WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1974
Find out what all happened July to December 1974

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport. (1. December 1974)

Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. (8. September 1974)

Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (19. December 1974)

A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece. (8. December 1974)

Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. (12. September 1974)

The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. (30. October 1974)

Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. (8. October 1974)

Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece. (4. October 1974)

Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror. (13. November 1974)

The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government. (23. July 1974)

The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System. (20. November 1974)

60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government. (23. November 1974)

The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing. (14. August 1974)

Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed. (28. July 1974)

A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22. (4. August 1974)

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. (30. July 1974)

Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. (13. December 1974)

Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian. (5. October 1974)

Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule. (26. July 1974)

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. (10. September 1974)