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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.
• April 3, 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
• April 27, 1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
• April 29, 1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
• May 18, 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• September 1, 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
• September 10, 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• September 18, 1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
• September 25, 1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.
• October 8, 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

Who Were Born On 1974?

• February 16, 1974 – Mahershala Ali, American actor
• March 10, 1974 – Biz Stone, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
• May 17, 1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
• July 12, 1974 – Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer-songwriter (Within Temptation)
• September 6, 1974 – Justin Whalin, American actor
• September 19, 1974 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model, actress, and singer
• October 2, 1974 – Kevin Van De Wege, American firefighter and politician
• October 5, 1974 – Heather Headley, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• October 11, 1974 – Fumika Suzuki, Japanese voice actress and model
• December 15, 1974 – Pooh, Filipino actor and comedian