Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1974 – Camilla Dallerup, British-Danish dancer, teacher, and model

* 1974 – Érica García, Argentinian-American composer, singer, and actress ( Fool's Gold )

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* 1974 – Jeff Tymoschuk, Canadian composer

* 1974 – Gina Yashere, English comedian

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Roman Hamrlík, Czech hockey player

* 1974 – Marley Shelton, American actor

* 1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer

* 1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer

* 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1974 – Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer

* 1974 – Ever Carradine, American actress

* 1974 – Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer

* 1974 – Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player

* 1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player

* 1974 – Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor and director

* 1974 – Matt Morris, American baseball player

* 1974 – Kirill Reznik, American politician

* 1974 – Nicola Stapleton, English actress

* 1974 – Sam Endicott, American singer-songwriter and director ( The Bravery )

Meanwhile in 1974 the Reg Grundy Organisation created its first soap opera, and significantly Australia's first teen soap opera, Class of ' 74.

* December 18 – Islamic Development Bank created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) ( effective 12 August 1974 ).

In Europe, several nations are organizing spotter networks under the auspices of Skywarn Europe and the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation ( TORRO ) has maintained a network of spotters in the United Kingdom since 1974.

* International Energy Agency established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in 1974

Following the recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan in 1974, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as an unanticiptable surprise, sent Shah Azizur Rahman, to lead a Bangladeshi delegation to the international meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC, now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) held in Lahore.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Class of ' 74 ( and later Class of ' 75 ) was a secondary school-based, daily soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and screened on the Seven Network in Australia starting March 1974.

He was leader of the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation from 1971 to 1974, and became a member of the central committee of the communist party in 1973.

The International Energy Agency ( IEA ; ) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.

In 1974, Nile was elected national co-ordinator and the New South Wales director of the Australian Federation of Festival of Light-Community Standards Organisation ( FOL-CSO ), an organisation which campaigned " for purity, love and family life ".

He strengthened ties with China and Saudi Arabia, recognised Bangladesh, and hosted the second Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Lahore in 1974.

Maxwell Reed ( 2 April 1919, Larne, Northern Ireland – 16 August 1974 ) was a British actor who became a matinee idol during the 1950s with the Rank Organisation in Britain.

& Jefferson, G. ( 1974 ) " A Simplest Systematics for the Organisation of Turn-Taking for Conversation ," in Language, 50: 696 – 735.

In 1974 the ELDO was merged with the European Space Research Organisation to form the European Space Agency.

He served with the Agricultural Land Service division of the Ministry of Agriculture ( 1949 – 1955 ), was Senior Land Agent for Nature Conservancy in Scotland ( 1955 – 1967 ), member of the Countryside Commission ( Scotland ; 1968 – 1971 ), Chairman of the Red Deer Commission 1969-75, President of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation ( 1973 – 1992 ), President of the Scottish Landowners ' Federation ( 1974 – 79 ), and a member of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland ( 1976 – 2012 ), Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society ( 1980 – 1983 ), the RSGS ( 1983 – 2012 ); Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives ( UK ) Ltd ( 1983 – 2012 ); Deputy Chairman of the Nature Conservancy Council ( 1980 – 1985 ); and Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Scotland ( 1980 – 85 ).

Originally Lahore Stadium, the facility was renamed in 1974 in honour of the former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi following a speech he gave at the 2nd Organisation of the Islamic Conference meeting in

After 1974 some of Veronica's staff set up the VOO ( a Dutch abbreviation for Veronica Broadcasting Organisation ) in the hopes of applying for a broadcasting licence.

The idea to start IUIU was conceived at the second summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1974.

* 1974 – 1976: Secretary, General Secretary of the European Organisation of the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions

In 1974 KKR ( ml ) renamed itself to the Communist Organisation of Rotterdam and Surroundings ( marxist-leninist ) ( Kommunistische Organisatie Rotterdam en Omstreken ( marxistisch-leninistisch ), abbreviated KORO ( ml )).