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{{short description|Month of 1974}}
{{Events by month|1974}}
{{calendar|year=1974|month=January}}

[[File:Skylab looking down.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Astronaut]]s [[Edward Gibson]] and [[Gerald Carr (astronaut)|Gerald Carr]] during the ''[[Skylab 4]]'' mission.]]

The following events occurred in '''January 1974''':

==January 1, 1974 (Tuesday)==
*In Italy, [[Itavia|Itavia Airlines]] Flight 897 crashed, killing 38 of the 42 people aboard. Flying in a heavy fog, the [[Fokker F28 Fellowship]] jet was approaching a landing at [[Turin]] on a flight from [[Bologna]] when it struck the top of a tree and then impacted at a building under construction.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5590%2C221525 |title=Italian airliner crashes and burns: 38 persons are killed |agency=[[UPI]] |newspaper=[[Wilmington Morning Star]] |date=2 January 1974 |page=2 |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=[[Google News]]}}</ref><ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740101-0 Aviation Safety Network]</ref>
*[[New Year's Day]] was celebrated as a [[public holiday in the United Kingdom]] for the first time nationwide, as England and Wales joined in making the first day of the year a paid legal holiday. Scotland had celebrated New Year's Day as a public holiday for years, and the order was applied to all of Britain by an October 8 amendment to existing wage laws.<ref>{{cite news |title=At last, England goes European |first=Howard |last=Williams |newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] |date=9 October 1973 |page=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Britain's New Year Customs |newspaper=Evening Sentinel |location=[[London]] |date=31 December 1973 |page=5 |quote=Tomorrow will be public holiday in England and Wales for the first time. Europeans— not to mention the Scots— used to consider that struggling to work on the first day of a new year was carrying the stiff upper lip tradition too far. Now British Prime Minister Edward Heath has allowed the English and the Welsh to conform with the rest of Europe.}}</ref>
*The [[Canadian Stock Exchange]] merged with the [[Montreal Stock Exchange]], with the merged entity operating under the latter name.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OEU0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=d_UIAAAAIBAJ&pg=2369%2C42191 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416194116/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OEU0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=d_UIAAAAIBAJ&pg=2369%2C42191 |archive-date=16 April 2019 |title=Montreal Stocks |newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |page=8 |access-date=2 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&srchtxt=canadian%20stock%20exchange&i=1&index=alt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416194410/http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&srchtxt=canadian%20stock%20exchange&i=1&index=alt |archive-date=16 April 2019 |title=canadian stock exchange [1 record] |date=6 March 2019 |work=[[TERMIUM Plus]] |publisher=[[Government of Canada]] |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*In the [[1973 NCAA Division I football season|U.S. college football bowl games]], the #4-ranked [[1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State Buckeyes]] defeated the #7 [[1973 USC Trojans football team|USC Trojans]] 42 to 21 to win the [[1974 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] in [[Pasadena, California]];<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bxpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dPoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4673%2C243959 |title=Ohio State Gets Rose Bowl Revenge |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[Lakeland Ledger]] |date=2 January 1974 |volume=67 |issue=78 |page=1B |access-date=30 July 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> the #6 [[1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team|Penn State Nittany Lions]] beat the #13 [[1973 LSU Tigers football team|LSU Tigers]] 16 to 9 to win the [[1974 Orange Bowl]] in [[Miami]];<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bxpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dPoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4673%2C243959 |title=Penn State Takes Orange Bowl Win |agency=AP |newspaper=Lakeland Ledger |date=2 January 1974 |volume=67 |issue=78 |page=1B |access-date=30 July 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5590%2C221525 |title=Lions dump LSU, 16-9 in Orange |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |date=2 January 1974 |page=15 |access-date=30 July 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> and the #12 [[1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska Cornhuskers]] upset the #8 [[1973 Texas Longhorns football team|Texas Longhorns]] 19 to 3 to win the [[1974 Cotton Bowl Classic|Cotton Bowl]] in [[Dallas]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Eq5VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P-ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2970%2C231697 |title=Huskers salvage some pride, 19-3 |agency=AP |newspaper=[[Eugene Register-Guard]] |date=2 January 1974 |page=1B |access-date=30 July 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> The largest of the bowl games, the Sugar Bowl, had been played on December 31, with the #3 [[1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame Fighting Irish]] beating the number one ranked [[1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama Crimson Tide]], 24 to 23.<ref>{{cite news |title=Irish Knock 'Bama Off the Top, 24-23: Field Goal by Thomas Wins Title |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1 January 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref>
*[[Jimmy Connors]] of the U.S. defeated Australia's [[Phil Dent]], and Australia's [[Evonne Goolagong Cawley|Evonne Goolagong]] defeated [[Chris Evert]] of the U.S., to win the [[1974 Australian Open|Australian Open]] tennis tournament in [[Melbourne]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/australian-open/580/1974/draws?matchtype=singles |title=Australian Open {{!}} Draws {{!}} ATP Tour {{!}} Tennis |publisher=[[ATP Tour|ATP Tour, Inc.]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*[[Ernst Brugger]] became [[President of the Swiss Confederation]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Switzerland Elects President for '74 |newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]] |location=[[Tucson, Arizona]] |date= |page=F-5}}</ref>
*[[Woodsworth College]] at the [[University of Toronto]] was founded, formally integrating part-time degree students into the University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wdw.utoronto.ca/news/45th-anniversary-woodsworth-college |title=45th Anniversary of Woodsworth College |publisher=[[Woodsworth College]], [[University of Toronto]] |date=6 November 2018 |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
[[File:2018 New Year Fireworks in George Town, Penang.jpg|thumb|Komtar building on January 1, 2018]]
*At the driving of the first pile for the [[Komtar]] building in [[George Town, Penang]], [[Malaysia]], [[Prime Minister of Malaysia|Prime Minister]] [[Abdul Razak Hussein]] said that the tower "would change the face of the city".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://failedarchitecture.com/2016/06/komtar-malaysias-monument-to-failed-modernism/ |last=Speechley |first=Soon-Tzu |title=Komtar: Malaysia's Monument to Failed Modernism |website=Failed Architecture |date=6 June 2016 |access-date=8 August 2021 |archive-date=8 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808150305/https://failedarchitecture.com/2016/06/komtar-malaysias-monument-to-failed-modernism/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*On the seventh annual [[World Day of Peace]], [[Pope Paul VI]] gave a sermon at St. Anthony's Church in [[Rome]], saying that peace "deals with life itself, more even than the physical safety of populations, of their honor, of their name, of their history... Will peace last: yes or no?"<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5590%2C221525 |title=Pope Paul calls for world peace |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |date=2 January 1974 |page=2 |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*The [[Executive of the 1974 Northern Ireland Assembly]], comprising [[Brian Faulkner]]'s moderate [[Ulster Unionist Party]] and the non-violent nationalists of the [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]], was formed in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name="CAIN Chronology">{{cite web |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch74.htm |last=Melaugh |first=Martin |title=A Chronology of the Conflict - 1974 |date=10 August 2021 |website=[[CAIN Web Service]] |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref>
*Due to the [[1973 oil crisis|oil crisis]], large numbers of [[gas station]]s throughout the [[United States]] were closed on [[New Year's Day]]. Mrs. Judith Kathleen Bovard of [[Lake Jackson, Texas]], was killed when her car crashed and burned while she was carrying a can of [[gasoline]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5590%2C221525 |title=Greeting for '74: 'Sorry, no gas!' Traffic was extremely light over the holidays |agency=United Press International |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |date=2 January 1974 |page=1 |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*[[Maurice Nadon]], who had been the Acting Commissioner of the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] (RCMP) since December 29, was formally appointed as the [[List of Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners|16th commissioner]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/former-rcmp-commissioners |title=Former RCMP Commissioners |date=17 December 2014 |publisher=[[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref> becoming the first [[French Canadian]] to hold the post.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://archive.macleans.ca/article/1976/5/31/four-horsemen-the-chief-the-cop-the-hawk-and-the-spy |title=Four Horsemen: the chief, the cop, the hawk and the spy |magazine=[[Maclean's]] |date=31 May 1976 |publisher=[[St. Joseph Communications]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Jonah Peretti]], U.S. Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of [[BuzzFeed]] and ''[[The Huffington Post]]''; in [[Contra Costa County, California]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/jonah_h_peretti_born_1974_12366400 |title=Jonah H Peretti, Born 01/01/1974 in California |website=[[California Birth Index|californiabirthindex.org]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Marco Schreyl]], German television host of ''[[Deutschland sucht den Superstar]]'' since 2005; in [[Erfurt]], [[East Germany]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Schreyl, Marco: Porträt |trans-title=Schreyl, Marco: Portrait |language=de |url=http://www.mdr.de/riverboat/566341.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208223204/http://www.mdr.de/riverboat/566341.html |archive-date=8 February 2009 |year=2009 |publisher=[[Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mehdi Ben Slimane]], Tunisian footballer with 34 caps for the national team; in [[Le Kram]]<ref>{{NFT player | 13853 | Mehdi Ben Slimane | access-date = 1 August 2021 }}</ref>
**[[Constantinos Carydis]], Greek orchestra conductor; in [[Athens]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000027922 |title=Carydis, Constantinos |work=Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv |publisher=[[Munzinger-Archiv]] |language=de |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Abha Dawesar]], Indian novelist known for the 2005 coming of age novel ''[[Babyji]]''; in [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=mlin_oweb&id=GALE%7CH1000172179&v=2.1&it=r&sid=LitRC&asid=c5c3aa98 |title=Abha Dawesar - Document |website=Gale Literature Resource Center |date=15 June 2007 |publisher=[[Gale, a Cengage Company]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Christian Paradis]], Canadian Minister of Industry 2011 to 2013; in [[Thetford Mines]], [[Quebec]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=3597 |title=Profile - Paradis, Christian |publisher=[[Library of Parliament]] |access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Giorgos Theodotou]], Cypriot footballer with 70 caps for the Cyprus national team; in [[Ammochostos]]<ref>{{NFT player | 1800 | Georgios Theodotou | access-date = 2 August 2021 }}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Charles E. Bohlen]], 69, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1953 to 1957, to the Philippines 1957-1959 and to France, 1962-1968, died of [[cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bxpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dPoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4673%2C243959 |title=Veteran Diplomat Dies |newspaper=Lakeland Ledger |date=2 January 1974 |volume=67 |issue=78 |page=7A |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Phelps |first=Robert H. |title=CHARLES BOHLEN, DIPLOMAT, 69, DIES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/02/archives/charles-bohlen-diplomat-69-dies-exenvoy-to-moscow-and-paris-was-top.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2 January 1974 |at=Page 1, column 5 |access-date=8 June 2024}}</ref>
**[[Charles M. Teague]], 64, U.S. Representative for [[California]] since 1955, died at home during a recess in Congress.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D7QsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5590%2C221525 |title=GOP agriculture leader dies |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |date=2 January 1974 |page=3 |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000109 |title=TEAGUE, Charles McKevett 1909 – 1974 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 2, 1974 (Wednesday)==
[[File:Erecting 55 mph speed limit.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The U.S. maximum for the next 13 years]]
*The maximum [[speed limit]] on U.S. highways was lowered to {{convert|55|mph}}, a limit that would remain in effect for the next 13 years, in order to conserve gasoline during the [[OPEC]] embargo.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EbQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2492,457896&dq=gas+line+blast&hl=en |title=National speed limit of 55 mph imposed |date=3 January 1974 |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |volume=107 |issue=68 |page=ONE-A |access-date=12 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> The decrease in the speed limit (which had been {{convert|70|mph}}) was made as [[U.S. President]] [[Richard Nixon]] signed the [[National Maximum Speed Law]]. The result was a 23 percent decrease in fatalities on American highways<ref>{{cite news |title=Nationwide Traffic Toll Declines 23%|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=26 February 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref> with 853 fewer deaths in January 1974 compared to January 1973.
*The [[Xinhua News Agency]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] announced the sudden reassignment of eight of the 11 commanders of its military regions, in an apparent attempt to remove them from the power bases and networks that they had built over the years. General [[Xu Shiyou]] was moved from the Nanjing region to Guangzhou, while Guangzhou's General Ting Sheng was moved to Nanjing. Chen Hsi-lien was moved from Manchuria to Beijing and replaced by [[Li Desheng]], a Politburo member.<ref>{{cite news |title=China Reveals Shakeup in Military Leadership |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=2 January 1974 |page=I-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Peking Undercuts Military, Takes Over the Reins Again |first=Robert S. |last=Elegant |author-link=Robert Elegant |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=3 January 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref>
*[[Carlos Arias Navarro]] was sworn in as [[Prime Minister of Spain]], having been appointed to the position after the December 20 [[assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco]].<ref>{{cite news |title=New Prime Minister for Spain Sworn In |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=2 January 1974 |page=I-11}}</ref>
*The first [[Supplemental Security Income]] (SSI) checks were mailed under the program in the United States to compensate impoverished persons who had been unable to work because of disability but who did not qualify for Social Security disability. The law authorizing SSI had come into effect on January 1.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EbQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2492,457896&dq=gas+line+blast&hl=en |title=First SSI checks mailed |date=3 January 1974 |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |volume=107 |issue=68 |page=TWO-A |access-date=12 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*The American-owned oil rig ''Transocean III'' sank in the [[North Sea]], {{convert|100|miles}} east of the [[Orkney Islands]], shortly after midnight on the morning of January 2. All 56 crew members were rescued.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bxpXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dPoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4673%2C243959 |title=U.S. Oil Rig Sinks In North Sea |agency=AP |newspaper=Lakeland Ledger |date=2 January 1974 |volume=67 |issue=78 |page=4A |access-date=1 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*[[Coleman Young]] was sworn in as the first [[African-American]] mayor of the U.S. city of [[Detroit]]. In his inaugural speech, he warned criminals to "hit the road".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/2018/05/26/coleman-young-myths/638105002/ |last=McGraw |first=Bill |title=Coleman Young at 100: The 10 greatest myths |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |department=A Better Michigan |date=28 May 2018 |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
*On their 48th day of spaceflight, the ''[[Skylab 4]]'' crew held a televised news conference while in Earth orbit, during which [[astronaut]] [[William Pogue]] said that he tried too hard to do a good job in the early phases of the mission, but then "finally came to the realization that I'm a fallible human being". Mission commander [[Gerald Carr (astronaut)|Gerald Carr]] said that he missed drinking cold beer while watching football. Astronaut [[Edward Gibson]] said that he was pleased to be contributing to science.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EbQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ywkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2492,457896&dq=gas+line+blast&hl=en |title=Astronaut says flight has humbled him |date=3 January 1974 |agency=UPI |newspaper=Wilmington Morning Star |volume=107 |issue=68 |page=TWO-A |access-date=12 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Jason de Vos]], Canadian soccer player with 49 caps for the [[Canada men's national soccer team]]; in [[London, Ontario]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/1280/Jason_De_Vos.html |title=Jason de Vos |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ludmila Formanová]], Czech middle-distance runner, 1999 world champion in the 800 meter run; in [[Čáslav]], [[Czechoslovakia]]<ref>{{iaaf name|id=14263132|name=Ludmila Formanová|nocat=y}}</ref>
**[[Slavko Duščak]], Slovenian [[basketball]] player and coach, guard for the Slovenia national basketball team; in [[Ljubljana]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]<ref>{{cite web |title=DUSCAK, SLAVKO - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL |url=https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=BJM&seasoncode=E2016#!biography |publisher=[[Euroleague Properties SA]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Juha Lind]], Finnish [[ice hockey]] left wing for the Finland national team; in [[Helsinki]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=28402 |title=Juha Lind Hockey Stats and Profile |publisher=hockeyDB.com |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Yin Yin]], Chinese Olympic [[volleyball]] player for the China national women's team; in [[Zhejiang]] province<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/94521 |title=Yin Yin |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Tex Ritter]], 68, American [[country music]] singer best known for "[[The Ballad of High Noon]]", and actor in [[Western (genre)|film Westerns]] including the Tex Haines series of movies, later inducted into the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Tex Ritter Dies of Heart Attack at 67— Country Singer Starred in 78 Western Movies |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 3, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Zwisohn |first=Laurence |title=Tex Ritter {{!}} Artist Bio |publisher=[[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum]] |url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/tex-ritter/ |year=2018 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Errett Lobban Cord|E. L. Cord]], 79, American business executive, founder and chairman of the [[Cord (automobile)|Cord Corporation]] conglomerate that controlled [[American Airlines|American Airways]], the [[Checker Motors Corporation]], and 150 other companies.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Errett Lobban Cord |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |date=1 January 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Errett-Lobban-Cord |access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>
**[[Ralph Block]], 84, American film producer and screenwriter<ref>{{cite web |title=Ralph Block Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress |url=http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2009/ms009299.pdf |last=Lacy |first=Mary A. |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |date=April 2010 |page=4 |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mark Fax]], 62, American classical music composer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bmrcsurvey.uchicago.edu/collections/2571-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617081531/https://bmrcsurvey.uchicago.edu/collections/2571-1 |archive-date=17 June 2015 |title=Mark Fax Scores |work=Black Metropolis Research Consortium Survey |publisher=[[University of Chicago]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Neva Gerber]], 79, American [[silent film]] actress<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=%2F1999%2Ffebruary99%2Fgerber.html |last=Doyle |first=Billy |title=Whatever Became of Neva Gerber ? |department=Lost Players |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429221625/http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=%2F1999%2Ffebruary99%2Fgerber.html |archive-date=29 April 2009 |date=February 1999 |journal=[[Classic Images]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 3, 1974 (Thursday)==
[[File:Flag of Myanmar (1974–2010).svg|thumb|right|The new flag of Burma]]
*A [[1974 Constitution of Burma|new constitution]] for the [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma]] took effect on the eve of its independence day celebrations, establishing a one-party regime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blc-burma.org/pdf/Constitution/1974%20Constitution.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727111001/http://www.blc-burma.org/pdf/Constitution/1974%20Constitution.pdf |archive-date=27 July 2011 |title=The Constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974) |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Le4eAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA205 |title=La Constitution Birmane du 3 Janvier 1974 |journal=Corpus Constitutionnel |issue=1 |editor=[[Union Académique Internationale]] |location=[[Leiden]] |publisher=[[E. J. Brill]] |year=1976 |page=205 |isbn=9004045066 |language=fr |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref> It had been approved in [[1973 Burmese constitutional referendum|a constitutional referendum]] held on 15 December. Burma also adopted [[Flag of Myanmar#1974 flag|a new flag]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalflag.idv.tw/zy/mmr.htm |title=緬 甸 MYANMAR / BURMA |website=Globalflag |language=zh |date=26 September 107 |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The citation confirms that the flag was adopted in 1974 and associates its adoption with the new constitution, but does not explicitly say they were adopted the same day.|date=November 2021}} As part of the celebration, Burma's government released 1,212 political prisoners, but detained 1,028 others.<ref>{{cite news |title=Burma Frees 1,212 On Independence Eve |newspaper=Hartford Courant |date=January 4, 1974 |page=11}}</ref> 
*The ''[[Navnirman Andolan]]'' or "Re-invention Movement" took place in India at [[Ahmedabad]], in the state of [[Gujarat]], as students of an engineering school, who had been up in arms since December 20 against price increases for food at the school, confronted the police who tried to intervene. Some students were arrested.<ref name="Krishna">{{cite book |title=India Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8v7Vr2iQUHkC&pg=PA118 |first=V. Krishna |last=Ananth |publisher=[[Longman]] |year=2011 |page=118 |isbn=978-81-317-3465-0 |access-date=8 August 2021 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> On January 7, the protesters called for an indefinite student strike for Gujarat state's universities and colleges and increased their demands to new campus facilities, better food and the arrest of [[black market]] sellers.<ref name="Shah">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20071231-pulse-of-the-people-734871-2007-12-20 |last=Shah |first=Ghanshyam |title=Pulse of the people |magazine=[[India Today]] |date=31 December 2007 |publisher=[[Living Media India Limited]] |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
*On [[Victoria Street, East Sydney|Victoria Street]] in [[East Sydney (locality)|East Sydney]], a 30-man team of workmen used sledgehammers and axes to batter down the doors of 19 houses in the [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|King's Cross]] section of the city, 13 of which were occupied by squatters who had barricaded themselves inside to protest against a proposed development and then defied a court order of eviction. Police arrested 40 of those who refused to get out of the way.<ref>{{cite news |title=40 Arrested in Australian Protest |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 4, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgmann |first1=Meredith |author-link1=Meredith Burgmann |last2=Burgmann |first2=Verity |author-link2=Verity Burgmann |title=Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Laborers' Federation |year=1998 |isbn=0-86840-760-7 |page=263 |publisher=[[UNSW Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4vx-NjjQxsC&pg=PA263 |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Shane |title=1970s: Victoria St Squats, Sydney |journal=Crowbar My Heart |issue=3 |year=2009}} cited in {{cite web |url=http://www.australianmuseumofsquatting.org/?p=418 |title=1970s: Victoria St Squats, Sydney |date=16 January 2012 |website=Australian Museum of Squatting |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=12 August 2021 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-31/juanita-nielsen-murder-came-after-arthur-king-kidnapping/100332232 |last=Dulaney |first=Michael |title=Juanita Nielsen's suspected murder brought Arthur King back to Kings Cross after his terrifying ordeal |publisher=[[ABC Radio National]] |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
*U.S. District Judge [[Julius Hoffman]] dismissed all criminal charges against 12 members of the U.S. domestic terrorist group [[Weather Underground]], including those against [[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Mark Rudd]] and [[Kathy Boudin]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Rioting Charges Dropped— Bernardine Dohrn, Others Involved |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |location=Tucson, Arizona |date=January 4, 1974 |page=6-A}}</ref>
*With the [[NCAA]] recognizing the unofficial champion of college football as the team that finished in first place in the [[Associated Press]] poll of sportswriters (as well as [[United Press International]]'s poll of coaches), the [[1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Fighting Irish of Notre Dame]] finished in first place in the AP poll. Notre Dame, which finished 10-0-0 in regular play and defeated 11-0-0 [[1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] in the [[1973 Sugar Bowl|Sugar Bowl]], received 33 first place votes and 1,128 points overall to finish at number one, while [[1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] (10-0-1) had 11 first place votes and 1,002 points. The UPI poll, taken before the 1973 bowl games, had declared Alabama the national champion in [[December 1973|December]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Notre Dame Wins Final AP Football Poll |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 4, 1974 |page=III-3}}</ref>
*Bob Dylan and The Band begin their 40 date North American tour with a concert at The Chicago Stadium. It is Mr. Dylan's first formal tour since 1966 and serves to relaunch his career for the remainder of the 70's and the decades to come.
*'''Born:'''
**[[Davide Ancilotto]], Italian professional basketball player who died of a [[brain ischemia]] during a preseason game; in [[Mestre]], [[Venice]] (d. 1997)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.legabasket.it/player/ANC-DAV-74/ |title=Davide Ancilotto Guardia |language=it |publisher=[[Lega Basket Serie A]] |access-date=10 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[MV Bill]] (stage name for Alexandre Pereira), Brazilian rapper, actor and songwriter; in [[Rio de Janeiro]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/thesesdissertations%3A218/datastream/PDF/view |last=Dowdy |first=Calenthia S. |title=Youth, Music, and Agency: Undoing Race, Poverty and Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |year=2012 |page=63 |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mike Ireland]], Canadian [[speed skater]] and Olympia, 2001 world sprint champion; in [[Winnipeg]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/87361 |title=Mike Ireland |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
**[[Alessandro Petacchi]], Italian [[road racing cyclist]]; in [[La Spezia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=3676 |title=Alessandro Petacchi |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Franck Riester]], French Minister of Culture, 2020 to 2022; in [[Paris]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/our-ministers/franck-riester/biography/ |publisher=[[Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)|Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Francisco Rivera Ordóñez]], Spanish bullfighter; in [[Madrid]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmcr.org/t3x.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311014148/http://www.rmcr.org/t3x.htm |archive-date=11 March 2007 |title=Dinastías Rondeñas |website=Plaza de Toros de Ronda |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Pablo Thiam]], Guinean footballer with 31 appearances for the national team and a 14-season career in [[Germany]]'s [[Bundesliga]] from 1994 to 2008; in [[Conakry]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/pablo-thiam/ |title=Pablo Thiam - Spielerprofil |website=fussballdaten.de |language=de |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Hayley Yelling]], English long distance runner and European cross country champion, 2004 and 2009; in [[Dorchester, Dorset]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hayley YELLING-HIGHAM {{!}} Profile |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/hayley-yelling-14276821 |publisher=World Athletics |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
**[[Faat Zakirov]], Russian cyclist, winner of the 2001 [[Tour of Slovenia]]; in [[Andijan]], [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic]], Soviet Union<ref>{{cite web |title=Faat Zakirov |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=114018 |website=ProCyclingStats |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Gino Cervi]], 72, Italian comedian, stage, film and TV actor known as the star of the [[RAI]] series ''[[Le inchieste del commissario Maigret]]'' ("The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret") from 1964 to 1972<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p12018 |title=Gino Cervi {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=[[AllMovie]], Netaktion LLC |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Arthur Daley (sportswriter)|Arthur Daley]], 69, American sportswriter for ''[[The New York Times]]'', 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/04/archives/arthur-daley-sports-columnist-dies-took-kierans-place-doubled-as.html |last=Smith |first=Red |author-link=Red Smith (sportswriter) |title=Arthur Daley, Sports Columnist, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 January 1974 |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Maksim Shtraukh]], 73, Soviet film and theater actor, known for portraying [[Vladimir Lenin]] in six movies, including as the star of ''[[Lenin in Poland]]'' in 1966<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/214709/ |title=Максим Штраух — фильМы |trans-title=Maksim Shtraukh — films |publisher=KinoPoisk |language=ru |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 4, 1974 (Friday)==
*By a vote of 427 to 374, the [[Ulster Unionist Council]] in [[Northern Ireland]] voted to reject the [[Sunningdale Agreement]] that had been signed between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to establish a revival of the Northern Ireland Assembly and an advisory [[Council of Ireland]] with representatives from both Northern Ireland and the Republic.<ref name="CAIN Chronology"/>
*Citing [[executive privilege]], U.S. President Richard Nixon refused to surrender over 500 tape recordings that had been [[subpoena]]ed by the [[Senate Watergate Committee]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nixon Rejects Subpoenas for Watergate Tapes, Papers |first=Robert C. |last=Toth |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 6, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref><ref name="Miller">{{cite web |url=https://millercenter.org/president/richard-nixon/key-events |title=Richard Nixon - Key Events |date=7 October 2016 |publisher=[[Miller Center of Public Affairs]], [[University of Virginia]] |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
*In [[Mahlabatini]] in [[South Africa]], [[Harry Schwarz]], the white opposition leader of the [[Transvaal (province)|Transvaal province]] parliament, and [[Mangosuthu Buthelezi]], the black [[List of chief ministers of KwaZulu|Chief Executive Councillor]] of [[KwaZulu]], signed the [[Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith]].<ref>{{cite news |title=South Africa Party and Zulu In Accord |date=7 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/07/archives/south-africa-party-and-zulu-in-accord.html |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/mahlabatini-declaration-faith-4-january-1974 |title=Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith |publisher=[[South African History Online]] |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
*American serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] attacked his first victim, [[University of Washington]] student Karen Sparks, by invading her apartment, then bludgeoning her with a medal rod and assaulting her. Sparks survived the attack but was left permanently disabled.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Keppel |author-link=Robert D. Keppel |title=The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer |publisher=[[Pocket Books]] |year=2005 |page=389}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Sindi Dlathu]], South African actress and musician; in [[Meadowlands, Gauteng|Meadowlands]], [[Gauteng Province]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://briefly.co.za/27334-sindi-dlathu-biography-age-hiv-status-family-husband-wedding-twin.html |last=Kioko |first=Evelyne |title=Sindi Dlathu biography: age, HIV status, family, husband, wedding, and twin |website=Briefly |date=5 January 2021 |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Armin Zöggeler]], Italian Olympic [[luge]] champion, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist; in [[Merano]], [[South Tyrol]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/athlet/erfolge_en.asp?p_id=100089 |title=Zöggeler, Armin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610222057/http://www.fil-luge.org/filext/athlet/erfolge_en.asp?p_id=100089 |archive-date=10 June 2015 |publisher=[[International Luge Federation]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Abdul Ghafoor Breshna]], 66, Afghan painter, composer, poet and film director<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tasvirafghanistan.com/afghan-biographies/752-ustad-abdul-ghafur-breshna |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203160847/http://www.tasvirafghanistan.com/afghan-biographies/752-ustad-abdul-ghafur-breshna |archive-date=3 February 2012 |title=Ustad Abdul Ghafur Breshna |magazine=Tasvir Afghanistan {{!}} Magazine |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Renzo Videsott]], 69, Italian [[conservation movement|conservationist]], founder of the Movimento Italiano per la Protezione della Natura<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ahpne.fr/VIDESOTT-Renzo-1904-1974 |last=Piccioni |first=Luigi |title=VIDESOTT Renzo (1904–1974) |language=fr |publisher=AHPNE |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ellef Mohn]], 79, Norwegian footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/ellef-mohn-1.html |title=Ellef Mohn Bio, Stats, and Results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203160953/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/ellef-mohn-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |publisher=[[Sports Reference LLC]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 5, 1974 (Saturday)==
*The sinking of a ferry boat in the Philippines killed 82 people, when the ship capsized in a storm off the coast of Cebu island's Bagacay Point while on its way back from Christmas holidays in Baybay town in Leyte province. The bodies of 37 people were recovered and another 45 were missing.<ref>{{cite news |title=Filipino Ferry Toll May Reach 82 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 6, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
*The [[Worli riots]] began in the ''[[chawl]]'' of the [[Worli]] neighborhood of [[Bombay]] when the police attempted to disperse a rally of the [[Dalit Panthers]] that had turned violent.<ref>{{cite book |first=Anupama |last=Rao |title=The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2009}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Vardan Minasyan]], Armenian footballer and manager who coached the Armenia national team 2009 to 2013 and 2018; in [[Yerevan]], [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic]], Soviet Union<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/13495/Vardan_Minasyan.html |title=Vardan Minasyan |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Vladimir Loginov (footballer)|Vladimir Loginov]], Kazakhstani footballer with 23 caps for the Kazakhstan national team; in [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]], [[Soviet Union]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/15583/Vladimir_Loginov.html |title=Vladimir Loginov |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Vincent Starrett]], 87, Canadian-born American writer and columnist known for the novel ''[[The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes]]'' and for the Walter Ghost mysteries<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32096864/vs-obit-tribune/ |title=Vincent Starrett dies at age of 87 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=6 January 1974 |page=68 |access-date=6 August 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
**[[J. Pius Barbour]], 79, American Baptist pastor, died of [[gastroenteritis]] following a [[cerebral hemorrhage]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/11/archives/rev-j-pius-barbour.html |title=Rev. J. Pius Barbour |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 January 1974 |at=Page 34, column 4 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Denis William Brogan]], 73, Scottish author and historian<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-152663 |chapter=Brogan, Sir Denis, (11 Aug. 1900-5 Jan. 1974), Professor of Political Science, Cambridge, 1939-68, now Emeritus Professor, and Fellow of... |title=Who's Who 2021 & Who Was Who |publisher=[[A & C Black]] |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U152663 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |via=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tay Hohoff]] (Therese von Hohoff Torrey), 75, American author and literary editor ([[J. B. Lippincott & Co.]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/12/archives/tayhohoff-author-lippincott-officer.html |title=Tay Hohoff, Author, Lippincott Officer |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 January 1974 |at=Page 36, column 5 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Lev Oborin]], 66, Soviet pianist and music educator<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/09/archives/lev-oborin-is-dead-soviet-pianist-66.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap |title=Lev Oborin Is Dead; Soviet Pianist, 66 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=9 January 1974 |at=Page 38, column 3 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 6, 1974 (Sunday)==
*The [[Global Television Network]] became Canada's third English-language [[television network]] (after [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]) when it began broadcasting in [[Toronto]] and southern [[Ontario]].<ref>{{cite news |title=A new TV network comes to life as the old scoffers just fade away |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |location=[[Toronto]] |date=January 5, 1974}}</ref>
*In response to the oil crisis, at 2 a.m. the United States began [[Daylight saving time in the United States#1973–1975: Year-round experiment|a trial period]] of year-round [[daylight saving time]] for the first time since World War II. The change had been enacted by the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] and was intended to run through 2 a.m. on April 27, 1975. Clocks which had been set back an hour across the U.S., less than three months earlier, were set ahead an hour.<ref> {{cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-87/pdf/STATUTE-87-Pg707.pdf |author-link=93rd United States Congress |author= ((93rd United States Congress)) |title=Emergency Daylight Savings Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973 <!-- don't think we need this: |type= AN ACT To provide for daylight saving time on a year-round basis for a two-year trial period, and to require the Federal Communications Commission to permit certain daytime broadcast stations to operate before local sunrise --> | id=HR 11134 |work= Public Law 93-182 |pages=707–709 |date=15 December 1973 |publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]] |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Daylight Time: Little Fuss as Crisis Tempers Old Objections |first=Robert |last=Barkdoll |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 6, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref> The act would later be amended to return to standard time for four months from [[October 1974]] to [[February 1975]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HMgTAAAAIBAJ&pg=5698%2C25916 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=[[Oregon]] |agency=Associated Press |title=End of DST Oct. 27 blow to energy saving |date=1 October 1974 |page=5A |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pqNVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ldkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1973%2C5028250 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |location=Oregon |agency= |title=An hour lost, some daylight gained |date=22 February 1975 |page=1A |via=Google News}}</ref>
*The crash of [[Commonwealth Commuter Flight 317|Air East Flight 317]] killed 12 of the 17 people aboard. The flight crashed on approach to [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], after having departed 35 minutes earlier from [[Pittsburgh]]. The [[Beechcraft Model 99|Beechcraft 99A]] turboprop made a premature descent and clipped a bank of elevated approach lights, then slammed into a steep embankment {{convert|100|yd}} from Runway 33.<ref>{{cite news |title=11 DEAD IN PLANE CRASH AT JOHNSTOWN AIRPORT. |agency=AP |newspaper=The Evening Standard |location=[[Uniontown, Pennsylvania]] |date=7 January 1974}} cited in {{cite web |title=Johnstown, PA Commuter Plane Crashes On Landing, Jan 1974 |url=https://www.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/5509/johnstown-pa-commuter-plane-crashes-landing-jan-1974 |website=GenDisasters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714154802/http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/5509/johnstown-pa-commuter-plane-crashes-landing-jan-1974 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740106-0 |title=Aircraft accident Beechcraft 99A Airliner N125AE Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, PA (JST) |publisher=Aviation Safety Network (ASN) |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref> The [[Federal Aviation Administration]] would shut down the [[Air East]] commuter airline two months later.<ref>{{cite news |title=Air East, Inc. Is Ordered To Halt Operations; Pilots And Planes Cited |agency=AP |newspaper=[[The Observer-Reporter]] |location=[[Washington, Pennsylvania]] |date=March 8, 1974}}</ref> 
