Harold Wilson - Changes. October 1974 - John Silkin although working to the Secretary of State for Environment enters the cabinet as Minister of Planning and Local Government. June 1975 - Fred Mulley succeeds Reginald Prentice as Secretary for Education and Science. Prentice becomes Secretary for Overseas Development. Tony Benn succeeds Eric Varley as Secretary for Energy. Varley succeeds Benn as Secretary for Industry. ...

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1974 - January. January 2 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905) January 12 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886) January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1879) 1974 - February. February 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, Swedish actress (b. 1888) February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887) February 21 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930) February 23 - Harry Ruby, American compo ...

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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 South Africa - March. 18 March - members of the World Council of Churches's Executive or Central Committee are banned from South Africa 1974 in South Africa - April. 25 April - A coup in Portugal leds to withdrawal from its colonies in Angola and Mozambique 1974 in South Africa - May. 6 May - The British and Irish Lions begin a controversial twenty-two match rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia ...

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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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See also: 1974 in film 1975 1976 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1975 in film - Events. January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars. March - Production begins on Star Wars March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tomm ...

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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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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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1974 in aviation - March. March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a DC-10, crashes into forest near Ermenonville, France, killing 346 people. At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in history. 1974 in aviation - July. July 22 - the US Navy and Marine Corps evacuate 500 people from Cyprus, away from the conflict erupting between Greece and Turkey on the island 1974 in aviation - September. September 1 - a SR-71 Blackbird crosses the At ...

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Yitzhak Rabin ▶ (help·info) (or Yitschak Rabin) (יצחק רבין in Hebrew), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 until 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995 by Yigal Amir, a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords. He was the first local-born Prime Minister of Israel, the only Prime Minister ...

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Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is the stage name of the American singer Yvette Marie Stevens. Khan first came to the attention of the music world as the singer of the funk band Rufus in the mid-1970s and with the help of Stevie Wonder, broke into both the pop and R&B charts in 1974 with the hit "Tell Me Something Good". Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, the band had a number of R&B hits, including "Tell Me Something Good", "Ain't Nobody", "Masterjam", "Sweet Thing", "Do You Love What You Feel?", and "Everla ...

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2003-present: Scott McClellan 2001 - 2003 : Ari Fleischer 2000 - 2001 : Jake Siewert 1998 - 2000 : Joe Lockhart 1994 - 1998 : Mike McCurry 1993 - 1994 : Dee Dee Myers 1989 - 1993 : Marlin Fitzwater 1987 - 1989 : Marlin Fitzwater (de facto Press Secretary) 1981 - 1987 : Larry Speakes (de facto Press Secretary) 1981 - 1989 : James Brady (did not brief the press after March 30, 1981) 1977 - 1981 : Jody Powell 1974 - 1977 : Ro ...

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Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. His name was pronounced Van-NEE-var as in "receiver". He was unrelated to the Bush political family. Vannevar Bush - Career. Born in Everett, Massachusetts, Bush was educated at Tufts College, graduating in 1913. He earned a doctorate in engineering from Harv ...

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer, who murdered at least ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita), Kansas, United States, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer (or strangler), which stands for Bind, Torture, and Kill, which was his modus operandi. Letters were written soon after the killings to police and to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details. After a long hiatus, these letters resumed in 2004. ...

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Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated Darwin, Australia, from December 24 to December 25, 1974. It was recorded by The Age as being a "disaster of the first magnitude...without parallel in Australia's history." It killed 71 people - the official death toll was revised upwards from 65 to 71[1] in March 2005 - and destroyed over 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, leaving over 20,000 people homeless. Most of Darwin's population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney, and many never returned to D ...

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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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