November 1974

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The following events occurred in November 1974:

[[November 1]], 1974 (Friday)

  • Alberto Villar, the director of the Policía Federal Argentina secret police and a member of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance terrorist group, was assassinated by the Montoneros terrorist group after a team of commandos, led by diver Maximo Nicoletti, placed a remote controlled bomb underneath Villar's cabin cruiser yacht and detonated it. Chief Villar died along with his wife in the blast, which took place as the boat was sailing near Tigre, Buenos Aires.{{cite news |title=A Bomb Kills Chief Of Argentine Police |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/02/archives/a-bomb-kills-chief-of-argentine-police.html |author=The Associated Press |author-link=Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 2, 1974 |at=Page 1, column 2; page 61, columns 1-3 |access-date=23 December 2023}}{{cite news |title=Killed Couple, Guerrillas Say |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 3, 1974 |page=I-5}}
  • The white minority government of South Africa granted limited self-government to QwaQwa, a {{convert|253|sqmi|adj=on}} portion of land bordering the Kingdom of Lesotho, as "homeland" (bantustan) for 180,000 members of the Sotho people.{{cite book |first1=Sally |last1=Frankental |first2=Owen |last2=Sichone |title=South Africa's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2G9vI6NEjgYC&pg=PA187 |access-date=18 September 2013 |via=Google Books |date=1 January 2005 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-674-3 |page=187}} The homeland, which would exist until 1994, was governed during its 20-year existence by Chief Minister Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli and its capital was Witsieshoek (now Phuthaditjhaba).
  • Born: Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister since 2019 and prince in the House of Sajd; as the son of Prince Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud in Frankfurt, West Germany{{cite web |title=Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister: Businessman turned diplomat |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2019/10/24/Saudi-Arabia-s-new-foreign-minister-Businessman-turned-diplomat |website=Al Arabiya |access-date=19 September 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Baroness Moura Budberg, 82, Russian adventuress and suspected double agent for both the Soviet Union's OGPU secret police and the United Kingdom's MI6 intelligence agency{{cite news |title=Baroness Moura Budberg Dies; Long a London Literary Figure |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 2, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/02/archives/baroness-moura-budberg-dies-long-a-london-literary-figure-faculty.html |at=Page 32, columns 5-6 |access-date=23 December 2023}}
  • Ernest Muir {{smaller| FRCS, CIE, CMG}}, 94, Scottish medical missionary known for work with leprosy{{cite news |title=Dr. Ernest Muir |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/03/archives/dr-ernest-muir.html |agency=Reuters |date=November 3, 1974 |at=Page 79, column 1 |access-date=23 December 2023}}
  • Poco Pine, 20, American Quarter Horse and winner of 50 AQHA horse showing competitions during his career and sire of 37 other horse show champions.{{cite web |url=https://www.aqha.com/-/poco-pine |title=Poco Pine |website=American Quarter Horse Association}}
  • Bullet Joe Bush (born Leslie Ambrose Bush), 81, American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for seven major league teams in a 17-year career{{cite news |title=Bullet Joe Bush, 81, Big League Pitcher |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date= November 2, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/02/archives/bullet-joe-bush-81-big-league-pitcher.html |at=Page 32, column 5 |access-date=23 December 2023}}

[[November 2]], 1974 (Saturday)

  • Chilean-born British stockbroker William Beausire, who had dual citizenship in both the UK and Chile, was kidnapped by the Argentina Federal Police while he was at the Ezeiza International Airport at Buenos Aires, where he was scheduled to board a flight to Paris. Beausire was turned over to the Chilean secret police, the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), where he was tortured. He was last seen in public on July 2, 1975, and became one of the thousands of "desaparecidos" who disappeared during the Pinochet regime in Chile.{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr22/004/2002/en/ |title=Chile/UK: UK shirks its obligation to cooperate in human rights investigation |website=Amnesty International |date=23 April 2002 |access-date=30 June 2008}}
  • In an exhibition at Korakuen Stadium in Japan, U.S. and world career home run leader Hank Aaron and Japan's career home run leader Sadaharu Oh competed against each other in a "home run derby". Aaron narrowly defeated Oh, 10 runs to 9.[http://www.baseball-fever.com/archive/index.php/t-38720.html Sadaharu Oh [Archive] – Baseball Fever]
  • The historic Jagiełło Oak tree in Poland, standing {{convert|128|ft}} tall and {{convert|210|in}} in circumference, was blown down in a storm.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Nelly (stage name of Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.), American rapper; in Austin, Texas{{cite book |title=Biography today : profiles of people of interest to young readers: 2003 annual cumulation |publisher=Omnigraphics |location=Detroit, Michigan |year=2003 |isbn=9780780806429 |page=373}}
  • Aleksey Shevchenkov, Russian stage and film actor known for Tourist and The Red Ghost; in Chernyakhovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union{{cite web |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/ros/4853/works/ |title=Алексей Шевченков - актёр - фильмография - российские актёры |trans-title=Aleksey Shevchenkov - actor - filmography - Russian actors |publisher=kino-teatr.ru |language=ru |access-date=24 March 2024}}
  • Died: Nelson "Jack" Edwards, 57, the first African-American vice president of the United Auto Workers, was shot and killed while trying to break up an argument at a West Side Detroit bar.{{cite news |title=Black Officer of UAW Killed in Bar Shooting |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 3, 1974 |page=I-15}}{{cite news |title=Black Officer of Auto Union Is Killed in a Detroit Shooting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/03/archives/black-officer-of-auto-union-is-killed-in-a-detroit-shooting.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 3, 1974 |at=Page 58, column 6 |access-date=23 December 2023}}

[[November 3]], 1974 (Sunday)

  • An early-morning fire at the Daewang Corner building in the Dongdaemun District of Seoul killed 88 people and injured 35. Firefighters reported that 65 of the victims had been inside the Time Go-Go Club on the building's sixth floor; 13 others had been trapped in their hotel rooms on the seventh floor, and six of them had jumped to their deaths. According to witnesses who were able to escape immediately, employees of the club closed the only exit door to prevent other customers from leaving without paying.{{cite news |title=Hotel and Go-Go Club in Seoul Burn; 78 Die |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 3, 1974 |page=I-5}}{{cite news |title=78 Killed in Fire in Heart of Seoul |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/03/archives/78-killed-in-fire-in-heart-of-seoul-mostly-young-people.html |agency=UPI |date=November 3, 1974 |at=Page 1, column 7 |access-date=23 December 2023}}{{cite news |title=Careless Smoker Is Being Sought in a Seoul Hotel Blaze That Killed 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/04/archives/careless-smoker-is-being-sought-in-a-seoul-hotel-blaze-that-killed.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 4, 1974 |at=Page 3, columns 1-4 |access-date=23 December 2023}}{{cite news |language=ko |url=https://www.imaeil.com/page/view/2006110207225349738 |access-date=23 December 2023 |title = 역사속의 오늘-서울 대왕코너 화재 |trans-title=This Day in History-Seoul Daewang Corner Fire |date=2 November 2006 |publisher=MAEIL}}
  • The popular German TV detective series Derrick, starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and Fritz Wepper as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Klein, premiered on West Germany's ZDF network for the first of 281 episodes over 25 seasons.{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-8840715.html |title=Fernsehen: Sein Name war Derrick |date=8 December 1997 |volume=50 |website=Spiegel Online |language=de |access-date=16 September 2018}}
  • A yes or no election was held in the North African nation of Tunisia for official approval of the re-election of President Habib Bourguiba and the approval of the list of candidates for the 112-member Majlis, as selected by the nation's sole legal political party, the Parti socialiste destourien (PSD).{{cite news |title=Borguiba Elected Unopposed to 4th Term as Tunisia's President |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 4, 1974 |page=I-20}} The government reported that almost 97% of registered voters turned out for the election and none of them voted against Borguiba or the PSD candidates.{{cite book |first1=Dieter |last1=Nohlen |author1-link=Dieter Nohlen |first2=Michael |last2=Krennerich |first3=Bernhard |last3=Thibaut |title=Elections in Africa: A data handbook |publisher=Nomos |year=1999 |page=918 |isbn=0-19-829645-2}}
  • The U.S. Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine {{USS|James Madison|SSBN-627}} collided with an unidentified Soviet Navy Victor-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, during a dive just after departing from the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Refit Site One on Scotland's Holy Loch. No confrontation took place, and no casualties were sustained on the U.S. sub, which was under inspection and repair for a week afterward. Any damage to the Soviet submarine was not revealed by the Soviets.{{cite book |title=Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage |title-link=Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage |last1=Sontag |first1=Sherry |last2=Drew |first2=Christopher |author2-link=Christopher Drew (journalist) |publisher=PublicAffairs |year=2016 |isbn=978-1610393584 |page=313}}
  • Died:
  • Frances Bemis, 76, American public relations specialist and fashion director, was murdered in a vacant lot in St. Augustine, Florida, near the location of the January 23 murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley.{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Robert McG. Jr. |author-link=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Fashion Adviser Is Slain in Florida |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 5, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/05/archives/fashion-adviser-is-slain-in-florida-frances-bemis-produced-shows.html |at=Page 19, column 1 |access-date=24 December 2023}} As of 2007, both Lindsley's and Bemis's murders remained unsolved.
  • Ahindra Choudhury, 78, Indian stage actor who had a 53-year career{{cite web |url=http://www.gomolo.com/ahindra-choudhury-biography/4/615852 |last=Mukherjee |first=Joy |title=Biography of Ahindra Choudhury |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702165600/http://www.gomolo.com/ahindra-choudhury-biography/4/615852 |archive-date=2 July 2015 |date=11 August 2008 |publisher=Gomolo |access-date=28 March 2024}}

[[November 4]], 1974 (Monday)

  • The first patent application for a process for recombinant DNA was filed for the invention of Stanley N. Cohen of Stanford University and Herbert W. Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco.{{cite book |first=Sally Smith |last=Hughes |title=Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2011 |page=22}}{{cite journal |last= Hughes |first=S. |title=Making dollars out of DNA. The first major patent in biotechnology and the commercialization of molecular biology, 1974-1980 |journal=Isis; an International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=541–575 |year=2001 |pmid=11810894 |doi=10.1086/385281 |hdl=10161/8125 |s2cid=22823711 |url=https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/10161/8125/1/Hxdocs_makingdollarsoutofdna.pdf |hdl-access=free |access-date=2019-09-05 |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214224512/https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/8125/Hxdocs_makingdollarsoutofdna.pdf;jsessionid=F26D769FD742B28ACCB8189E625E1A69?sequence=1 |url-status=dead}} U.S. Patent No. 4,237,224 would be granted on December 2, 1980.{{cite web |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US4237224A/en |title=Process for producing biologically functional molecular chimeras |via=Google Patent}}
  • The first solar-powered airplane, Sunrise I, made its initial flight after being launched in the U.S. by brothers Robert J. Boucher and Roland Boucher, founders of the AstroFlight company, at a dry lake within the Mojave Desert in Camp Irwin, California; Sunrise I had a wingspan of {{convert|32|ft}} and weighed {{convert|27.5|lb}}, with a 400-watt array of solar cells mounted on the wings.{{cite book |first=Alex |last=Nathanson |title=A History of Solar Power Art and Design |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2021}} The airplane, not yet ready for a human pilot, flew for almost 20 minutes at an altitude of {{convert|300|ft}}.{{cite book |first=P. K. |last=Garg |title=Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Introduction |publisher=Mercury Learning and Information |year=2021}}
  • In one of the great upsets of boxing, heavyweight Earnie Shavers, who had a record of 46 wins (44 by knockout or TKO) and only 3 losses, lost a unanimous decision to unknown boxer Bob Stallings, who had 21 wins, 24 losses and only four knockouts.{{cite web |url=https://boxrec.com/en/event/30144 |title=BoxRec: Event |website=boxrec.com}}
  • Born: Numair Atif Choudhury, Bangladeshi novelist; in Dhaka (d. 2018){{cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/magazine/arts-and-letters/157968/numair-choudhury-my-writer-friend |last=Zaman |first=Nadeem |title=Numair Choudhury: My writer friend |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |department=Arts & Letters |date=October 11, 2018 |access-date=24 March 2024}}{{Better citation needed|date=March 2024|reason=Source does not give date of birth.}}
  • Died: Edgar Fernhout, 62, Dutch painter{{cite web |url=https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fartists%2f27726 |title=Fernhout, Edgar |website=RKD Research |publisher=RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History |access-date=28 December 2023}}

[[November 5]], 1974 (Tuesday)