*''[[CBS Radio Mystery Theater]]'', hosted by [[E. G. Marshall]], premiered on 218 stations affiliated with the [[CBS Radio Network]], in an attempt to revive radio dramas that had been popular in the U.S. prior to the introduction of television.<ref>{{cite news |title=Radio Roundup |first=Val |last=Adams |newspaper=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |location=[[New York City]] |date=6 January 1974}}</ref> The show would last for eight seasons until going off the air on February 1, 1982. The first episode, "The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill", starred film and TV star [[Agnes Moorehead]].<ref>{{cite news |title=That Old Creaking Doors Has Modern Day Hinges |first=Jean M. |last=White |newspaper=[[San Francisco Examiner]] |date=6 January 1974 |page=20}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Paolo Camossi]], Italian Olympic [[triple jump]] athlete and 2001 World Champion; in [[Gorizia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/paolo-camossi-1.html |title=Paolo Camossi: Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203003526/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/paolo-camossi-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Barry Williams (rugby union)|Barry Williams]], Welsh rugby union player for the Wales national team 1996-2002, and for the [[British & Irish Lions|British Lions]] in 1997; in [[Carmarthen]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Barry Williams |url=http://www.wru.co.uk/1737.php |archive-date=26 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526022400/http://www.wru.co.uk/1737.php |website=[[Welsh Rugby Union]] |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Elisa Miniati]], Italian footballer for the women's national team; in [[Rome]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Italy - E. Miniati - Profile with news, career statistics and history |url=https://us.women.soccerway.com/coaches/elisa-miniati/292280/ |website=Women Soccerway |publisher=Perform Group |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>
**[[Romain Sardou]], French novelist; in [[Boulogne-Billancourt]], [[Hauts-de-Seine]] département<ref>{{cite web <!-- Citation bot no --> |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14442583m |title=Notice de personne "Sardou, Romain (1974-....)" |trans-title=Person record "Sardou, Romain (1974-....)" |work=Catalogue général |type=database record |language=French |publisher=[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Pyotr Nikiforov]], 91, Russian revolutionary who served as the Premier of the [[Far Eastern Republic]] in 1921, later a Soviet government official<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://bse.sci-lib.com/article081731.html |title=Никифоров Петр Михайлович |trans-title=Nikiforov Petr Mikhailovich |encyclopedia=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] |language=ru |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], 77, Mexican painter and muralist<ref>{{cite news |title=Siqueiros, Mexico Muralist Who Ranked with Rivera, Dies at 77 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 7, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=David Alfaro Siqueiros Biography |author=((Biography.com Editors)) |website=[[Biography.com]] |url=https://www.biography.com/artist/david-alfaro-siqueiros |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]] |date=14 April 2021 |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
**Sister [[Margit Slachta]], 89, Hungarian social activist and politician who founded the [[Sisters of Social Service]] in 1923; recognized in 1985 as one of the [[Righteous Among the Nations]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=4044386&ind=NaN |title=Slachta Margit |work=The Righteous Among the Nations Database |publisher=[[Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 7, 1974 (Monday)==
*Gasoline rationing began in [[Sweden]], with private vehicles limited to only 100 liters (26 U.S. gallons) of gas for the 53 days between January 7 and February 28, as Sweden became the first Western European nation to begin rationing.<ref>{{cite news |title=Swedes Fill Tanks on Eve of Rationing |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 7, 1974 |page=I-14}}</ref>
*Former Northern Ireland Prime Minister [[Brian Faulkner]] resigned as the leader of the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] in the wake of the Party's January 4 rejection of the [[Sunningdale Agreement]].<ref name="CAIN Chronology"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Faulkner Quits as Party Chief to Press Unity |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 8, 1974 |page=I-10}}</ref>
*[[Bora Laskin]] was sworn in as the 14th [[Chief Justice of Canada]] to replace the retiring [[Gérald Fauteux]]. In appointing Laskin, [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Pierre Trudeau]] broke with tradition by passing over the more senior justice, [[Ronald Martland]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Michener swears in Laskin as chief of Supreme Court |newspaper=[[Montreal Star]] |date=8 January 1974 |page=A-8}}</ref>
*The "[[Gombe Chimpanzee War]]" broke out in [[Tanzania]]'s [[Gombe Stream National Park]] between two groups of [[Eastern chimpanzee]]s (''Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii'') that primatologist [[Jane Goodall]] had studied since 1960. A group of eight male primates, dubbed by Goodall as the [[Kahama Rural District|Kahama community]], had broken away from the [[Kasakela chimpanzee community]]. Eight Kasakela males attacked and killed the Kahama male "Godi", beginning a four-year-long "war" between the two groups.<ref>{{cite book |last=Morris |first=Ian |author-link=Ian Morris (historian) |title=War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots |chapter=Red in Tooth and Claw: Why the Chimps of Gombe Went to War |publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtcjAwAAQBAJ&dq=gombe+chimpanzee+war+january+1974&pg=PA288 |year=2014 |location=[[New York City|New York]] |page=288 |isbn=978-0-374-28600-2 |access-date=3 November 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Varun Badola]], Indian TV actor and comedian known as the star of ''[[Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan (TV series)|Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan]]'', and as the male lead of the soap opera ''[[Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani]]''; in [[New Delhi]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/television/celebrity/story/mere-dad-ki-dulhan-s-anjali-tatrari-gets-varun-badola-a-handmade-cake-on-his-birthday-1635293-2020-01-09 |title=Mere Dad Ki Dulhan's Anjali Tatrari gets Varun Badola homemade cake on his birthday |magazine=India Today |date=9 January 2020 |publisher=Living Media India Limited |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Julen Guerrero]], Spanish footballer for 14 seasons with Athletic Bilbao and 41 appearances for the Spain national team; in [[Portugalete]], [[Biscay]] province<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/11262/Julen_Guerrero.html |title=Julen Guerrero |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[İbrahim Kutluay]], Turkish basketball player who was the top scorer in the EuroLague (1999), the Turkish League (1999) and the Greek Cup finals (2001); in [[Yalova]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?clubcode=ulk&pcode=ABI#!careerstats |title=KUTLUAY, IBRAHIM - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL |publisher=Euroleague Ventures SA |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Vance McAllister]], controversial U.S. Congressman for [[Louisiana]]; in [[Oak Grove, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana|Oak Grove, Louisiana]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M001192 |title=MCALLISTER, Vance M. 1974 – |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Joseph L. Erb]], U.S. and [[Cherokee Nation]] filmmaker and computer animator; in [[Gore, Oklahoma]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Charles Coulson]], 63, British [[applied mathematician]] and [[theoretical chemist]] known for the [[Coulson–Fischer theory]] and the [[Chirgwin–Coulson weights]] measurement of valence bond, as well as other applications of [[molecular physics]] to [[valence bond theory]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Coulson/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author-link2=Edmund F. Robertson |title=Charles Coulson (1910 - 1974) - Biography |work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]] |date=February 2005 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**General [[Wang Shusheng]], 69, Vice Minister of National Defense for the People's Republic of China<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Peking Vice Minister of Defense Told |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=12 January 1974 |page=I-10}}</ref>
**[[Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen|Paul Methuen, Baron Methuen]] {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}}, 87, English painter and [[zoologist]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/09/archives/baron-paul-methuen.html |title=Baron Paul Methuen |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=9 January 1974 |at=Page 38, column 3 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Paul Ashford Methuen, Lord Methuen, R.A., R.W.S. |journal=[[The Antiquaries Journal]] |volume=55 |issue=2 |date=September 1975 |publisher=[[The Society of Antiquaries of London]] |page=494 |doi=10.1017/S0003581500008878 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The lizard [[Methuen's dwarf gecko]] (''Lygodactylus methueni'') is named in his honor, and he is known for his identification of the frog [[genus]] ''[[Gephyromantis]]'', as well as the [[Karoo dwarf chameleon]] (''Bradypodion karrooicum'') and for [[Standing's day gecko]] (''Phelsuma standingi'').
**[[Margaret Q. Adams]], 99, the first woman to serve as a [[deputy sheriff]] in the United States, sworn in to the [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]] in 1912 and retiring in 1947. <ref>{{cite news |title=County's First Woman Deputy Sheriff, 99, Dies |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 9, 1974 |page=II-2}}</ref>
**[[Marvin Glass]], 59, American toy designer, died of complications from a stroke<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/09/archives/marvin-glass-59-designer-of-toys-head-of-development-firm-and-a.html |title=Marvin Glass, 59, Designer of Toys |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 January 1974 |at=Page 38, column 4 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 8, 1974 (Tuesday)==
*In response to increasing demands by protesters for more freedom, [[South Korea]]'s President [[Park Chung Hee]] issued an emergency decree making it illegal "to deny, oppose, misrepresent, or defame" the president's decisions, as well as prohibiting the reporting of news of dissent "through broadcasting, reporting or publishing, or by any other means." The South Korean press immediately ceased reporting on protests. Persons violating the decree were subject to arrest without a warrant and to trial by a military court, punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news |title=South Korean Leader Bans Political Dissent— Meets Demand for More Freedom With Decree One Step Short of Martial Law |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 9, 1974 |page=I-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/south-korea-police-detain-and-harass-opposition-leaders-south-korea.html |last=Butterfield |first=Fox |author-link=Fox Butterfield |title=South Korea Police Detain and Harass Opposition Leaders |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 January 1974 |at=Page 1, column 6 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>
*Delegates to a meeting of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) made a major change in the rules of amateur athletics, amending the NCAA rules to allow athletes to receive money to play as professionals in one sport and to play at the college level in other sports. The resolution, requiring two-thirds approval, passed by four votes, 258 to 123.<ref>{{cite news |title=NCAA Votes to Allow Pros to Compete as Collegians— Must Perform in Sport Other Than Specialty |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 9, 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Kamla Abou Zekry]], Egyptian TV and film director known for her 2004 romantic comedy ''[[First Year of Deception|Sana Oula Nasb]]'' ("The First Year of Deception"); in [[Cairo]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Four Arab female filmmakers making Arab cinema international |newspaper=[[Egypt Today]] |date=May 17, 2018}}</ref>
**[[Nicholas White (South African cyclist)|Nicholas White]], South African [[racing cyclist]] who won the 2007-2008 [[UCI Africa Tour]]; in [[Johannesburg]], [[Gauteng]], South Africa<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/nicholas-white |title=Nicholas White |website=ProCyclingStats |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Nicholas White |website=le site du Cyclisme |url=http://www.siteducyclisme.net/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=9757 |publisher=de Wielersite |language=fr |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[David Sarnoff#Family life|Lizette Hermant Sarnoff]], 79, French-born widow of [[David Sarnoff]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/10/archives/mrs-david-sarnoff-dies-at-79-widow-of-broadcasting-pioneer.html |last=Fowle |first=Farnsworth |title=Mrs. David Sarnoff Dies at 79; Widow of Broadcasting Pioneer |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 1-2 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 9, 1974 (Wednesday)==
*Representatives of the 12 member nations of the [[Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) concluded their three-day meeting in [[Switzerland]] at [[Geneva]] and voted for a three-month freeze on oil prices.<ref>{{cite news |title=12 Oil Nations Freezing Prices Until April 1 |newspaper=[[Miami Herald]] |author= |date=10 January 1974 |page=32-A}}</ref> [[Saudi Arabia]] had been willing to reduce [[crude oil]] prices but faced opposition from [[Algeria]], [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]].
*In [[Colombia]], all 32 people aboard a [[SATENA]] airlines flight were killed when the Hawker Siddeley HS-748 crashed into Gabinete Mountain shortly after departing Florencia as part of a multistop flight from Bucaramanga to Bogota.<ref>{{cite news |title=28 Feared Dead in Colombia Crash |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=January 10, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref><ref name="SATENA">{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740109-0 |title=FAC-1103 Accident description |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=AviationSafetyNetwork |publisher=AVS |access-date=May 5, 2017}}</ref>
*The Soviet Writers' Union expelled novelist [[Lydia Chukovskaya]] after she had come to the defense of dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, virtually preventing her from having future works published.<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=January 10, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
[[File:1973 UEFA Super Cup (Milan, 1974, first leg) - AC Milan v Ajax Amsterdam - Luciano Chiarugi & Heinz Stuy.jpg|thumb|Milan striker [[Luciano Chiarugi]] and Ajax goalkeeper [[Heinz Stuy]] in the first leg of the 1973 European Super Cup]]
*In the first leg of the two-game [[1973 European Super Cup]] series, played at [[San Siro]] in Milan, Italy, [[A.C. Milan]] defeated [[AFC Ajax|Ajax Amsterdam]] by a score of 1–0. The second leg took place one week later at Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, with the outcome determined by the aggregate of the two scores, with Ajax effectively winning 35 minutes into the match with the second of six goals.<ref name="Super Cup">{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/1973/ |title=1973 Super Cup: Ajax enjoy early success |date=March 1974 |publisher=[[UEFA]] |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>
*Mrs. [[Noah Greenberg]], president of the board of the [[New York Pro Musica]] ensemble, announced that the group would disband at the end of its current season, with its final performance scheduled for May 16.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/10/archives/pro-musica-will-disband-after-20-melodious-years.html |last=Hughes |first=Allen |author-link=Allen Hughes |title=Pro Musica Will Disband After 20 Melodious Years |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 1974 |at=Page 45, columns 1-2 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>
*In the U.S. state of Michigan, state Senator [[Charles N. Youngblood Jr.]] resigned after his conviction for conspiracy to bribe a public official over a liquor license for a supermarket chain.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://aadl.org/node/82536 |title=Youngblood Quits; Stamm Case Next |last=Longstaff |first=Robert H. |page=27 |newspaper=[[The Ann Arbor News]] |date=10 January 1974 |via=[[Ann Arbor District Library]] |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Michigan Daily]] |url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754464/21 |title=Youngblood resigns from State Senate |agency=UPI |date=10 January 1974 |volume=84 |issue=83 |page=3 |via=Michigan Daily Digital Archives |publisher=[[Regents of the University of Michigan]] |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Farhan Akhtar]], Indian actor, screenwriter, producer and director known for ''[[Dil Chahta Hai]]'' (as writer, 2001) ("What the Heart Desires"); ''[[Rock On!!]]'' (as director, 2008); and ''[[Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara]]'' ("You Only Live Once") (as producer, 2011); in [[Bombay]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/09slid1.htm |title=Farhan Akhtar turns 34 |publisher=[[Rediff]] |date=9 January 2008 |access-date=29 July 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715165435/http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/jan/09slid1.htm |archive-date=15 July 2011}}</ref>
**[[Nicole Johnson (Miss America)|Nicole Johnson]], [[Miss America 1999]] and the first Miss America with [[diabetes]], now an activist for the [[American Diabetes Association]]; in [[St. Petersburg, Florida]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.missamerica.org/1998/va.html |title=Meet Miss Virginia 1998 |publisher=[[Miss America Organization]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990423191050/http://www.missamerica.org/1998/va.html |archive-date=23 April 1999 |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Stevie Crawford]], Scottish footballer and manager, with 25 caps as striker for the Scotland national team; in [[Dunfermline]], [[Fife]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/5746/Stevie_Crawford.html |title=Stevie Crawford |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Sávio]] (born Sávio Bortolini Pimentel), Brazilian footballer, with 21 caps for the Brazil national team; in [[Vila Velha]], [[Espírito Santo]] state<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/11255/Savio.html |title=Sávio |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Darren Debono]], Maltese footballer, with 56 caps for the Malta national team<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/4235/Darren_Debono.html |title=Darren Debono |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Wangay Dorji]], Bhutanese footballer, with 15 caps for the Bhutan  national team; in [[Thimphu]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/820/Wangay_Dorji.html |title=Wangay Dorji |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jesulín de Ubrique]] (born Jesús Janeiro Bazán), Spanish [[bullfighter]]; in Ubrique, [[Province of Cádiz]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portaltaurino.com/matadores/jesulin.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313125905/http://portaltaurino.com/matadores/jesulin.htm |archive-date=13 March 2012 |title=JESUS JANEIRO BAZÁN, JESULÍN DE UBRIQUE, Torero de España Cádiz |publisher=PortalTaurino |language=es |url-status=usurped |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Omari Hardwick]], American actor, poet, rapper and producer known for ''[[Dark Blue (TV series)|Dark Blue]]'', ''[[Being Mary Jane]]'', and ''[[Army of the Dead]]''; in [[Savannah, Georgia]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Omari Hardwick - Actor |url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/omari-hardwick/ |website=[[TV Insider]] |publisher=NTVB Media, Inc. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ramón Nomar]], popular Venezuelan-born Spanish pornographic actor; in [[Caracas]]<ref>{{cite web |title=ramon nomar |publisher=[[iafd.com]] |url=https://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=ramonnomar/gender=male |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Frank E. McKinney]], 69, American businessman, chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]] 1951-1952<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/11/archives/frank-e-mckinney-sr-is-dead-headed-democratic-committee-epitomized.html |title=Frank E. McKinney Sr. Is Dead; Headed Democratic Committee |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 January 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 1-2 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 10, 1974 (Thursday)==
*[[Gnassingbé Eyadéma|Étienne Eyadéma]], [[president of Togo|President]] of the [[Togo|Togolese Republic]] in west Africa, announced the nationalization of the nation's [[phosphate]] mining industry and of the privately-owned Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin. Two weeks later, his presidential plane would [[1974 Togo presidential C-47 crash|crash on landing]] near Sarakawa, an incident that Eyadéma believed was an assassination attempt by saboteurs paid by company shareholders.<ref name=village>{{cite book |last=Packer |first=George |author-link=George Packer |title=The Village of Waiting |publisher=Macmillan |year=2001 |page=104}}</ref>
*The crew of ''[[Skylab 4]]'' was granted a day off. Edward Gibson spent most of the day conducting solar observations using the station's [[coronagraph]], while Gerald Carr and William Pogue relaxed.<ref name="Skylab">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4208/ch17.htm#t8 |title=Living and Working in Space: A History of Skylab |chapter=The Last Mission |last1=Benson |first1=Charles Dunlap |last2=Compton |first2=William David |date=November 1981 |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=21 October 2021}}</ref>
*As part of its [[Operation Arbor]] nuclear test series at the [[Nevada Test Site]], the U.S. carried out three simultaneous nuclear explosions at the same site.<ref>{{cite web |title=United States Nuclear Tests July 1945 through September 1992 |url=http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_209_REV15.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012160826/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/publications/historical/DOENV_209_REV15.pdf |archive-date=12 October 2006 |date=December 2000 |publisher=[[United States Department of Energy]] Nevada Operations Office |location=[[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]] |pages=68–69 |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*In [[Los Mochis]], [[Sinaloa]] in Mexico, the [[Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Mexico)|Universidad Autónoma de Occidente]] (UdeO) was established as the Centro de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (CESO).
*[[Joe Remiro]], a co-founder of the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] U.S. terrorist group, was arrested along with Russell Little on suspicion of committing the November 6 murder of [[Marcus Foster]], the superintendent of public schools in [[Oakland]], [[California]]. Remiro would be sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, while Little's conviction would be overturned in 1981.
*In solidarity with the protest by engineering school students at the University of Ahmedabad in India, university students of the ''Navnirman Andolan'' movement called for a ''[[bandh]]'',<ref name="Krishna"/> leading to a violent two-day riot in Ahmedabad and [[Vadodara]],<ref name="Shah"/> and police firing on the crowd.
*'''Born:'''
**[[Hrithik Roshan]], Indian film and TV actor known as star of the sci-fi film ''[[ Koi... Mil Gaya ]]'' and in the title role of the superhero film [[Krrish (franchise)|Krrish film series]], and as a judge on TV's ''[[Just Dance (Indian TV series)|Just Dance]]''; in [[Bombay]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Vijayakar |first=R.M. |title=Why Hrithik Roshan's Birthday Month January Is Special for Him? |url=https://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/bollywood/why-hrithik-roshan-s-birthday-month-january-is-special-for-him/article_a0359866-0438-11e8-b72d-27ba22933858.html |date=28 January 2018 |journal=India West |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831195136/https://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/bollywood/why-hrithik-roshan-s-birthday-month-january-is-special-for-him/article_a0359866-0438-11e8-b72d-27ba22933858.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
**[[Kelly Marcel]], British screenwriter of the film ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey (film)|Fifty Shades of Grey]]''; in [[London]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Jemaine Clement]], New Zealand actor, musician and comedian  known for ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]''; in [[Masterton]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/10/UPI-Almanac-for-Friday-Jan-10-2020/8011578535365/ |title=UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 |author=United Press International |date=10 January 2020 |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/flight-conchords-bfg-14220 |last=Mottram |first=James |title=Jemaine Clement: 'I worry that I'm not taking Hollywood seriously enough' |date=14 July 2016 |journal=[[i (newspaper)|i]] |publisher=[[Associated Newspapers Limited]] |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Steve Marlet]], French footballer with 23 caps for the France national team; in [[Pithiviers]], [[Loiret]] département<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur2806.html |title=Fiche de Steve Marlet, l'actu le palmares et les stats de Steve Marlet |trans-title=Steve Marlet's sheet, Steve Marlet's palmarès and stats |language=fr |publisher=[[L'Équipe]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Johan Botha (runner)|Johan Botha]], South African Olympic middle-distance runner; 1999 champion in the 800 metre race; in [[Pretoria]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/johan-botha-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714084626/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/johan-botha-1.html |archive-date=14 July 2017 |title=Johan Botha Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza]], Polish Olympic [[sprint canoer]], 1999 world champion in the women's K-2 500 metres; in [[Gorzów Wielkopolski]], [[Lubusz Voivodeship]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/beata-sokolowska-kulesza-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703001757/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/beata-sokolowska-kulesza-1.html |archive-date=3 July 2017 |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Onyok Velasco]] (born Mansueto Velasco, Jr.), Filipino Olympic boxer; in [[Bago, Negros Occidental]], [[Philippines]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/mansueto-velasco-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418010818/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/mansueto-velasco-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Mansueto Velasco Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Martin Scherber]], 66, German composer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://musicalics.com/en/node/98561 |title=Martin Scherber |work=The Classical Composers Database |date=13 November 2004 |publisher=Musicalics |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Eddie Safranski]], 55, American [[jazz]] double bassist, composer and arranger<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/jazz/jazz---early-years/eddie-safranski |title=Eddie Safranski |website=Pittsburgh Music History |access-date=7 August 2021 |archive-date=7 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807091206/https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/jazz/jazz---early-years/eddie-safranski |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**[[Richard F. Cleveland]], 76, American lawyer, son of U.S. President [[Grover Cleveland]], known as investigator for the [[Alger Hiss]] case<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/11/archives/richard-cleveland-dead-at-76-lawyer-was-son-of-president.html |title=Richard Cleveland Dead at 76; Lawyer Was Son of President |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=11 January 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 3-4 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 11, 1974 (Friday)==
*[[Rosenkowitz sextuplets|The first surviving sextuplets]] in recorded human history— David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz— were born in [[South Africa]] to 25-year-old Susan Rosenkowitz at the Mowbray Maternity Hospital in [[Cape Town]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/12/archives/sextuplets-born-in-capetown-survival-chances-called-good.html |title=Sextuplets Born in Capetown; Survival Chances Called Good |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=12 January 1974 |at=Page 2, columns 3-4 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Guinness Book of World Records |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xk1NAAAAYAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=[[Sterling Publishing Company]] |page=33 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*On the Tunisian island of [[Djerba]], Tunisia's President [[Habib Bourguiba]] and Libya's President [[Muammar Gaddafi]] signed the [[Djerba Declaration]], committing [[Tunisia]] and [[Libya]] to a merger as the [[Arab Islamic Republic]]. The two presidents announced the next day, 12 January 1974, that referendums would take place in each country on 18 January 1974, later postponed to 20 March 1974, to vote on the issue.<ref>{{cite news |title=Libya-Tunisia Merger Suffers Major Blow— Tunis Radio Reports Borguiba's Firing of That Nation's Main Union Proponent |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=William J. |last=Coughlin |date=January 13, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Libya and Tunisia Agree to Merge; Plan Referendum |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 January 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 6-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/libya-and-tunisia-agree-to-merge-plan-referendum-two-days-of.html |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/23/archives/libya-and-tunisia-planning-union-share-border-but-little-else-a.html |last=Giniger |first=Henry |title=Libya and Tunisia, Planning Union, Share Border but Little Else |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 January 1974 |at=Page 12, columns 1-6 |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref> The scheduled vote was soon cancelled after Tunisia's Foreign Minister Mohammed Masmoudi was fired on January 14.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tunisia and Libya Will Merge Into Single Nation |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |first=Jonathan G. |last=Randall |date=January 15, 1974 |page=I-17}}</ref>
*Investigative reporter [[Tad Szulc]] revealed that the U.S. [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) had spent six months in 1964 and 1965 to finance a plot to assassinate Cuba's premier [[Fidel Castro]] and then to invade Cuba. Szulc's article was published five days later in ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Writer Says CIA Had Plans to Kill Castro— Invasion of Cuba Was to Follow, He Says, but Dominican Republic Crisis Intervened |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=January 12, 1974 |page=I-6}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Giuseppe Filianoti]], Italian opera [[lyric tenor]]; in [[Reggio Calabria]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Kim Chambers]], American pornographic actress; in [[Fullerton, California]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Kim Chambers |publisher=[[iafd.com]] |url=http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=KChambers/gender=f/Kim-Chambers.htm |access-date=1 August 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210084906/http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid%3DKChambers/gender%3Df/Kim-Chambers.htm |archive-date=10 February 2009}}</ref>
**[[Jens Nowotny]], German footballer with 48 caps for the German national team; in [[Malsch]], [[Baden-Württemberg]] state, [[West Germany]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jens-nowotny/ |title=Jens Nowotny |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Xiong Ni]], Chinese diver and Olympian, three-time gold medalist from the 1996 and 2000 games; in [[Changsha]], [[Hunan]] province<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad |url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/62/93/article211929362.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808181326/http://en.beijing2008.cn/62/93/article211929362.shtml |archive-date=8 August 2008 |title=Xiong Ni |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Antonio Bautista]], 36, [[Philippine Air Force]] pilot who was also a member of the Blue Diamonds and Sabres aerial demonstration teams, was shot down over Jolo Island while providing support for government troops against rebels. The [[Antonio Bautista Air Base]], located on [[Palawan]] near [[Puerto Princesa]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |title=On The Wings of Angels: The Last Flight of Lt Col Antonio M Bautista |url=https://defenseph.net/drp/index.php?topic=198.0 |author=ajrakoni |date=7 October 2012 |publisher=[[Simple Machines Forum|Simple Machines]] |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831200329/https://defenseph.net/drp/index.php?topic=198.0 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**[[Margit Barnay]], 77, German silent film actress<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/365_barnay_margit.htm |title=Margit Barnay |language=de |website=steffi-line.de |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tony Lama]], 86, American boot manufacturer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/12/archives/tony-lama-sr-founder-and-head-of-boot-company.html |title=Tony Lama Sr., Founder And Head of Boot Company |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 January 1974 |at=Page 36, column 3 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Clotilde von Derp]] (born Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz), 81, German [[expressionist dancer]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz109341.html |last=Peter |first=Frank-Manuel |author-link=Frank-Manuel Peter |title=Sacharoff, Clotilde |work=[[Deutsche Biographie]] |language=de |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ted Poston]], 67, African-American journalist and author<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/12/archives/ted-poston-veteran-reporter-dies-principal-impact-went-to-soviet.html |last=Fraser |first=C. Gerald |title=Ted Poston, Veteran Reporter, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 January 1974 |at=Page 36, columns 2-4 |access-date=6 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 12, 1974 (Saturday)==
*The [[Ethiopian Revolution]] began as rank-and-file soldiers of the [[Negele Borana]] garrison of the Fourth Brigade of the [[Ethiopian Ground Forces]] mutinied over bad food and the lack of drinking water. The mutineers seized Lieutenant General Deresse Dubale, [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] [[Haile Selassie]]'s personal envoy, and forced him to eat and drink as they did for a week.<ref>{{cite book |last=Keller |first=Edmond J. |author-link=Edmond Keller |title=Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic |location=[[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]] and [[Indianapolis]] |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ts7ErVABO0C&pg=PA173 |pages=173–174 |isbn=0-253-35014-X |access-date=14 August 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*Gasoline rationing began in the [[Netherlands]], as residents were limited to 60 liters (less than 16 U.S. gallons) of gasoline for a month.<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=13 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref> The Dutch government ended the rationing eight days early, ending on February 4.<ref name=LAT012474>{{cite news |title=Dutch to End Gas Rationing |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=24 January 1974 |page=I-12}}</ref>
*Stephanie Britton, 57, and her 4-year-old grandson, Christopher Martin, were stabbed to death at their home on Hadley Green Road in the [[London Borough of Barnet]]. {{Asof|2019}} the case remained unsolved, although [[serial killer]] [[Patrick Mackay]] was a suspect.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=8540760&catln=6 |title=S E BRITTON and her four year old grandson, C J N MARTIN: victims of unsolved murder at... |website=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |access-date=28 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-butchered-priest-beg-killer-18457225 |last=Blackburn |first=Ralph |title=Family of butchered priest beg for killer to remain in jail 40 years after killing spree |date=20 July 2019 |journal=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=28 September 2021}}</ref>
*Television was introduced in the African nation of [[Tanzania]] as [[TVZ]] (Television Zanzibar) was inaugurated in a ceremony by Zanzibar's President [[Aboud Jumbe]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1977-TV-Factbook/1977-TV-Factbook.pdf |chapter=International Directory of TV Stations and Sets— Tanzania |title=Television Factbook |edition=1977 |publisher=Television Digest Inc. |page=1131 |via=worldradiohistory.com}}</ref>
*[[Felix Díaz Ortega]] founded the right-wing [[New Order (Venezuela)|Nuevo Orden]] political party in [[Venezuela]].<ref> {{cite web |website=[[aporrea.org]] |url=http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a6152.html |title=La presencia del fascismo en Venezuela |date=21 December 2003 |trans-title=The presence of fascism in Venezuela |language=es |access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref>
*The [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] elected four new inductees, who would be enshrined on July 27: From the [[Chicago Bears]], [[Bill George (linebacker)|Bill George]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/bill-george/capsule/ |title=Bill George Capsule |website=Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref> [[Cleveland Browns]] long-time [[placekicker]] [[Lou Groza]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/lou-groza/capsule/ |title=Lou Groza Capsule |website=Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref> [[Detroit Lions]] interception master [[Night Train Lane]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/dick-night-train-lane/capsule/ |title=Dick Lane Capsule |website=Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref> and [[Green Bay Packers]] [[running back]] [[Tony Canadeo]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/tony-canadeo/capsule/ |title=Tony Canadeo Capsule |website=Pro Football Hall of Fame Official Site |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Melanie C]] (stage name for Melanie Jayne Chisholm), English singer-songwriter for the [[Spice Girls]]; in [[Whiston, Merseyside]], England<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/12/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-12-2020/8721578623716/ |title=UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 |publisher=UPI |date=12 January 2020 |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Hámilton Ricard]], Colombian footballer with 27 caps for the Colombia national team; in [[Quibdó]], [[Chocó Department]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/10243/Hamilton_Ricard.html |title=Hámilton Ricard |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Eri Irianto]], Indonesian footballer with 16 caps for the national team; in [[Sidoarjo Regency]], [[East Java]] (died of a [[heart attack]] during a match, 2000)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/28241/Eri_Irianto.html |title=Eri Irianto |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ivica Mornar]], Croatian footballer with 22 caps for the Croatian national team; in [[Split, Croatia|Split]], [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]], Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=14376 |title=Ivica Mornar, international footballer |website=eu-football.info |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Milen Petkov]], Bulgarian footballer with 37 caps for the Bulgaria national team; in [[General Toshevo]], [[Dobrich Province]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/1120/Milen_Petkov.html |title=Milen Petkov |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tor Arne Hetland]], Norwegian Olympic [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skier]] and 2002 gold medalist; in [[Stavanger]], [[Norway]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=24640 |title=HETLAND Tor Arne - Athlete Information |publisher=[[International Ski Federation|FIS]] |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Nina Proll]], Austrian film and TV actress; in [[Vienna]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p264338 |title=Nina Proll {{!}} Movies and Filmography |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Aaron Seltzer]], Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter and partner with Jason Friedberg; in [[Mississauga]], [[Ontario]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Séverine Vandenhende]], French Olympic [[judo]] champion, 2000 Olympic gold medalist; in [[Dechy]], [[Nord (French department)|Nord]] département<ref>{{cite web |title=Séverine Vandenhende |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/92302 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Nunzio Malasomma]], 79, Italian film director and screenwriter known for 41 Italian and German films from 1923 to 1968, including the popular Italian comedy ''[[The Devil in the Convent|Il Diavolo in convento]]'' and melodrama ''[[Four Red Roses|Quattro rose rosse]]'', and the German dramas ''[[The Secret Lie|Die fromme Lüge]]'' and ''[[The Night of Decision (1938 film)| Die Nacht der Entscheidung]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mymovies.it/filmografia/?r=240 |title=Filmografia Nunzio Malasomma |language=it |publisher=[[Mymovies.it|MYmovies]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jack Jacobs|"Indian Jack" Jacobs]], 54, American and Muscogee Nation native, NFL and [[Canadian Football League]] [[quarterback]] and [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]], 1952 Most Outstanding Player for the WIFU, died of a heart attack.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jack-jacobs |last=Cosentino |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Cosentino |title=Jack Jacobs |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |date=14 December 2013 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Chris Mackintosh]], 70, Scottish all-around athlete who played [[rugby union]] for the Scotland national team, as well competing in the [[long jump]] finals in the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1938 world championship in the [[bobsled]] competition<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/chris-mackintosh-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035449/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/chris-mackintosh-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Chris Mackintosh Bio, Stats, and Results |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Princess Patricia of Connaught|Lady Patricia Ramsay]], 87, granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]], who renounced her royal title of Princess Patricia of Connaught in 1919 in order to marry a commoner<ref>{{cite news |title=Lady Patricia Ramsay Is Dead; Granddaughter of Victoria, 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/14/archives/lady-patricia-ramsay-is-dead-granddaughter-of-victoria-87-renounced.html |date=14 January 1974 |agency=AP |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>

