1974

1974 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1974; MCMLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2727
Armenian calendar	1423; ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6724
Bahá'í calendar	130–131
Balinese saka calendar	1895–1896
Bengali calendar	1381
Berber calendar	2924
British Regnal year	22 Eliz. 2 – 23 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2518
Burmese calendar	1336
Byzantine calendar	7482–7483
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox); 4670 or 4610; — to —; 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger); 4671 or 4611
Coptic calendar	1690–1691
Discordian calendar	3140
Ethiopian calendar	1966–1967
Hebrew calendar	5734–5735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2030–2031
- Shaka Samvat	1895–1896
- Kali Yuga	5074–5075
Holocene calendar	11974
Igbo calendar	974–975
Iranian calendar	1352–1353
Islamic calendar	1393–1394
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 49; (昭和４９年)
Javanese calendar	1905–1906
Juche calendar	63
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4307
Minguo calendar	ROC 63; 民國63年
Nanakshahi calendar	506
Thai solar calendar	2517
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་; (female Water-Ox); 2100 or 1719 or 947; — to —; ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་; (male Wood-Tiger); 2101 or 1720 or 948
Unix time	126230400 – 157766399

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

Events

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.

February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and polymath from Bengal (b. 1894)

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