)
- 1974 Tower of London bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb at the Tower of London, in the UK, killing one person and injuring another 41.[32]
- A Contraceptive Bill sponsored by Ireland's National Coalition government was defeated in a vote in Dáil Éireann, the country's parliament. The Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, is one of seven Fine Gael members to vote against it.
- The Northern Ireland Act 1974 received the assent of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- Died: Dizzy Dean, 64, US baseball player (heart attack)[33]
July 18, 1974 (Thursday)
- The Soviet Union's 35th Rocket Division carried out a research exercise, including the launch of two missiles.
July 19, 1974 (Friday)
- A rail tanker car containing isobutane collided with a boxcar in the Norfolk & Western railroad yard at Decatur, Illinois, United States. The explosion killed seven people and injured 349 others.[34]
July 20, 1974 (Saturday)
- Turkish invasion of Cyprus: In response to the coup d'état of July 15, Turkish forces invaded Cyprus and occupied the northern part of the island.[35][36]
- A group of women calling themselves the "Dublin City Women's Invasion Force", including Nell McCafferty and Nuala Fennell, intruded on the Forty Foot bathing place in Sandycove, traditionally a men-only nude bathing area, to claim the right to swim there.[37]
- The first rock concert to be held at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, UK, featured The Allman Brothers Band, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley and others, and was attended by an estimated 60,000 people.[38]
July 21, 1974 (Sunday)
- Turkish Air Force strike aircraft attacked three Turkish Navy destroyers, Kocatepe, Adatepe, and Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak by mistake, off Paphos, Cyprus; Kocatepe sank, with the loss of 54 lives.
- The 1974 Tour de France concluded in Paris. Eddy Merckx won the final stage and the overall race.[39]
July 22, 1974 (Monday)
- Two Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1E airliners belonging to Cyprus Airways were destroyed on the ground at Nicosia International Airport during fighting between Greek and Turkish forces.[40]
- Endelkachew Makonnen, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, was arrested, to be replaced by Lij Mikael Imru, at the request of the ruling Derg.[41]
July 23, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Greece's president, Phaedon Gizikis, called a meeting to attempt to appoint a national unity government so as to honourably extricate Greece from an armed confrontation with Turkey over Cyprus. Former prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis returned to Athens on a Mystère 20 jet made available to him by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.[42]
- Shin-Koshigaya Station opened on the Tobu Skytree Line in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan.[43]
- Born: Maurice Greene, US Olympic champion sprinter, in Kansas City, Kansas[44]
July 24, 1974 (Wednesday)
- An armed 29-year-old male hijacker attempted to take over an Avianca Boeing 727-24C with 123 people on board shortly after it took off from Pereira, Colombia, for a domestic flight to Medellín; he demanded a US$2 million ransom and the release of a political prisoner. The airliner diverted to Cali, where police stormed it and killed the hijacker.[45]
- The Huntsville Prison siege began in Huntsville, Texas, United States, when Fred Gómez Carrasco, serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer, and two other inmates laid siege to the education building of the Walls Unit.[46]
- Televised coverage of committee hearings on the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon resumed after a break to assess new evidence.[47]
July 25, 1974 (Thursday)
- Texas Democrat Barbara Jordan delivered a fifteen-minute televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment process against US President Richard Nixon, which would come to be regarded as one of the top speeches of all time by an American.[48]
July 26, 1974 (Friday)
- Lady of the Dunes mystery: A teenage girl discovered the body of an unidentified woman at Race Point Dunes, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States. It remains one of the best-known unsolved crimes of all time.[49]
July 27, 1974 (Saturday)
- Died: Lightnin' Slim, 61, US blues musician (stomach cancer)[50]
July 28, 1974 (Sunday)
- A U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird set an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet (25,929 m) and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 mph (3,531.7 km/h), both records for non-rocket-powered aircraft.[51]
July 29, 1974 (Monday)
- The fish processing barge Emmonak broke away from her moorings and sank in the Bering Sea near Savoonga on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska.[52]
- Died:
- Cass Elliot, 32, US singer (heart failure linked to obesity)[53]
- W. J. Seeley, 79, former dean of Duke University Pratt School of Engineering[54]
July 30, 1974 (Tuesday)
- The 1974 Scheldeprijs cycle race was held in Belgium and the Netherlands, and was won by Marc Demeyer.[55]
- Born: Hilary Swank, US actress, in Lincoln, Nebraska[56]
- Died: Elizabeth Gould Davis, 64, American librarian, author of The First Sex, suicide by firearm[57]
July 31, 1974 (Wednesday)
- In Canada, the Official Language Act (Quebec) (also known as "Bill 22") was passed, making French the official language of government and business in the province of Quebec.[58]
- Born: Emilia Fox, English actress, to Joanna David and Edward Fox, in Hammersmith, London[59]
- Died: Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M., 80, American Roman Catholic missionary[60]
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