==January 13, 1974 (Sunday)==
[[File:DFWAirportOverview.jpg|200px|thumb|DFW<ref>required attribution: Todd MacDonald</ref>]]
*[[Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport]] (DFW), which would become the second-busiest in the world for passenger service, opened in the U.S. state of [[Texas]] for scheduled flights. The first flight to land was a Boeing 727 arriving from [[Memphis, Tennessee]]. American Airlines Flight 293 to Los Angeles became DFW's first departure several hours later.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Nation |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=14 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref> Operated by the cities of [[Dallas]] and [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], the airport occupies {{convert|27|sqmi}} of land in [[Dallas County, Texas|Dallas County]] and [[Tarrant County, Texas|Tarrant County]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Nation |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=13 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref><ref name="FAA">{{cite web |url=https://www.faa.gov/about/history/chronolog_history/media/b-chron.pdf |title=FAA HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY, 1926-1996 |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]] |department=History |page=175 |access-date=June 16, 2022}}</ref>
*Heinrich Lipphardt, a German businessman who had been held prisoner in since 1953 by the Communist government of the [[People's Republic of China]], was set free and allowed to cross into British [[Hong Kong]] at the Lowu border crossing. Lipphardt, who had operated a business in northern China before the 1949 Chinese Revolution, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for spying.<ref>{{cite news |title=China Frees German Held 20 Years |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=14 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
*With the island of [[Grenada]] to become independent on February 7, Queen [[Elizabeth II]] dismissed the British Governor, Dame [[Hilda Bynoe]], from office at the request of Prime Minister [[Eric Gairy]]. Gairy's predecessor, [[Herbert Blaize]], had appointed Dame Hilda.<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |author= |date=14 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
[[File:Super Bowl VIII Ring - NFL Draft Experience 2021.jpg|100px|thumb|A Miami Dolphins Super Bowl VIII ring]]
*In [[Super Bowl VIII]], held at [[Rice Stadium (Rice University)|Rice Stadium]] in [[Houston]], [[Texas]], the [[American Football Conference]] (AFC) champion [[1973 Miami Dolphins season|Miami Dolphins]] retained their title as [[National Football League]] champions, defeating the [[National Football Conference]] (NFC) champion [[1973 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]] by a score of 24–7.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shula's Dolphins: A Match for Lombardi's Pack— Miami Beats Vikings, 24-7, in Super Bowl |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Bob |last=Oates |date=14 January 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Ring Bearers |magazine=Super Bowl LIII Game Program |publisher=For the [[NFL]] by H. O. Zimman, Inc. |date=3 February 2019 |page=164}}</ref>
*New Zealand racing driver [[Denny Hulme]] won the [[1974 Argentine Grand Prix]] at [[Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez|Autodromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires]], Argentina.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grandprix.com/gpe/rr236.html |title=Argentine GP, 1974 |website=Grandprix.com |publisher=Inside F1 Inc |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Sergei Brylin]], Russian ice hockey player for [[HC CSKA Moscow]] in the USSR and Russia, and for 16 seasons with the NHL [[New Jersey Devils]]; in [[Moscow]], Soviet Union<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/brylise01.html |title=Sergei Brylin Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mary Jo Sanders]], female U.S. professional boxer with 25 wins and one loss; in [[Detroit]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Jo Sanders |url=https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/172116 |publisher=[[BoxRec]] |access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hotboxingnews.com/biography/biosandersmaryjo.htm |title=MARY JO SANDERS |department=Boxer Profile Biography |publisher=WBAN |access-date=3 November 2021 |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104012752/http://www.hotboxingnews.com/biography/biosandersmaryjo.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
**[[Jason Sasser]], American pro basketball player in the NBA, scoring champion 1998 in the minor league [[Continental Basketball Association]]; in [[Denton, Texas]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sasseja01.html |title=Jason Sasser Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Raoul Jobin]], 67, [[French Canadians|French Canadian]] operatic tenor<ref>{{cite news |title=Raoul Jobin, Tenor in French Operas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/14/archives/raoul-jobin-tenor-in-french-operas.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=14 January 1974 |page=30 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**Dr. [[Arthur Arndt]], 80, Jewish German physician who survived the [[Holocaust]] (along with six members of his family) despite being in [[Berlin]] during World War II, after being helped to hide in the Nazi German capital.<ref name="USC - Lina">{{Citation |title=Lina Arndt, mother of Ruth Arndt Gumpel who was interviewed on July 20, 1997 |work= USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews}}</ref> Arndt's wife Lina, who was born July 22, 1886, in Prussia, Germany, died on December 14, 1980.<ref name="USC - Lina"/> Arthur Arndt's story was profiled in the book ''Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin'', by [[Barbara Lovenheim]] ([[Open Road Integrated Media]], 2002).
**[[Salvador Novo]], 69, Mexican author and television presenter, official chronicler of Mexico City<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/novo-salvador-1904-1974 |title=Novo, Salvador (1904–1974) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |year=2019 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mohammad Iqbal Shedai]], 85, Pakistani activist and Pan-Islamist who campaigned for Muslim independence and the partition of [[British India]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1517371 |title=Harking Back: The tale of the 'other' Iqbal of Sialkot |first=Majid |last=Sheikh |newspaper=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |location=[[Karachi]] |date=18 November 2019}}</ref>

