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1974 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1974 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1974

• January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 3, 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
• May 16, 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
• May 30, 1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• September 15, 1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
• October 30, 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
• November 16, 1974 – The Arecibo Message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
• November 22, 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• December 1, 1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• December 19, 1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Who Were Born On 1974?

• January 4, 1974 – Armin Zöggeler, Italian luger
• March 27, 1974 – Dmitri Yemets, Russian author
• June 18, 1974 – Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
• June 24, 1974 – Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire
• July 2, 1974 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
• August 20, 1974 – Misha Collins, American actor and producer
• August 21, 1974 – Johnny Reid, Scottish-Canadian singer
• August 23, 1974 – Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player
• October 14, 1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
• October 23, 1974 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer