What important happened in 1974?

Answer 1

• January 15 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
• January 20 - U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.
• January 21 - The Communist League is founded in Denmark.
• January 22
• • Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion
• January 23
• • U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• January 27 - U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

February

• February 11 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released from Vietnam.
• February 22 - Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.

• February 27 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

March

• March 17
• • Many of the few remaining United States soldiers begin to leave Vietnam.
• March 23 - Watergate scandal (United States): In a letter to Judge John Sirica, Watergate burglar James W. McCord Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case. He names former Attorney General John Mitchell as 'overall boss' of the operation.
• March 29 - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.

April

• April 30 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.

May

• May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and American Indian Movement activists who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation atWounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
• May 17 - Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

June

• June 9 - Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
• June 16 - U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
• June 22 - W. Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") retires from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• June 24 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
• June 25
• • Watergate scandal: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.

July

• July 16 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

August

• August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.

September

• September 11 - Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende commits suicide during the coup in the presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a U.S.-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 16 years.

October

• October 6 - Yom Kippur War: The fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
• October 10
• • Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, pleads no contest to charges of income tax evasion.
• October 17 - The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
• October 20
• • The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
• October 26
• • The Yom Kippur War ends.

November

• November 1 - Watergate scandal: Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoints Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.Confirmation needed

• November 7 - The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
• November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
• November 17
• • Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
• November 21 - U.S. President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
• November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

December

• December 6 - The United States House of Representatives votes 387-35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.
• December 23 - OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.

Answer 2

Many of the important developments of the Watergate Scandal occurred.The Vietnam War ended, and the last U.S. troops left Vietnam.

The Yom Kippur War occured.

Answer 3

March 18 - End of Oil embargo crisis.