==January 14, 1974 (Monday)==
*[[Jules Léger]] was sworn in as the 21st [[Governor General of Canada]], succeeding the retiring [[Roland Michener]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Leger sworn in with pomp |newspaper=[[The Albertan]] |location=[[Calgary]] |date=15 January 1974 |page=1}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Nancy Johnson (sport shooter)|Nancy Johnson]], U.S. Olympic champion sport shooter; in [[Phenix City, Alabama]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/nancy-napolski-johnson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203170200/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/nancy-napolski-johnson-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |title=Nancy Napolski-Johnson Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Fabiana Luperini]], Italian cyclist, 5-time winner of the [[Giro Donne]] (formerly the Giro d'Italia Femminile); in [[Pontedera]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Fabiana Luperini |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=5652 |website=Cycling Archives |publisher=de Wielersite |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Rastislav Michalík]], Slovak footballer with 21 caps for the Slovia national team; in [[Staškov]], [[Czechoslovakia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6025/Rastislav_Michalik.html |title=Rastislav Michalík |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Stavroula Kozompoli]], Greek Olympic water polo player and top scorer in the 2004 Women's Water Polo World League; in [[Athens]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/voula-kozomboli-1.html |title=Voula Kozomboli Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203114127/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/voula-kozomboli-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Östen Undén]], 87, longtime [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sweden)|Minister for Foreign Affairs]] for Sweden, 1945 to 1962, and acting [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] for six days in 1946<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/%C3%B6sten-unden |title=Östen Undén |encyclopedia=[[Nationalencyklopedin]] |publisher=NE Nationalencyklopedin AB |language=sv |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Günther Niethammer]], 65, German [[ornithologist]] and ''[[Waffen-SS]]'' member, profiled in the 2008 novel ''Die Vogelwelt von Auschwitz''; the ''[[Niethammeriodes]]'' genus of moth and at least seven subspecies of birds have been named for him.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1975.tb04230.x |title=GÜNTHER NIETHAMMER |department=OBITUARIES |journal=[[Ibis (journal)|Ibis]] |volume=117 |issue=3 |date=July 1975 |page=389 |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1975.tb04230.x |via=[[Wiley Online Library]] |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Hugo Stoltzenberg]], 90, German [[chemical warfare]] engineer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd11767429X.html#ndbcontent |last=Kunz |first=Rudibert |author-link=Rudibert Kunz |title=Stoltzenberg, Hugo |work=Deutsche Biographie |language=de |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Joseph Dippolito]], 59, underboss of the [[Los Angeles crime family]] within the American Mafia; Dippolito was stricken with a heart attack two days earlier at his daughter's wedding.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Dippolito dies at Pomona |newspaper=[[The San Bernardino Sun]] |location=[[San Bernardino County, California]] |date=15 January 1974}}</ref>

==January 15, 1974 (Tuesday)==
*A panel of technical experts testified that the [[Nixon White House tapes#18½-minute gap|18½-minute gap]] in the tape recording of President Nixon's conversation with [[H. R. Haldeman]] on June 20, 1972, was made by someone pushing the record-erase button at least five times and as many as nine times. [[White House]] attorney [[James D. St. Clair]] objected to all questions about whether the erasure was deliberate.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19740116&id=gZkeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oswEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3167,18592&hl=en |title=Experts Say Erase Button Was Pushed |author=The Associated Press |newspaper=[[Daytona Beach Morning Journal]] |date=16 January 1974 |volume=XLIX |issue=14 |pages=1, 12A |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=TAPE EXPERTS TELL SIRICA THAT GAP IN 18-MINUTE WATERGATE RECORDING WAS DUE TO AT LEAST 5 ERASURES |at=Page 1, columns 5-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/front-page-2-no-title.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}
* {{cite news |last=Oelsner |first=Lesley |title=WORDS ARE LOST |at=Page 1, column 8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/words-are-lost-white-house-cautions-against-drawing-any-conclusions.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}
* {{cite news |title=Text of Advisory Panel's Report to Judge Sirica on Tape Recording |at=Page 16, columns 4-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/text-of-advisory-panels-report-to-judge-sirica-on-tape-recording.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}
* {{cite news |last=Herbers |first=John |author-link=John Herbers |title=The Tape: Testimony Hints Evidence Was Destroyed |at=Page 17, columns 2-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/the-tape-testimony-hints-evidence-was-destroyed.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}
* {{cite news |title=Six Experts Tell Court Of 'Signature' on Tape |at=Page 17, column 2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/six-experts-tell-court-of-signature-on-tape.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
*The first of the 10 "BTK Murders" took place in the U.S. city of [[Wichita, Kansas]], as a security alarm installer, [[Dennis Rader]], strangled a family of four people, two of them children.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times/108014019/ |title=Four in Wichita Family Slain |first=Mark |last=Schlinkmann |newspaper=[[Kansas City Times]] |location=[[Kansas City, Missouri]] |date=16 January 1974 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Rader would kill three more victims in the 1970s, then resume the murders in 1985, and would taunt the Wichita police before finally being arrested in 2005.<ref>{{cite book |first=Carlton |last=Smith |title=The BTK Murders: Inside the "Bind Torture Kill" Case that Terrified America's Heartland |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |year=2006}}</ref>
*The [[Malari incident]] took place in [[Jakarta]], capital of [[Indonesia]], as thousands of students protested against a state visit by Japan's Prime Minister [[Kakuei Tanaka]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Leifer |author-link=Michael Leifer |title=Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=1995}}</ref> The riot then turned into an attack on Chinese Indonesians in the suburb of [[Glodok]]. Indonesian security forces intervened, and at least 11 people were killed, 137 injured, and 700 arrested. The mob burned 144 buildings in and around Jakarta. 
*The Brazilian Congress [[1974 Brazilian presidential election|voted, 400 to 76]], to elect General [[Ernesto Geisel]] over rival candidate [[Ulysses Guimarães]] as [[List of Presidents of Brazil|President of Brazil]], but not before opposition members halted the proceedings three times with protests.<ref>{{cite news |title=Opposition Disrupts Election of Geisel as Brazil's President |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Leonard |last=Greenwood |date=January 16, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref>
*A school bus-type vehicle carrying farm workers [[1974 Blythe, California bus crash|fell into a drainage canal]] southwest of [[Blythe, California]] and near [[Ripley, California]] at approximately 6:30&nbsp;a.m. [[Pacific Time Zone|PST]], before sunrise, killing 19 people and injuring 28.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19740116&id=gZkeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oswEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3167,18592&hl=en |title=19 Laborers Die In Bus Crash |agency=AP |newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |date=16 January 1974 |volume=XLIX |issue=14 |page=1 |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=19 Dead, 28 Injured In Bus Crash on Coast |at=Page 53, column 7 |agency=UPI |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/19-dead-28-injured-in-bus-crash-on-coast.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[Comet Kohoutek]], discovered from Earth on March 18, 1973, and predicted to be even brighter than [[Halley's Comet]], made its closest approach to Earth, coming no closer than 0.8 astronomical units or {{convert|74000000|mi}}, and being barely visible to the naked eye.<ref name="Stokley1973">{{cite journal |last=Stokley |first=James |date=22 December 1973 |title=Kohoutek Comet Now Visible |journal=[[Science News]]|volume=104 |issue=25/26 |page=400 |doi=10.2307/3958267 |jstor=3958267 }}</ref>
*A Japanese company, Sato Foods Industries Co., Ltd., received U.S. patent No. 3,786,159 for a process for manufacturing [[alcohol powder]].<ref>[https://www.google.co.jp/patents/US3786159 US3786159 A], Kurutsu T, Sato J (Sato Shokuhin Kogyo KK), "Process of manufacturing alcohol containing solid matter" ([[Google Patents]])</ref>
*The three astronauts on [[Skylab 4|the third crewed U.S. space mission to Skylab]]<ref>Referred to as ''Skylab 3'' by the press at the time, and as ''Skylab 4'' by Wikipedia.</ref> set a new world record for [[Timeline of longest spaceflights|time spent in space]], breaking the mark of 59 days, 11 hours set by the [[Skylab 3|previous crew]] on its mission from July 28 to September 25, 1973.<ref>{{cite news |title=Skylab 3 Crew Sets New Endurance Record |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 15, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref> Launched on November 16, 1973, the new Skylab astronauts reached 60 days in space later in the day, and would complete 84 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes in space upon their return on February 8.
*Actor [[John Wayne]] visited [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], at the invitation of ''[[The Harvard Lampoon]]'', to debate students and promote his new film, ''[[McQ]]''. Wayne rode through [[Harvard Square]] from the [[Lampoon Castle]] to the Harvard Square Theatre in an [[armored personnel carrier]] from [[Fort Devens]], confronted on the way by Native Americans expressing support for the protesters on trial for the [[Wounded Knee Occupation]]. At the debate, Wayne claimed not to be able to hear a question about his participation in enforcing the [[Hollywood blacklist]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Kifner |first=John |author-link=John Kifner |title=John Wayne Plays a New Role: The Invader of Harvard Square |at=Page 41, columns 1-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/john-wayne-plays-a-new-role-the-invader-of-harvard-square-pushing-a.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Happy Days 1974.jpg|200px|thumb|''Happy Days'' stars [[Ron Howard]] (right) and [[Henry Winkler]] (left)]]
*The U.S. TV sitcom ''[[Happy Days]]'' debuted on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvtango.com/listings/1974/01/15/happy_days_1974 |title=TV Listings for - January 15, 1974 |publisher=TVTango.com |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref> After switching in 1975 to being filmed in front of a live audience, ''Happy Days'' would reach number one in the [[Nielsen ratings]] in the United States. Critic reaction was mixed, with Jay Sharbutt of the Associated Press writing, "It is a half-hour comedy series. It is set in the 1950s. It is awful," but adding that it "does a pretty fair job of recapturing the atmosphere of the era,"<ref>{{cite news |title='Happy Days' Good Show About Awful Era— the 50s |agency=AP |first=Jay |last=Sharbutt |newspaper=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |date=15 January 1974 |page=5-D}}</ref> and [[Kay Gardella]] of New York's ''[[New York Daily News|Daily News]]'' commenting that as a midseason replacement, "some of the new arrivals are worse than the shows that were dropped."<ref>{{cite news |title=The New Season Unhappily Begins With 'Happy Days' |first=Kay |last=Gardella |author-link=Kay Gardella |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York City |date=15 January 1974 |page=27C}}</ref>
*The [[Knight Street Bridge]] opened, joining Vancouver and [[Richmond, British Columbia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1974.htm |title=The History of Metropolitan Vancouver - 1974 Chronology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427083620/http://vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1974.htm |archive-date=27 April 2019 |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Adam Ledwoń]], Polish footballer with 18 caps for the Poland National Team; in [[Olesno]] (committed suicide 2008)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/adam-ledwon/ |title=Adam Ledwoń |publisher=HEIM.SPIEL |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Josef Smrkovský]], 62, Czechoslovak politician who had led the reforms of the [[Prague Spring]] of 1968 and was later punished, died of cancer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Josef Smrkovsky Is Dead at 62; Former Czech Reform Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/16/archives/josef-smrkovsky-is-dead-at-62-former-czech-reform-leader-a-devoted.html |date=16 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |at=Page 42, columns 2-3 |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Charles Rosher]], [[American Society of Cinematographers|A.S.C.]], 88, English-born cinematographer<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/rosher.htm |last=Steeman |first=Albert |title=CHARLES ROSHER |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers |location=[[Rotterdam]], [[Netherlands]] |publisher=Albert Steeman Productions |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Yosef Serlin]], 67, Israeli Minister of Health, 1952 to 1955, and [[Zionist]] activist, lawyer and member of the [[Knesset]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=548 |title=Knesset Member, Yosef Serlin |website=[[Knesset]] |publisher=[[State of Israel]] |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 16, 1974 (Wednesday)==
*The [[McCulkin murders|murders of Barbara McCulkin and her daughters Vicki and Leanne]] took place in Australia when the three disappeared from their home in [[Highgate Hill, Queensland]].<ref>{{cite news |title=McCulkin murders: Dubois guilty of murdering McCulkin girls |url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/crime-and-justice/mcculkin-murders-garry-dubois-trial/news-story/6b4a507be2385c2c236c0989d2407369 |last=Petrinec |first=Melanie |date=29 November 2016 |newspaper=[[The Courier-Mail]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref> Their bodies would never be located. Garry Dubois and Vincent O'Dempsey would be found guilty of their kidnapping and murder more than 40 years after the crime was committed, in 2016 for Dubois and 2017 for Dempsey.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-26/vincent-odempsey-guilty-mcculkin-murders-cold-case/8553900 |title=McCulkin murders: Vincent O'Dempsey guilty of killing Brisbane woman and daughters |date=26 May 2017 |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*In Norway, two Ocean Systems [[Commercial diving|commercial divers]] died during a dive from the North Sea rig ''Drill Master'', when the [[diving bell]]'s drop weight [[Drill Master diving accident|was accidentally released]], causing the bell to surface from a depth of {{convert|320|ft}} with its bottom door open and drag the diver working outside through the water on his [[Umbilical cable#Diver|umbilical]]. The two divers, [[Per Skipnes]] and [[Robert John Smyth]], both died from rapid [[Decompression (diving)|decompression]] and drowning.<ref>{{cite book |title=North Sea Divers – a Requiem |last=Limbrick |first=Jim |pages=96–98 |location=Hertford |publisher=Authors OnLine |year=2001 |isbn=0-7552-0036-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPp68NAoUF0C&pg=PA96 |access-date=5 December 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Into the Lion's Mouth: The Story of the ''Wildrake'' Diving Accident |last=Smart |first=Michael |pages=34–35, 148 |location=[[Medford, Oregon]] |publisher=Lion's Mouth Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-615-52838-0 |lccn=2011915008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://the-norwegian.com/north-sea-diving-fatalities/ |title=North Sea Commercial Diving Fatalities |website=The Norwegian |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref>
[[File:Ajax Amsterdam - 1973 UEFA Super Cup (Amsterdam, 1974, second leg).jpg|thumb|AFC Ajax wins the 1973 European Super Cup]]
*In the second leg of the 1973 European Super Cup, played at [[Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]], AFC Ajax defeated A.C. Milan by a score of 6–0, winning the Cup 6–1 on aggregate.<ref name="Super Cup"/>
*All 18 crew of the British [[cargo transport]] MV ''Prosperity'' were killed after the craft's engine failed and the vessel was driven onto the La Conchée Reef near [[Guernsey]] and sank. Only 16 bodies were recovered.<ref>{{cite news |title=34 Killed as Storm Hits Channel, Europe |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=18 January 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=MV Prosperity Memorial |publisher=[[BBC Guernsey]] |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/content/articles/2009/02/20/mv_prosperity_memorial_feature.shtml |date=20 February 2009 |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Kate Moss]], English [[supermodel]]; in [[Croydon]], [[Greater London]], England<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jan/03/kate-moss-at-40-supermodel-profile |last=Fox |first=Imogen |title=Kate Moss at 40: supermodel still turning heads after 25 years |date=3 January 2014 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2014/01/16/celebrate-kate-moss-40th-birthday-with-a-look-back-at-the-supermodels-most-memorable-moments/ |last=Barnes |first=Bronwyn |title=It's Kate Moss' 40th birthday: 5 of the supermodel's memorable moments |date=16 January 2014 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Mattias Jonson]], Swedish footballer with 57 caps for the Sweden national team; in [[Kumla Municipality]]<ref>{{NFT player|6369|Mattias Jonson|access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>
**[[Tatiana Issa]], Emmy Award winning Brazilian director and producer, 3-time Emmy Award winner; in [[São Paulo]]
**[[Àngel Llàcer]], Spanish Catalonian stage actor and singer, winner of three Butaca Awards for ''El Somni de Mozart'' (1998), ''Mein Kampf'' (1999) and ''The Full Monty'' (2001); in [[Barcelona]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Angel Llacer |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Angel+Llacer |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Roy Bargy]], 79, American composer and pianist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/roy-bargy-mn0000532879/biography |last=Yanow |first=Scott |author-link=Scott Yanow |title=Roy Bargy {{!}} Biography & History |publisher=[[AllMusic]], Netaktion LLC |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Johnny Barfield]], 64, American country and old-time music performer<ref>{{cite web |title=Johnny Barfield {{!}} Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-barfield-mn0000865589 |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Fred A. Seaton]], 64, [[U.S. Secretary of the Interior]], 1954 to 1961<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000214 |title=SEATON, Frederick Andrew 1909 – 1974 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>

