NEWS FROM 1974
On January 2nd, President Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles-an-hour. (Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995).
On January 28, In an exhibition rematch Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in 12 rounds at Madison Square Garden in New York.
On February 4th, The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in Berkeley, California.
On April 8th, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
On August 8th, President Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. One month later, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.
On November 5th, Ella T. Grasso (1919 - 1981( was elected governor of Connecticut, the first woman to win a gubernatorial office without succeeding her husband.
On November 13th, Karen Silkwood, a technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash.
Also, in the medical world this year, recording label EMI Records, flush from sales of The Beatles' records, develops the CAT scanner. And, Dr. Henry Heimlich describes the Heimlich Maneuver, in a medical journal.
Celebrities born in 1974: Victoria Addams, Christian Bale, Jeremy Castle, Kevin Connolly, Penelope Cruz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jimmy Fallon, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Seth Green, Derek Jeter, Jewel, Natalie Maines, Alanis Morissette, Kate Moss, Jerry O'Connell, Joaquin Phoenix, Ryan Seacrest, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Bryan White, Robbie Williams
1974 GOVERNMENT
President: Gerald R Ford
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller
1974 PRICES
House: $47,432
Car: $3,500
Gallon Milk: $1.39
Gallon Gas: $.53
Loaf Bread: $.28
1st Class Stamp: $.10
1974 WINNERS
Super Bowl: Miami
World Series: Oakland
NBA Championship: Boston
1974 'TIME'
MAN OF THE YEAR
King of Saudi Arabia ... Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud
1974 TOP TV
All In The Family
Sanford And Son
Chico And The Man
The Jeffersons
M*A*S*H
1974 TV PREMIERS
Chico And The Man
Get Christy Love
Good Times
Happy Days
The Hudson Brothers Show
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Little House On The Prairie
The Mac Davis Show
Movin' On
Paper Moon
Petrocelli
Rhoda
The Rockford Files
The Six Million Dollar Man
That's My Mama
1974 TOP MOVIES
The Towering Inferno
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Earthquake
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Badlands
Chinatown
The Conversation
The Gambler
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974 MUSIC
THE WAY WE WERE, Barbra Streisand
LOVE THEME, Love Unlimited Orchestra
SEASONS IN THE SUN, Terry Jacks
THE LOCOMOTION, Grand Funk Railroad
DANCING MACHINE, Jackson Five
COME AND GET YOUR LOVE, Redbone
T.S.O.P., MFSB
THE STREAK, Ray Stevens
BENNIE AND THE JETS, Elton John
ONE HELL OF A WOMAN, Mac Davis
