The UK general election of February 1974 was held on February 28, 1974. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the only election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party, instead producing a hung parliament. The incumbent Conservative government of Edward Heath polled the most votes by a small margin, but the Tories were overtaken in terms of Commons seats by Harold Wilson's Labour Party due to the decision by Ulster Unionist MPs n ...

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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 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 (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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See also: 1973 in music, other events of 1974, 1975 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1974 in music - Events. January - The Ramones form. February 10 - record producer Phil Spector is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret. February 12 - New York's legendary rock club, The Bottom Line, opens in Greenwich Village. February 14 - The Captain & Tennille are married in Virginia City, Nevada. February 18 - Yes ...

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National treasures of South Korea - Designated December 20 1962. Sungnyemun Gate, Jung-gu, Seoul Ten storied stone pagoda of Wongaksa temple site, Jongno-gu, Seoul Monument commemorating the border inspection of Bukhansan by King Jinheung, National Museum of Korea, Seoul Stupa of Godalsa temple site, Yeoju County Twin-lion stone lantern of Beopjusa temple, Boeun County Seven storied stone pagoda in Tap-pyeong-ri, Chungju Stele of Bongseonhonggyeongsa tem ...

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See also: 1973 in television, other events of 1974, 1975 in television and the list of 'years in television'. For the American network television schedule, please see 1974-75 American network television schedule. 1974 in television - Events. February 8 - The Secret Storm airs its 5195th and final episode. The show is replaced ten days later by Tattletales, a game show hosted by Bert Convy. March 13 - The Execution of Private Slovik. A made for television fil ...

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The UK general election of October 1974 took place on October 10, 1974. It was the second of two United Kingdom general elections held that year. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, having taken power in a minority government after the February election, returned to the polls and won a tiny majority. It was at this election that the Scottish National Party secured their best ever representation inside the House of Commons, 11 MPs. United Kingdom general election October 1974 - Results. Total num ...

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Before the Flood is the title of a 1974 live album by Bob Dylan and The Band. Recorded on the 40-show January and February 1974 Dylan/Band reunion tour coming on the heels of Dylan’s hit album Planet Waves (also backed by The Band), this live set was a high-profile comeback for both sides of the bill. While virtually all the songs here were familiar and might be considered "hits," few of them sound similar to their original vers ...

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Bill Finger (February 8, 1914 - January 24, 1974) was an American writer who is best remembered (though never officially credited) as the co-creator of the character Batman with artist Bob Kane and creator of Catwoman. Finger and Kane began to collaborate in 1938. In early 1939, the success of Superman in Action Comics prompted editors at the comic book division of National Publications (later DC Comics, now a subsidiary of Time Warner) to request more superheroes for their titles. Some books and articles say that Kane s ...

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Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (February 8, 1928) is a famous Soviet actor, a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982). He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow and worked at a factory. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was married to Nonna Mordyukova, a far more popular actress at that time. His best known part was that of Standartenführer Stirlitz in a famous series Семнадцать мгновений весны, Seventeen Mom ...

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A vesicle pisces is the name that author Philip K. Dick gave to a symbol he saw (on February 2, 1974) on the necklace of a delivery woman. PKD was probably conflating the names of two related symbols, the ichthys consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish, and was used by the early Christians as a secret symbol, and the vesica piscis, from the centre of which the ichthys symbol can be drawn. Seth Kurtzberg asserts that P.K.D. directly stated his theory that the early Christian fish symbol and t ...

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See also: 1972 in music, other events of 1973, 1974 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1973 in music - Events. 1973 in music - January-February. January 9 - Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones' plans to tour the Orient. January 14 - Elvis Presley's Aloha From Hawaii television special is seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewersIncluding:

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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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In February and March of 1974, science fiction author Philip K. Dick experienced visions in which he claimed to have been contacted by a transcendental, mystical mind he called VALIS, or Vast Active Living Intelligence System. In the following years, the "traumatic encounter" with VALIS caused Dick to write a journal with more than 8,000 pages. This work became known as the "Exegesis". Towards the end of his life, Dick incorporated his so-called "2-3-74 experiences" into three science f ...

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The son of Luiz Cândido Machado and Maria Martinha do Bonfim, Manuel dos Reis Machado known famously as Mestre Bimba (November 23rd, 1900 - February 15, 1974) was born at the "bairro do Engenho Velho" in Salvador, Brazil. The nickname "Bimba" came up due to a bet between his mother and the midwife during his birth; his mother bet that he was going to be a girl and the midwife bet he would be a boy. After he was delivered, the midwife said... i ...

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Daniel H. Yergin (born February 6, 1947) is an American author and economic researcher. Yergin received his B.A. from Yale University in 1968, where he was managing editor of the "Yale Daily News," and founder of The New Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations (1974) are from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. Yergin's first major book, Shattered Peace, was a moderately 'revisionist' account of the origins of the Cold War that attributed it chiefly "tragic misconceptions" on the ...

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1974 in baseball - January-June. January 5 - Mark Redman January 6 - Marlon Anderson January 15 - Ray King January 23 - Erubiel Durazo January 28 - Jermaine Dye January 28 - Oscar Henríquez January 28 - Magglio Ordóñez February 15 - Ugueth Urbina February 24 - Mike Lowell February 25 - Shannon Stewart February 27 - Cliff Politte March 4 - Tommy Phelps March 9 - Wayne Franklin March 11 - Bo ...

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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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Valéry Marie René Giscard d'Estaing, de l'Académie française (born February 2, 1926 in Koblenz, Germany) is a French center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. His tenure as President was marked by his attempts to modernize his country and his office, notably launching such far-reaching infrastucture projects as the high-speed TGV train and France's reliance on nuclear power as its main energy source. However, the economic downturn that followed the end of the "thirty glorious yea ...

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