==January 17, 1974 (Thursday)==
*The [[United Nations Security Council]] adopted [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 345|Resolution 345]], making [[Chinese language|Chinese]] the Council's fifth working language.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://undocs.org/S/RES/345(1974) |title=INCLUSION OF CHINESE AMONG THE WORKING LANGUAGES OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL |date=17 January 1974 |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
*A Cessnyca Airlines [[Douglas DC-3]], designated HK-1216, crashed shortly after takeoff from [[Chigorodó]] in the [[Antioquia Department]] in [[Colombia]], killing all 12 people on board. The 36-year-old airplane was on its way to [[Medellin]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=18 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740117-2 |title=Aircraft accident Douglas DC-3A-191 HK-1216 Chigorodó |publisher=Aviation Safety Network (ASN) |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*Led by [[Álvaro Fayad]], guerrillas from the [[19th of April Movement|M-19]] (''Movimiento 19 de Abril'') terrorist group in [[Colombia]] stole the battle sword that had been worn by Colombian hero [[Simon Bolivar]] in the 19th century, after invading the historic [[Quinta de Bolívar]] in [[Bogota]]. Fayad left behind a note that said ""Bolívar, tu espada vuelve a la lucha." ("Bolivar, your sword returns to the battlefield.")<ref>{{cite news |via=Google News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=N2osnxbUuuUC&dat=19740119&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |title=La espada de Bolivar— Police baffled ("The sword of Bolívar— ") |first=Humberto |last=Diez |newspaper=[[El Tiempo (Colombia)|El Tiempo]] |location=[[Bogotá]] |date=18 January 1974 |page=1}}</ref> The sword would be held for almost 17 years before its return by M-19 leader [[Antonio Navarro Wolff]] as part of the group's peace negotiations with the government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quintadebolivar.gov.co/Es-es/coleccion/espada-de-los-suenos/Paginas/cronica-de-un-robo.aspx |first=Manuel |last=Francisco Carreño |title=Crónica de un robo a manera de vaina |trans-title= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112051444/http://www.quintadebolivar.gov.co/Es-es/coleccion/espada-de-los-suenos/Paginas/cronica-de-un-robo.aspx |archive-date=12 January 2015 |publisher=[[Ministerio de Cultura (Colombia)|Ministerio de Cultura]] |language=es |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[Pauline McGibbon]] of Ontario became the first female [[Lieutenant governor (Canada)|lieutenant governor]] of a Canadian province.<ref>{{cite news |title='I said I didn't have a chance'— First woman Lt. Governor |author= |newspaper=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=18 January 1974 |page=1}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Marco Antonio Barrera]], Mexican boxer who held the world super bantamweight champion (WBO, 1995-1996 and 1998-2000), world featherweight champ (IBO 2001-2003), and world super featherweight champ (WBC 2004-2007); in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico<ref>{{cite web |title=Marco Antonio Barrera |url=http://boxing.about.com/od/records/a/barrera.htm |publisher=[[About, Inc.]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616071411/http://boxing.about.com/od/records/a/barrera.htm |archive-date=16 June 2006 |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/008010 |title=Marco Antonio Barrera |publisher=BoxRec |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Annemarie Jacir]], Palestinian independent filmmaker; in [[Bethlehem]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Yang Chen (footballer, born 1974)|Yang Chen]], Chinese footballer with 35 caps for the China national team; in [[Beijing]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/1450/Chen_Yang.html |title=Chen Yang |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Derrick Mason]], NFL [[wide receiver]], 2000 punt return yards leader; in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baltimoreravens.com/People/Players/Active/Derrick_Mason.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505061250/http://www.baltimoreravens.com/People/Players/Active/Derrick_Mason.aspx |archive-date=5 May 2008 |title=People {{!}} Derrick Mason |year=2008 |publisher=[[Baltimore Ravens]] |access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Clara Edwards (composer)|Clara Edwards]], 93, American singer, pianist and composer known for "[[By the Bend of the River]]"<ref>{{cite book |title=A Singer's Guide to American Art Song: 1870–1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRqH0fccAb4C&pg=PA153 |last=Villamil |first=Victoria Etnier |page=153 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press, Inc.]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8108-5217-4 |access-date=31 August 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==January 18, 1974 (Friday)==
*The [[Israel]]i and [[Egypt]]ian governments signed the [[s:Israel-Egypt Disengagement Treaty of 1974|Israel-Egypt Disengagement Treaty of 1974]], ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the [[Yom Kippur War]]. The signing at Kilometer 101 was made by Lieutenant Generals Mohammed Gemasy of Egypt and David Elazar of Israel.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pact Signed Calling for Israeli Pullback, Fewer Egypt Troops |first=Harry |last=Timborn |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 19, 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref> 
*Poland's news agency PAP announced that authorities had extinguished a coal mine fire that had been burning since 1933 in [[Silesia]] at the Polska Coal Company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Polish Mine Fire Out— 40 Years Later |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 18, 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>  
*Glenis Carruthers, a student teacher, was strangled to death on [[Clifton Down]] in [[Bristol]], England, after leaving her 21st birthday party. {{Asof|2010}} the case remained unsolved.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jo-yeates-murder-bears-similarities-272313 |title=Jo Yeates murder bears similarities to unsolved strangling nearby from 1974 |date=31 December 2010 |newspaper=Daily Mirror |access-date=28 September 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Marco Geisler]], German Olympic rower, winner of four world championships (1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003); in [[Cottbus]], [[East Germany]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/marco-geisler-1.html |title=Marco Geisler Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417222619/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/marco-geisler-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tri Kusharjanto]], Indonesian Olympic [[badminton]] player, 1995 World Cup mixed doubles title; in [[Yogyakarta]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/trikus-haryanto-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203073819/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/trikus-haryanto-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |title=Trikus Haryanto Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Steve Lomas]], Northern Irish footballer with 47 caps for the Northern Ireland team; at a British Army base in [[Hanover]], [[West Germany]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=4593 |title=Steve Lomas {{!}} Football Stats {{!}} No Club {{!}} Age 47 {{!}} 1991-2008 |website=Soccerbase |publisher=Centurycomm Limited |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**Lieutenant Colonel [[Thibaut Vallette]], French [[Equestrianism|equestrian]] and part of the 4-member French team eventing gold medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics; in [[Brest, France|Brest]], [[Finistère]] département<ref>''Guide de l'équipe de France olympique Jeux olympiques 2016''</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fei.org/bios/Person/10011807/VALLETTE_LT_COL_Thibaut |title=Thibaut VALLETTE LT COL |publisher=[[Fédération Équestre Internationale]] |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Maulik Pancholy]], American actor and author; in [[Dayton, Ohio]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/10/angry-reader-of-week-maulik-pancholy.html |title=Angry Reader of the Week: Maulik Pancholy |date=10 October 2014 |website=Angry Asian Man |access-date=5 December 2023}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Citation does not give date of birth.|date=December 2023}}
**[[Princess Claire of Belgium]] (born Claire Louise Coombs); in [[Bath, Somerset]], England<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2002/12/19/claire-future-princesse-very-british-ZGAPMYAA4BC2VI7XOOEPN3CWHI/ |last=Vaute |first=Paul |title=Claire, future princesse very British |date=18 December 2002 |journal=[[La Libre]] |language=fr |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Pete Appleton]], 69, American [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/applepe01.shtml |title=Pete Appleton Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref>
**[[Bill Finger]], 59, American comic strip and comic book writer, co-creator (with Bob Kane) of [[Batman]] (found dead)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/1974-batman-co-creator-dies-unsung-and-broke-1.5391845 |last=Green |first=David B. |title=1974: The Man Who Co-created Batman Dies, Unsung and Broke |department=Jewish World |date=18 January 2016 |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 19, 1974 (Saturday)==
*The [[Battle of the Paracel Islands]] between China and [[South Vietnam]] began. China conquered all of the islands in the Paracel archipelago the next day.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/7b5ec8a0-cc48-4d9b-b558-a4f1cf92e7b8/The1974ParacelsSeaBattle.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801074649/https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/7b5ec8a0-cc48-4d9b-b558-a4f1cf92e7b8/The1974ParacelsSeaBattle.aspx |archive-date=1 August 2016 |last=Yoshihara |first=Toshi |title=The 1974 Paracels Sea Battle: A Campaign Appraisal |journal=[[Naval War College Review]] |date=Spring 2016 |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=41–65 |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
*The 88-game winning streak of the [[UCLA Bruins men's basketball|UCLA Bruins]] [[college basketball]] team ended when the [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball|Notre Dame Fighting Irish]] beat the visiting Bruins by one point, 71 to 70.<ref>{{cite news |title=U.C.L.A. Streak Ends |at=Page 1, column 5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/ucla-streak-ends.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=White |first=Gordon S. Jr. |title=Notre Dame Beats U.C.L.A. in Last 29 Seconds, Ending Streak at 88 Clay's Shot Wins, 71-70, as Irish Rally From 11 Point Deficit With 3 :32 to Go |at=Section 5, page 1, columns 1-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/notre-dame-beats-ucla-in-last-29-seconds-ending-streak-at-88-clays.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The U.C.L.A. Dynasty: One Era Comes to End But Another Is on Way |at=Page 4, columns 4-5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/the-ucla-dynasty-one-era-comes-to-end-but-another-is-on-way.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
*French President Georges Pompidou [[Floating exchange rate|floated]] the [[French franc]] for six months, abandoning intervention in money markets to maintain the franc's value. The change took effect when trading opened on Monday, January 20.<ref>{{cite news |title=FRANCE TO FLOAT FRANC 6 MONTHS |at=Page 1, column 1; page 18, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/france-to-float-franc-6-months-breaking-a-pact-coldly-calmly-paris.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m_sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UNoFAAAAIBAJ&dq=pro%20bowl&pg=506%2C1194598 |title=Franc Floats In Defense Of Oil Costs |agency=UPI |newspaper=[[The Beaver County Times]] |date=21 January 1974 |page=A-20 |access-date=17 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*[[Byron De La Beckwith]] was acquitted on federal firearms charges for bringing a live [[time bomb]] into [[New Orleans]] in his car in order to bomb the home of [[Anti-Defamation League]] regional director [[Adolph Botnick]]. De La Beckwith had previously been tried twice in [[Mississippi]] for the 1963 [[assassination of Medgar Evers]], with both trials resulting in [[hung juries]].<ref>{{cite news |agency=UPI |title=Beckwith Is Cleared of Carrying Bomb |at=Page 53, columns 5-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/beckwith-is-cleared-of-carrying-bomb.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m_sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UNoFAAAAIBAJ&dq=pro%20bowl&pg=506%2C1194598 |title=Beckwith Goes Free In Time Bomb Trial |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=A-2 |access-date=17 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> De La Beckwith would be convicted of [[Conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy to commit murder]] in the Botnick case on August 1, 1975. He would be convicted of Evers' murder in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison.
*In [[Woodbranch, Texas]], a 22-year-old man was arrested after taking 13 people hostage during a supermarket robbery.<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Houston Gunman Captured With Three Hostages |at=Page 42, columns 4-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/houston-gunman-captured-with-three-hostages.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m_sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UNoFAAAAIBAJ&dq=pro%20bowl&pg=506%2C1194598 |title=Supermarket Hostage Thought It Was End |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=A-2 |access-date=17 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*Australian racing driver [[John McCormack (racing driver)|John McCormack]] won the [[1974 New Zealand Grand Prix]] at [[Wigram Airfield Circuit]], [[Christchurch]], [[Canterbury, New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1974 Wigram |url=https://www.sergent.com.au/motor/tas74w.html |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref> It was his second consecutive [[New Zealand Grand Prix]] victory.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.toyota.co.nz/toyota-racing/castrol-toyota-racing-series/news/2014/november/quick-guide-to-the-new-zealand-grand-prix/ |title=Quick Guide to the New Zealand Grand Prix |date=17 November 2014 |publisher=[[Toyota Gazoo Racing|TOYOTA GAZOO Racing New Zealand]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*In the U.S. state of [[New Jersey]], [[Essex County College]] set a collegiate record by scoring over 200 points in a basketball game, while its opponent, nearby [[Englewood Cliffs College]], set a record by losing by 143 points. The final score was Essex County 210, Englewood Cliffs 67.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/646234762.html?dids=646234762:646234762&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+20%2C+1974&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=210-68%3A+IT+WASN%27T+AS+CLOSE+AS+THE+SCORE+INDICATES&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630045633/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/646234762.html?dids=646234762:646234762&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+20,+1974&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=210-68:+IT+WASN'T+AS+CLOSE+AS+THE+SCORE+INDICATES&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |title=210-68: It wasn't as close as the score indicates |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=20 January 1974 |page=III-3 |access-date=17 April 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3uUBPiGhFAC&dq=%22Englewood+Cliffs+College%22+210-67&pg=PA173 |title=Basketball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Hoops' Outrageous Dunkers |page=173 |isbn=9781574883619 |access-date=9 March 2008 |via=Google Books |last1=Conner |first1=Floyd |date=September 2001 |publisher=Potomac Books Incorporated }}</ref> Englewood Cliffs would close after its final graduation on June 7, 1974.
*'''Born:'''
**[[Frank Caliendo]], American comedian, actor and impressionist; in Chicago, Illinois<ref>{{cite web |last=Southern |first=Nathan |title=Frank Caliendo {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p406726 |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Walter Jones (American football)|Walter Jones]], NFL offensive tackle, 2014 enshrinee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame; in [[Aliceville, Alabama]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/1230 |title=Walter Jones Stats |publisher=[[ESPN Inc.|ESPN Enterprises, Inc.]] |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Dainius Adomaitis]], Lithuanian Olympic basketball player, twice coach of the year in the [[Lietuvos krepšinio lyga|Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga]], Lithuania's pro basketball league; in [[Šakiai]], [[Lithuanian SSR]], Soviet Union<ref>{{cite web |title=Dainius Adomaitis Bio, Stats, and Results |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/dainius-adomaitis-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724065750/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/dainius-adomaitis-1.html |archive-date=24 July 2017 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jaime Moreno (footballer, born 1974)|Jaime Moreno]], Bolivian footballer with 75 caps for the Bolivia national team; in [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]], [[Bolivia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/887/Jaime_Moreno.html |title=Jaime Moreno |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Badran Al-Shaqran]], Jordanian footballer with 49 caps for the Jordan national team; in [[Ar-Ramtha]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/3489/Badran_Al_Shagran.html |title=Badran Al-Shagran |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Natassia Malthe]], Norwegian model and actress; in [[Oslo]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
*'''Died:'''
**[[Antonio Fernós-Isern]], 78, Puerto Rican [[cardiologist]], [[Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico's non-voting representative in the U.S. Congress]] from 1946 to 1965<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000087 |title=FERNÓS-ISERN, Antonio 1895 – 1974 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Wiktor Biegański]], 81, Polish actor, film director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=21135 |title=Wiktor Biegański |work=[[Polish Internet Movie Database]] |publisher=[[Łódź Film School]] |language=pl |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Edward Seago]], 63, British artist<ref>{{cite web |url=https://brusheswithwatercolour.com/2016/01/19/edward-seago-31st-march-1910-19th-january-1974/ |last=Haywood |first=John |title=Edward Seago: 31st March 1910 – 19th January 1974 |website=Brushes with Watercolour |date=19 January 2016 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Edward Seago |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/edward-seago/ |website=[[Artnet]] |publisher=[[Artnet Worldwide Corporation]] |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Leonard Shecter]], 47, American sportswriter and editor (''[[Ball Four]]''), died of [[leukemia]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Cady |first=Steve |title=Leonard Shecter, Sportswriter, 'Ball Four' Co-Author, Is Dead |at=Page 56, columns 7-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/leonard-shecter-sportswriter-ball-four-co-author-is-dead-like-a.html |date=20 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 20, 1974 (Sunday)==
*For the first time in the history of English professional soccer football, a match in the [[English Football League]] was played on a Sunday. With a start moved to 11:30 in the morning to come before two other matches scheduled in the afternoon, [[Millwall F.C.|Millwall]] defeated visiting [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]], 1 to 0, in the League's [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]].<ref>{{cite news |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-first-sunday-footbal/128203619/ |title=Fans Flock to See Sunday Games But Players Not Keen |first=Robert |last=Oxby |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=21 January 1974 |page=20}}</ref> Striker [[Brian Clark (footballer, born 1943)|Brian Clark]] of Millwall became the first English professional footballer to score a goal on a Sunday "when he drove the ball into the Fulham net at 11:34 a.m."<ref>{{cite news |title=Historic Goal by Clark |first=Robert |last=Oxby |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=21 January 1974 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jan/23/first-sunday-football-1974-millwall-fulham |title=20 January 1974: The first Sunday football |date=23 January 2010 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=29 December 2018}}</ref>
*Guerrillas of Argentina's [[People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)|People's Revolutionary Army]], led by [[Enrique Gorriarán Merlo]], completed their attack on the army base headquarters of the 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment in [[Azul, Buenos Aires|Azul]] in the [[Buenos Aires province]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Argentine Guerrillas Battle Tank Garrison for 7 Hours, Then Escape |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=I-12}}</ref> [[Mario Roberto Santucho]] organized the attack, in which base commander, Colonel Camilo Arturo Gay, and his wife Hilda Irma Casaux were killed, and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Ibarzábal was taken hostage. Ibarzábal would be executed 10 months later.<ref name="Peron 2">{{cite news |url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/peron-hablo-exterminar-guerrilleros_0_S18epAqRaYl.html |title=Los violentos años 70: Cuando Perón habló de "exterminar uno a uno" a los guerrilleros |trans-title=The violent 70s: When Perón spoke of "exterminating one by one" the guerrillas |date=24 February 2017 |newspaper=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]] |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> Later in the day, [[President of Argentina]] [[Juan Perón]] made a nationally televised speech in which he vowed "to annihilate as soon as possible this criminal [[terrorism]]".<ref name="Peron 1">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m_sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UNoFAAAAIBAJ&dq=pro%20bowl&pg=506%2C1194598 |title=Peron To Annihilate Terrorism |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=A-10 |access-date=17 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
[[File:F-16C Fighting Falcon.JPEG|thumb|upright|An F-16 Fighting Falcon in 2003]]
*The [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon]] made an unplanned first flight after sustaining damage to its right horizontal stabilizer during high-speed ground tests at [[Edwards Air Force Base]], California. While [[taxiing]] at {{convert|130|mph}}, pilot [[Phil Oestricher]] nearly lost control of the aircraft when it entered a series of roll oscillations. Oestricher elected, "in the interest of safety and preventing further damage," to take the craft airborne to avoid crashing and remained in flight for six minutes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Taxi Test Becomes Plane's First Flight— Fighter Damaged, Taken Aloft, Then Landed Safely |first=Marvin |last=Miles |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=22 January 1974 |page=I-3}}</ref> Oestricher would pilot the F-16's official first flight on February 2.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=158 |last=Stout |first=Joe |title=What A Wonderful Airplane: YF-16 First Flight |magazine=Code One |year=1992 |volume=7 |issue=3 |publisher=[[Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company]] |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAp4RtGKbHE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/qAp4RtGKbHE |archive-date=13 December 2021 |url-status=live |title=Memorable Moment - YF-16 Test Pilot Phil Oestricher |publisher=[[Lockheed Martin]] |date=4 April 2012 |access-date=16 August 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a30645599/f-16-first-flight/ |last=Mizokami |first=Kyle |title=That Time When the F-16 Accidentally Had Its First Flight |date=23 January 2020 |magazine=[[Popular Mechanics]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*In [[Pakistan]], the fiery collision of a bus and an oil truck in [[Karachi]] burned 24 people to death and injured 50 others, as well as setting off a blaze that destroyed 42 shops and apartments.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pakistan Bus Crash |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=I-14}}</ref> 
*The Dutch oil tanker ''Kopionella'' rescued 23 South Vietnamese sailors who had survived the sinking of the warship ''Nhat Tao'' during the battle of the Paracel Islands. On the same day, Chinese troops took 47 Vietnamese soldiers and a U.S. advisor as prisoners of war, though the group would be released later.
*'''Born:'''
**[[Rae Carruth]], National Football League wide receiver who was later convicted of murder; as Rae Lamar Wiggins in [[Sacramento, California]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CarrRa00.htm |title=Rae Carruth Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra]], Crown Prince (Tengku Mahkota) of the Malaysian state of [[Kelantan]]; in [[Kota Bharu]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sinarharian.com.my/ampArticle/22259 |title=Profil Tengku Mahkota Kelantan |language=ms |date=7 April 2019 |journal=[[Sinar Harian]] |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Alvin Harrison]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/alvin-harrison-1.html |title=Alvin Harrison Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171642/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/alvin-harrison-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> and [[Calvin Harrison (athlete)|Calvin Harrison]], U.S. Olympic track and field athletes and [[identical twin]]s who won gold medals in the 4 x 400m relay in 1996 and 2000, respectively; in [[Orlando, Florida]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/calvin-harrison-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703024055/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/calvin-harrison-1.html |archive-date=3 July 2017 |title=Calvin Harrison Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Komlan Assignon]], Togolese footballer with 20 caps for the Togo national team; in [[Lomé]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6651/Komlan_Assignon.html |title=Komlan Assignon |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Valeria Parrella]], Italian author, playwright and actress; in [[Torre del Greco]], [[Province of Naples]], Italy<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/valeria-parrella-napoli-il-personaggio-trasversale-dei-suoi-libri-romanzo-italiano/1962992/ |last1=Pastore |first1=Rossella |last2=Bianchi |first2=Abele |title=VALERIA PARRELLA/ Napoli il personaggio trasversale dei suoi libri (Romanzo Italiano) |trans-title=VALERIA PARRELLA/ Naples the transversal character of her books (Romanzo Italiano) |website=ilsussidiario.net |date=21 December 2019 |language=it |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Leonard Freeman]], 53, American television writer and producer, creator of ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]''<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FruSwC9UjwC&q=heart+surgery |last=Rhodes |first=Karen |title=Booking ''Hawaii Five-O'': An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968–1980 Television Detective Series |page=129 |location=[[Jefferson, North Carolina]], and [[London]] |year=1997 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-3108-3 |access-date=29 July 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
**[[Paul Sidney Martin|Paul S. Martin]], 74, American [[anthropologist]] and [[archaeologist]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=Deaths: Paul Sidney Martin, Willard Williams (NIBS) Hill |journal=[[Anthropology News]] |date=March 1974 |volume=15 |issue=3 |page=3 |doi=10.1111/an.1974.15.3.3.4 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
**[[Boris Balashov]], 46, Soviet [[philatelist|stamp collector]], editor-in-chief of the Soviet magazine ''Filateliya SSSR''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.balashoff.com/1926-1950.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028041752/http://www.balashoff.com/1926-1950.html |archive-date=28 October 2010 |last=Balashov |first=A.N. |title=1926 - 1950 г |website=Balashoff |language=ru |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Edmund Blunden]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|MC}}, 77, English poet, author and critic who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times<ref>{{cite news |title=Edmund Blunden, British Poet, Dies |at=Page 42, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/edmund-blunden-british-poet-dies-chosen-over-robert-lowell-for.html |date=22 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/blunden |title=The Edmund Blunden Collection |work=The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Harold Loeb]], 82, American writer<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitman |first=Alden |author-link=Alden Whitman |title=Harold A. Loeb Is Dead at 82; 'Lost Generation' Figure in Paris |at=Page 40, columns 2-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/23/archives/harold-a-loeb-is-dead-at-82-lost-generation-figure-in-paris.html |date=23 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Hermann Weyland]], 85, German chemist and [[paleobotanist]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frahm |first1=Jan-Peter |author-link1=Jan-Peter Frahm |last2=Eggers |first2=Jens |title=Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen |volume=1 |language=de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VEUIH15wAYC&pg=PA559 |page=559 |publisher=Books on Demand GmbH |year=2001 |isbn=3-8311-0986-9 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==January 21, 1974 (Monday)==
*Rescuers in [[Turkey]] saved 680 train passengers who had been stranded for almost two days by large snowdrifts that had immobilized the train cars in subzero weather. The train had departed [[Erzincan]] en route to [[Istanbul]] when it encountered a snowstorm near the village of [[Tekevler]]. During the night, temperatures had dropped to as low as {{convert|-22|F|C}}. Using [[flamethrower]]s to melt the snow, rescuers were able to get through after 44 hours and transport the passengers to aid stations at [[Elazig]] for medical treatment.<ref>{{cite news |title=Flamethrowers Used to Reach Train in Snow |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=22 January 1974 |page=I-18}}</ref>
*On the [[Skylab 4|third Skylab mission]], astronaut [[Edward Gibson]] made the first filmed record of the birth of a [[solar flare]], recording the 23-minute process from the moment that he observed a bright spot on the [[Sun]] through the [[Apollo Telescope Mount]], and filming through the moment of its eruption.<ref name="Skylab"/><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Skylab, Outpost on the Frontier of Space |first=Thomas |last=Canby |magazine=[[National Geographic]] |date=October 1974 |page=468}}</ref>
*The United Kingdom ended its embargo against delivering weapons to the Middle East. Arms deliveries had been suspended immediately after the [[Yom Kippur War]] broke out on October 6. Foreign Secretary [[Alec Douglas-Home]] informed the [[House of Commons]] that deliveries would be carried out, including "the supply of small arms and helicopters to Egypt and some naval equipment and spare tank parts for Israel."<ref>{{cite news |title=Britain Lifts Arms Embargo on Mideast |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=22 January 1974 |page=I-17}}</ref>
*Pakistan's second nuclear reactor, the PARR-II, became operational at the [[Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology]] (PINSTECH), located in the [[Nilore]] section of [[Islamabad]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paec.gov.pk/pinstech/history.htm |title=History -- PINSTECH |access-date=2009-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131082335/http://paec.gov.pk/pinstech/history.htm |archive-date=31 January 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*In a 7–2 decision, the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled in ''[[Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur]]'' that compulsory [[maternity leave]] for teachers, beginning a specified number of months before childbirth, was unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m_sqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UNoFAAAAIBAJ&dq=pro%20bowl&pg=506%2C1194598 |title=Court Nixes Maternity Leave Rules |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Beaver County Times |date=21 January 1974 |page=A-3 |access-date=14 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Weaver |first=Warren Jr. |title=Supreme Court Rules Pregnant Teachers Cannot Be Forced to Take Long Leaves |at=Page 1, columns 6-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/supreme-court-rules-pregnant-teachers-cannot-be-forced-to-take-long.html |date=22 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Malena Alterio]], Argentine-born Spanish TV actress and comedienne known for ''[[Aquí no hay quien viva]]''; in [[Buenos Aires]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Malena Alterio {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/malena-alterio-p393316 |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Maxwell Atoms]] (stage name for Adam Maxwell Burton), American animator known for the ''[[Grim & Evil]]'' cartoon series and its more popular sequel, ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]''; in [[Philadelphia]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Kim Dotcom]] (born Kim Schmitz), German-born internet entrepreneur and computer [[hacker]] convicted of [[computer fraud]], data espionage and [[embezzlement]]; in [[Kiel]], West Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/201429/Dotcom%20OIA.pdf |title=Dotcom OIA.pdf |page=8 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Robert Ghiz]], Canadian politician and [[Premier of Prince Edward Island]] 2007 to 2015; in [[Charlottetown]], [[Prince Edward Island]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ghiz-robert-wj |last=Kucharsky |first=Danny |title=Robert Ghiz |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher=Historica Canada |date=16 January 2018 |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Lewis Strauss]], 77, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1953 to 1958, after having been one of the AEC's founding members 1946—1950, and [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] 1958-1959, died of a [[lymphosarcoma]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitman |first=Alden |title=Lewis Strauss Dies; Ex-Head of A.E.C. |at=Page 1, column 1; page 81, columns 1-5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/22/archives/lewis-strauss-dies-exhead-of-aec-lewis-l-strauss-former-chairman-of.html |date=22 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/3/resources/15562 |title=Collection: Admiral Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss Papers |publisher=[[Center for Jewish History]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Arnaud Denjoy]], 90, French [[mathematician]] known for [[Denjoy's theorem on rotation number]], and the [[Denjoy–Luzin theorem]], [[Denjoy–Riesz theorem]], [[Denjoy–Wolff theorem]] and the [[Denjoy–Koksma inequality]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Denjoy/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |title=Arnaud Denjoy (1884 - 1974) - Biography |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics |date=July 2020 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Hans Lauda]], 77, Austrian industrialist who co-founded and served as the first President of the [[Federation of Austrian Industries]] (''Die Industriellenvereinigung'') from 1946 to 1960.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.munzinger.de/document/00000007284 |title=Lauda, Hans |work=Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv |publisher=Munzinger-Archiv |language=de |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Everett Richard Cook]], 79, American military officer, [[World War I]] [[flying ace]] and businessman<ref>{{cite news |title=Everett Cook Dies; Cotton Shipper, 79 |at=Page 40, column 4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/24/archives/everett-cook-dies-cotton-shipper-79.html |date=24 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Sandy Griffiths]] (born Benjamin Mervyn Griffiths), 65, Welsh football [[Referee (association football)|referee]] in the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup competitions<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playmakerstats.com/arbitro.php?id=862&search=1 |title=Benjamin Mervyn Griffiths |website=playmakerstats.com |publisher=ZOS, Lda. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Robert Guy Howarth]], 67, Australian scholar, [[literary critic]] and poet, died three weeks after he had been struck by a motorcycle in a pedestrian accident in [[Sydney]].<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|author=Stuart Lee|year=1996|id=A140571b|title=Howarth, Robert Guy (1906–1974)|access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ken Viljoen]], 63, South African cricketer with 27 Test matches between 1930 and 1949<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/ken-viljoen-47733 |title=Ken Viljoen profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |publisher=[[ESPN Sports Media Ltd.]] |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Galina Talva|Leon Volkov]], 59, [[Soviet Air Forces]] defector and writer for ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine, widower of [[Galina Talva]], died of a heart attack<ref>{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Leon Volkov of Newsweek Dies; Soviet Expert Defected in 1945 |at=Page 40, columns 2-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/23/archives/leon-volkov-of-newsweek-dies-soviet-expert-defected-in-1945-escapes.html |date=23 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 22, 1974 (Tuesday)==
*President Suharto of Indonesia issued Decree No. 25/74, banning the import of foreign-made automobiles, and encouraging the sale of [[Automotive industry in Indonesia|Indonesian-made pickup trucks and minibuses]] by exempting those vehicles from the luxury goods tax.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Ancillary Firm Development in the Motor Industry in Indonesia |title=The Motor Vehicle Industry in Asia: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development |editor1-first=Wimar |editor1-last=Witoelar |editor1-link=Wimar Witoelar |editor2-first=Kōnosuke |editor2-last=Odata |publisher=[[National University of Singapore Press]] |year=1983 |isbn=978-9971690571 |pages=18–19}}</ref>
*The first annual "[[March for Life (Washington, D.C.)|National March for Life]]" rally took place in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the [[U.S. Capitol]] on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', legalizing abortion nationwide. The rally was organized by activist [[Nellie Gray (activist)|Nellie Gray]], who coined the term "[[pro-life]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://marchforlife.org/history/ |title=History |website=MarchForLife.org|date=25 March 2013 }}</ref> Police estimated the crowd to be more than 6,000 protestors.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/23/archives/both-sides-press-abortion-views-demonstrations-are-held-by.html |title=Both Sides Press Abortion Views |first=Nancy |last=Hicks |author-link=Nancy Hicks Maynard |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 January 1974 |page=38}}</ref>
[[File:Nike Court Zoom Lite 3.jpg|140px|thumb|The Nike trademark<ref>required attribution: Ganesh Mohan T</ref>]]
*[[Nike, Inc.]] was granted a U.S. trademark number 72414177 for its iconic logo, "The Swoosh", after having applied on January 31, 1972.<ref> [https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=72414177&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch Trademark 72414177], Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) service, United States Patent and Trademark Office</ref> Nike had first used the mark on its shoes on June 18, 1971.<ref>{{cite book |first=Joshua |last=Hunt |title=University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education |publisher=[[Melville House Publishing|Melville House]] |year=2018 |page=22}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Tony DeBlois]], blind American [[autistic savant]] and musician, profiled in the 1997 film ''Journey of the Heart''; in [[El Paso, Texas]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thecatholicspirit.com/news/local-news/musical-genius-doesnt-let-autism-blindness-hold-back/ |title=Musical genius doesn't let autism, blindness hold him back |first=Dave |last=Hrbacek |newspaper=[[The Catholic Spirit]] |date=27 August 2014}}</ref>
**[[Joseph Muscat]], [[Prime Minister of Malta]] 2013-2020; in [[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. J. (Joseph) Muscat |website=EU Monitor |url=https://www.eumonitor.eu/9353000/1/j9vvik7m1c3gyxp/vj7vdvdlifyo |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Annette Frier]], German actress and comedian; in [[Cologne]], West Germany<ref>{{cite web |title=Annette Frier |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Annette+Frier |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jörg Böhme]], German footballer with 10 caps for the German national team as a midfielder and 16 seasons in the [[Bundesliga]]; in [[Hohenmölsen]], [[East Germany]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/2591/Joerg_Boehme.html |title=Jörg Böhme |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Antanas Sniečkus]], 71, [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania]] and the ''de facto'' leader of the [[Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic]] after overseeing the annexation of Lithuania to the [[Soviet Union]]<ref>{{cite dictionary |title=First Secretaries of the Lithuanian Communist Party, 1940–1991 |chapter=Appendix 4: Lithuanian Political Leaders Since 1918 |last=Sužiedėlis |first=Saulius |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of Lithuania |edition=Second |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VkGB1CSfIlEC&pg=PA345 |page=345 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc. |year=2011 |series=Historical dictionaries of Europe |isbn=978-0-8108-7536-4 |access-date=31 August 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==January 23, 1974 (Wednesday)==
*A [[:nl:Internaatsbrand|fire killed 23 teenaged boys]] at the Heilig-Hartcollege (Sacred Heart School), a boarding school in [[Heusden, Belgium]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FpVAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301%2C4289927 |title=Belgium mourns 23 fire victims |newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=25 January 1974 |page=13 |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=23 Boys Killed in Fire in a Belgian Catholic School |at=Page 2, columns 3-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/23-boys-killed-in-fire-in-a-belgian-catholic-school.html |date=25 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20140122_00942611 |last=Van Horne |first=Kizzy |title='Deze ramp mag nooit vergeten worden' |trans-title='This disaster must never be forgotten' |newspaper=[[Het Nieuwsblad]] |date=23 January 2014 |language=nl |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
*Eight French Army soldiers were killed and three others seriously injured when the unit of 16 men took an unauthorized shortcut on a march through a {{convert|400|yd|m|adj=on}} long railway tunnel and was struck by a train. The group had lost its way during night maneuvers near [[Château-Thierry]] in France's [[Departments of France|département]] of [[Aisne]].<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Train Kills 8 French Soldiers |at=Page 2, column 3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/24/archives/train-kills-8-french-soldiers.html |date=24 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>
*A small [[earthquake]] in the [[Berwyn range]] of mountains in [[North Wales]] coincided with atmospheric lights and was followed by reports of [[Berwyn Mountain UFO incident|a UFO sighting]] in the village of [[Llandrillo, Denbighshire|Llandrillo]] in [[Denbighshire]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Musson |first=Roger M W |title=The enigmatic Bala earthquake of 1974 |journal=[[Astronomy & Geophysics]] |publisher=[[Royal Astronomical Society]] |date=October 2006 |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=5.11–5.15 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-4004.2006.47511.x |bibcode=2006A&G....47e..11M |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*Due to waning public interest in space exploration, the major American [[television network]]s announced that there would be no live coverage of the ''[[Skylab 4]]'' [[splashdown]] the following month. This would be the first time since 1966 that the return of a crewed [[NASA]] spacecraft would not be broadcast live.<ref name="Skylab"/>
*Five days before [[Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier II|their scheduled rematch fight]], boxers [[Muhammad Ali]] and [[Joe Frazier]] were dressed in suits and being interviewed by [[Howard Cosell]] for ''[[Wide World of Sports (American TV program)|Wide World of Sports]]'' when their [[trash talk]] resulted in an argument and a five-minute scuffle in the studio.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Ali Scuffle— Brief skirmish with Joe Frazier at New York television studio draws mixed reaction from onlookers; apparently, no blows are struck |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=24 January 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref>
*An [[F-4C]] jet fighter crashed on the Gila Bend Gunnery Range in [[Gila Bend, Arizona]], killing [[U.S. Air Force]] Maj. Jerry D. Whitlock and USAF Second Lieut. Jerry W. Smith.<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=2 Officers Die in Jet Crash |at=Page 71, column 8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/2-officers-die-in-jet-crash.html |date=25 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Norah O'Donnell]], American TV journalist, and anchor for the ''[[CBS Evening News]]'' since 2019; in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/511943/cbs-evening-news-norah-o-donnell-turns-50-you-wont-believe-who-congratulated-her/ |title=CBS Evening News' Norah O'Donnell's double milestone revealed and you won't believe who congratulated her - The CBS anchor turns 50 |magazine=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]] |date=January 24, 2024}}</ref>
**[[Tiffani Thiessen]], American actress known for ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' and for ''[[Alexa & Katie]]''; in [[Long Beach, California]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/01/23/milestones-january-23-birthdays-for-mariska-hargitay-pat-haden-tiffani-thiessen/ |title=MILESTONES: January 23, birthdays for Mariska Hargitay, Pat Haden, Tiffani Thiessen |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |date=23 January 2019 |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tiffani Thiessen - Actress |url=https://www.tvinsider.com/people/tiffani-thiessen/ |website=TV Insider |publisher=NTVB Media, Inc. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Joel Bouchard]], Canadian ice hockey defenceman with 22 seasons in the NHL and 11 games for the Canada national team; in [[Montreal]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/bouchjo01.html |title=Joel Bouchard Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Derek Cianfrance]], American filmmaker known for ''[[Sound of Metal]]''; in [[Lakewood, Colorado]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Derek Cianfrance {{!}} Movies and Filmography |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p235822 |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jack D. Fischer]], U.S. Air Force test pilot and NASA astronaut; in [[Louisville, Colorado]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/fischer_jack.htm |title=Astronaut Biography: Jack Fischer |date=2 June 2018 |website=Spacefacts |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Yuki Urushibara]], Japanese manga artist; in [[Yamaguchi Prefecture]]<ref>{{cite web |title=2003 [7th] Japan Media Arts Festival {{!}} Excellence Prize MUSHISHI |publisher=Japan Media Arts Plaza |year=2007 |url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/backnumber/15/sakuhin/mushishi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317205343/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/backnumber/15/sakuhin/mushishi.html |archive-date=17 March 2007 |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Athalia Ponsell Lindsley]], 56, American model, dancer and activist, was murdered with a [[machete]] in front of her home in [[St. Augustine, Florida]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12793954/decapitated_body_of_former_actress_found/ |title=Decapitated Body Of Former Actress Found |date=24 January 1974 |newspaper=[[Rushville Republican]] |page=2 |access-date=23 September 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12794301/murder_suspect_pleads_innocent/ |title=Murder Suspect Pleads Innocent |date=27 February 1974 |newspaper=[[The Naples Daily News]] |page=65 |access-date=1 August 2017 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="Elizabeth">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3niDAAAQBAJ&q=Athalia+Ponsell+Lindsley+american+model&pg=PA50 |title=Murder in St. Augustine : the mysterious death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley |first=Elizabeth |last=Randall |year=2016 |publisher=[[The History Press]] |isbn=978-1467118811 |location=[[Charleston, SC]] |oclc=950745774 |language=en |access-date=24 September 2021 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The murder remains unsolved.<ref name="Elizabeth"/>