  • In the United States, the Democratic Party made major gains nationwide in the elections for the U.S. Congress, particularly in the House of Representatives, where the Democrats won a two-thirds majority, with 291 of the 435 seats. The election also brought 93 first-time Representatives. With 34 of the 100 U.S. Senate seats on the ballot, the Democrats gained four formerly Republican seats to increase their majority to 61 to 37.{{cite news |last=Lydon |first=Christopher |author-link=Christopher Lydon |title=Democrats Score Gains In Contests for Governor |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/06/archives/article-2-no-title-democrats-achieve-gains-in-races-for-governor.html |at=Page 93, columns 3-6 |access-date=28 December 2023}}{{cite news |last=Naughton |first=James M. |title=Senate and House Margins Are Substantially Enlarged |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/06/archives/senate-and-house-margins-are-substantially-enlarged-democrats-widen.html |at=Page 1, columns 1-2; page 93, columns 6-8 |access-date=28 December 2023}} Former NASA astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time.{{cite news |last=Farrell |first=William E. |title=GLENN IS ELECTED NEW OHIO SENATOR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/06/archives/glenn-is-elected-new-ohio-senator-rhodes-is-closing-gap-in-contest.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1974 |at=Page 39, columns 1-3 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • The People's Republic of China failed in its first attempt to launch its new Long March 2 rocket.{{cite web |archive-date=27 October 2009 |url=http://geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/launch.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027100730/http://geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/launch.htm |title=Chinese Launch Vehicle Overview |website=Geocities.com}}
  • Simas Kudirka, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1971, arrived in New York along with his wife, his two children and his mother after being allowed to leave Moscow earlier in the day. Kudirka had jumped onto a U.S. Coast Guard ship but then was returned to the custody of the Soviets, who sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment for treason.{{cite news |title=Soviet Sailor Arrives in U.S. After 4 Years |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 6, 1974 |page=I-9}}
  • Born:
  • Zheng Li, Chinese television news anchor known for her China Central Television (CCTV) evening program Xinwen Lianbo (Simulcast News); in Kedong County, Heilongjiang province{{cite web |date=24 September 2020 |language=zh |title=又又又上新,女主播郑丽亮相《新闻联播》|trans-title=Another new one, female anchor Zheng Li appears on "Xinwen Lianbo" |access-date=28 March 2024 |url=https://www.bjnews.com.cn/feature/2020/09/24/772362.html}}{{Better source needed|date=March 2024|reason=Source does not give month, day and county of birth.}}
  • Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams), American singer and songwriter; in Jacksonville, North Carolina{{cite web |title=Ryan Adams Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ryan-adams-mn0000808336#biography |last=Deming |first=Mark |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Dado Pršo (born Miladin Pršo), Croatian footballer with 23 caps for the Croatia National Team; in Zadar, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Yugoslavia{{NFT player|1687|Dado Pršo|access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Jerry Stackhouse, American college and NBA basketball player; in Kinston, North Carolina{{cite web |title=Jerry Stackhouse Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/stackje01.html |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Anwar Ali, 61, Pakistani economist, governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority since 1958, died following a heart attack.{{cite news |title=Anwar Ali, Monetary Chief for Saudi Arabia, Dies at 61 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/06/archives/anwar-ali-monetary-chief-for-saudi-arabia-dies-at-61.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 1974 |at=Page 48, column 2 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • John C. Farrar, 78, American editor, writer and publisher, co-founder of Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux{{cite news |last=Fraser |first=C. Gerald |title=John C. Farrar, Publisher, Editor and Writer, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 7, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/07/archives/john-c-farrar-publisher-editor-and-writer-is-dead-worked-with.html |at=Page 48, columns 2-4 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|CH|PC}}, 73, British politician, Governor-General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962{{cite news |title=Lord Hailes, Ex-Governor Of West Indies Federation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/07/archives/lord-hailes-exgovernor-of-west-indies-federation.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 7, 1974 |at=Page 48, column 4 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Stafford Repp, 56, American actor known for playing Chief Miles O'Hara on the Batman television series, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |title=Stafford Repp |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 9, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/stafford-repp.html |at=Page 34, column 5 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Marguerite Namara (stage name for Marguerite Banks), 85, American opera soprano{{cite web |title=Marguerite Namara - Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/marguerite-namara-54254 |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • William Gardner Smith, 47, American journalist, novelist and editor, died of cancer of the esophagus.{{cite news |title=William Gardner Smith, Author And Newspaperman, Dies at 47 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/william-gardner-smith-author-and-newspaperman-dies-at-47.html |date=November 8, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 1-3 |access-date=28 December 2023}}{{cite book |chapter=William Gardner Smith: An Eternal Foreigner |last=Fabre |first=Michel |title=From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 |location=Urbana and Chicago |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1993 |orig-year=First published 1991 |isbn=0-252-01684-X |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MImWqsh_fuMC&pg=PA255 |page=255 |access-date=28 December 2023 |via=Google Books}}
  • Abdellatif Zeroual, 23, Moroccan dissident and official of the Ila al-Amam Marxist group, disappeared after being taken away by a group of plainclothes police.{{cite web |title=Committee for the truth on the fate of Abdellatif ZEROUAL |date=4 January 2010 |orig-date=Signed 17 December 2009 |publisher=e-joussour.net |access-date=28 March 2024 |url=http://www.e-joussour.net/fr/node/3779 |archive-date=23 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723104440/http://www.e-joussour.net/fr/node/3779}}

[[November 6]], 1974 (Wednesday)

  • At least 80 people died in a collision between two passenger trains {{convert|43|mi}} west of Cotonou, Dahomey.{{cite news |title=80 Feared Dead in Dahomey |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/80-feared-dead-in-dahomeyl.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 8, 1974 |at=Page 45, column 6 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • The Soviet Union's lunar probe Luna 23 landed on the Moon in the Mare Crisium for the purpose of gathering and returning lunar soil to the Earth. The probe's drill was damaged when Luna 23 tipped over after landing on "unfavorable" terrain.{{cite news |url=http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/461 |title=Mare Crisium: Failure then Success |date=March 16, 2012 |work=LROC News System |first=Jeff |last=Plescia |access-date=September 13, 2014 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630161557/http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/461 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Soviet Silence Hints Trouble for Luna 23 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 10, 1974 |page=IA-3}}
  • Argentina's President Isabel Perón unexpectedly issued an emergency decree of a "state of siege" in the South American nation in an effort to deal with political violence that had claimed 136 lives during her first 129 days in office. The decree banned all public meetings and allowed any suspected terrorists to be arrested without a court order and held indefinitely without being brought to trial.{{cite news |title=Argentina's Mrs. Peron Declares State of Siege |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 16, 1974 |page=I-16}}
  • Thirty-three inmates at the Long Kesh Prison (later called the "Maze Prison") in Northern Ireland, most of them convicted terrorists of the IRA, attempted to escape through an underground tunnel which they had dug. IRA member Hugh Coney was shot and killed by a guard after emerging outside the walls, and 29 others were captured only a few yards past the prison. The other three were captured within 24 hours.{{cite news |title=Today In Pictures |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2413557.ece?service=popup&mode=dayInPictures&start=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930182747/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2413557.ece?service=popup&mode=dayInPictures&start=8 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2007 |newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph |access-date=29 August 2007}}
  • U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon conceded in a press conference that the United States economy was in a recession as stock prices continued to fall.{{cite news |title=Simon Concedes U.S. Is In a Recession |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 7, 1974 |page=I-2}}
  • The Parliament of Singapore unanimously re-elected Benjamin Sheares to a second term as president, a largely ceremonial job, with 59 of the 65 members present and all 59 voting in his favor.{{cite web |date=6 November 1974 |title=Official Report |url=https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/#/report?sittingdate=06-11-1974 |access-date=24 July 2020 |website=Parliament of Singapore}}

[[November 7]], 1974 (Thursday)

  • The President of Bolivia, General Hugo Banzer, personally led the suppression of a rebellion of Bolivian Army troops who had seized control of the cities of Santa Cruz and Montero, according to government radio broadcasts. A radio broadcast from the capital at La Paz said that Banzer flew to Cochabamba, where he rallied loyal paratroopers, then flew with them to the outskirts of Santa Cruz where, "with the aid of planes, air force cadets and loyal troops in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Banzer led the march on the rebel-held city and crushed the uprising."{{cite news |title=Rebellion in Military Quelled, Bolivia Says— Banzer Reportedly Took Personal Lead of Loyalist Troops in Crushing Revolt |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 8, 1974 |page=I-4}}
  • At Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA held a final dress rehearsal for the Apollo–Soyuz mission, scheduled for launch in July 1975. Many of the technicians who participated in the simulation anticipated losing their jobs once the mission flew.{{cite news |title=Last Major Rehearsal Held For Apollo-Soyuz Mission |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/last-major-rehearsal-held-for-apollosoyuz-missionn.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 9, 1974 |at=Page 26, column 3 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • An explosion at a black powder plant in Roosevelt, Utah, killed employees Fred Anderson and Lester Holt.{{cite news |title=Powder Plant Blast Kills 2 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 9, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/powder-plant-blast-kills-2.html |at=Page 62, column 6 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Rodolfo Acosta, 54, Mexican-born American actor, died of liver cancer.{{cite book |last=Aaker |first=Everett |title=Television Western Players, 1960–1975: A Biographical Dictionary |page=5 |year=2017 |publisher=McFarland}}
  • Alexander Bickel, 49, American legal scholar and constitutional law expert, died of cancer.{{cite news |last=Van Gelder |first=Lawrence |author-link=Lawrence Van Gelder |title=Alexander M. Bickel Dies; Constitutional Law Expert |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 8, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/alexander-m-bickel-dies-constitutional-law-expert-a-legal.html |at=Page 42, columns 1-3 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Sherburne F. Cook, 77, American physiologist and demographist, died of cancer.{{cite news |title=Dr. Sherburne Cook |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/10/archives/dr-sherburne-cook.html |agency=UPI |date=November 10, 1974 |at=Page 77, column 2 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Eric Linklater, 75, British author, Carnegie Medal recipient for The Wind on the Moon{{cite news |title=Eric Linklater, Writer, Dies at 75 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 8, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/eric-linklater-writer-dies-at-75-historian-and-novelist-was-also-a.html |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Helene Thimig, 85, Austrian stage and film actress, widow of Max Reinhardt, died of heart failure.{{cite news |title=Helene Thimig Dies; Viennese Actress |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 8, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/08/archives/helene-thimig-dies-viennese-actress.html |at=Page 42, column 3 |access-date=28 December 2023}}

[[November 8]], 1974 (Friday)

  • American pop singer and actress Connie Francis was raped at knife-point in her room at a Howard Johnson's motel in Westbury, New York, after performing at the Westbury Music Fair the previous evening.{{cite news |last=Silver |first=Roy R. |title=Connie Francis Raped at Motel After Singing at Westbury Fair |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/connie-francis-raped-at-motel-after-singing-at-westbury-fair-mink.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 9, 1974 |at=Page 26, columns 2-3 |access-date=28 December 2023}} Francis subsequently sued the motel chain for failing to provide adequate security and reportedly won a $2.5 million judgment,{{cite book |first1=Clayton W. |last1=Barrows |first2=Tom |last2=Powers |title=Introduction to Management in the Hospitality Industry |edition=9th |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |year=2009 |page=319}} one of the largest such judgments in history, leading to a reform in hotel security. Her rapist was never found.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/11/lkl.00.html |title=CNN LARRY KING LIVE Interview With Connie Francis |website=CNN.com |date=March 11, 2002 |department=Transcripts |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • The original Covent Garden market in London closed after 300 years, with a bell tolling at 11 a.m. to mark the occasion. The Covent Garden had been established in 1671 by King Charles I. The market would reopen the following Monday as the New Covent Garden Market, at a new site {{convert|2.5|mi}} away.{{cite news |title=Bell Tolls in London For Old Covent Garden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/bell-tolls-in-london-for-old-covent-garden.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 9, 1974 |agency=Reuters |at=Page 7, column 1 |access-date=28 December 2023}}{{cite news |title=New 'Garden' for Covent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/new-garden-for-covent.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 2 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • Judge Frank J. Battisti of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio acquitted 8 former members of the Ohio Army National Guard in the May 4, 1970, Kent State shootings, finding that the prosecution had not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the guardsmen intended to violate protestors' civil rights. Battisti stated in his opinion: "It is vital that state and National Guard officials not regard this decision as authorizing or approving the use of force against demonstrators, whatever the occasion of the issue involved. Such use of force is, and was, deplorable."{{cite news |last=Salpukas |first=Agis |title=Judge Acquits Guardsmen In Slayings at Kent State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/09/archives/judge-acquits-guardsmen-in-slayings-at-kent-state-judge-acquits.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 9, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-6 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • The NBC television network broadcast an episode of the police procedural series Police Woman involving a lesbian crime ring. In response to protests from gay rights groups, NBC agreed later in the month not to rebroadcast the episode.{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Les |author-link=Les Brown (journalist) |title=NBC-TV Yields to Homosexuals Over Episode of 'Police Woman' |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/nbctv-yields-to-homosexuals-over-episode-of-police-woman.html |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 61, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Penelope Heyns, South African Olympic champion swimmer; in Springs, Transvaal{{cite web |title=Penny Heyns |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/49977 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author; in Nagi, Okayama{{cite book |last=Kishimoto |first=Masashi |author-link=Masashi Kishimoto |title=NARUTO—ナルト—[秘伝·兵の書]オフォシャルファンBOOK |trans-title= |date=October 4, 2002 |publisher=Shueisha |location=Japan |language=ja |isbn=4-08-873321-5 |page=205}}
  • Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor; in Cardiff{{cite tweet |user=MatthewRhys |number=1060661848280752128 |date=8 November 2018 |title=Thank you for the messages...diolch am y negeseuon. 'My Birthday began with the water birds.....'}}
  • Died:
  • John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, 39, a member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, disappeared the day after the murder of Sandra Rivett, the nanny of his children, at the Lucan family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street in the wealthy Belgravia district of London.{{cite news |title=British Earl's Wife Beaten, Nanny Slain |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 9, 1974 |page=I-3}} Accused by his estranged wife, Veronica Duncan, of attacking her and of murdering Rivett, Lord Lucan was last seen alive by a friend in Uckfield, East Sussex. Lucan's blood-soaked car was found two days later in Newhaven, East Sussex. Named at an inquest seven months later as Rivett's murderer, Lucan was never located and would be declared legally dead on October 27, 1999.{{cite book |last1=Ranson |first1=Roy |last2=Strange |first2=Robert |title=Looking for Lucan |publisher=Smith Gryphon Limited |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-85685-069-8 |page=128}}
  • Ivory Joe Hunter, 60, American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist, died of lung cancer.{{cite news |title=Ivory Joe Hunter, Blues Pianist, 63 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/10/archives/ivory-joe-hunter-blues-pianist-63-song-writer-who-had-two-gold.html |date=November 10, 1974 |at=Page 77, column 4 |access-date=28 December 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ivory-joe-hunter-mn0000773370#biography |last=Dahl |first=Bill |title=Ivory Joe Hunter Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=28 December 2023}}

