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1974 Calendar

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•  January 5, 1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
•  January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  February 1, 1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
•  April 18, 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
•  June 29, 1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with Bolshoi Ballet.
•  July 24, 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
•  August 1, 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
•  September 10, 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
•  September 12, 1974 – Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
•  November 22, 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

•  January 10, 1974 – Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
•  January 31, 1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
•  April 10, 1974 – Petros Passalis, Greek footballer
•  May 27, 1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football player
•  June 4, 1974 – Buddy Wakefield, American poet
•  August 4, 1974 – Kily González, Argentine footballer
•  September 21, 1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer
•  September 30, 1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
•  October 6, 1974 – Jeremy Sisto, American actor
•  November 7, 1974 – Christian Gómez, Argentine footballer