Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

A US national tour began on February 26, 1974 at the Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, and ended on February 13, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

Overtime for regular season games in the NFL began with the 1974 season.

In 1974, it began a method of evangelism called Flirty Fishing, using sex to " show God's love " and win converts.

In 1974 Mountbatten began corresponding with Charles about a potential marriage to his granddaughter, Hon.

A 936 km railroad construction program, the Trans-Gabon Railway, began in October 1974.

Following the coup d ' état in Portugal in 1974, the new left-wing revolutionary government of Portugal began to negotiate with the PAIGC and decided to offer independence to all the overseas territories.

Coleman's career began in 1974 when he appeared in a commercial for Harris Bank.

The government began an intensive forestry development program in 1974, supposedly intended to increase management of the sector and to prevent exploitation by foreign-owned firms.

Botham began his first-class career in 1974 with Somerset.

The restructuring of the industry and increasing government ownership in Arbed ( 31 %) began as early as 1974.

Exports to the West began in 1974 ; under the original agreement with Fiat, the car could not be sold in competition with the 124 until its replacement ( the Fiat 131 Mirafiori ) had been released and all Fiat production of the 124 had ceased.

In 1974, an updated garage rock scene began to coalesce around the newly opened Rathskeller club in Kenmore Square.

In early 1974, a new scene began to develop around the CBGB club, also in lower Manhattan.

After 1974, the Red Brigades expanded into Rome, Genoa, and Venice, their numbers grew drastically and began to diversify in its criminal ventures.

Construction began on Enterprise on June 4, 1974.

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

The first season began airing in Japan on October 6, 1974.

In 1974, the Rangers began to come into their own as a team.

Having served his difficult apprenticeship in the puritanical atmosphere of the Australian universities, in 1974 the Wizard migrated to Christchurch in New Zealand and began to speak on a ladder in Cathedral Square.

UCSD p-System began around 1974 as the idea of UCSD's Kenneth Bowles, who believed that the number of new computing platforms coming out at the time would make it difficult for new programming languages to gain acceptance.

The 1974 Constitution would become resented by Serbs and began a gradual escalation of ethnic tensions.

The Local Government Act 1974 began the process of bringing urban, mixed, and rural councils into the same legislative framework.

In 1974, Barbara Mullen played Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage at the Savoy Theatre, London.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

( Hume 1974: 322 ) In explaining how matters of fact are entirely a product of experience, he dismisses the notion that they may be arrived at through a priori reasoning.

* 1974 – A Belgrade – Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

* 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.

His name at birth was Ahmed Shah ; he took the name " Massoud " as a nom de guerre when he went into the resistance movement in 1974.

A full version was presented at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1974, with Gilbert Price as Jimmy and Stephanie Cotsirilos as Jenny.

* 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, and closed on August 3, 1974 after 601 performances and 12 previews.

But the CFSD failed to gain nationwide support, and Taverne lost the seat at the October 1974 General Election.

A native of Britain, Hilton arrived in the U. S. in 1969 joining the faculty of the Juilliard School in 1972 and establishing her own baroque dance workshop at Stanford University in 1974 which endured for more than 25 years.

* The Devil's Triangle, ( 1974 ), Richard Winer ( ISBN 0553106880 ); this particular book sold well over a million copies by the end of its first year ; to date there have been at least 17 printings.

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Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.

In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

From 1960 to 1993, the Indians managed one third-place finish ( in 1968 ) and six fourth-place finishes ( in 1960, 1974 to 1976, 1990, and 1992 ) but spent the rest of the time at or near the bottom of the standings.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975.