[[November 9]], 1974 (Saturday)

  • The fiery collision in Tokyo Bay of the Taiwanese freighter Pacific Ares and the Japanese oil tanker {{ill|Yuyo Maru No.10 Incident|lt=Yuyo Maru No. 10|ja|第十雄洋丸事件}} killed 33 sailors, all but one of them on the freighter. The Pacific Ares had departed from Kawasaki with cargo for Los Angeles and was {{convert|4|mi}} out to sea when it encountered the incoming Yuyo Maru. Rescue boats saved 34 survivors, and 19 bodies were found, but 14 other sailors listed as missing were not recovered.{{cite news |title=19 Killed, 14 Missing as Freighter and Tanker Collide in Tokyo Bay |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 10, 1974 |page=I-11}}{{cite news |title= The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 11, 1974 |page=I-2}}
  • Two days after putting down a revolt in Bolivia, President Hugo Banzer suspended the activities of all political parties, labor unions, employer organizations and professional associations and canceled plans for democratic elections until at least 1980. Banzer dismissed his civilian cabinet and formed a new "national reconstruction government", commenting that "Here and now, a new history will begin for Bolivia." The move came after the military leadership of Bolivia, led by Air Force General Oscar Adriazola, informed President Banzer in a memo that the generals were "categorically and definitely not in agreement with holding elections or returning to the parliamentary system while the critical period the country is going through internally is not yet over."{{cite news |title=Bolivia President Names Military Cabinet at Order of Armed Forces |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 10, 1974 |page=I-5}}
  • In the British Virgin Islands, a fisherman discovered the body of 23-year-old American marine biologist David Drew, who had apparently fallen and hit his head, in a rocky crevice on Cockroach Island. Drew was buried at sea the following day.{{cite news |title=Biologist Is Buried at Sea After Virgin Islands Death |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/biologist-is-buried-at-sea-after-virgin-islands-death.html |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 2 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • A bomb exploded on the second floor of the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington, D.C. No one was injured.{{cite news |title=WASHINGTON BLAST HITS O.A.S. BUILDING |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/10/archives/washington-blast-hits-oas-building.html |agency=AP |date=November 10, 1974 |at=Page 18, column 1 |access-date=28 December 2023}} A previously unknown group called "Cuba Movement C-4" claimed responsibility for the bombing, stating its opposition to the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro.{{cite news |title=Anti-Castro Group Says It Set Off Washington Blast |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/anticastro-group-says-it-set-off-washington-blast.html |agency=AP |date=November 11, 1974 |at=Page 10, columns 3-4 |access-date=29 December 2023}}
  • Nine people, ranging in age from 2 to 44 years old, were killed in the crash of a single car when their vehicle broke through a guardrail on Interstate 20 near Longview, Texas, and fell {{convert|50|ft}}, landing upside down.{{cite news |title=Nine Persons Killed in Texas Car Crash |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/10/archives/nine-persons-killed-in-texas-car-crash.html |agency=AP |date=November 10, 1974 |at=Page 77, column 1 |access-date=28 December 2023}} All of the persons killed were residents of Midwest City, Oklahoma, who were traveling to a family reunion when the driver fell asleep and the car went out of control.{{cite news |title=9 Oklahomans Killed In Texas 1-Car Crash— Midwest City Family Headed For Reunion |newspaper=The Daily Oklahoman |location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |date=November 10, 1974 |page=1}}

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  • In Seattle, Washington, the U.S. Navy launched {{USS|Pegasus|PHM-1}}, the lead ship of the Pegasus-class hydrofoils designated "PHM" for "Patrol Hydrofoil, Missile".{{cite news |last=Middleton |first=Drew |title=Navy Launches First of 30 Patrol Hydrofoil Missile Ships, Opening New Era |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/10/archives/navy-launches-first-of-30-patrol-hydrofoil-missile-ships-opening.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 10, 1974 |at=Page 30, columns 3-8 |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Born: Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player; in Conegliano{{cite web |title=passaporto |trans-title=passport |url=https://www.alessandrodelpiero.com/profilo/passaporto.html |website=Alessandro Del Piero |department=profilo |language=it |publisher=EDGE Srl P.I. |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Richard McCoy Jr., 31, an American who had been convicted for the 1972 hijacking of United Airlines Flight 855, and had escaped from the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on August 10, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents who had located him at a house he had been renting in Virginia Beach, Virginia. FBI agents also arrested Melvin Dale Walker, who had escaped from prison with McCoy.{{cite news |title=Hijacker is Killed And Fugitive Seized In F.B.I. Stakeout |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 11, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/hijacker-is-killed-and-fugitive-seized-in-fbi-stakeout-house-staked.html |at=Page 58, columns 3-4 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • Holger Meins, 33, West German anarchist and terrorist convicted of work with the Red Army Faction, died in prison after a two-month hunger strike.{{cite news |title=Court President Slain in Berlin |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 11, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/court-president-slain-in-berlin-killers-are-believed-to-be-leftwing.html |at=Page 7, column 1 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • Paul Tabori (born Pál Tábori), 65, Hungarian-born author and screenwriter{{cite news |title=Paul Tabori, Novelist, Is Dead; Wrote Film, Radio, TV Scripts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/17/archives/paul-tabori-novelist-is-dead-wrote-film-radio-tv-scripts.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 17, 1974 |at=Page 77, columns 1-2 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • Egon Wellesz, CBE, FBA, 89, British composer, teacher and musicologist{{cite news |title=Egon Wellesz, 89, Composer, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 11, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/egon-wellesz-89-composer-is-dead-music-scholar-schoenberg-disciple.html |at=Page 32, column 6 |access-date=29 December 2023}}

[[November 10]], 1974 (Sunday)

  • Soviet Head of State Nikolai V. Podgorny said in a speech that any artwork in the Soviet Union that "departed even slightly from the principles of socialist realism" would be considered unacceptable by the Soviet Ministry of Culture. Podgorny's remarks came at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of Moscow's Maly Theater.{{cite news |title=The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 11, 1974 |page=I-}}
  • Haile Selassie, who had been the Emperor of Ethiopia until being deposed from office on September 12 and placed under arrest, was transported by the Republic of Ethiopia's revolutionary council to the National Palace, where he had once maintained offices. Since his arrest, he had been detained in the Ethiopian Army's 4th Division barracks at the quarters reserved for the Division's commanding general. Selassie had lived at the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa until his overthrow.{{cite news |title= Haile Selassie Moved to Palace Under Guard— Action Could Mean He Has Made a Deal for Better Conditions or Is Facing Trial |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 12, 1974 |page=I-5}}
  • A bomb which exploded at 2:45 a.m. caused $5,000 in damage to a United Nations Association bookstore in Los Angeles. There were no injuries.{{cite news |title=A U.N. Bookstore Bombed on Coast; No One Is Injured |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/a-un-bookstore-bombed-on-coast-no-one-is-injured.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 11, 1974 |at=Page 7, column 1 |access-date=29 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • George Counts, 84, American educator and education theorist{{cite news |title=George Counts, Educator, Dies: Ex-Head of State Liberal Party |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/11/archives/george-counts-educator-dies-exhead-of-state-liberal-party-teachers.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 11, 1974 |at=Page 32, columns 4-5 |access-date=29 December 2023}}
  • Günter von Drenkmann, 64, German lawyer, president of the "Kammergericht" (West Berlin district court), was murdered on his 64th birthday by a group of men who appeared at his home in Charlottenburg. Judge von Drenkmann was shot four times when he answered his doorbell. Authorities were unable to rule out a link with Holger Meins' death the previous day.{{cite news |title=West Berlin Jurist Killed by Gunmen— Murder Follows Prison Death of Leftist Guerrilla |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 11, 1974 |page=I-1}}
  • Robert Simpson, 82, American hurdler, track and field coach and United States Army officer{{cite news |title=Robert Simpson, 82, Track Coach, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/robert-simpson-82-track-coach-dead.html |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 6 |access-date=30 December 2023}}

[[November 11]], 1974 (Monday)

  • A previously unknown subatomic particle, the J/psi meson, was discovered independently by two different groups of researchers. The discovery led to rapid changes in high-energy physics which collectively became known as the "November Revolution".{{cite magazine |last=Solliday |first=Amanda |title=The November Revolution |magazine=Symmetry Magazine |date=11 November 2014 |url=https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/november-2014/the-november-revolution?language_content_entity=und |access-date=23 January 2024}} Burton Richter and Samuel C. C. Ting received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2024 |access-date=23 January 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1976/summary/}}
  • The crime that would lead to the arrest and execution of Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took place after the Nawab judge Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri was shot to death during an apparent attempt to assassinate his son, Pakistan National Assembly representative Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri. Prime Minister Bhutto would be arrested in 1977 on suspicion of ordering the assassination of Ahmad Kasuri and hanged in 1979.{{cite news |author=((Reuters)) |at=Page 1, column 6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/18/archives/pakistan-sentences-bhutto-to-death-for-murder-plot-pakistan.html |title=Pakistan Sentences Bhutto to Death For Murder Plot |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 18, 1978 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • After more than three months of fighting between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, invading from North Vietnam) and the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN, defending South Vietnam), and hundreds of deaths on both sides, the Communist PAVN won the Battle of Thuong Duc, but the ARVN was able to prevent the Communists from capturing the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang.{{cite book |last=Le Gro |first=William |title=Vietnam from ceasefire to capitulation |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History |year=1985 |isbn=9781410225429 |page=113 |url=https://history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-29/CMH_Pub_90-29.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807064541/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-29/CMH_Pub_90-29.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 7, 2016}}{{PD-notice}} South Vietnam would fall to the Communists less than six months later.
  • The Greek Cypriot President of Cyprus, Glafkos Clerides, and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community in northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktash, agreed that 1,600 elderly Greek Cypriots in the Turkish zone would be allowed to be transported to the Greek Cypriot zone.{{cite news |title= The World |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 12, 1974 |page=I-2}}
  • Seven miners were killed in South Africa after heavy rains caused a mudslide at the Bafokeng mine of Impala Platinum Company.{{cite news |title=South Africa Slide in Mine Kills 7 Men |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 12, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/south-africa-slide-in-mine-kills-7-men.html |at=Page 16, columns 4-5 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • After the victory of the Far East team from Taiwan in the 1974 Little League World Series, the U.S.-based Little League Baseball Inc. announced that the Series would be limited to United States teams only.{{cite news |title= The Rest of the World Is Out of Little League World Series— Only Teams From Continental U.S. Now Allowed to Play; Championship Was Won by Taiwan the Last Four Years |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 12, 1974 |page=III-1}}{{cite news |via=Google News |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19741112&id=JsZSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JX4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5431,2755330 |title=Couldn't Beat'em, so Banned'em! |newspaper=The Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |date=November 12, 1974 |page=C3}}
  • Internationally renowned opera singer Maria Callas gave her last public performance, appearing at Sapporo in Japan.{{cite news |url=https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/2014/10/15/the-voice-maria-callas-in-toronto-the-highs-and-the-lows/ |title=Maria Callas In Toronto – A Night On The Town |first=Neil |last=Crory |work=Ludwig Van Toronto's Daily Arts & Culture News |date=15 October 2014}}
  • Born:
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor, producer and environmentalist; in Los Angeles{{cite news |title=Happy Birthday, Leonardo DiCaprio: Must-watch Movies of the Oscar-winning Actor |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/happy-birthday-leonardo-dicaprio-must-watch-movies-of-the-oscar-winning-actor-4428221.html |website=News18 |department=Movies |date=11 November 2021 |access-date=30 December 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=2 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802204836/https://www.news18.com/news/movies/happy-birthday-leonardo-dicaprio-must-watch-movies-of-the-oscar-winning-actor-4428221.html}}
  • Olesya Zheleznyak, Russian theater and film actress, and 2002 Seagull Award winner; in Moscow{{cite web |url=http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/jeleznyak/interview.html |title=Олеся Железняк: У меня нет комплекса по поводу внешности. Муж любит, и слава богу |trans-title=Olesya Zheleznyak: I don’t have a complex about my appearance. My husband loves me, thank God |language=ru}}
  • Died:
  • Benito Perojo, 80, Spanish film director and producer{{cite news |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1974/11/13/107.html |page=107 |location=Madrid |date=13 November 1974 |access-date=18 May 2019 |newspaper=ABC |language=es |publisher=Vocento |title=El excelentísimo señor don Benito Perojo González (viudo de doña Carmen Carreras Torres). Productor y director cinematográfico falleció en Madrid el día 11 de Noviembre de 1974 habiendo recibido los santos sacramentos y la bendición apostólica de su santidad}}
  • Jane Ace (born Jane Epstein), 74, American radio comedy performer, died of cancer.{{cite news |title=Jane Ace Is Dead at 74; Noted for Malapropisms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/jane-ace-is-dead-at-74-noted-for-malapropisms.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 2-4 |access-date=30 December 2023}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&q=jane+ace&pg=PA2 |last=Havig |first=Alan R. |title=ACE, JANE (1900?-1974) |dictionary=Dictionary of Missouri Biography |editor1-last=Christensen |editor1-first=Lawrence O. |editor2-last=Foley |editor2-first=William E. |editor3-last=Kremer |editor3-first=Gary R. |editor4-last=Winn |editor4-first=Kenneth H. |location=Columbia and London |publisher=University of Missouri Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-8262-1222-0 |pages=2–3 |access-date=30 December 2023 |via=Google Books}}
  • J. Hunter Guthrie {{post-nominals|list=SJ}}, 73, American Roman Catholic priest, former President of Georgetown University{{cite news |title=Rev. Hunter Guthrie, Led Georgetown U. |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/rev-hunterguthrie-led-georgetown-u.html |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • Aharon Meskin, 77, Hebrew theater actor, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |title=Aharon Meskin |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/aharon-meskin.html |date=November 13, 1974 |at=Page 46, column 3 |access-date=31 December 2023}}

