Although the system established by the Sitges agreement was phased out by 1974, the 1886 Colombian constitution — in effect until 1991 — required that the losing political party be given adequate and equitable participation in the government which, according to many observers and later analysis, eventually resulted in some increase in corruption and legal relaxation.

1974 — Albert Henry is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

This Swedish quartet — with such hits as " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Take a Chance on Me " ( 1978 ), and their signature smash " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 )— ranks as the eighth best-selling act of all time.

This time, IBM submitted a candidate which was deemed acceptable — a cipher developed during the period 1973 – 1974 based on an earlier algorithm, Horst Feistel's Lucifer cipher.

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.

Posthumously, two albums of demo recordings from 1974 to 1977 — Hardcore Devo: Volume One ( 1990 ) and Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ( 1991 )— were released on Rykodisc, as well as an album of early live recordings, DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

The Honduran Corporation for Forestry Development ( Corporación Hondureña de Desarrollo Forestal — Cohdefor ) was created in 1974, but it quickly developed into a corrupt monopoly for overseeing forest exports.

* 1974 — Alvin M. Weinberg ( Director, Office of Research and Development, Federal Energy Office )

" Though Barth, in a 1974 interview, stated, " irrealism — not antirealism or unrealism, but irrealism — is all that I would confidently predict is likely to characterize the prose fiction of the 1970s ," this did not prove to be the case.

He designed two additions to the building — Cullinan Hall, completed in 1958, and the Brown Pavilion, completed in 1974.

* July 1974 — A meeting with Pakistan over the Duran Line.

A conservative foreign policy has meant that under Niger's first president and — following military coup — the 1974 – 1991 military government, Niger maintained good relations with the United States, Israel, and NATO governments in general.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

* Neil Peart — drums, percussion ( July 1974 – present )

* John Rutsey — drums, percussion, backing vocals ( August 1968 – July 1974 ; died 2008 )

in Mathematics from the University of Rochester ( 1974 ), and a masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, a masters degree in Nuclear Engineering, and a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering — all from the University of Washington.

In 1974, Kurzweil started the company Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. and led development of the first omni-font optical character recognition system — a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font.

* 1974: " Rock and Roll Heaven " — # 3 U. S.

* 1974: " Give It to the People " — # 20 U. S.

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife, Brenda Gee ( the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee ), with whom he had a daughter, Kelley King, in 1972, and a son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., in 1974.

In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was made, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force.

* 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U. S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ) was made by Robert Bresson.

John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews ( 1974 ).

* Robert Hardy in the 1974 television production The Gathering Storm

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Robert Evans quit as head of production in 1974 ; his successor, Richard Sylbert, proved to be too literary and too tasteful for Gulf + Western's Bluhdorn.

In May 1974, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed the second New York Dolls album, Too Much Too Soon.

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

* The Chocolate War ( 1974 ) by Robert Cormier

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

In 1974, Robert Bjork and William B. Whitten presented subjects with word pairs to be remembered ; however, before and after each word pair, subjects had to do a simple multiplication task for 12 seconds.

The first retrovirus infecting humans was identified by Robert Gallo in 1974.

Until recently, as of 2005 the x86 architecture did not meet the Popek and Goldberg requirements-a specification for virtualization created in 1974 by Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg.

On 21 August 1974, the Whitlam Government appointed Justice Robert Hope to conduct a Royal Commission into the structure of security and intelligence services, the nature and scope of the intelligence required and the machinery for ministerial control, direction and coordination of the security services.

The Bill of Rights was also invoked in New Zealand in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v. Muldoon and Others, which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that he would advise the Governor-General to abolish a superannuation scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act, 1974, without new legislation.

Robert Peter " Robbie " Williams ( born 13 February 1974 ) is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor.