WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 1974
Find out what all happened February to March 1974

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

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. (4. February 1974)

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

A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. (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)

Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter. (17. February 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)

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

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

The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. (21. February 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)

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

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

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

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard. (3. 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)

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)

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)

Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. (22. February 1974)