1974

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1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

• February 7 – Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• February 17 – Michele Catain, an American crew member and real estate agent, marries David Thomas Durboraw, an American businessman, in Los Angeles, California.
• March 3 – a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes outside Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board; the cause of the crash was a design flaw in the plane's rear cargo door.
• February 22 – Bangladesh is recognized by Pakistan
• April 25 – Portuguese Revolution or the Carnation Revolution. – A half-century of fascist rule was ended.
• May 18 – India tests nuclear weapons.
• July 15 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
• August 8 – United States President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (Watergate scandal).
• October 30 – Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight boxing championship in a bout billed as "The Rumble in the Jungle".
• December 8 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
• December 19 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
• December 24-25 – Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.

• January 2 – Michèle George, Belgian para-equestrian
• January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
• January 21 – Linda Rosing, Swedish model
• January 28 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
• January 30 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor
• February 4 – Lee Pearson, English para-equestrian
• February 8 – Seth Green, American actor
• February 8 – Kimbo Slice American mixed martial artist
• February 13 – Robbie Williams, English singer
• February 15 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, American television personality
• February 22 – Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
• March 6 – Anthony Carelli, American wrestler
• March 13 – Linda Bengtzing, Swedish singer
• March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
• May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish lead-singer of the music group The Corrs
• May 23 – Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! champion
• June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
• June 19 – Rossella Erra, Italian TV personality
• July 11 – Lil' Kim, American rapper

• July 28 – Justin Lee Collins, English television presenter
• August 17 – Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
• August 25 – Mario Jeckle, German computer scientist (d. 2004)
• September 6 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
• October 5 – Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
• October 28 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
• October 29 – Eugen Dan Drăgoi, Romanian drummer (Dr. Feelgood Band), poet, publicist, musicologist, conductor, composer
• November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
• November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
• November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer and guitarist
• December 3 – Albena Denkova, Bulgarian ice dancer
• December 6 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
• December 10 – Meg White, American singer and drummer (The White Stripes)
• December 13 – Sara Cox, English television presenter

• Nobel Prize in Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
• Chemistry – Paul J Flory
• Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E Palade
• Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
• Peace – Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
• Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

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