[[November 12]], 1974 (Tuesday)

  • The United Nations General Assembly voted, 91 to 22, to suspend South Africa from participation in participation in Assembly matters for the remainder of the 1974-1975 session.{{cite news |last=Teitsch |first=Kathleen |title=South Africa Is Suspended By U.N. Assembly, 91-22 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 13, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/us-and-algeria-resume-ties-broken-during-67-mideast-war-trade.html |at=Page 1, columns 2-3; page 89, columns 3-5 |access-date=20 March 2024}} The suspension would remain in effect for almost 20 years until the end of apartheid on June 23, 1994.
  • The Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space was adopted for signing by the members of the U.N. General Assembly. It would go into effect on September 15, 1976, after being ratified by five nations.{{UN document |docid=A-RES-3235(XXIX) |type=Resolution |body=General Assembly |session=29 |resolution_number=3235 |access-date=13 March 2008 |title=Convention on Registration of Objects Launched Into Outer Space |date=12 November 1974}}
  • The United States and the Republic of Algeria restored diplomatic relations after Algeria had suspended the relationship in 1967.{{cite news |title=U.S. and Algeria Resume Ties Broken During '67 Mideast-War |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 13, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/us-and-algeria-resume-ties-broken-during-67-mideast-war-trade.html |at=Page 14, columns 4-5 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) began a nationwide strike as 120,000 coal miners walked off their jobs. The strike ended on December 10 after less than a month.{{cite journal |last=Navarro |title=Union Bargaining Power in the Coal Industry, 1945-1981 |journal=Industrial and Labor Relations Review |date=January 1983}}
  • The Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago was established in the Dominican Republic.{{cite web |language=es |url=http://lainformacion.com.do/noticias/sociales/8572/otorgan-certificacion-calidad-iso-9000-a-utesa |title=Otorgan certificación calidad ISO 9000 a UTESA |trans-title=ISO 9000 quality certification awarded to UTESA |access-date=28 June 2010 |date=June 2010 |work=Webometrics}}
  • Jack Teich, a wealthy 34-year-old U.S. executive and an owner of the Acme Architectural Products company, was kidnapped from his home at Kings Point, New York, and held for captive until a record ransom of $750,000 (worth more than $4.5 million dollars in 2024) was paid for his safe release on November 19.{{cite news |last=Gage |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Gage |title=F.B.I. Seeks 4 in L.I. Man's Kidnapping |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 21, 1974 |at=Page 97, columns 4-6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/21/archives/fbi-seeks-4-in-li-mans-kidnapping-fbi-seeks-4-in-li-mans-abduction.html |access-date=28 March 2024}}{{cite news |last=Einhorn |first=Elissa |title=Victim of 1974 NY anti-Semitic abduction, record-high ransom finally tells all |newspaper=The Times of Israel |department=Interview |date=23 July 2020 |access-date=28 March 2024 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/victim-of-1974-ny-anti-semitic-abduction-record-high-ransom-finally-tells-all/}}
  • William Flowers, a 19-year-old student at Monmouth College in New Jersey, died of suffocation during a hazing ritual for pledges of the Delta Rho Chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. The pledges were forced to dig "graves" in beach sand and lie in them, and Flowers' "grave" collapsed in on him. Flowers was the first black student to pledge for Zeta Beta Tau at Monmouth.{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Joseph F. |title=Hazing Rite 'Burial' Kills Jersey Student |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 13, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/hazing-rite-burial-kills-jersey-student-hazing-riteburial.html |at=Page 1, columns 1-3; page 89, columns 5-7 |access-date=31 December 2023}}{{cite news |title=GROUP SUSPENDED IN HAZING DEATH |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/14/archives/group-suspended-in-hazing-death-monmouth-fraternity-said-to-have.html |date=November 14, 1974 |at=Page 99, column 8 |access-date=31 December 2023}} The national fraternity subsequently suspended the Monmouth chapter as a result of the incident.
  • American composer George Crumb released the first of four volumes of his work for piano, Makrokosmos.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
  • Member nations of the Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in Quito in Ecuador, voted, 12 to 9, to end the 10-year-long embargo against Cuba, but fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority required by the OAS.{{cite news |title=OAS Move to Lift Sanctions on Cuba Fails by Two Votes |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 12, 1974 |page=I-1}}
  • Born: Tareck El Aissami, Vice President of Venezuela from 2017 to 2018; in El Vigia{{cite web |website=United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) |url=http://tareck.psuv.org.ve/biografia/ |title=Biografía {{!}} Tareck El Aissami |trans-title=Biography {{!}} Tareck El Aissami |language=es |access-date=28 March 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128015211/http://tareck.psuv.org.ve/biografia/#.WIv5UYHP32c |archive-date=28 January 2017}}
  • Died:
  • Samuel Echt, 86, German historian and teacher{{cite news |title=Samuel Echt |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 13, 1974 |at=Page 46, column 4 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/samuel-echt.html |access-date=31 December 2023}}
  • Guido Piovene, 67, Italian novelist and journalist{{cite news |title=Guido Piovene Dead, Italian Novelist, 67 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/13/archives/guido-piovene-dead-it-alian-novelist-67.html |date=November 13, 1974 |at=Page 46, column 4 |access-date=31 December 2023}}

[[November 13]], 1974 (Wednesday)

  • Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. shot and killed all six of his family members while they slept in their beds inside the family's home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, on Long Island.{{cite news |last=Gupte |first=Pranay |author-link=Pranay Gupte |title=Six in Family Found Slain In Bedrooms in L.I. Home |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 14, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 2-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/14/archives/six-in-family-found-slain-in-bedrooms-in-li-home-couple-and.html |access-date=31 December 2023}}{{cite news |last=Gupte |first=Pranay |title=Surviving Son Held in Slayings of 6 in His Family at L.I. Home |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 15, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/15/archives/surviving-son-held-in-slayings-of-6-in-his-family-at-lihome-son.html |at=Page 1, columns 4-5 |access-date=1 January 2024}}{{cite web |last=Rasmussen |first=Aaron |title=Amityville Horror: Inside The DeFeo Family's Brutal Murders |website=Investigation Discovery |department=Murders |url=https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/amityville-horror-inside-the-defeo-family-s-brutal-murders |publisher=Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. |access-date=28 December 2023}} The story of the murders, and the supernatural events alleged by the Lutz family after their purchase of the house in 1975, would become the basis for a bestselling book in 1977 by Jay Anson and a popular 1979 horror film.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132035&page=1&singlePage=true |title=Amityville Horror: Horror or Hoax? |publisher=ABC News |access-date=June 30, 2015}}
  • Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, became the first representative of an entity other than a member state to address the United Nations General Assembly, and spoke about the concerns of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories of Israel.{{cite news |title=Arafat Makes Plea for Palestine State— Offers OliveBranch or Gun at U.N., Urges U.S., Jews to Reject Zionists |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 14, 1974 |page=I-1}}
  • Born:
  • Matthew Prince, American business executive and billionaire who founded the technology company Cloudflare; in Salt Lake City, Utah{{cite tweet |author=Matthew Prince |user=eastdakota |number=665367486708080640 |title=Another year, another birthday, another excuse to open one of the bottles of wine my bought from my birth year.}}
  • Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect; in Bern{{cite encyclopedia |title=Kerim Seiler |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/en/sik:person-10235376:exp/in/sikart/actor/list |dictionary=SIKART |access-date=31 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Karen Silkwood, 28, American chemical technician and labor union activist, was killed near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in a suspicious car crash, while driving to a meeting with David Burnham, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.{{cite news |last=Burnham |first=David |author-link=David Burnham |title=Death of Plutonium Worker Questioned by Union Official |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 19, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/19/archives/death-of-plutonium-worker-questioned-by-union-official-union-has.html |at=Page 28, columns 1-4 |access-date=24 March 2024}}{{cite book |last=Rashke |first=Richard L. |author-link=Richard Rashke |orig-year=First published 1981 |year=2000 |title=The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case |edition=2nd |location=Ithaca, New York |publisher=Cornell University Press |pages=99-101 |isbn=978-0-8014-8667-8}}{{cite web |title=Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious one-car crash |author=((History.com Editors)) |website=HISTORY |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/karen-silkwood-dies-in-mysterious-one-car-crash |access-date=28 December 2023 |publisher=A&E Television Networks |date=11 November 2019 |orig-date=First published 13 November 2009}}
  • Vittorio De Sica, 73, Italian actor and film director known for Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves. His death in Paris came on the same day that his final film, Il Viaggio (The Voyage), starring Sophia Loren and Richard Burton, had been scheduled for its French premiere.{{cite news |title=Vittorio de Sica, Italian Film Director-Producer, Dies at 73 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 14, 1974 |page=I-1}}{{cite news |last=Kaufman |first=Michael T. |author-link=Michael T. Kaufman |title=Vittorio De Sica, 73, Dies; Neorealist Movie Director |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 14, 1974 |at=Page 50, columns 1-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/14/archives/vittorio-de-sica-73-dies-neorealist-movie-director-leader-of-new.html |access-date=31 December 2023}}
  • Romuald Iodko, 79, Soviet sculptor known for the popular statue Girl with an Oar (Devishka s veslom){{cite book |last=Isayev |first=Pavel |year=2004 |chapter=Иодко Ромуальд Ромуальдович |trans-chapter=Iodko Romuald Romualdovich |script-title=ru:Строгановка: Императорское центральное Строгановское художественно-промышленное училище, 1825—1918 |trans-title=Stroganovka: Imperial Central Stroganov Art and Industrial School, 1825–1918 |type=Biographical dictionary |language=ru |volume=2 |location=Moscow |publisher=Labirint |page=170 |oclc=57145724}}

[[November 14]], 1974 (Thursday)

  • In Paris, the International Energy Agency was formed by representatives of 16 nations— the U.S., the UK, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey— in a cooperative agreement to pool the combined oil supplies of the members in the event of another embargo by oil-producing nations.{{cite news |title=16 Nations Form Group to Pool Oil Supplies— U.S., Western Allies Set Up Agency That Would Act in Event of a New Arab Boycott |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 16, 1974 |page=I-11}}
  • Portuguese Army Major General Mário Lemos Pires took office as the last colonial governor of Portuguese Timor, a colonial possession of Portugal since 1702.{{cite news |url=https://www.dn.pt/portugal/morreu-o-ultimo-governador-de-timor-1241722.html/ |title=Morreu o último governador de Timor |trans-title=The last governor of Timor has died |newspaper=Diário de Notícias |date=23 May 2009 |language=pt |access-date=2 April 2024}} Granted independence by Portugal in 1975, the area on the island of Timor was quickly annexed by Indonesia.
  • Jane Lauren Alpert, a former member of the U.S. left-wing terrorist group Weather Underground and a fugitive for four-and-a-half years after posting a bail bond and failing to appear for her sentencing in 1970 for conspiracy to bomb two U.S. government buildings, voluntarily surrendered at the federal prosecutor's office in New York City.{{cite news |title=Fugitive in Antiwar Bomb Case Gives Up |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 15, 1974 |page=I-3}} She would be released in 1977 after 27 months' imprisonment.
  • Died:
  • Omar Al Saqqaf, 51, Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, died of a cerebral thrombosis.{{cite news |title=Omar Saqqaf Dies; Saudi Diplomat, 51 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/omar-saqqaf-dies-saudi-diplomat-51-foreign-affairs-minister-was.html |date=16 November 1974 |at=Page 34, column 4 |access-date=1 January 2024}}
  • Aleksandr Panyushkin, 69, Soviet Ambassador to the United States from 1947 to 1952.{{cite news |title=A. S. Panyushkin, Ex-Envoy, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 November 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/15/archives/as-panyushkin-exenvoy-is-dead-intelligence-expert-served-in-the-us.html |at=Page 40, column 3 |access-date=1 January 2024}}
  • Johnny Mack Brown, 70, American football halfback and actor known primarily for Western films, died of kidney failure.{{cite news |title=Johnny Mack Brown, 70, Dies; Cowboy Star and Football Hero |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/johnny-mack-brown-70-dies-cowboy-star-and-football-hero-moneymaking.html |agency=UPI |date=16 November 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 1-2 |access-date=7 January 2024}}
  • F. Trubee Davison, 78, American World War I aviator, government official, and former president of the American Museum of Natural History{{cite news |title=F. Trubee Davison Dies at 78; Led Natural History Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/f-trubee-davison-dies-at-78-led-natural-history-museum-aviation.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 November 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 5-6 |access-date=7 January 2024}}
  • James Phelan, 81, American football coach for Purdue University and the University of Washington, and later coach in the AAFC and the NFL.{{cite news |title=James Phelan Dead; Ex-Huskies Coach |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/james-phelan-dead-exhuskies-coach.html |agency=UPI |date=16 November 1974 |at=Page 34, column 4 |access-date=7 January 2024}}

