Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum USspeed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate WatergateCommittee.

Friday 11:

The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tuesday 15:

Happy Days premiers on ABC.

Thursday 17:

Joni Mitchell releases Court and Spark, arguably her most mainstream album.

» January 1974

February 1974Friday 01:

1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.

Tuesday 05:

John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

Wednesday 13:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

Thursday 21:

The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt.

Saturday 23:

The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.

» February 1974

March 1974Friday 01:

Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Sunday 03:

Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.

Friday 08:

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

Friday 29:

NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.

Saturday 30:

The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at the Performance Studio in New York City.

» March 1974

April 1974Monday 01:

In the United Kingdom, new administrative countiescome into being.

Saturday 06:

In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo".

Monday 08:

At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.

Thursday 18:

Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades.

Tuesday 23:

A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107.

» April 1974

May 1974Saturday 04:

An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.

Thursday 09:

Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.

Friday 17:

Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.

Saturday 18:

Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.

Monday 27:

Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.

» May 1974

June 1974Tuesday 04:

Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans.

Thursday 06:

A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.

Saturday 08:

An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six.

Wednesday 26:

The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader.

Thursday 27:

U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.

» June 1974

July 1974Monday 15:

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

Saturday 20:

Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert.

Wednesday 24:

Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Courtunanimously rule 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.

Saturday 27:

Watergate Scandal: The House of RepresentativesJudiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice.

Tuesday 30:

Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixonreleases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.

» July 1974

August 1974Monday 05:

Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.

Thursday 08:

Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixonannounces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9).

Friday 09:

Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action reportedly taken to prevent time from being wasted in impeachment proceedings in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th president.

Thursday 15:

Yook Young-soo, First Lady of South Koreais killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of the South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day.

Friday 16:

The Ramones play their first ever show at the CBGB's.

» August 1974

September 1974Sunday 08:

Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle."

Tuesday 10:

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

Wednesday 11:

The Stranglers are a British rock musicgroup, was formed in Guildford.

Thursday 12:

Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.

Sunday 15:

Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

» September 1974

October 1974Tuesday 01:

The Watergate trial begins

Saturday 05:

I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States.

Friday 18:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.

Wednesday 30:

"The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.

» October 1974

November 1974Friday 08:

In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.

Wednesday 13:

PLO leader Yasser Arafat gives a landmark address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Thursday 21:

1974 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.

Friday 22:

The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

Saturday 30:

The skeleton of "Lucy", a 3.18 million years old female hominid, of the genusAustralopithecus, was discovered in the Afar Triangleof Ethiopia.

» November 1974

December 1974Sunday 01:

A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on-board.

Thursday 05:

The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.

Friday 13:

Malta becomes a republic

Sunday 22:

Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotteremains under French administration.

Wednesday 25:

Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia

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