==January 24, 1974 (Thursday)==
*A [[Togolese Air Force]] [[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]] carrying [[Étienne Eyadéma]], the [[President of Togo]], [[1974 Togo presidential C-47 crash|crashed]] near the village of [[Lama-Kara]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Togo Leader Survives |newspaper=[[Vancouver Sun]] |date=25 January 1974 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Presidents and leaders involved in aircraft accidents |date=10 April 2010 |url=https://aviationsafetynetwork.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/presidents-involved-in-aircraft-accidents/ |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref> Eyadéma falsely claimed that he was the [[List of sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents|sole survivor]] of the crash as a means to enhance his reputation. He subsequently changed his first name to "Gnassingbé" to commemorate the date of the crash.
[[File:The Brisbane Flood of 1974.jpg|thumb|January 24–31, 1974: Brisbane flood]]
*[[Cyclone Wanda]] crossed into Australia's state of Queensland, Australia, bringing heavy rains and [[1974 Brisbane flood|flooding of Brisbane]], 16 deaths, 300 injuries and nearly [[AUD]]$980 million in damage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Flooding History |url=http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/disasters/flooding_history.asp |date=17 December 2005 |publisher=Department of Emergency Services, [[Queensland Government|Queensland]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212160349/http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/disasters/flooding_history.asp |archive-date=12 December 2009 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*[[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], opened the [[1974 British Commonwealth Games]], known as "The Friendly Games", in [[Christchurch]], New Zealand with athletes from 38 nations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/%26%23039%3Bjoin-together%26%23039%3B-song%2C-1974-commonwealth-games |title='Join together' song, 1974 Commonwealth Games |website=New Zealand History |publisher=[[New Zealand Government]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="CGF">{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/games/christchurch-1974 |title=Christchurch 1974 |publisher=[[Commonwealth Games Federation]] |year=2020 |access-date=30 July 2021 |archive-date=7 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407182637/https://thecgf.com/games/christchurch-1974 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Games, which would be accompanied by the introduction of color television broadcasting to New Zealand, were telecast by the [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]] (NZBC) and would continue until February 2.<ref name="CGF"/>
*Four members of the Irish Republican Army hijacked a helicopter and used it to drop two milk churns packed with explosives onto [[Strabane]] Police Station in [[County Tyrone]], [[Northern Ireland]]. One milk churn landed in a garden and failed to explode; the other landed in the [[River Mourne]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FpVAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301%2C4289927 |title=IRA air attack 'amateurish' |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=25 January 1974 |page=24 |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=Copter Hijacked in Ulster Attack |at=Page 8, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/copter-hijacked-in-ulster-attack-but-attempt-to-bomb-police-with.html |date=25 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[Egil Krogh]], a former aide to U.S. President Nixon and leader of the [[White House Plumbers]], was sentenced to six months in prison. Krogh had authorized the [[September 1971]] burglary of the office of [[Daniel Ellsberg]]'s psychiatrist in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FpVAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301%2C4289927 |title=White House 'plumber' sent to prison |agency=Reuters |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=25 January 1974 |page=13 |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ripley |first=Anthony |title=Krogh Gets 6 Months |at=Page 1, columns 1-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/kroghgets-6-months-denies-nixon-role-exchief-of-white-house.html |date=25 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hersh |first=Seymour M. |author-link=Seymour Hersh |title=PLUMBERS OUSTED HIM, KROGH SAYS |at=Page 1, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/25/archives/plumbers-ousted-him-krogh-says-he-tells-of-dismissal-in-71-for.html |date=25 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[General Motors]] announced plans to lay off 75,000 hourly workers, 50,000 of them in Michigan, at 14 plants by [[March 1974|March]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Kleene |first=Tom |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=11188332&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjk4MTc4Nzc3LCJpYXQiOjE2Mjg0MDk5OTMsImV4cCI6MTYyODQ5NjM5M30.xgWEdxdiRHLyMCMBAyjQwzUSv9NY48IgFSyz2AwjgIo |title=GM Idles 75,000 at 14 Plants |date=25 January 1974 |page=3 |access-date=9 August 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Sarah Ruhl]], American playwright and [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Grant]] recipient known for ''[[Eurydice (Ruhl play)|Eurydice]]'' and ''[[The Clean House]]''; in [[Wilmette, Illinois]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Sarah Ruhl - Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sarah-ruhl-398718 |work=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Cyril Despres]], French-born [[Andorra]]n [[rally racer|rally motorcyclist]] and 5-time winner of the time winner of the [[Dakar Rally|Paris—Dakar Rally]]; in [[Nemours]], [[Seine-et-Marne]] département<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Profile/CyrilDespres--DakarRallyDrivers--RedBull-021242746278373 |title=Cyril Despres -- Motor Sports Profiles |publisher=[[Red Bull]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404040838/https://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Profile/CyrilDespres--DakarRallyDrivers--RedBull-021242746278373 |archive-date=4 April 2012 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Michaël Gillon]], Belgian [[exoplanet]] astronomer and astrophysicist; in [[Liège]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Naud |first=Marie-Eve |author-link=Marie-Eve Naud |title=Les grandes conférences de l'iREx – Dr Michaël Gillon |trans-title=The major iREx conferences - Dr Michaël Gillon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418015115/http://www.exoplanetes.umontreal.ca/les-grandes-conferences-de-lirex-dr-michael-gillon/?lang=en |archive-date=18 April 2022 |url=http://www.exoplanetes.umontreal.ca/les-grandes-conferences-de-lirex-dr-michael-gillon/?lang=en |date=5 October 2018 |publisher=Institute for Research on Exoplanets, [[Université de Montréal]] |language=en |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Tim Biakabutuka]], Zairean/Congolese National Football League running back; in [[Kinshasa]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BiakTi00.htm |title=Tim Biakabutuka Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ed Helms]], American TV and film actor and comedian known for ''The Office'' and for ''Rutherford Falls''; in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]<ref name="AP Birthdays">{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/celebrity-birthdays-beth-hart-ray-stevens-hip-hop-and-rap-nastassja-kinski-25346e8a89639f8fd7b919440e1e9156 |title=Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 24-30 |author=The Associated Press |author-link=The Associated Press |date=19 January 2021 |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Melissa Tkautz]], Australian TV actress and pop music singer, known for ''[[E Street (TV series)|E Street]]''; in [[Sydney]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Melissa+Tkautz |title=Melissa Tkautz |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=31 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] Sir [[Hubert Rance]], 75, British colonial administrator, the last [[List of colonial governors of Burma|Governor of British Burma]] (1946-1948), later the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago 1950-1955<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Sir Hubert Rance, Ex-Burma Governor |at=Page 34, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/sir-hubert-rance-exburma-governor.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=11 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Joe Savoldi]], 65, Italian-born [[Office of Strategic Services]] agent, American football [[Fullback (gridiron football)|fullback]], and professional wrestler<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph A. Savoldi of Notre Dame, 65 |at=Page 34, column 5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/joseph-a-savoldi-of-notre-dame-65-jumping-joe-of-unbeaten-2930.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Andrew Dewar Gibb]], 85, leader of the [[Scottish National Party]], 1936-1940, independence advocate, [[barrister]] and prolific legal author<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FpVAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3301%2C4289927 |title=Professor Dewar Gibb |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=25 January 1974 |page=3 |access-date=8 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
**[[Major general (United States)|Major General]] [[Albert C. Smith (United States Army officer)|Albert C. Smith]], 79, Commander of the 14th Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II, later [[United States Army Center of Military History|Chief of the Office of Military History]]<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Gen. Albert C. Smith Dies; Commanded in World Wars |at=Page 34, column 4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/gen-albert-c-smith-dies-commanded-in-world-wars.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>

