WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1974
Find out what all happened June to August 1974

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

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

Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam. (5. August 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)

Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later. (29. June 1974)

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

A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers. (30. August 1974)

U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union. (27. June 1974)

Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp. (30. July 1974)

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

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

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

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

President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day. (8. August 1974)

As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. (9. 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)

The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio (26. June 1974)

The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine. (1. June 1974)

A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy. (6. June 1974)