1974 - January. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 177 dead, 293 injured February 1 - The Joelma Fire kills 188 in São Paulo. February ...

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1974 - January. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.. January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia was flooded. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their ...

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1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). 1974 - Events. January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. January 30 - G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges 1974 - February. February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil - ...

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1974 in rail transport - June events. June 16 - The Milwaukee Road ends operation of its electric locomotives in Montana and Idaho. Trains over the Rocky Mountains are now solely powered by diesels. 1974 in rail transport - August events. August - The Seoul subway opens. 1974 in rail transport - Unknown date events. The original Norfolk Southern Railway is merged into the Southern Railway. John W. Barr ...

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Turkish Invasion of Cyprus - Ongoing negotiations. Despite the demands by the United Nations Security Council for the immediate unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus soil and the safe return of the refugees to their homes all attempts to reach a negotiated settlement have failed due to Turkish intransigence. (See UN Security Council resolutions 353(1974), 357(1974), 358(1974), 359(1974), 360(1974), 365(1974) endorsing General Assembly resolution 3212(XXIX)(1974), 367(1975), 541(1983), 550(1984).) Turkey defends its position, stating that any ...

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Varahagiri Venkata Giri (August 10, 1894 - June 23, 1980), commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth president of the Republic of India (August 24, 1969 - August 23, 1974). He was born into a Telugu speaking family, residing in Berhampur in the Ganjam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency. The town and district are now part of the state of Orissa. In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Féin movement. This involvemen ...

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Derrick is a German TV series produced by ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick (Horst Tappert, born May 26, 1923) and Inspector Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper, born August 17, 1941), who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings. All 281 60 minute episodes were written by veteran screenwriter Herbert Reinecker (born December, 24 1914) and produced by Helmut Ringelmann (born September 4, 1926). As a rule, new Derrick episodes were broadcast on Friday night at 20:15. The series ...

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Image:Blaine99.jpg Image:Blaine100.jpg Blaine Wilson (born August 3, 1974) is an American gymnast from Columbus, Ohio. Wilson won his first World Championships medal at the 2003 Worlds when he helped the team to a silver-medal finish. Months later, at the 2004 Visa American Cup, Wilson tore his left biceps tendon, and vowed to return for the 2004 Olympic Games. His hard work and determination earned him a spot on the men's Olympic Team, and in Athens the team battled for a silver medal victory. Blaine Carew Wilson is the first ...

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Bill Chase (born William Edward Chiaiese) (October 20, 1934 - August 9, 1974) was an American trumpet player and leader of a jazz-rock fusion band that bore his name. He was born William Edward Chiaiese in Boston, Massachusetts, but his family changed their name to Chase, realizing Chiaiese was difficult to pronounce. Chase built his reputation with Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton, and during the 1960s he played lead trumpet in Woody Herman's Thundering Herd. Recordings of the Herman band from that time period, including Woody ...

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Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley (and since covered by dozens of other artists), such as "That's All Right Mama", "My Baby Left Me" and "So glad you`re mine" Born in Forest, Mississippi and living and working in Northern Indiana for a time, he and his family returned to Mississippi in 1926. He sang gospel, then began his career as a blues singer around Clarksdale, Mississipp ...

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Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 - August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (in West Tennessee) from 1964 to 1970. Pusser's life was the subject of Walking Tall, a 1973 film that became a cult classic (with two direct sequels of its own, a TV movie, and a brief TV series). This was remade 31 years later as a somewhat less realistic and more mainstream film in 2004 by the same name (also dedicated to Pusser), starring The Rock. Like the Rock, ...

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Colleen Dewhurst (born June 3, 1924; died August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-born actress best known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions from Sullivan Entertainment. Born an only child to a football player turned businessman and his homemaker wife in Montreal, Quebec, but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her breakthrough stage role, which made her a major success, came in 1974 after 27 years of acting, when she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten as "Jos ...

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Vicca (born August 13, 1974 in Moscow, Russia) is a glamour model, erotic model and former adult film star. She is 5 feet 10 inches tall and is sometimes credited as Victoria Queen, Queen Victoria, and Victoria Parson. Vicca is a former European fashion model and in America has been a mainstay of the Dream Dresser fetish collections. Vicca was chosen Penthouse Pet of December 1998 and Penthouse Pet of the Year runner-up in 2001. As Viktori ...

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Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Politzer was born in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1966, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1969, and his Ph.D. in 1974 from Harvard University, where his graduate advisor was Sidney Coleman. In his first published article, which appe ...

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The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. The Conservatives and their leader Margaret Thatcher won and replaced the Labour government. Labour had been in power from February 1974, with James Callaghan succeeding Harold Wilson after his surprise resignation in April 1976. The administration had been a minority government for most of its term, and from March 1977 to August 1978 the government had reached an agreement with the Liberal Party, in a so-c ...

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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle", was a pioneering United States aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. Charles Lindbergh - Early life. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Swedish immigrants. He grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. His father, Charles August Lindbergh, was a lawyer and later a U.S. congressman who opposed the entry of the U.S. into World War I; ...

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Giuseppe Pinelli, a young anarchist, was first accused of the crime. Terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie was then arrested in Caracas, Venezuela in 1989 and rendered to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Strage di Piazza Fontana, in Milan on December 12, 1969. Despite his reputation, Delle Chiaie was acquited by the Assise Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini. A June 20, 2001 conviction of Italian Neo-fascists Doctor Carlo Maria Maggi, Delfo Zorzi and Giancarlo Rognoni was overturned in Ma ...

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Yissachar Dov Rokeach (II) (b. 1948) is the fifth and present rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Belz. Yissachar Dov, also known as "Beril", was the son of Mordechai of Bilgoray, and the nephew of the fourth rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach. He is married to to Sarah Hager, daughter of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the Viznitz rebbe of Bnei Brak. They have one son, Aaron Mordechai Rokeach (b. 1974), who married the granddaughter of the Makover rebbe in August 1993. Yissachar Dov Rokeach II - Childhood. Beril's ...

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When Giscard became president, he nominated Chirac as prime minister on 27 May 1974. At the age of just 41, Chirac stood out as the very model of the jeunes loups ("young wolves") of French political life. However, the government could not afford to ignore the narrow margin by which Giscard d'Estaing had defeated the United Left candidate, François Mitterrand, in 1974. Giscard, not himself a member of the Gaullist Union des Démocrates pour la République (UDR), saw in the essentially pragmatic Chirac the qualities needed to reconcile the "Giscardian" and ...

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