[[November 15]], 1974 (Friday)

  • Congressional elections were held in Brazil for all 364 seats of the Câmara dos Deputados and 22 of the 66 seats of the Senado Federal. With 54 new seats added to the Camara since the 1970 election, most of which were won by the minority Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB), the lead of the ruling ARENA (Aliança Renovadora Nacional) Party changed from 223-87 to 203-161.{{cite book |first=Dieter |last=Nohlen |title=Elections in the Americas: A data handbook |volume=II |publisher=Nomos |year=2005 |page=173 |isbn=978-0-19-928358-3}}
  • In Egypt, 50 people drowned when an overloaded sailing craft sank in the Nile near the town of Desouk.{{cite news |title=50 Drown in Nile Tragedy. |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=16 November 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/50-drown-in-nile-tragedy.html |at=Page 5, column 2 |access-date=7 January 2024}}
  • Ethiopia's Head of State, General Aman Andom, Chairman of the Derg, angered other Derg members, including Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, when he sent a message to all military units critical of the Derg government.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Andom would be executed eight days later in the Derg's purge of former government and military officials.{{cite news |author=((Reuters)) |title=Ethiopia Executes 60 Former Officials, Including 2 Premiers and Military Chief |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/ethiopia-executes-60-former-officials-including-2-premiers-and.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement was signed in Quebec City between representatives of the Canadian national government and the Quebec provincial government; the Hydro-Québec electrical utilities corporation; and the governing bodies of the two indigenous tribes whose lands were affected, the Grand Council of the Crees (led by Waskaganish Chief Billy Diamond) and the Northern Quebec Inuit Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.powertochange.ie/changed/bdiamond.html |title=Billy Diamond |access-date=2008-02-03 |publisher=Power To Change |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127111027/http://www.powertochange.ie/changed/bdiamond.html |archive-date=27 January 2008}}
  • At Vandenberg Air Force Base, in the first U.S. launch of three orbiting satellites on the same rocket vehicle, NASA used a Delta rocket to orbit Spain's first satellite, INTASAT; the NOAA-4 weather satellite; and the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite.{{cite web |title=INTASAT |publisher=NASA |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1974-089C |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1974-089A |title=NOAA 4 |publisher=NASA |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite web |title=Satellite Detail - AMSAT-OSCAR 7 |website=AMSAT |publisher=The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation |url=http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=9 |archive-date=5 June 2011 |access-date=2 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605102903/http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=9}}{{cite web |title=Launch Log |url=https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/data/derived/launchlog.html |website=planet4589.org |date=2 April 2024 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Universal Pictures released the disaster film Earthquake, starring Charlton Heston and Ava Gardner and directed by Mark Robson. The film was the first to use the "Sensurround" system during screenings, with low-frequency and extended range bass to simulate the feeling of the vibrations of an earthquake.{{cite news |last=Sayre |first=Nora |author-link=Nora Sayre |title=Screen: 'Earthquake' Evokes Feelies: The Cast |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 November 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/screen-earthquake-evokes-feeliesthe-cast.html |at=Page 0, columns 2-4 |access-date=7 January 2024}}{{cite dictionary |last1=White |first1=Glenn |last2=Louie |first2=Gary J |title=Sensurround |dictionary=The Audio Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DulVm8t88QkC&pg=PA345 |edition=3rd |year=2005 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-98498-8 |pages=345–346 |access-date=23 March 2024 |via=Google Books}}{{cite web |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/54396 |title=Earthquake |work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=7 January 2024}}
  • Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 was given its first performance.{{cite book |first=Laurel |last=Fay |title=Shostakovich: A Life |location=Oxford |year=2000 |page=282 |isbn=0195134389}}
  • Secretariat, the racehorse who had won the American Triple Crown in 1973, became a sire for the first time with the birth of his first foal, which would be named First Secretary.{{cite news |title=Secretariat Becomes a Sire for First Time |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=16 November 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/16/archives/secretariat-becomes-a-sire-for-first-time-secretariats-first-colt.html |at=Page 37, columns 5-8 |access-date=7 January 2024}}{{cite news |last=Illman |first=Dan |date=7 February 2011 |title=Top Beyers, Secretariat's First Foal, Arlington Pars |url=http://www.drf.com/blogs/top-beyers-secretariats-first-foal-arlington-pars |newspaper=Daily Racing Form |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142742/http://www.drf.com/blogs/top-beyers-secretariats-first-foal-arlington-pars |archive-date=12 June 2018 |access-date=7 January 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of Lithuania since 2020; in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union{{cite web |language=lt |url=https://sena-ministraspirmininkas.lrv.lt/lt/ministre-pirmininke |title=Ministrė Pirmininkė |trans-title=Prime Minister |access-date=23 March 2024}}
  • Chad Kroeger (stage name for Chad Robert Turton), Canadian singer and guitarist for Nickelback; in Hanna, Alberta{{cite web |title=Chad Kroeger Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chad-kroeger-mn0000189008#biography |last=Apar |first=Corey |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=23 March 2024}}
  • Died:
  • James W. Morrison, 86, American silent film actor and educator{{cite news |title=James W. Morrison |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/james-w-morrison.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Nathaniel B. Wales, 91, American inventor{{cite news |title=Nathaniel Wales, Inventor, 91, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/18/archives/nathaniel-wales-inventor-91-dies-physicist-held-patents-on.html |date=18 November 1974 |at=Page 36, column 3 |access-date=23 March 2024}}

[[November 16]], 1974 (Saturday)

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  • The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sent an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in the area of the constellation Hercules in the stellar view from Earth.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov99/Arecibo.message.ws.html |title=Cornell News: It's the 25th anniversary of Earth's first (and only) attempt to phone E.T. |date=1999-11-12 |last=Steele |first=Bill |access-date=29 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802005337/http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov99/Arecibo.message.ws.html |archive-date=2 August 2008 |website=Cornell News}} Transmitted multiple times at irregular intervals, the "Arecibo message" contained 1,679 (73 x 23) bits of binary code with the hope that if it reached another intelligent civilization, scientists would not only see it as evidence of Earth intelligence, but eventually display the message in picture form on a 73-row and 23-column grid.{{cite book |last=Oberhaus |first=Daniel |title=Extraterrestrial Languages |date=October 22, 2019 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-04306-9 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CWzDwAAQBAJ |language=en |via=Google Books}} The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000 CE.
  • Four Egyptian passenger ships entered the Suez Canal, the first commercial vessels to do so since the Six-Day War in 1967.{{cite news |title=First Egyptian Ships Enter the Suez Canal |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 17, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/17/archives/first-egyptian-ships-enter-the-suez-canal.html |at=Page 3, column 6 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • The Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition was adopted by representatives of 135 nations at the World Food Conference in Rome.{{cite web |title=Report of the World Food Conference |url=http://www.gloobal.net/iepala/gloobal/fichas/ficha.php?entidad=Textos&id=5197&opcion=documento |website=Gloobal |access-date=9 April 2016}}
  • Amid ongoing political violence in Argentina, the body of Eva Perón, the former First Lady of Argentina, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires, having been repatriated from Spain on the orders of Isabel Perón, the President of Argentina and widow of Eva's husband, Juan Perón.{{cite news |title=Argentina Brings Home The Body of Eva Peron |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/17/archives/argentina-brings-home-the-body-of-eva-peron.html |agency=AP |date=November 17, 1974 |at=Page 6, column 1 |access-date=20 March 2024}} Eva would be interred beside her husband the following day.{{cite news |title=Eva Peron's Body Put Beside Her Husband's |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/18/archives/eva-perons-body-put-beside-her-husbands.html |date=November 18, 1974 |at=Page 14, column 5 |access-date=23 March 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Paul Scholes, English footballer and midfielder, with 66 caps for the England national team; in Salford, Greater Manchester{{Hugman|17558|Paul Scholes |access-date=24 March 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/336/Paul-Scholes/overview |title=Paul Scholes Manchester United Midfielder, Profile & Stats |publisher=Premier League |access-date=24 March 2024}}
  • Brooke Elliott, American TV actress known for Drop Dead Diva and Sweet Magnolias; in Fridley, Minnesota{{cite web |title=Robert C. Elliott |url=http://www.floralhaven.com/obituary/user/show/template?id=7682 |publisher=FloralHavan.com |access-date=May 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324053608/http://www.floralhaven.com/obituary/user/show/template?id=7682 |archive-date=March 24, 2012}}
  • Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer, 2001 World Champion with partner Barbara Fusar-Poli; in Milan{{cite web |title=Maurizio Margaglio |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/100164 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Died:
  • Erich Lindemann, 74, German-American writer and psychiatrist{{cite news |title=Dr. Erich Lindemann Dies at 74; Psychiatrist and Social Scientist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/19/archives/dr-erich-lindemann-dies-at-74-psychiatrist-and-social-scientist.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 19, 1974 |at=Page 46, columns 3-4 |access-date=24 March 2024}}
  • Walther Meissner, 91, German technical physicist{{cite journal |last=Brickwedde |first=F. G. |author-link=Ferdinand Brickwedde |title=Walther Meissner |journal=Physics Today |date=February 1975 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=84–85 |url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v28/i2/p84_s1?bypassSSO=1 |doi=10.1063/1.3068853 |bibcode=1975PhT....28b..84B |access-date=24 March 2024|url-access=subscription }}

[[November 17]], 1974 (Sunday)

  • Voting was held in Greece for all 300 seats of the Hellenic Parliament in the first election since 1964. The newly formed New Democracy party, led by Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, won 220 of the seats, with the Centre Union – New Forces party of Georgios Mavros in second place with 60 seats.{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Steven V. |author-link=Steven V. Roberts |title=Caramanlis Wins Strong Majority in Greek Election |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 18, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 1-4; page 69, column 1 |access-date=23 March 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/18/archives/caramanlis-wins-strong-majority-in-greek-election-may-command.html}}{{cite book |first1=Dieter |last1=Nohlen |first2=Philip |last2=Stöver |title=Elections in Europe: A data handbook |year=2010 |isbn=978-3832956097 |page=830 |publisher=Nomos}}
  • Sadi Irmak succeeded Bülent Ecevit as Prime Minister of Turkey.{{cite news |title=A New Government Formed in Turkey By an Independent |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=November 18, 1974 |at=Page 15, column 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/18/archives/a-new-government-formed-in-turkey-by-an-independent.html |access-date=23 March 2024}}
  • Serial killer Paul John Knowles, who had murdered 18 people since his escape from jail on July 26, was captured by a civilian in Henry County, Georgia. David Clark, a Vietnam War veteran and hospital maintenance worker, had been on a hunting trip when he encountered Knowles, who was fleeing police, and held him at gunpoint until officers could arrive at the scene.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bismarck-tribune-knowles-captured/41264510/ |title=Smalltown Hunter Captures Convict |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Bismarck Tribune |location=Bismarck, North Dakota |date=November 18, 1974 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} The day before, Knowles had kidnapped and murdered his last two victims, a Florida state trooper and a motorist whom he had taken hostage.{{cite web |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/2710-trooper-charles-eugene-campbell |title=Trooper Charles Eugene Campbell, Florida Highway Patrol, Florida |publisher=The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc |access-date=3 April 2024}} Knowles himself would be shot to death on December 18 after attempting to disarm a sheriff.
  • Died:
  • Clive Brook, 87, English actor{{cite news |last=Van Gelder |first=Lawrence |title=Clive Brook, 87, Suave Briton Of Stage and Screen, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 19, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/19/archives/clive-brook-87-suave-briton-of-stage-and-screen-is-dead-epitome-of.html |at=Page 46, columns 3-4 |access-date=24 March 2024}}{{cite web |title=Clive Brook - Broadway Cast & Staff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/clive-brook-33132 |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=16 January 2024}}
  • Erskine Childers, 68, President of Ireland since 1973, died of a heart attack while attending a conference of the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin.{{cite news |title=Erskine Childers, 68, Dies; Was President of Ireland |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 17, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/17/archives/erksine-childers-68-dies-was-president-of-ireland-largely.html |at=Page 77, columns 1-2 |access-date=16 January 2024}}

[[November 18]], 1974 (Monday)

