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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 4, 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
• January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 4, 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
• February 22, 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• April 1, 1974 – The metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England come into being.
• June 29, 1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Perón, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• July 23, 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece’s metapolitefsi era.
• November 20, 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• November 22, 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• December 25, 1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia.

Who Were Born On 1974?

• February 18, 1974 – Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician
• March 20, 1974 – Kevin Sullivan, Canadian runner and coach
• June 26, 1974 – Kristofer Steen, Swedish guitarist (Refused and Final Exit)
• August 9, 1974 – Raphaël Poirée, French biathlete
• October 10, 1974 – Asi Cohen, Israeli actor and screenwriter
• October 17, 1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboard player (HIM)
• October 23, 1974 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch footballer
• November 18, 1974 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian race car driver
• December 16, 1974 – Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
• December 24, 1974 – Paal Nilssen-Love, Norwegian drummer (Atomic and The Thing)