==January 25, 1974 (Friday)==
*[[Yale University]] announced that the [[Vinland map]], which purportedly showed the portion of [[North America]] explored by [[Leif Erikson]] in the [[11th century]], was a 20th-century forgery.<ref>{{cite news |last=Knight |first=Michael |title=Yale Says Prized 'Vinland Map' Of North America Is a Forgery |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/yale-says-prized-vinland-map-of-north-america-is-a-forgery-yale.html |date=26 January 1974 |at=Page 65, columns 1-2 |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
*The Soviet Union successfully tested its first [[multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle]] (MIRV) missile, the [[UR-100N]], referred to by the Western alliance [[NATO]] as the SS-19 Stiletto intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The first launch, and another one the next day, were fired from a site deep with the USSR and traveled to a test range {{convert|4500|mi}} away, about {{convert|850|mi}} north of [[Midway Island]] in the Pacific Ocean. The [[U.S. Department of Defense]] disclosed the existence of the Soviet missile, which rivaled the older [[LGM-30 Minuteman|LGM-30G Minuteman III]] missile deployed by the U.S. since 1970.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russia Tests Multiheaded War Rockets |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=I-13}}</ref>
*Simultaneous strikes began in 44 towns in the [[Gujarat]] state in India in conjunction with the ''Navnirman Andolan'' movement. Clashes with police took place in 33 cities. The riots caused by the rise in food prices would spread from Gujarat to [[Maharashtra]], and then to [[Bihar]] in [[March 1974|March]].<ref name="Krishna"/><ref name="Shah"/> The [[Indian Army]] was called in to restore order<ref name="Krishna"/> on January 28 after rioting had killed 42 people in Ahmedabad.<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
*[[Israel Defense Forces]] troops began a full-scale withdrawal from the west bank of the [[Suez Canal]]. [[United Nations]] troops moved into the positions vacated by the IDF.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Terence |author-link=Terence Smith (journalist) |title=Israelis Formally Begin Suez Bridgehead Pullout |at=Page 65, columns 1-2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/israelis-formally-begin-suez-bridgehead-pullout-israeli-pullout-is.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Full-Scale Pullback By Israel Under Way |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=5 |access-date=9 July 2023 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*Prime Minister [[Bülent Ecevit]] of Turkey formed a new coalition government between his [[Republican People's Party]] (CHP) and the [[National Salvation Party]] (MSP).<ref>{{cite news |title=LEFTIST GOVERNMENT IS FORMED IN TURKEY |at=Page 7, columns 1-2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/leftist-government-is-formed-in-turkey.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Coalition Forms Turkish Cabinet |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=5 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel [[Anthony Herbert (lieutenant colonel)|Anthony Herbert]] filed a $44 million [[libel]] suit against [[CBS]] for portraying him as a liar in connection with his allegations about a military cover-up of Vietnam War atrocities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Herbert Enters $44-Million Libel Suit Against CBS |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=3 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*The [[U.S. Department of State]] announced that Gerald Emil Kosh, a civilian U.S. Department of Defense employee who had been captured on January 20 after the Chinese landing on [[Pattle Island]] during the Battle of the Paracel Islands, was being held by the [[People's Republic of China]].<ref name="Yoshihara 50">Yoshihara, p. 50.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gwertzman |first=Bernard |title=PEKING REPORTS HOLDING U.S. AIDE |at=Page 1, column 3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/peking-reports-holding-us-aide.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Civilian Held By Red Chinese |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=5 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*In [[Minnesota]], American actor [[Marlon Brando]] attended [[jury selection]] at the trial of [[American Indian Movement]] leaders [[Dennis Banks]] and [[Russell Means]] to show his support for the defendants, who had been indicted on charges related to the 1973 [[occupation of Wounded Knee]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Brando at Trial to Aid Indians |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=3 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Adam Bousdoukos]], German actor; in [[Hamburg]], West Germany{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Robert Budreau]], Canadian filmmaker; in [[London, Ontario]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Claudelle Deckert]], German actress and model; in [[Düsseldorf]], West Germany<ref>{{cite news |url=http://top.de/news/06q3-dschungelcamp-2013-claudelle-deckert-schwindelt-alter-name |title=Dschungelcamp 2013: Claudelle Deckert schwindelt bei Alter und Name |trans-title=Jungle Camp 2013: Claudelle Deckert cheats on age and name |language=de |website=top.de |date=22 January 2013 |publisher=1&1 Internet AG |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125003724/http://top.de/news/06q3-dschungelcamp-2013-claudelle-deckert-schwindelt-alter-name#.A1000004 |archive-date=25 January 2013 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Phill Jones]], New Zealand Olympic and professional basketball player, 2009 MVP for the [[NZNBL]]; in [[Christchurch]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/phil-jones-1.html |title=Phil Jones Bio, Stats, and Results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914172127/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/phil-jones-1.html |archive-date=14 September 2017 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Igor Miladinović (chess player)|Igor Miladinović]], Serbian [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]]; in [[Niš]], [[SR Serbia]] Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chess.vrsac.com/search/player_e.asp?FC=4203380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017075320/http://chess.vrsac.com/search/player_e.asp?FC=4203380 |archive-date=17 October 2006 |title=Rating data for player Miladinovic, Igor, (SCG) |website=vrsac.com |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[William Fawcett (actor)|William Fawcett]] (stage name for William Fawcett Thompson), 79, American character actor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brokenwheelranch.com/brokenwheelranch.com/pete.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124092136/http://brokenwheelranch.com/brokenwheelranch.com/pete.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |title=William Fawcett |publisher=Broken Wheel Ranch |access-date=2 August 2021 }}</ref>
**[[Nora Holt]], 89, American music critic, composer, singer and pianist, first African American to receive a [[master's degree]] in music in the United States<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/30/archives/nora-holt-dead-music-critic-89-joined-amsterdam-news-in.html |title=Nora Holt Dead; Music Critic, 89 |date=30 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |at=Page 38, column 1 |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[James Pope-Hennessy]], 57, British biographer and historian, was beaten and stabbed to death in his West London apartment, in a midday attack by three men. Pope-Hennessy, known for "his disclosure of intimate royal secrets" in 1959 from the diary of [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]], had been working on a biography of [[Noël Coward]] at the time of his murder.<ref>{{cite news |title=James Pope-Hennessy, Writer, Dies in London After Knifing |at=Page 34, columns 2-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/26/archives/james-popehennessy-writer-dies-in-london-after-knifing.html |date=26 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Royal Biographer Is Brutally Slain In London Home |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=5 |access-date=9 July 2023 |via=Google News}}</ref> One of the killers said that the motive for the home invasion had been to search for a $150,000 advance that had been given to Pope-Hennessy for the Coward biography.<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=27 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>

==January 26, 1974 (Saturday)==
*The crash of [[Turkish Airlines Flight 301]] killed 66 of the 73 people on board. The [[Fokker F28 Fellowship]] crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from Cumaovası Airport (now [[İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport]]) in [[İzmir]].<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=63 Killed in Crash of Airliner in Turkey |at=Page 3, columns 1-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/27/archives/63-killed-in-crash-of-airliner-in-turkey-on-domestic-flight.html |date=27 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Aircraft accident Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1000 TC-JAO Izmir-Cumaovasi Airport (ADB) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740126-0 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network (ASN) |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*The [[Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case]], widely considered a miscarriage of justice, began when an 18-year-old laborer, Guðmundur Einarsson, disappeared while walking home on a snowy night from a dance hall in [[Hafnarfjörður]] in [[Iceland]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Simon |date=May 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_reykjavik_confessions |title=The Reykjavik Confessions |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref>
*In [[Spokane, Washington]], at least 175 employees of [[Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories, Inc.]] had [[food poisioning]] from the ''[[Shigella]]'' bacteria, after a company banquet at the [[Ridpath Hotel]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Food Sought in Illness at Banquet |newspaper=[[Spokane Daily Chronicle]] |date=1 February 1974 |page=23 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*At the [[31st Golden Globe Awards]], ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]'' won the award for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama|Best Drama]], while ''[[American Graffiti]]'' won the award for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Comedy or Musical]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Exorcist Wins Golden Globe Award |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=27 January 1974 |page=I-24}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Albert van den Berg]], South African [[rugby union]] player with 51 caps for the [[South Africa national rugby union team|Springboks]], the South Africa national team; in [[Hoopstad]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sharksrugby.co.za/default.asp?Id=15296&des=content |title=ALBERT VAN DEN BERG |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219082249/http://www.sharksrugby.co.za/default.asp?Id=15296&des=content |archive-date=19 February 2008 |website=[[Sharks (rugby union)|Sharks Rugby]] |publisher=The Sharks (Pty) Ltd |year=2007 |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Rokia Traoré]], award-winning Malian singer and songwriter; in [[Beledougou]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rokia-traor%C3%A9-mn0000837328 |title=Rokia Traoré {{!}} Biography, Albums, Streaming Links |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Boris Bychowsky]], 65, Soviet scientist and [[parasitologist]] for whom the ''[[Bychowskicotylidae]]'' [[Family (biology)|family]] of [[flatworm]]s in fish are named, as well as four [[genera]] and numerous species.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/parhung/Parasit_Hung_1974_Vol_7_11.pdf |last=Kobulej |first=Tibor |title=In memoriam B. J. BYCHOVSZKIJ |journal=Parasitologia Hungarica |issue=7 |location=[[Budapest]] |year=1974 |page=11 |language=hu |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Julius Patzak]], 75, Austrian [[tenor]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfrls2/patzak/bio.htm |title=Brief Biography of Julius Patzak |last1=Sharpe |first1=Roderick L. |last2=Sharpe |first2=Krista Bowers |date=22 October 2004 |website=[[Western Illinois University]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>

