WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1974
Find out what all happened January to December 1974

Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB. (16. August 1974)

TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board. (1. December 1974)

Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era. (24. July 1974)

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

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

Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. (25. December 1974)

In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. (6. January 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)

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

Military coup in Upper Volta. (8. February 1974)

Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. (1. February 1974)

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. (15. July 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)

China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (19. January 1974)

An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak. (4. May 1974)

Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. (24. December 1974)

Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee. (15. August 1974)

The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. (22. November 1974)

The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón. (1. May 1974)