WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO FEBRUARY 1974
Find out what all happened January to February 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)
The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. (21. February 1974)
Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom. (7. February 1974)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. (12. February 1974)
The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. (2. February 1974)
Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter. (17. February 1974)
United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. (2. January 1974)
An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. (5. January 1974)
After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. (8. February 1974)
A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. (1. February 1974)
United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. (4. January 1974)
Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. (13. January 1974)
Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station (5. January 1974)
The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst. (23. February 1974)
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh. (22. February 1974)
In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. (6. January 1974)
Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house. (15. January 1974)
Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. (22. February 1974)
Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. (1. February 1974)
M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. (4. February 1974)
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