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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 13, 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
• January 23, 1974 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 7, 1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• March 18, 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• April 8, 1974 – At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth’s 39-year-old record.
• July 24, 1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
• August 30, 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• September 12, 1974 – Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
• October 5, 1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
• November 22, 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

Who Were Born On 1974?

• February 28, 1974 – Tangi Miller, American actress and dancer
• March 1, 1974 – Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer
• March 4, 1974 – Bill Young, Australian rugby player
• April 9, 1974 – Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
• July 14, 1974 – David Mitchell, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• July 30, 1974 – Jason Robinson, English rugby player and coach
• August 5, 1974 – Olle Kullinger, Swedish footballer
• September 12, 1974 – Guy Smith, English race car driver
• September 25, 1974 – John Granville, American scholar and diplomat (d. 2008)
• September 29, 1974 – Matt Hullum, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth