In Scotland, Boxing Day has been specified as an additional bank holiday since 1974, by Royal Proclamation under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.

The 1974 Australian America's Cup Challenger was named " Southern Cross " KA 4 representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club and was defeated 4-0 sailing off Newport Rhode Island by " Courageous " US26 sailing for the New York Yacht Club.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

* HNoMS Haakon VII ( A537 ), a Royal Norwegian Navy training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974

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

Lovelock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974.

In 1974, The Royal Nepalese Army ( RNA ) was mobilized to disarm the Tibetan Khampas who had been using Nepalese soil to engage gureilla war against the invading the Chinese forces.

This policy ( the most restrictive in Australia ) had a long historical basis, and was reaffirmed by the 1974 Royal Commission into Gambling:

The British Royal Navy initiated Operation Rheostat and Task Group 65. 2 provided the RN Minehunters, HMS Maxton, HMS Bossington, HMS Wilton and HMS Abdiel, a Practice Minelayer / MCMV Support Ship which spent two periods of 6 months in 1974 and in 1975 based at Ismailia.

Three Royal Commissions have examined, among other things, ASIS and its operations: in 1974 and 1983 ( the Hope Royal Commissions ), and in 1994 ( the Samuels and Codd Royal Commission ).

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 Royal Institution ’ s 1974 – 75 Christmas Lecture Professor Eric Laithwaite

She is also the subject of Betty King's 1974 biographical novel Margaret of Anjou, Alan Savage's 1994 novel Queen of Lions, Anne Powers ' historical romance The Royal Consorts, and Susan Higginbotham's 2011 novel The Queen of Last Hopes.

The status of Royal Borough was granted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963, which was converted into the title of Royal Town in 1974.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974.

On 18 January 1974, Wakeman performed Journey to the Centre of the Earth, a forty-minute piece based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name, at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Two Royal Norwegian Navy ships – King Haakon VII, an escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951, and Haakon VII, a training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974 — have been named after King Haakon VII.

* Antony & Cleopatra, 1974, a television production of Trevor Nunn's stage version performed by London's Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 1974, Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco alternated the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke in a production from John Barton at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: thirty years later this was still a standard by which performances were being judged.

*** Her Royal Highness Princess Haya bint Hussein ( born 1974 ).

The system entered service in 1971 with the British Army, and 1974 with the Royal Air Force Regiment.

* D. George Wyse ( MD 1974 ), cardiologist, professor emeritus of the university's Faculty of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, researcher on cardiac dysrhythmia, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

* Tricomi, Albert H. " The Aesthetics of Mutilation in Titus Andronicus ", Shakespeare Survey, 27 ( 1974 ), 11 – 19

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

A 1974 revival by the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut featured Elizabeth Ashley, Keir Dullea, Fred Gwynne, Kate Reid, and Charles Siebert.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

* Addenbrooke, David: The Royal Shakespeare Company: The Peter Hall Years, William Kimber ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-7183-0103-X

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

" The Date of 2, 3 Henry VI ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 25: 3 ( Autumn, 1974 ), 323 – 334

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

" The Date of 2, 3 Henry VI ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 25: 3 ( Autumn, 1974 ), 323 – 334

In the 1960s and 1970s, he produced or directed several works at Covent Garden and elsewhere including the Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations in 1974.

Norman Sanders ( 1968 ), for example, suggests 1590 – 1594 ; Clifford Leech ( 1969 ) argues for 1591 ; The Riverside Shakespeare ( 1974 and 1996 ) places the date at 1590 – 1593 ; The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( 1986 and 2005 ) suggests 1589 – 1591 ; Kurt Schlueter ( 1990 ) posits 1593 ; The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare ( 1997 and 2008 ) suggests 1591 ; Mary Beth Rose ( 2000 ) suggests 1590 ; William C. Carroll ( 2004 ) posits 1590 – 1593 ; Roger Warren ( 2008 ) tentatively suggests 1587, but acknowledges 1590 / 1591 as more likely.

) The Riverside Shakespeare ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1997 )

There are five major scholarly editions of the Complete Works of Shakespeare: The Riverside Shakespeare ( G. Blakemore Evans, 1974 ; 2nd edn., 1996 ), The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works ( Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery, 1986 ; 2nd edn., 2005 ), The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition ( Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard and Katharine Eisaman Haus, 1997 ; 2nd edn., 2008 ), The Arden Shakespeare: Complete Works ( Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson and David Scott Kastan, 1998 ; 2nd edn.

Wain was also a prolific poet and critic, with critical works on fellow Midlands writers Arnold Bennett, Samuel Johnson ( for which he was awarded the 1974 James Tait Black Memorial Prize ), and William Shakespeare.

In 1974, the Hudson's Bay Company Archives were transferred from London to their Canadian office in Winnipeg.

In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3rd Marine Division at MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, where he served as the commander of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, until December 1975.

* Malcolm Muggeridge, The Infernal Grove: Chronicles of Wasted Time: Number 2, 1974, published by William Morrow & Company, New York.

* Leland, Conley Barrows Général Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974, XXI-t. 1, pp. 1 – 519 ; t. 2, pages 520 – 976, ( thèse )

W. W. Norton & Company: 1974.

Betty Grissom co-wrote a memoir with Henry Still, titled Starfall ( New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974.

In 1974, the Magnavox Company was acquired by Philips, and all Philips consumer electronics in the US under the Norelco name began rebranding them under the Magnavox name ; Philips acquired the similar-sounding company Philco in 1981, and Philips was able to freely use the Philips name, alternating with the Magnavox name for some electronics, with the personal care business continuing to use the Norelco name.

It was the headquarters of the Miller-Chicago Electric Company from 1974 to 1999, which at the time when it was broken up.

The Directors Company subsequently produced only two more pictures, Coppola's The Conversation ( 1974 ), which was nominated for Best Picture in 1974 alongside The Godfather, Part II, and Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller, which had a lackluster critical reception.

* 1972 Aldwych Theatre, Timothy Dalton as Henry ( Prospect Theatre Company ), also in 1974 in Roundhouse Theatre

* Twenty Against the Underworld ( 1974 ) Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY

Bad Company's first album Bad Company released in 1974 is another example that also contained a track that was a Rock Radio favourite of the same name, " Bad Company ".

* Leatherdale, W. H., The Role of Analogy, Model and Metaphor in Science, North-Holland Publishing Company, ( Amsterdam ), 1974.

The very first scanning of the now ubiquitous Universal Product Code ( UPC ) barcode was on a pack of Wrigley Company chewing gum in June 1974.

" Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the second volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in March, 1974.

The board of directors decided to diversify the foundation's portfolio and gradually divested itself of its substantial Ford Motor Company stock between 1956 and 1974.

The Marketeer has been published by George Moses Company since 1974.

* Louis Comtet, Advanced Combinatorics: The Art of Finite and Infinite Expansions, Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland / Boston-U. S. A., 1974.

* Joe Senser, a former NFL star tight-end for the Minnesota Vikings, currently on the board of the Hershey Trust Company and Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company, graduated from the school in 1974.

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

When the New York Telephone Company started its Dial-a-Joke line in 1974, over three million people called in one month to hear 30 seconds of Youngman's material — the most ever for a comedian.