WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1974
Find out what all happened March to May 1974

Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE. (29. March 1974)

Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. (1. March 1974)

Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. (9. May 1974)

Thirty-three civilians are killed and over 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the highest number of casualties in any one day during The Troubles. An Irish parliament committee, and others, allege that British security forces were involved. (17. May 1974)

Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life. (16. May 1974)

Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government. (25. April 1974)

10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon (27. April 1974)

In the United Kingdom, the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. (1. April 1974)

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. (8. March 1974)

People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly. (4. March 1974)

The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service. (30. May 1974)

Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. (13. April 1974)

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port. (18. April 1974)

Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. (5. March 1974)

NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. (29. March 1974)

Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. (18. May 1974)

Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations ended a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. (18. March 1974)

Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India. (26. March 1974)

Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. (29. April 1974)

West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns. (7. May 1974)