  • U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrived in Tokyo to begin an eight-day trip to East Asia. Ford's visit to Japan was the first ever by an incumbent U.S. President.{{cite news |last=Herbers |first=John |author-link=John Herbers |title=President Begins Journey to Asia, Stressing Peace |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 18, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/18/archives/president-begins-journey-to-asia-stressing-peace-arrives-in-tokyo.html |access-date=23 March 2024}}
  • Napoleon Lechoco, the head of the Filipino Political Action Committee in Washington, D.C., held Eduardo Romualdez, the Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States, hostage at gunpoint for over 10 hours at the Philippine Embassy on Embassy Row, demanding that his 16-year-old son in Manila receive an exit visa. This was believed to be the first time a foreign ambassador was held hostage in the United States. Lechoco released Romualdez and surrendered to police after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos gave assurances that his son could leave the country. Lechoco's son departed the Philippines for the United States on November 19.{{cite news |last=Lyons |first=Richard D. |title=Philippine Envoy Released By Gunman in Washington |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/19/archives/philippine-envoy-released-by-gunman-in-washington.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 19, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 1-2 |access-date=25 March 2024}}{{cite news |title=Embassy Invader's Son Allowed To Leave Philippines for U.S. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/20/archives/embassy-invaders-son-allowed-to-leave-philippines-far-us-rental.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 20, 1974 |at=Page 4, columns 5-6 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Spanish tenor José Carreras made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, in the role of Cavaradossi in the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.{{cite news |title=Carreras Cheered in His Debut at Met |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/20/archives/carreras-cheered-in-his-debut-at-met.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 20, 1974 |at=Page 54, column 4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Chloë Sevigny, American actress; in Springfield, Massachusetts{{cite web |url=http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020740/bio |title=Chloë Sevigny (II) Biography |archive-date=18 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218052132/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020740/bio |website=Yahoo! Movies |publisher=AEC One Stop Group, Inc. |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver{{cite web |title=Petter Solberg |department=Colin Jackson's Raise Your Game - In the zone |year=2014 |website=BBC Wales |access-date=26 March 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/raiseyourgame/sites/concentration/inthezone/pages/petter_solberg.shtml}}
  • Died: Gösta Lilliehöök, 90, Swedish modern pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion{{cite web |title=Gösta Lilliehöök |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/35072 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 December 2023}}

[[November 19]], 1974 (Tuesday)

  • In Seoul, South Korea, 3,000 people participated in demonstrations demanding the return of democracy to the country.{{cite news |title=3,000 Seoul Demonstrators Ask Return of Democracy |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/20/archives/3000-seoul-demonstrators-ask-return-of-democracy.html |date=November 20, 1974 |at=Page 4, column 4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Dedication ceremonies began for the Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, continuing through November 22.{{cite news |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Goldberger |title=New Mormon Temple $15-Million Conversation Piece |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/12/archives/new-mormon-temple-15-million-conversation-piece-mormon-architects.html |date=November 12, 1974 |at=Page 30, columns 1-5 |access-date=30 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Louise Fitzhugh, 46, American children's author known for Harriet the Spy, died of a brain aneurysm.{{cite news |title=Louise Fitzhugh Is Dead at 46 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/21/archives/louise-fitzhugh-is-dead-at-46-harriet-the-spy-a-uthorartist.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 21, 1974 |at=Page 50, columns 2-3 |access-date=30 December 2023}}{{cite news |title=Louise Fitzhugh, children's author |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |department=Obituaries |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 15-B, column 2 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19741122&id=u49IAAAAIBAJ&pg=6923,1355549 |access-date=29 December 2023 |via=Google News}}
  • George Brunies (aka Georg Brunis), 72, American jazz trombonist of the dixieland revival, died of a heart ailment.{{cite news |title=George Brunies, Jazz Trombonist, Dixieland Pioneer, is Dead at 74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/georg-brunis-jazz-trombonist-dixieland-pioneer-is-dead-at-74.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 61, columns 1-2 |access-date=27 March 2024}}
  • Alessandro Momo, 17, Italian actor (Malicious, Scent of a Woman), died in a motorcycle accident.{{cite web |title=Filmografia di Alessandro Momo |url=https://www.mymovies.it/persone/alessandro-momo/16867/filmografia/ |publisher=MYmovies.it |language=it |access-date=2 April 2024}}

[[November 20]], 1974 (Wednesday)

  • An explosion killed two members of a team investigating a tunnel in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, U.S. Navy Commander Robert M. Ballinger and a South Korean officer, and injured six other military personnel, five American and one South Korean.{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=U.S. Names Navy Officer Killed in Korea DMZ Blast |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/us-names-navy-officer-killed-in-korea-dmz-blast.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 9, column 1 |access-date=27 March 2024}} The tunnel had been discovered five days earlier.
  • Lufthansa Flight 540 crashed in Nairobi, Kenya, due to a mechanical failure, killing 59 of its 157 passengers.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/21/archives/747-crash-kills-59-in-kenya-98-saved-12-americans-on-lufthansa.html |title=747 Crash Kills 59 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 21, 1974 |at=Page 97, column 1 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • John Stonehouse, British Member of Parliament for Walsall North, faked his own death, leaving a pile of clothes on Miami Beach to make it appear that he had drowned. He would be arrested on December 24 in Melbourne, Australia, and later imprisoned for three years for fraud, deception and theft.{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=Missing British M.P. Found in Australia |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 December 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/24/archives/missing-british-mp-found-in-australia-by-reviers-missing-briton-is.html |at=Page 1, column 8 |access-date=5 April 2024}}{{cite news |title=MP planned fake death for months |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4564226.stm |website=BBC News |department=UK Politics |date=29 December 2005 |access-date=20 March 2024}}
  • The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a class action lawsuit against NASA and the U.S. Civil Service Commission over alleged discrimination against African-Americans and women in hiring and promotion at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/21/archives/naacp-funds-suit-alleges-nasa-bias-civil-service-agency-is-also.html |title=NAACP Fund's Suit Alleges NASA Bias |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 21, 1974 |at=Page 50, column 1 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Born:
  • Drew Ginn, Australian rower, 3-time Olympic gold medalist; in Leongatha, Victoria{{cite web |title=Drew Ginn |website=Olympedia |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/35421 |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 December 2023}}
  • Kurt Krömer (stage name of Alexander Bojcan), German television presenter, comedian and actor; in West Berlin{{cite web |url=https://www.moviepilot.de/people/kurt-kroemer |title=Kurt Krömer |language=de |website=Moviepilot |department=Stars |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • Died:
  • S. Everett Gleason, 69, American historian and intelligence analyst, died of lung cancer.{{cite news |title=S. Everett Gleason, Historian, 69, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/s-everett-gleason-historian-69-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 1 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • Ben West (born Raphael Benjamin West), 63, American attorney and politician, former Mayor of Nashville{{cite news |title=Ben West Is Dead, Nashville Mayor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/ben-west-is-dead-nashville-mayor-served-from-1951-to-1963enforced.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 3-4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19741122&id=u49IAAAAIBAJ&pg=6923,1355549 |title=Ben West, former Nashville mayor |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |department=Obituaries |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 15-B, column 2 |access-date=29 December 2023 |via=Google News}}

[[November 21]], 1974 (Thursday)

  • In Birmingham, England, two pubs on New Street were bombed, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others, many of them seriously, in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. At 8:17 in the evening, a time bomb exploded at the Mulberry Bush pub, killing 10 people, two of whom had been walking past the establishment. Ten minutes later, at 8:27, another bomb detonated at the Tavern in the Town and killed 11 others. The bombings were the deadliest terrorist acts in Britain in the 20th century.{{cite news |title=17 Die as Bombs Destroy 2 British Pubs |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/17-die-as-bombs-destroy-2-british-pubs-17-die-as-bombs-destroy-2.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 2-4; page 81, columns 1-3 |access-date=25 March 2024}}{{cite news |title=1974: Birmingham pub blasts kill 19 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |department=On This Day |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/newsid_2549000/2549953.stm |access-date=6 February 2013 |date=21 November 1974}}
  • The bombings were wrongly blamed on the "Birmingham Six", six men from Northern Ireland who were longtime residents of the city, who were coerced by police abuse into signing confessions to a crime that they had not committed. The six men— Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Joe Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power and Johnny Walker— would be sentenced to life imprisonment on August 15, 1975, until their convictions were overturned by an appellate court on March 14, 1991.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Birmingham Pub Bombings |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Terrorism |editor-first=Harvey W. |editor-last=Kushner |editor-link=Harvey W. Kushner |publisher=SAGE |year=2003 |page=78}} Later, a witness would identify Mick Murray as the organizer of the bombings.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article392466.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523213354/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article392466.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 23, 2011 |title=The man behind the pub bombs in Birmingham that killed 21 |access-date=5 August 2007 |first=Sean |last=O'Neill |date=18 November 2004 |newspaper=The Times}}
  • The U.S. Freedom of Information Act was amended after both Houses of Congress voted to override U.S. President Ford's October 17 veto.{{cite news |title=Senate Defeats 2 Ford Vetoes, Matching House Action on Bills |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/senate-defeats-2-ford-vetoes-matching-house-action-on-bills.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 21, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Japan's Ministry of Transport issued its "Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of Safety Standards for Road Transport Vehicles" to require all motor vehicles manufactured in Japan to include a speed chime that would begin ringing if the vehicle exceeded {{convert|105|km/h|mph|0}}. Under pressure from other car-producing nations, the requirement would be removed in 1986.{{cite web |title=【速度警告音】速度警告音ってなぜ無くなってしまったの?{{!}}教えてMJブロンディ【MOTA】 |trans-title=[Speed chime] Why did the speed chime disappear? |url=https://autoc-one.jp/word/408033/ |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=MOTA(旧オートックワン) |language=ja |first=Sōichi |last=Shimizu}}
  • Died:
  • Sir William Andrewes {{postnominals|country=GBR|KBE|CB|DSO}}, 75, Royal Navy admiral, Korean War commander of United Nations blockade and escort force{{cite news |title=Adm. William Andrewes Dead; Chief of Korean War Blockade |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/adm-william-andrewes-dead-chief-of-korean-war-blockade.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 2-3 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
  • John B. Gambling, 77, English-born American radio broadcasting pioneer known for Rambling with Gambling{{cite news |title=John B. Gambling Dead at 77; Conducted Early Radio Shows |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/john-b-gambling-dead-at-77-conducted-early-radio-shows-on-job-nine.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 1-2 |access-date=25 March 2024}}{{cite news |title=John Gambling, pioneer in radio |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19741122&id=u49IAAAAIBAJ&pg=6923,1355549 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |department=Obituaries |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 15-B, column 1 |access-date=29 December 2023 |via=Google News}}
  • Frank Martin, 84, Swiss composer{{cite news |title=Frank Martin, 84, Swiss Composer |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/prank-martin-84-swiss-composer-le-vin-herbe-creator-diesalso-wrote.html |agency=Reuters |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 3-4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}{{cite encyclopedia |first=Regula |last=Puskás |title=Martin, Frank |dictionary=Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS) |date=27 October 2009 |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/009525/2009-10-27/ |access-date=27 January 2024 |language=de}}
  • Arthur J. Scanlan, 93, Irish-born American Roman Catholic priest, founding pastor of St. Helena's Church in the Bronx{{cite news |title=Msgr. Arthur J. Scanlan, Long a Pastor in Bronx |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/22/archives/msgr-arthur-j-scanlan-long-a-pastor-in-bronx.html |date=November 22, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=25 March 2024}}

[[November 22]], 1974 (Friday)

  • United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3236 was enacted by a vote of 89 in favor, 8 against and 37 abstentions. The resolution declared its reaffirmation (after a 1948 resolution) of "the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in Palestine, including...the right to self-determination without external interference; the right to national independence and sovereignty [and] the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted." In a separate resolution, the General Assembly granted the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status as a representative of the Palestinian people in and around Israel.{{cite news |last=Hofmann |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Hofmann |title=Assembly Adopts 2 U.N. Resolutions Aiding P.L.O. Aims |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/23/archives/assembly-adopts-2-un-resolution-aiding-plo-aims.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 23, 1974 |at=Page 1, column 1 |access-date=27 March 2024}}
  • The opera Nélée et Myrthis, written by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, was given its first performance 223 years after it was written.{{cite book |editor-first=Amanda |editor-last=Holden |editor-link=Amanda Holden (writer) |title=The Viking Opera Guide |publisher=Viking Press |year=1953 |page=847}} The Victoria State Opera in Melbourne, Australia, staged the work that Rameau had completed in May of 1751.
  • Died:
  • Gerald Maurice Clemence, 66, American astronomer{{cite journal |title=Gerald M. Clemence |first=Raynor L. |last=Duncombe |author-link=Julena Steinheider Duncombe#Life |department=obituaries |journal=Physics Today |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=59–61 |date=March 1975 |doi=10.1063/1.3068888 }}
  • Ralph Capone, 80, Italian-born American mobster and the older brother of Al Capone and Frank Capone{{cite news |title=Ralph Capone, 81, Dies in Wisconsin, Gangster Sought New Way of Life in Later Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/ralph-capone-81-dies-in-wisconsin-gangster-sought-new-way-of-life.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 61, column 4 |access-date=27 March 2024}}

[[November 23]], 1974 (Saturday)

