by Sean & Omari
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
The year 1974 was one of those years where the economy was waving. Up it goes one day down it goes in another. World trading and buying was one of United States major subjects that would also increase and decrease United States' debt. For example, World oil prices escalated in the wake of previous year’s actions by OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.) Efforts increased to find new sources of energy as higher coal prices brought a boom to depressed coal-mining areas. Wall Street’s Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed out December 9 at 570.01, down from 1003.16 late in 1972. "Zebra" killings terrorize San Francisco as black fanatics shoot whites at random in the streets. Watergate was in the headlines most of the year. Famine in Bangladesh causes hundreds of thousands to die.
Miami beats Minnesota 24 to 7 at Houston January 13 in Super Bowl VIII Super Bowl VIII.
Israel and Egypt have signed a disengagement agreement January 18 after negotiations by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Israel withdraws from the west bank of the Suez Canal, Egypt reoccupies the east bank, and a UN buffer zone is created between the two.
On January 31, Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer of Hollywood filmmaking and producer, and also one of the creators of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), dies in Los Angeles, California.
On February 5 publishing heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Nobel Prize winning writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, is arrested and charged with treason on February 12 by the KGB and expelled from the Soviet Union.
People Magazine begins publication March 4. Time, Inc.'s new 35¢ weekly is an attempt to regain readers lost when Life Magazine stopped weekly publication late in 1972.
In April Intel releases the first 8-bit 8080 microprocessor; it had 5,000 transistors.
Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s career home run record April 8 at Atlanta, hitting his 715th off a pitch by Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In May, Beverly Johnson becomes the first black model on the cover of a major fashion magazine when she appears on Vogue's cover.
On May 12, the Boston Celtics are the (NBA) National Basketball Association Champions for the 12th time in 18 years.
The "Heimlich maneuver" is first described in the June issue of Emergency Medicine by Cincinnati surgeon Henry Jay Heimlich.
On June 21 Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Gerrity Jr. orders the desegregation of Boston's public schools through busing of students. Violence erupts and in October Governor Francis W. Sargent calls out the National Guard to keep peace.
On June 26 the first product barcode (on a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum) is scanned at the checkout of the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
In July Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves surpasses Ty Cobb's all-time major league baseball record of 3,033 games.
The Supreme Court rules 8 to 0 July 24 that Nixon must turn over 64 White House tape recordings to a special prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee votes July 27 to adopt three articles of impeachment charging Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material that the committee has subpoenaed.
President Nixon resigns in disgrace August 9, the first U.S. chief of state ever to quit office. Gerald Ford is sworn in as our 38th President at 12:03 pm saying, "Our long nightmare is over."
On September 8 President Ford pardons former President Nixon granting Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon" for all federal crimes that Nixon "committed or may have committed or taken part in" while in office. President Ford asks Congress to appropriate $850,000 for Nixon’s transition to private life; Congress gives him $200,000.
On October 1, the first McDonald's hamburger restaurant in the UK opens.
On October 12, the Jamaican-born pop singer Carl Douglas releases "Kung Fu Fighting"
On October 17 the Oakland Athletics win the World Series defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games.
Muhammad Ali regains the world heavyweight boxing crown October 20 by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa, Zaire. The fight was known as the Rumble in the Jungle.
On November 21 Congress overrode President Ford's veto of the Freedom of Information Act giving the public better access to public information.
Karen Silkwood, a technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium production plant near Oklahoma City dies in an automobile crash on November 13 on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter. Silkwood was exposed to plutonium, she felt there was negligence on the part of her employer and she was planning to share her story with a New York Times reporter just before died.
On December 19 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn is as 41st Vice President of the United States.
The computed axial tomography (CAT) scanner is developed in England.
Jimmy Connors wins in men’s singles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, Chris Evert wins in women’s singles at Wimbledon, Billie Jean King at the U.S. Open Forest Hills.
In the spring of "Streaking" becomes a popular U.S. fad as male and female college students dash naked between dormitories.
The U.S. Army grants a parole to Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr., who has been serving a 10-year sentence for his role in the 1968 My Lai Massacre in South Vietnam.
South Carolina evangelist Jim Bakker, founds the PTL Club (Praise the Lord) television ministry.
All the President’s Men by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is published. It is the story of Watergate and President's Nixon's involvement.
Knight-Ridder Newspapers is created as publisher John S. Knight merges his many papers with those of the 82-year-old Ridder chain.
47th Annual Academy Awards:
Best Actor: Art
Carney for Harry and Tonto
Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Best Picture:
The Godfather Part II
Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Comedy:
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Outstanding Drama: Upstairs Downstairs
17th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year:
I Honestly Love You by Olivia Newton John
Album of the Year: Fulfillingness' First Finale
by Stevie Wonder
Song of the Year: The Way We Were by Marvin Hamlisch
Best New Artist:
Marvin Hamlisch
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979