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1974 Calendar

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•  January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  February 12, 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
•  March 8, 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
•  May 17, 1974 – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: Thirty-three civilians are killed when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
•  July 30, 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
•  September 1, 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
•  September 15, 1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
•  September 17, 1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
•  November 21, 1974 – The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
•  November 22, 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

•  January 4, 1974 – Armin Zöggeler, Italian luger
•  January 23, 1974 – Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
•  January 30, 1974 – Christian Bale, English actor
•  February 26, 1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
•  May 31, 1974 – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
•  June 23, 1974 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
•  September 21, 1974 – Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
•  October 12, 1974 – Kate Beahan, Australian actress
•  October 17, 1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
•  November 3, 1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player