He held the world number 1 ranking for the entire year and joined Jimmy Connors ( 1974 – 1978 ) as the only male players to hold the year-end world number 1 ranking for five consecutive years.

In 1974, Connors was by far the most dominant player.

Connors reached the final of the US Open in five straight years from 1974 through 1978, winning three times with each win being on a different surface ( 1974 on grass, 1976 on clay and 1978 on hard ).

During his best years of 1974 through 1978, Connors was challenged the most by Borg, with twelve matches on tour during that time frame.

Nastase was another rival in Connors ' prime, with Connors winning five of their eight meetings from 1974 through 1978.

Interestingly, they only met once in 1974, which was Connors ' best year.

Connors played Newcombe in only two tour events from 1974 to 1978, with Newcombe winning the 1975 Australian Open and Connors taking the 1978 Sydney Indoor.

In 1974, Connors and Riordan began filing lawsuits, amounting to $ 10 million, against the ATP and its president, Arthur Ashe, for allegedly restricting his freedom in the game.

The lawsuits stemmed from the French Open banning Connors in 1974 after he had signed a contract to play World Team Tennis ( WTT ) for the Baltimore Banners.

Connors was seeking to enter the French Open, but the ATP and French officials opposed WTT because of scheduling conflicts, so the entries of WTT players were refused between 1974 and 1978.

Connors also irritated sponsors and tennis officials by shunning the end-of-year Masters championship from 1974 through 1976.

Connors was also the first male tennis player to win Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces: grass ( 1974 ), clay ( 1976 ), and hard ( 1978 ).

Evert's romance with the top men's player Jimmy Connors captured the public's imagination in the 1970s, particularly after they both captured the singles titles at Wimbledon in 1974.

) In 1974 Al Di Meola joined the band, replacing Connors.

Dent's high water mark as a pro singles player was reaching the Australian Open final in 1974, which he lost to Jimmy Connors 7 – 6, 6 – 4, 4 – 6, 6 – 3.

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

( 2009, p. 189 ) Bliss complaints about his symbols “ being abused ” by the OCCC became so intense that the director of the OCCC told Bliss, on his 1974 visit, never to come back.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

In 1974, SLON became I. S. K. R. A.

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.

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

LeBlanc retired in 1974 and was replaced by Patrick John who became the islands ' first Prime Minister.

It remained a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged into the South Hams district, and became a successor parish of Dartmouth with a town council.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Stover's Black Oracle partner Bill George published his own short-lived zine The Late Show ( 1974 – 1976 ; with co-editor Martin Falck ), and later became editor of the Cinefantastique prozine spinoff Femme Fatales.

On 7 February 1974 Grenada became a fully independent state.

As his brother Amílcar Cabral had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

In 1946 the colony of Guadeloupe became an overseas department of France, and in 1974 it became an administrative center.

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.

She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and became Norway's first, and to date only, female Prime Minister.

The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.

After serving in several party offices, he was appointed Minister of the Interior by Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party was in coalition with the FDP, in 1969 ; in 1974, he became foreign minister and Vice Chancellor.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

Cosby became the company's pudding spokesperson in 1974, and continued to serve as the voice of Jell-O for almost thirty years.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

* 1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins ; 140, 000 to 200, 000 Greek Cypriots become refugees.

* 1974 – The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history ( after the April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak ).

The 1974 Protocol reduced the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site.

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.

A second request was issued on 27 August 1974.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

In 1964 he created OU, one of the most notable reviews of the second half of the 20th century, and he ran it until 1974.

The Intel 8080 was the second 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Intel and was released in April 1974.

In 1974, he came in second on his first attempt at the Mr. Olympia competition.

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

Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson conducted much of his research into reincarnation during the 1970s, and the second edition of his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation was published in 1974.

The first time was in 1969 after Charles de Gaulle's resignation and a second time in 1974 after Georges Pompidou's death.

Lawson discovered a second site of the same age, about forty kilometers from the first, where between 1972 and 1974 he and Professor Wann Langston Jr. of the Texas Memorial Museum unearthed three fragmentary skeletons of much smaller individuals.

In every French presidential election since 1974, voter turnout actually increases in the second round.

When Labour returned to power in early 1974, Jenkins was appointed Home Secretary for the second time.

In 1974 the band added a second guitarist, Richard Lloyd, and changed their name to Television.

This was also only the second of 16 Super Bowls to not take place in one of the three so-called " Big Super Bowl Cities " ( the other was Houston in 1974 ).

Barry Switzer became the second head coach, after former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, to win a college football national championship ( University of Oklahoma 1974, 1975, 1985 ) and a Super Bowl title.

This was only the second general election since World War II to return a hung parliament, the first being the February 1974 election.

A second wave of glam rock acts, including Suzi Quatro, Roy Wood's Wizzard and Sparks, dominated the British single charts from about 1974 to 1976.

The group's second LP, Queen II, was released in 1974, and features rock photographer Mick Rock's iconic image of the band on the cover.

His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings ( 1964 ) and High Windows ( 1974 ).