  • The Derg, which had carried out the Ethiopian Revolution in September and declared the Republic of Ethiopia, carried out the mass execution of 54 former government officials and military officers at Kerchele Prison, and sent soldiers to murder six others who were not incarcerated.{{cite book |first1=Andargachew |last1=Tiruneh |first2=ʼAndārgāčaw |last2=Ṭerunah |author3=Thomas Leiper Kane Collection – Library O |title=The Ethiopian Revolution 1974–1987: A Transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian Autocracy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABbnAd0oWokC&pg=PA327 |year=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0521430821 |page=327 |via=Google Books}} The condemned officials, who had recently served the government of Emperor Haile Selassie, included Prime Ministers Aklilu Habte-Wold (who had served from 1961 until March 1974) and Endelkachew Makonnen (who served from March to July); General Aman Andom, 50, who had taken over in the September coup as the first President of Ethiopia; Rear Admiral Leul Iskinder Desta, a grandson of Selassie; Abiye Abebe, former Viceroy of Eritrea (1959-1964), President of the Senate (1964-1974) and Minister of Defense from February to July, 1974; Prince Asrate Medhin Kassa (Viceroy of Eritrea 1964 to 1970 and President of the Crown Council, 1971 to 1974); Admiral Iskinder Desta of the Imperial Ethiopian Navy; wealthy businessman and Lieutenant General Mesfin Sileshi; and Chief Justice Abeje Debalke. Six others were killed in a shootout at the home of General Andom.{{cite book |first=John H. |last=Spencer |author-link=John H. Spencer |title=Ethiopia at Bay: A Personal Account of the Haile Selassie Years |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5q7NV-vSPwC&pg=PA342 |year=2006 |publisher=Tsehai Publishers |isbn=978-1599070001 |pages=342– |via=Google Books}}

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  • U.S. President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger arrived in the Soviet Union at the Vozdvizhenka Airbase near Vladivostok, where they were greeted by Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a summit meeting on arms control.{{cite news |title=Ford Arrives for Talk With Brezhnev |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/23/archives/ford-arrives-for-talk-with-brezhnev-last-stop-of-the-tour.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 23, 1974 |at=Page 6, columns 1-3 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite web |title=The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control: Section 1: Arrival in Vladivostok and Okeanskaya |url=http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vladivostok/varrival.asp |work=The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Digital Library |publisher=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library |access-date=8 February 2013}}
  • Aldo Moro took office as the Prime Minister of Italy. Moro, who had served as Prime Minister from 1963 to 1968, replaced Mariano Rumor, whose government collapsed on October 3 after the ministers could not agree on how to manage a rising inflation rate.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/moro-forms-2party-cabinet-in-italy-postal-minister-replaced.html |title=Moro Forms 2-Party Cabinet in Italy |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 16, columns 4-6 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dellarepubblica.it/vi-legislatura-iv-moro |title=IV Governo Moro – Coalizione politica DC–PRI |trans-title=IV Moro Government – DC–PRI political coalition |language=it |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610101725/http://www.dellarepubblica.it/vi-legislatura-iv-moro |archive-date=10 June 2020 |website=Della Republica}}
  • In Lexington, Massachusetts, the historic Hancock–Clarke House was moved {{convert|100|yd}} across the street to its original site in preparation for the United States Bicentennial.{{cite news |title=House on Revere's Ride Moved for Bicentennial |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/house-on-reveres-ride-moved-for-bicentennial.html |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 24, column 6 |access-date=27 March 2024}}
  • The Plaza de Toros Monumental de Aguascalientes, a bullring, opened in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.{{cite web |url=http://thor.prohosting.com/~dgr/plaza/plazas$.html#monumags |website=thor.prohosting.com |archive-date=27 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627095142/http://thor.prohosting.com/~dgr/plaza/plazas$.html#monumags |title=Important Bullrings in Mexico |access-date=21 March 2024}}
  • The United Kingdom's Skynet 2B communications satellite was launched from the United States and placed into geostationary orbit over Kenya.{{cite news |title=British Satellite in Orbit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/british-satellite-in-orbit.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 24, column 6 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1974-094A |title=Display: Skynet 2B 1974-094A |publisher=NASA |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=2 April 2024}} {{PD-notice}}
  • Born: Saku Koivu, Finnish professional ice hockey centre with 89 games for the Finland men's national ice hockey team and 1,124 games in the National Hockey League between 1992 and 2014; in Turku{{cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=388186 |title=Koivu brothers doing Finland proud |website=National Hockey League |last=Wigge |first=Larry |access-date=October 25, 2008}}
  • Died:
  • Cornelius Ryan, 54, Irish-born American writer, died of cancer.{{cite news |last=Montgomery |first=Paul L. |author-link=Paul L. Montgomery |title=Cornelius Ryan Dies of Cancer at 54; Wrote 'Longest Day' and 'Last Battle' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/cornelius-ryan-dies-of-cancer-at-54-wrote-longest-day-and-last.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 1-3 |access-date=27 March 2024}}
  • Sol Wilson, 81, Polish-born American Expressionist painter{{cite news |title=Sol Wilson Dead; Expressionist, 81 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/sol-wilson-dead-expressionist-81.html |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 34, columns 4-5 |access-date=27 March 2024}}

[[November 24]], 1974 (Sunday)

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  • The remains of "Lucy", a female hominid from the species Australopithecus afarensis, were discovered in Ethiopia by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson.{{cite book |last1=Johanson |first1=Donald C. |author1-link=Donald C. Johanson |last2=Wong |first2=Kate |title=Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxDnrgJrJrkC |publisher=Harmony Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-0307396396 |pages=7-9 |via=Google Books}} Found in the Awash Valley of the Ethiopia's Afar Triangle near the town of Hadar, "Lucy" (officially "AL 288-1"), whose remains were carbon dated at 3.2 million years old, was the earliest example of an ancestor of homo sapiens who could walk upright on two feet.{{cite news |last=Klein |first=Joanna |title=Study Suggests 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Spent a Lot of Time in Trees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/science/lucy-bones-trees.html |date=November 30, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=30 November 2016}}
  • In Vladivostok in the Soviet Union, U.S. President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed a Joint Communiqué pledging to limit both nations to an "agreed aggregate number" of nuclear missiles, with a specified number of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles (SNDVs), intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) fitted with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).{{cite news |author=((The Associated Press)) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/24/archives/accord-reached-on-arms-control-at-vladivostok.html |title=Accord Reached on Arms Control at Vladivostok |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 24, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-8 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite news |title=Text of the Nuclear Arms Agreement |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/text-of-the-nuclear-arms-agreement.html |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 14, columns 6-8 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite web |title=Arms Control Summits |url=http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/arms-control-summits.html |website=PSR.org |publisher=Physicians for Social Responsibility |access-date=25 January 2013}}
  • In the Grey Cup, the championship of the Canadian Football League, the Montreal Alouettes defeated the Edmonton Eskimos, 20 to 7, before 34,450 fans in Vancouver.{{cite news |title=Alouettes Win Grey Cup, 20 to 7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/alouettes-win-grey-cup-20-to-7-british-football.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 3 |access-date=27 March 2024}}
  • Born: Stephen Merchant, English actor and comedian; in Bristol{{cite web |title=Stephen Merchant |website=Chortle |access-date=23 March 2024 |url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/s/33386/stephen_merchant?review=33386&type=3}}
  • Died: Raymond Pace Alexander, 77, American civil rights leader, lawyer, and politician, first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |title=R. P. Alexander, 76, Philadelphia Judge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/25/archives/r-p-alexander-76-philadelphia-judge.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 25, 1974 |at=Page 34, column 5 |access-date=27 March 2024}}{{cite book |last=Mack |first=Kenneth W. |author-link=Kenneth W. Mack |year=2012 |title=Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-67404-687-0 |pages=45, 282 n.16}}

[[November 25]], 1974 (Monday)

  • The first "double heart" transplant on a human being was performed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, by Dr. Christiaan Barnard, introducing a new technique of supplementing a diseased heart with a donor heart that "takes the brunt of pumping the blood through the body" while "the blood still passes through the patient's original heart." The first recipient, Ivan Taylor, received the donor heart of a 10-year-old girl. Taylor survived for four and a half months, dying on April 5, 1975.{{cite news |title=Two-Heart Surgery Called Alive and Well— Barnard Sees Success of Double Operation Reviving Transplants |agency= Reuters|date=February 15, 1978 |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |at=Page I-A-5}}
  • Four days after the Birmingham pub bombings, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorist group carried out the placing of time bombs in and near letter dropboxes across London, each placed inside a pillar box. The first gelignite bomb exploded at a box at Caledonian Road at King's Cross. Ten minutes later, a bomb at the Piccadilly Circus road injured 16 people. Two days later, a larger bomb at a pillar box on Tite Street in Chelsea injured 20 people, including nine first responders.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxAfAgAAQBAJ&q=pillar+box+bomb+1974+%22tite+street%22&pg=PA58 |last=Moysey |first=Steven P. |title=The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London |location=New York and London |publisher=Routledge |year=2009 |orig-date=Originally published 2008 |isbn=978-0-7890-2912-6 |pages=58-60 |access-date=2 April 2024 |via=Google Books}}
  • In Canada, André Desjardins, leader of the Fédération des travailleurs du Québec labor union, stepped down after being questioned in detail about his ties to organized crime.{{cite book |last=Fournier |first=Louis |title=Louis Laberge: le syndicalisme, c'est ma vie |trans-title=Louis Laberge: trade unionism is my life |location=Montréal |publisher=Amérique |year=1992 |language=fr |page=418 |isbn=9782890375659}}
  • Born:
  • Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian television actor known for Jericho, who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis prior to his retirement; in Toronto (d. 2024){{cite news |title=Canadian actor Kenneth Mitchell, who continued working after ALS diagnosis, dead at 49 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-actor-mitchell-1.7125492 |first=Chris |last=Iorfida |date=26 February 2024 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=29 February 2024}}
  • Sarah Monette, American novelist who used the pen name Katherine Addison in writing The Goblin Emperor; in Oak Ridge, Tennessee{{cite magazine |url=https://locusmag.com/2015/09/sarah-monette-the-key-to-the-library/ |title=Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library |magazine=Locus |department=Interviews |date=20 September 2015 |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Died:
  • U Thant, 65, Burmese diplomat and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations, died of lung cancer.{{cite news |last=Whitman |first=Alden |author-link=Alden Whitman |title=U Thant Is Dead of Cancer at 65 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 6-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/26/archives/u-thant-is-dead-of-cancer-at-65-ut-thant-is-dead-of-cancer-united.html |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • Nick Drake, 26, British musician, died of an overdose of amitriptyline.{{cite news |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/last-10-days-singer-songwriter-nick-8153684 |last=Cole |first=Paul |title=The last 10 days of singer-songwriter Nick Drake's life are revealed in his father's heartbreaking diary |website=Birmingham Live |department=Arden |date=22 November 2014 |access-date=22 March 2024}}
  • Joseph F. Farley, 85, U.S. Coast Guard admiral, former Commandant of the Coast Guard, died of cancer.{{cite news |title=Adm. Joseph Farley, 85, Ex-Head of Coast Guard |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 29, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/29/archives/adm-joseph-farley-85-exhead-of-coast-guard.html |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • Rosemary Lane (stage name for Rosemary Mullican), 61, American actress and singer and one of the Lane Sisters, died of complications of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes.{{cite news |title=Rosemary Lane of Singing Lanes Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/27/archives/rosemary-lane-of-singing-lanes-dies-cast-as-betty-coed.html |agency=UPI |date=November 27, 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 2-4 |access-date=22 March 2024}}

[[November 26]], 1974 (Tuesday)

  • Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka announced his resignation after an invesigative committee of Japan's House of Representatives, the Diet, was preparing to call Aki Sato as a witness. Tanaka and Ms. Sato had been having a romantic relationship for many years. The announcement was made by Chief Cabinet Secretary (and future Prime Minister) Noboru Takeshita.{{cite news |last=Halloran |first=Richard |title=Tanaka Resigns, Citing 'Political Chaos' in Japan |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/26/archives/tanaka-resigns-citing-political-chaos-in-japan-solemnly-and.html |at=Page 3, columns 5-8 |access-date=28 March 2024}}{{cite news |last=Sterngold |first=James |title=Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Ex-Premier and Political Force in Japan, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/obituaries/kakuei-tanaka-75-ex-premier-and-political-force-in-japan-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=15 January 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 17, 1993}}
  • In West Germany, teams of agents from the GSG 9 special forces made simultaneous raids targeted at arresting suspected members of the Red Army Faction terror group.{{cite news |title=West German Police Conduct Sweep for Radicals |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/27/archives/west-german-police-conduct-sweep-for-radicals.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 27, 1974 |at=Page 8, columns 2-5 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • After 22 years, the government of France lifted a ban that it had placed against the distribution of The Watchtower, the magazine of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
  • Anneline Kriel was crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigned four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.{{cite news |title=Miss World Quits Crown After 4 Days |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |agency=UPI |date=November 27, 1974 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19741127&id=rlQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wVYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7240,5989735&hl=en |at=Page 15, columns 4-5 |access-date=2 April 2024 |via=Google News}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1974.htm |title=1974 |website=Pageantopolis |archive-date=8 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008191114/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1974.htm |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Born: Roman Šebrle, Czech Olympic champion decathlete; in Lanškroun, Czechoslovakia{{cite web |title=Roman Šebrle |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/86778 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=23 December 2023}}
  • Died:
  • Cyril Connolly CBE, 71, English literary critic and writer{{cite news |title=Cyril Connolly, Literary Critic, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 27, 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 1-3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/27/archives/cyril-connolly-literary-critic-is-dead-a-noted-wit.html |access-date=28 March 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30959/ |title=Oxford DNB article: Connolly, Cyril Vernon}}
  • Margaret Bradford Boni, 82, American music educator and folklorist{{cite news |title=Margaret Boni, 82, A Writer on Songs |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/27/archives/margaret-boni-82-a-writer-on-songs.html |date=November 27, 1974 |at=Page 40, column 5 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • James McGuire, 63, Scottish-born American soccer player and real estate executive, two-time president of the United States Soccer Federation{{cite news |title=James McGuire, Realty Leader At Cushman & Wakefield, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 28, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/james-mcguire-realty-leader-at-cushman-wakefield-dies.html |at=Page 36, columns 2-3 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • Charles Rumford Walker, 81, American historian, political scientist, novelist and Yale University official{{cite news |title=Charles Walker, Ex-Yale Official |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 28, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/charles-walker-exyale-official-council-head-and-curator-of-library.html |at=Page 36, columns 4-5 |access-date=28 March 2024}}