==January 27, 1974 (Sunday)==
*[[Pope Paul VI]] canonized [[Teresa Jornet Ibars]], a 19th-century Spanish nun, in a ceremony at [[St. Peter's Basilica]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Spaniard Who Founded Nuns' Order Canonized |at=Page 10, column 2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/spaniard-who-founded-nuns-order-canonized.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
[[File:MV Captayannis - geograph.org.uk - 1241375.jpg|thumb|right|The wreck of ''Captayannis'' in 2006]]
*The [[cargo ship]] [[MV Captayannis|MV ''Captayannis'']] ran aground on a sandbar in the [[Firth of Clyde]], Scotland, after strong winds caused it to drag its [[anchor]] and drift into the anchor chains of the [[BP]] tanker ''British Light''. All crew members were rescued. The ship would sink the following morning; its wreck remains in place in the [[River Clyde]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45641159 |last=Watson |first=Calum |title=Sugar Boat shipwreck: The River Clyde's unlikely landmark |website=[[BBC Scotland]] News |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=14 October 2018 |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*Three days before the second anniversary of the [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]] massacre of 13 civilians by British troops, 4,000 people participated in a peaceful protest march, organized by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]. The march through [[Derry]] in [[Northern Ireland]] followed the route of the 1972 march.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=4,000 March in Londonderry To Mark 'Bloody Sunday' |at=Page 2, column 5 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/4000-march-in-londonderry-to-mark-bloody-sunday.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
*The United States observed National MIA Awareness Day, proclaimed by President Nixon to mark the first anniversary of the [[Paris Peace Accords]] and to acknowledge Americans who had become [[missing in action]] in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nation to Honor MIAs on Sunday |agency=AP |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740126&id=OJxRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Am0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5110,2913500&hl=en |date=26 January 1974 |page=1 |access-date=7 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*[[Rod Laver]] of Australia defeated [[Arthur Ashe]] of the U.S., 6-1, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, to win the [[1974 U.S. Professional Indoor|U.S. Professional Indoor]] tennis tournament in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Laver Has Ashe's Number, Wins U.S. Indoor Pro Title |author= |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=28 January 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref>
*Brazilian racing driver [[Emerson Fittipaldi]] won the [[1974 Brazilian Grand Prix]] at [[Interlagos Circuit]] in São Paulo, Brazil.<ref>{{cite news |agency=UPI |title=Grand Prix Of Brazil to Fittipaldi |at=Page 22, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/grand-prix-of-brazil-to-fittipaldi.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-1974/32/brazilian-grand-prix-2 |last=Henry |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Henry |title=1974 Brazilian Grand Prix race report |date=March 1974 |magazine=[[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport Magazine]] |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Ole Einar Bjørndalen]], Norwegian biathlete, winter of eight Winter Olympics gold medals (including four in 2002) and 20 gold medals in world championships between 1998 and 2016; in [[Drammen]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bj/ole-einar-bjorndalen-1.html |title=Ole Einar Bjørndalen Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203175817/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bj/ole-einar-bjorndalen-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://biathlonresults.com/?IBUId=btnor12701197401 |title=OLE EINAR BJOERNDALEN |website=BiathlonResults.com |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Chaminda Vaas]], Sri Lankan cricketer with 153 matches for the national team; in Mattumagala (near [[Wattala]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Chaminda Vaas profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=11 August 2021 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/chaminda-vaas-50804}}</ref>
**[[Marco Malvaldi]], Italian [[crime writer|crime novelist]] known for the BarLume mystery series; in Pisa<ref>{{cite web |title=Marco Malvaldi |publisher=Scrittori e Romanzi |url=https://www.chiscrive.eu/autori/marco-malvaldi/ |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
**[[Tim Harden]], American track and field athlete, 2001 world indoor champion in the 60 metre dash; in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/tim-harden-1.html |title=Tim Harden Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203073739/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/tim-harden-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref>
[[File:Georgios Grivas 1967.jpg|100px|thumb|Grivas]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Georgios Grivas]], 75, [[Greek Cypriot]] guerrilla leader who founded and led the [[EOKA-B]] paramilitary group, as well as [[Organization X|Organisatos Chi]] and [[EOKA]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Grivas Dies in Cyprus |at=Page 57, column 4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/grivas-dies-in-cyprus.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Gen. George Grivas Dies; Led Cyprus Underground |at=Page 30, columns 1-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/gen-george-grivas-dies-led-cyprus-underground-out-of-retirement-in.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Georgios Grivas |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=23 January 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georgios-Grivas |access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>
**[[Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg]], 87, German general who commanded the 5th Panzer Army during World War II<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=26 February 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Geyr-von-Schweppenburg |access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>
**[[Richard Gregg (social philosopher)|Richard Gregg]], 88, American social philosopher, advocate of passive resistance and the author of the 1934 treatise ''The Power of Non-Violence''<ref>{{cite web |title=Chronology — Richard Bartlett Gregg |url=http://www.richardgregg.org/chronology/ |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet|Sir Edward Spears]], 87, [[British Army]] [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|major-general]] and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]], liaison between the British and French Armies during World War One and World War Two<ref>{{cite news |title=Gen. Spears Dies; Helped De Gaulle, Brought General to Britain|at=Page 30, column 4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/28/archives/gen-spears-dies-helped-de-gaulle-brought-general-to-britain-to-form.html |date=28 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsS3.htm |last=Rayment |first=Leigh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024070641/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsS3.htm |archive-date=24 October 2019 |title=Baronetage |work=The Baronetage of England, Ireland, Nova Scotia, Great Britain and the United Kingdom |date=29 September 2017 |url-status=usurped |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>

==January 28, 1974 (Monday)==
*The siege by the Israeli Army of the city of [[Suez]], in [[Egypt]], ended at noon local time. Israeli troops withdrew, clearing the way for the 20,000 troops of the Egyptian 3rd Army to return home.<ref>{{cite news |title=Israeli Withdrawal Lifts Siege of Suez City, Cairo's 3rd Army |first=William J. |last=Coughlin |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref> The Egyptian troops had been trapped since [[October 1973|October]] behind enemy lines on the east bank of the [[Suez Canal]] after having retaken part of the Sinai peninsula early in the [[Yom Kippur War]].
*Indonesia's President [[Suharto]] took complete control of the Asian nation's internal security agency, ASPRI, dismissing the four Indonesian Army generals who operated the agency.<ref>{{cite news |title=Indonesia leader Widens His Rule |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
*The [[1974 Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur Agreement]] was signed, separating the Malaysian national capital, [[Kuala Lumpur]], from the jurisdiction of the state of [[Selangor]] and placing the capital under the jurisdiction of the national government as a [[Federal Territories of Malaysia|Federal Territory]]. The agreement was signed by the head of state of Malaysia, the ''[[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]]'' [[Tuanku Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah]] and by the Sultan of Selangor, [[Salahuddin of Selangor|Salahuddin Abdul Aziz ibni Almarhum]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New Straits Times]] |title=The Birth Of A Metropolis ..A Moment Of History For All. |date=29 January 1974 |access-date=25 October 2010 |via=Google News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y90qAAAAIBAJ&pg=1417,3052818&dq=kuala+lumpur+federal+territory&hl=en}}</ref>
*Bolivia's President [[Hugo Banzer]] placed the South American nation under a state of siege after a group of 12,000 peasants, some of whom were armed, had blocked roads near [[Cochabamba]] between the heavily populated cities of the north and the farmlands of the south and the east. The peasants had been protesting the doubling of the costs of basic staple foods. The rebellion was suppressed two days later and the nation's highways were reopened.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bolivia Says It Has Put Down Peasant Revolt |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=31 January 1974 |page=I-7}}</ref> 
*A bus crash near the Peruvian town of [[Jauja]] drowned 35 people after the vehicle collided with another vehicle and fell into the [[Mantaro River]]. Only six people of the 41 on board survived.<ref>{{cite news |title=35 Die as Peru Bus Plunges Into River |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=I-7}}</ref>
[[File:Ali vs frazier elgrafico.jpg|thumb|Promotional photo for Ali vs. Frazier II]]
*The [[Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier II|rematch of former heavyweight boxing champions]] [[Muhammad Ali]] and [[Joe Frazier]] took place at [[Madison Square Garden]] in New York City. Ali won by [[unanimous decision]] after the fighters completed 12 rounds.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Anderson (sportswriter) |title=Ali Beats Frazier On Decision Here |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/25/specials/ali-frazier.html |date=29 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref> What was described by one reporter as "the most ballyhooed non-title fight in history"<ref>{{cite news |title=Ali Decisions Frazier; Both Want Third Match— Muhammad Awarded Unanimous, 12-Round Verdict in Fast, No-Knockdown Contest |first=Bill |last=Lyon |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=29 January 1974 |page=III-1}}</ref> was a reversal of [[Fight of the Century|Frazier's victory over Ali]] on March 8, 1971.
*An aircraft flying to [[Owatonna, Minnesota]], for an inspection of law enforcement facilities crashed, killing all four on board. The Chief of Police of [[Thief River Falls, Minnesota|Thief River Falls]] was killed, along with two city council members and the pilot.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/10486-chief-of-police-roy-leonard-pederson |title=Chief of Police Roy Leonard Pederson, Thief River Falls Police Department, Minnesota |publisher=[[The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc]] |access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Jermaine Dye]], Major League Baseball [[right fielder]], World Series MVP 2005; in [[Oakland, California]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jermaine Dye Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dyeje01.shtml |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Magglio Ordóñez]], Venezuelan Major League Baseball player, 2007 American League batting champion; in Caracas, Venezuela<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ordonma01.shtml |title=Magglio Ordonez Stats |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Davana Medina]], American [[Fitness and figure competition|figure competitor]], IFBB champion 2003, 2004 and 2005; in [[Ponce, Puerto Rico]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newsamericanow.com/profiles/davana-medina/ |title=Davana Medina News, Davana Medina Pictures, Davana Medina Links |website=News America Now |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911014903/http://www.newsamericanow.com/profiles/davana-medina/ |archive-date=11 September 2007 |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Ramsey Nasr]], Dutch poet and actor; in [[Rotterdam]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Ramsey Nasr |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Ramsey+Nasr |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
**[[Kari Traa]], Norwegian [[freestyle skier]], 2002 Olympic gold medalist in the [[mogul skiing]] event; in [[Voss]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/kari-traa-1.html |title=Kari Traa Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417162056/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/kari-traa-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Ed Allen (musician)|Ed Allen]], 76, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist<ref>{{cite web |last=Chadbourne |first=Eugene |title=Ed Allen {{!}} Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ed-allen-mn0000795718/biography |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Dillon Anderson]], 67, American lawyer and former U.S. [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] to President Dwight Eisenhower, 1955 to 1956<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/30/archives/dillon-anderson-lawyer-dead-special-assistant-to-eisenhower-at-big.html?_r=0 |title=Dillon Anderson, Lawyer, Dead; Special Assistant to Eisenhower |date=30 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |at=Page 38, columns 1-2 |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Oswald Cornwallis]], 79, English [[Royal Navy]] Captain and first-class cricketer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/oswald-cornwallis-10818 |title=Oswald Cornwallis profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>

==January 29, 1974 (Tuesday)==
*King [[Baudouin of Belgium]] dissolved the [[Belgian Federal Parliament]] after his choice of Prime Minister, [[Leo Tindemans]], was unable to form a new government.<ref>{{cite news |title=Belgian King Gives Order for Elections |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=30 January 1974 |page=I-15}}</ref> [[1974 Belgian general election|Voting for all 212 seats]] of the [[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Deputies]] would take place on March 10, 1974. 
*'''Born:''' [[Mălina Olinescu]], Romanian singer; in [[Bucharest]] (died 2011)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/malina-olinescu-dies-at-age-37 |title=Malina Olinescu dies at age 37 |date=12 December 2011 |publisher=[[EBU]] |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Kate Gardiner]], 88, New Zealand mountaineer who made the first ascents of 33 mountains in the Canadian Rockies<ref>{{cite dictionary |last=McCormack |first=Trish |title=Gardiner, Kate |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g3/gardiner-kate |dictionary=[[Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]] |year=1998 |via=[[Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand]] |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Benjamin Steinberg (conductor)|Benjamin Steinberg]], 58, American concert violinist, conductor and civil rights activist known for being co-founder (in 1965) of the [[Symphony of the New World]], died of [[pancreatic cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/30/archives/benjamin-steinberg-dies-at-58-began-symphony-of-new-world.html |title=Benjamin Steinberg Dies at 58; Began Symphony of New World |date=30 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |at=Page 38, columns 1-2 |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[H. E. Bates]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}, 68, English author known for the Larkin Family series of books about rural Britons, and for ''[[My Uncle Silas]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/30/archives/h-e-bates-dies-british-novelist-his-darling-bude-of-may-was-staged.html |title=H. E. Bates Dies; British Novelist |date=30 January 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |at=Page 38, columns 3-4 |access-date=12 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=H.E. Bates |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=25 January 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-E-Bates |access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>
**[[Jules Wabbes]], 54, Belgian furniture designer and interior architect, died of cancer<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pombo |first=Fátima |title=Jules Wabbes (1919–1974): Creating Total Works of Art in Interiors |journal=Journal of Interior Design |date=September 2014 |volume=39 |issue=3 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265389205 |page=25 |doi=10.1111/joid.12024 |s2cid=55449915 |via=[[ResearchGate]] |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>

==January 30, 1974 (Wednesday)==
*The crash of [[Pan Am Flight 806]] killed 97 of the 101 people on board. The jet was making its approach to [[Pago Pago International Airport]] in [[American Samoa]] when a [[microburst]]-induced [[wind shear]] brought it down during its landing. The accident happened at 11:41 pm local time (1041 UTC on 31 January). Almost all the deaths were due to a fire that broke out after the crash.<ref name="FAA"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Plane Toll Put at 92 |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=7 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740130-0 |title=Aircraft accident Boeing 707-321B N454PA Pago Pago International Airport (PPG) |publisher=Aviation Safety Network (ASN) |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*U.S. President Richard Nixon delivered the [[1974 State of the Union Address|State of the Union Address]] to the [[93rd United States Congress]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nixon Says Arabs Will Discuss Ending Embargo, Calls for Watergate Windup— Tells Congress Jaworski Has Enough Evidence |first=Ronald J. |last=Ostrow |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=31 January 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref> Referring to what he described as "the so-called Watergate affair", Nixon said, "I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough." Near the end of the speech, Nixon stated: "I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States."<ref>{{cite web |title=State of the Union Address: Richard Nixon (January 30, 1974) |date=11 February 2017 |url=https://www.infoplease.com/primary-sources/government/presidential-speeches/state-union-address-richard-nixon-january-30-1974 |website=[[Infoplease]] |access-date=9 August 2021}}</ref> Nixon would resign the presidency on August 9 after a tape recording showed that he had ordered a cover-up of the investigation of the Watergate scandal.
*'''Born:'''
**[[Christian Bale]], English film actor, 2011 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for ''[[The Fighter]]'', Golden Globe Award winner for Best Actor for portraying former U.S. Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] in the film ''[[Vice (2018 film)|Vice]]''; known also for portraying "[[Bruce Wayne (Dark Knight trilogy)|Batman]]" in the "[[Batman in film#The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012)|''Dark Knight'' trilogy]]" 2005 to 2012; in [[Haverfordwest]], [[Wales]]<ref name="AP Birthdays"/>
**[[Olivia Colman]], English film and TV actress, Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner for Best Actress for ''[[The Favourite]]'', Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''; in [[Norwich]], [[Norfolk]]<ref name="AP Birthdays"/>
**[[Roger Hammond (cyclist)|Roger Hammond]], British bicycle racer, eight-time gold medalist in the [[British National Cyclo-cross Championships]] including five consecutive titles 2000 through 2004, as well as 1994, 2006 and 2008; in [[Oxford]], [[Oxfordshire]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Roger Hammond |access-date=11 July 2023 |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/103615 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen}}</ref>
**[[Gilber Caro]], Venezuelan National Assembly deputy and political activist imprisoned multiple times by the Venezuelan government; in [[Caracas]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.notimerica.com/politica/noticia-quien-gilber-caro-diputado-voluntad-popular-detenido-20170112122705.html |title=¿Quién es Gilber Caro, el diputado de Voluntad Popular detenido? |trans-title=Who is Gilber Caro, the detained Popular Will deputy? |website=Notimérica |department=política |date=12 January 2017 |language=es |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jemima Goldsmith|Jemima Khan]] (pen name for Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith), British journalist; in [[Chelsea, London]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jemima Goldsmith|url=https://www.zimbio.com/Jemima+Goldsmith |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
**[[Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa]], Egyptian footballer with 112 caps for the Egypt national team; in [[Dakahlia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/2076/Abdel_Zaher_El_Saqqa.html |title=Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Siluck Saysanasy]], Laotian-born Canadian television actor in the ''[[Degrassi]]'' series in ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' and ''[[Degrassi High]]''; in [[Vientiane]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Dunphy |first=Catherine |title=Degrassi Talks - On Drugs |url=http://degrassitalks.degrassi.ca/drugs.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603031748/http://degrassitalks.degrassi.ca/drugs.htm |archive-date=3 June 2006 |quote=Siluck came to Canada, October 6, 1979. He was almost six (his birthday is January 30) and he was a refugee. |access-date=8 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Charlie Zaa]] (stage name for Carlos Alberto Sánchez), Colombian singer; in [[Girardot, Cundinamarca]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Charlie+Zaa |title=Charlie Zaa |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Murray Chotiner]], 64, American attorney and confidant of U.S. President Nixon, died of complications from injuries sustained a week earlier in a January 23 automobile accident. In [[September 1952]], when Nixon was [[1952 United States presidential election|accused of wrongdoing as running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower]], Chotiner had destroyed a letter of resignation that Nixon had directed him to deliver. Instead, Chotiner advised Nixon to [[Checkers speech|speak to the U.S. public on national TV]]. Nixon went on to be elected as Vice President of the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=Murray Chotiner, Long-Time Nixon Political Confidant, Dies— Complications From Auto Crash Injuries Take Life of President's Former Aide |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=31 January 1974 |page=I-3}}</ref>
**[[Olav Roots]], 63, Estonian conductor, pianist and composer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.erso.ee/olav-roots-en/?lang=en |title=Olav Roots |publisher=[[:et:Eesti Riiklik Sümfooniaorkester|ERSO]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
**[[Bill Whitty]], 87, Australian cricketer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/bill-whitty-8222 |title=Bill Whitty profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>

==January 31, 1974 (Thursday)==
*The [[People's Republic of China]] released Gerald Emil Kosh, a U.S. civilian captured during the [[Battle of the Paracel Islands]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=31 January 1974 |page=I-2}}</ref>
*The South Vietnamese government and the [[Viet Cong]] announced that they would resume [[prisoner of war]] exchanges on February 8, after a suspension of seven months.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=POW Exchanges to Be Resumed |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=2 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*A [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] spokesman announced that the [[United States Air Force]] was dropping charges against [[Captain (United States O-3)|Capt.]] Donald Dawson, who had refused to fly a bombing mission over [[Cambodia]] after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement. He was granted [[conscientious objector]] status and would be [[honorably discharged]] the following month.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Objector Status Granted Flyer |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=8 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*Two members of the [[Japanese Red Army]] (JRA) and two members of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) made [[Laju incident|a failed attempt to blow up oil tanks]] at the [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]] [[oil refinery]] complex on [[Pulau Bukom]] at [[Singapore]]. The terrorists then hijacked the ferry ''Laju'' and took its five crew members hostage.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Chew |first=Valerie |title=Laju hijacking |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1372_2009-01-15.html |encyclopedia=[[Singapore Infopedia]] |year=2008 |publisher=[[Government of Singapore]] |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>
*In [[Newtownabbey]], County Antrim, a [[suburb]] north of Belfast, two armed robbers entered a workmen's hut and seized the week's wages of the 13 laborers inside. They then ordered the Protestants present to kneel on the floor. After two or three men did so, the gunmen opened fire on the other people in the hut, killing two Catholics (37-year-old Terence McCafferty and 29-year-old James McCloskey) and wounding three other men, including a Protestant.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=North Ireland: Robbery Becomes Massacre |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=2 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref name="Sutton Index">{{cite web |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1974.html |last=Sutton |first=Malcolm |title=An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland |website=CAIN Web Service |access-date=16 August 2021}}</ref> The gunmen were members of the [[Ulster Freedom Fighters]].<ref name="Sutton Index"/>
*By a vote of 18 to 6, the [[United States House Committee on Education and Labor]] rejected an amendment to a school aid bill that would have prohibited the use of federal funds for [[desegregation busing]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Antibusing Bill Beaten |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=2 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*General Motors announced record profits of $2.4 billion for 1973.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=GM Profits Set Record |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=21 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref> [[Delta Air Lines]] announced that its net profits for 1973 were $74.9 million, the highest earned to that date by an air carrier from ordinary operations in one calendar year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Fuel Woes Fail to Halt Profit Hike |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=21 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*A 34-year-old woman in [[Littleton, Colorado]] committed [[suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning]], but inadvertently killed her husband and three of her children, along with a resident of neighboring apartment. Betty Foster had started her car in the closed garage of her [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]] building and a [[forced-air]] heating system sucked the fumes into two apartments.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Woman's Suicide Also Kills 5 More |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=12 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*At a meeting in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]], [[National League (baseball)|National League]] baseball team owners approved the sale of the [[San Diego Padres]] to [[Ray Kroc]], the founder of the [[McDonald's]] chain of fast-food restaurants.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Padre Sale Is O.K. |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=17 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Ariel Pestano]], Cuban baseball player known as ''El Veterano'', catcher for the gold medal winning Cuba national team in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Baseball World Cup competitions; in [[Caibarién]], [[Villa Clara Province]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/ariel-pestano-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045940/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/ariel-pestano-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Ariel Pestano Bio, Stats, and Results |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Andrew Lockington]], Canadian [[film score]] composer; in [[Burlington, Ontario]]{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
**[[Anna Silk]], Canadian actress and star of the TV series ''[[Lost Girl]]''; in [[Fredericton]], [[New Brunswick]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sci-fi-online.com/00_interviews/11-08-12_anna-silk.html |title=Anna Silk (Bo) - Lost Girl - Interview |website=sci-fi online |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Samuel Goldwyn]] (born Szmuel Gelfisz), 94, Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of [[Goldwyn Pictures]], which later merged with two other companies to form MGM Studios<ref>{{cite news |title=Samuel Goldwyn, 91, Last of Movieland Triumvirate, Dies |first=Jack |last=Jones |author-link=Jack Jones (journalist) |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=1 February 1974 |page=I-1}}</ref>
**[[Glenn Morris]], 61, American Olympic athlete, winner of the 1936 Olympic decathlon, died of [[congestive heart failure]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a5JYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200%2C82451 |title=Ex-Tarzan Dead at 62 |agency=AP |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=1 February 1974 |page=15 |access-date=11 August 2021 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/02/archives/glenn-morris-62-track-star-dead-olympics-decathlon-winner-in-36-was.html |title=Glenn Morris, 62, Track Star, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=2 February 1974 |at=Page 32, column 3 |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Emil Väre]], 88, Finnish wrestler, gold medalist in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympic games in lightweight wrestling, and in the 1911 World Wrestling Championships<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/emil-vare-1.html |title=Emil Väre Bio, Stats, and Results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180328/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/emil-vare-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref>
**[[Morris Kantor]], 77, Russian-born American painter<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/02/archives/morris-kantor-artist-77-dead-new-york-painter-taught-at-art.html |title=Morris Kantor, Artist, 77, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 February 1974 |at=Page 32, columns 1-2 |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref>
**[[Roger Pryor (actor)|Roger Pryor]], 72, American radio and B-movie actor<ref>{{cite news |title=Roger Pryor, Screen Actor, Later Ad Executive, Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/16/archives/roger-pryor-screen-actor-later-ad-executive-dead.html |date=16 February 1974 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=34 |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>

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