WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1974
Find out what all happened February to June 1974

A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. (1. February 1974)

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

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

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

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

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

Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren. (15. 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)

The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. (30. June 1974)

Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. (20. March 1974)

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

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

Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. (9. June 1974)

Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet. (29. June 1974)

The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst. (23. February 1974)

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. (28. May 1974)

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

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

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