[[November 27]], 1974 (Wednesday)

  • In Punjab, India, about 100 people were injured in a clash between police and 6,000 student demonstrators.{{cite news |title=100 Hurt as Punjab Police Clash With 6,000 Students |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/100-hurt-as-punjab-police-clash-with-6000-students.html |date=November 28, 1974 |at=Page 47, column 1 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • In Moscow, plainclothes agents took Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Tverdokhlebov, the secretary of the Soviet branch of Amnesty International, into custody as he walked home with a friend from a movie. Agents also searched Tverdokhlebov's apartment.{{cite news |title=Tverdokhlebov, a Dissident, Seized on Moscow Street |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/tverdokhlebov-a-dissident-seized-on-moscow-street.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 28, 1974 |at=Page 15, column 1 |access-date=28 March 2024}} The following day, Tverdokhlebov would issue a statement about the search of his apartment and the confiscation of various items, concluding, "However, they have not yet taken away my fountain pen."A Chronicle of Current Events, 1978.
  • In one of the closest elections in the history of the United States Congress, a recount showed that Democrat John A. Durkin— initially declared to have lost the November 5 race for U.S. Senator for New Hampshire to Republican Louis C. Wyman by 355 votes (110,716 to 110,361){{cite news |newspaper=Nashua Telegraph |location=Nashua, New Hampshire |title=Wyman Wins By 355 Votes |date=November 9, 1974 |page=1}}— was found to have actually won the race by 10 votes (110,924 to 110,914).{{cite news |newspaper=The Courier-Journal |location=Louisville, Kentucky |title=10 votes decide Senate seat in New Hampshire |date=November 28, 1974 |page=A2}}{{cite news |title=G.O.P. Loses Senate Seat by 10 Votes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/gop-loses-senate-seat-by-10-votes-gop-senate-seat-lost-by-10-votes.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 28, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3 |access-date=28 March 2024}} Wyman filed an appeal to the state's Ballot Law Commission and on December 24, the second recount would show an even closer election.
  • At W. K. Kellogg Airport in Battle Creek, Michigan, five members of the U.S. Navy were killed in the crash of a Navy plane on a training mission from Pensacola, Florida.{{cite news |title=Five Killed in Michigan In Crash of a Navy Plane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/29/archives/five-killed-in-michigan-in-crash-of-a-navy-plane.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=November 29, 1974 |at=Page 50, columns 6-7 |access-date=29 March 2024}}
  • Born: Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Ireland-born British Olympic racing cyclist; in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland{{cite web |title=Wendy Houvenaghel |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/113145 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=28 December 2023}}
  • Died: Agnes de Lima, 87, American writer on education{{cite news |title=Agnes de Lima |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 28, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/28/archives/agnes-de-lima.html |at=Page 36, column 4 |access-date=28 March 2024}}

[[November 28]], 1974 (Thursday)

  • Brigadier General Tafari Benti became the new Head of State of Ethiopia after he was named as the Chairman of the Derg, the military council that had executed the prior leader.{{cite book |chapter=Ethiopia |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |editor-first=Harris M. |editor-last=Lentz |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2014}}
  • The 2,450 delegates to the 11th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party unanimously re-elected Nicolae Ceaușescu to a five-year term as Secretary General of the party.{{cite news |last=Browne |first=Malcolm W. |author-link=Malcolm Browne |title=Rumanian Communists Re-elect Ceausescu as Chief for 5 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/29/archives/rumanian-communists-reelect-ceausescu-as-chief-for-5-years.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 29, 1974 |at=Page 10, columns 1-2 |access-date=29 March 2024}}
  • Singer John Lennon gave his final live musical performance, appearing at New York's Madison Square Garden as the guest of Elton John. The two musicians appeared together to sing "I Saw Her Standing There".{{cite news |last=Rockwell |first=John |author-link=John Rockwell |title=Pop Music: Elton John at the Garden |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/pop-music-elton-john-at-the-garden-smooth-show-charms-capacity.html |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 20, columns 3-5 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite encyclopedia |first=Kenneth |last=Womack |author-link=Kenneth Womack |title="I Saw Her Standing There" (McCartney-Lennon) |encyclopedia=The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2014}} According to New York Times critic John Rockwell, "Not that the crowd hadn't given every indication of loving Mr. John and his music. But with Mr. Lennon, there was an electricity that sparked through the crowd long after Mr. Lennon had left the stage."
  • Died:
  • Robert Gaudino, 49, American political scientist, died of a neurological disease.{{cite news |title=Robert L. Gaudino |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/29/archives/robert-l-caudino.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 29, 1974 |at=Page 42, column 4 |access-date=29 March 2024}}{{cite web |last=Rosenblum |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Rosenblum |title=The Man Who Changed My Life Forever |url=https://www.rosenblumtv.com/2010/08/the-man-who-changed-my-life-forever/ |website=RosenblumTV |date=August 27, 2010 |access-date=29 March 2024}}
  • Konstantin Melnikov, 84, Soviet architect{{cite news |title=Melnikov Is Dead; Soviet Architect |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/05/archives/melnikoy-is-dead-soviet-architect-modernist-had-a-key-role-in.html |date=5 December 1974 |at=Page 50, column 3 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12384544k |title=Notice de personne "Mel'nikov, Konstantin Stepanovič (1890-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Melnikov, Konstantin Stepanovich (1890-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=28 December 2020 |access-date=29 March 2024}}

[[November 29]], 1974 (Friday)

  • The first Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act in the United Kingdom was given royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II, eight days after the Birmingham pub bombings, hours after the measure passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords.{{cite news |title=British Enact Laws To Outlaw the I.R.A. And Bolster Police |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/british-enactlaws-to-outlaw-the-ira-and-bolster-police.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 4, column 3 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite book |last=Bunyan |first=Tony |chapter=The Emergency Powers Acts |title=The Political Police in Britain |publisher=Quartet |year=1977 |pages=51-56}}, cited in {{cite news |title=Statewatch News online: The origins of Emergency Powers Acts in the UK |publisher=Statewatch |url=https://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/june/statewatch-news-online-the-origins-of-emergency-powers-acts-in-the-uk/ |date=28 March 2012 |orig-date=June 2003 |issn=1756-851X |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • The French National Assembly, after a 30-hour debate that included a speech by Simone Veil, voted 284 to 189 to pass a bill legalizing abortion in France. The French Senate would ratify the bill on December 1, "making France the first nation of Latin and Catholic background to legalize abortion."{{cite news |title=Assembly in France Backs Abortion Bill After Bitter Debate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/assembly-in-france-backs-abortion-bill-after-bitter-debate.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 63, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite magazine |title=Simone Veil: 20 Million Frenchwomen Won't Be Wronged |first=Claude |last=Servan-Schreiber |magazine=Ms. |date=February 1976}}, quoted in {{cite book |title=50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution |editor-first=Katherine |editor-last=Spillar |editor-link=Katherine Spillar |publisher=Knopf Doubleday |year=2023 |page=31}}
  • U.S. President Ford pardoned 8 men convicted of resistance to the Vietnam War and granted conditional clemency to 10 others. Most of the men had been in prison for refusal to enter military service.{{cite news |last=Madden |first=Richard L. |title=Ford Gives Full Pardons To 8 Convicted War Foes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/ford-gives-full-pardons-to-8-convicted-war-foes.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7; page 63, columns 7-8 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • The National Guard of El Salvador invaded the town of La Cayetanan, near Tecoluca in the San Vicente Department, then rounded up and executed six peasants who were members of the Federation of Christian Peasants of El Salvador (FECCAS), and arrested another 13 who were not seen again.{{cite book |first=William |last=Stanley |title=The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military Extortion, and Civil War in El Salvador |publisher=Temple University Press |year=2010 |pages=95-96}}
  • Born: Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer and translator; in Szentgotthárd{{cite web |title=Merkli Ferenc |url=https://www.martinus.hu/nev-es-cimtar/lelkipasztorok/5/merkli-ferenc |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Szombathely |language=hu |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Died:
  • General Peng Dehuai, 76, Chinese military leader, former Minister of National Defense for the People's Republic of China (1954 to 1959), died in a prison in Beijing, where he had been imprisoned during the 1966 Cultural Revolution.{{cite book |first=Jürgen |last=Domes |url=https://archive.org/details/pengtehuaimanan00dome |title=Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image |publisher=C. Hurst & Company |year=1985 |pages=122-124 |isbn=0905838998 |via=Internet Archive}}
  • James J. Braddock, 69, American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937,{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Joe |author-link=Joe Nichols (journalist) |title=Braddock, Who Beat Baer for Title, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/braddock-who-beat-baer-for-title-dies-diffident-demeanor.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=November 30, 1974 |at=Page 39, columns 7-8 |access-date=2 April 2024}}{{cite encyclopedia |author=((Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=James J. Braddock |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=16 February 2024 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-J-Braddock |access-date=2 April 2024}} later profiled in the 2005 biographical film Cinderella Man.{{cite web |title=Cinderella Man |website=BBFC |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/cinderella-man-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc00mdy1mdg |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • H. L. Hunt, 85, American ultraconservative oil tycoon and billionaire{{cite news |title=H. L. Hunt Dies in Texas at 85; Billionaire Was a Conservative |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/30/archives/h-l-hunt-dies-in-texas-at-85-billionaire-was-a-conservative.html |at=Page 1, columns 2-3; page 63, columns 1-5 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Ouida Bergère (born Eunie Branch), 87, American screenwriter and actress, widow of Basil Rathbone{{cite news |title=Ouida Bergere Rathbone Dies; Dramatist Was Actor's Widow |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/01/archives/ouida-bergere-rathbone-dies-dramatist-was-actors-widow.html |at=Page 83, columns 1-2 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Paul Frederick Brissenden, 89, American labor historian{{cite news |title=Paul F. Brissenden, Labor Mediator, 89 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/01/archives/paul-f-brissenden-labor-mediator-89.html |at=Page 83, column 1 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Sir Douglas Menzies KBE, 67, Justice of the High Court of Australia since 1958, died while attending a Bar Association dinner in Sydney.{{cite dictionary |first=John M. |last=Williams |title=Menzies, Sir Douglas Ian (1907–1974) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/menzies-sir-douglas-ian-11109/text19779 |year=2000 |access-date=2 April 2024}}

[[November 30]], 1974 (Saturday)

  • During a preliminary race for the following day's Macau Grand Prix, West German driver Dieter Glemser lost control of his car, which ran into the crowd, killing a child and injuring 6 other people.{{cite news |title=Macao Race Crash Kills 1 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=December 1, 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/01/archives/macao-race-crash-kills-1.html |at=Page 20, column 5 |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • Mathieu Kérékou, the President of the Republic of Dahomey since leading a coup d'etat in 1972, surprised the West African nation's citizens by announcing that Dahomey would become a "people's republic" guided by the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and allied with the Soviet Union.{{cite book |first=Victor T. |last=Le Vine |year=2004 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVlzpwjhGqgC&q=mathieu%20kerekou&pg=PA145 |title=Politics in Francophone Africa |page=145 |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers |location=Boulder, Colorado |isbn=9781588262493}} On the first anniversary of his speech, he renamed the country as the People's Republic of Benin.

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  • U.S. President Ford attended the 75th Army–Navy Game at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Navy defeated Army by a score of 19–0.{{cite news |last=White |first=Gordon S. Jr. |title=Navy Wins, 19-0, as Army Fails To Score for Second Year in Row |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1974 |at=Page 253, columns 5-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/01/archives/navy-wins-190-as-army-fails-to-score-for-second-year-in-row-scoring.html |access-date=2 April 2024}}
  • U.S. Representative Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, caused an embarrassing scene when he arrived, intoxicated, at The Pilgrim Theatre in Boston, and walked on the stage where his mistress, Fanne Foxe, was performing as a stripper. The scandal followed an October 7 incident where he and Foxe were stopped by police of the U.S. Park Service while he was drunk. Mills stepped down as the Ways and Means Committee Chairman days later and retired from Congress after choosing not to run for re-election in 1976.{{cite journal |title=Alcohol and Leadership |first=Hugh |last=L'Etang |journal=British Journal on Alcohol and Alcoholism |volume=15 |number=4 |pages=167–171}}
  • Born: Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer; in British Hong Kong{{cite web |url=https://www.hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=12177&display_set=eng |title=Wallace Chung Hon-Leung |website=Hong Kong Movie Database |language=en |access-date=2 April 2024}}

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