Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the Staines Urban District was abolished and its area combined with that of the former Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District to form the present-day borough of Spelthorne.

In the 80 years prior to 1974, the town had fallen within Shepton Mallet Urban District.

The National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 is a United States federal law that extended the Urban Mass Transportation Act to cover operating costs as well as construction costs.

* 1974 – Housing and Urban Development Act,

* The Urban Land Tribute ( 1974 )

On January 1, 1974, Fayette County merged its government with that of its county seat of Lexington, creating a consolidated city-county governed by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.

The Town Council was formed in 1974 as a third-tier successor to the Urban District Council and has a mayor and 16 councillors elected for four wards.

The present-day borough of Thurrock was created in 1974 from the former area of Thurrock Urban District.

In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the former area of Beverley borough was merged with Beverley Rural District and Haltemprice Urban District to form an enlarged Beverley borough in the county of Humberside.

In 1974 the West Riding of Yorkshire was replaced by the new metropolitan county of West Yorkshire and the Bingley Urban District Council was dissolved.

It was the seat of the Mid-Wharfedale Urban District council until local council reorganisation in 1974 and since then it is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Baildon Urban District Council was established in 1895 and was disbanded when Bradford Metropolitan District Council was established in 1974.

The reorganization of the local governments in 1974 replaced the Urban District Council with the present two-tier system of Cotswold District Council and Cirencester Town Council.

* Project Director, The Urban Institute, August 1972 – July 1974

On 1 April 1974, Nuneaton's council was merged with the neighbouring Bedworth Urban District to form a new district council, originally named just " Nuneaton ".

Until 1974 East Grinstead was the centre for local government-East Grinstead Urban District Council-and was located in the county of East Sussex.

In 1928 Bedworth was incorporated as an urban district in its own right In 1974 the Bedworth Urban District was merged with the borough of Nuneaton to create the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth.

Until 1974, Wantage had two local government councils: Wantage Rural District, which had its headquarters in Belmont, Wantage and Wantage Urban District, which had its headquarters in Portway.

Having previously been part of Street Urban District, the village now falls within the non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

From 1884 the town was administered by the Chesham Local Government District, which was succeeded in 1894 by Chesham Urban District under the Local Government Act 1894. Chesham Town crest When the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect on 1 April 1974 the urban district was abolished in favour of the Chiltern district and the civil parish was given town council status.

Chepstow Urban District Council was abolished in 1974, when many of its functions were taken over by the new Monmouth District Council.

Hoddesdon Urban District was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, when it merged with Cheshunt Urban District to become the Borough of Broxbourne.

Here that agent is the Defendant Patrick ( District Court of the United States 1974: 79 ; New York Times 1974 ).

In 1974 St Albans City Council, St Albans Rural District Council and Harpenden Town Council were merged to form St Albans District Council ( part of a much wider local government reorganisation ).

* 1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi ' an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

In 1974 that Corporation was abolished, and the town became part of the much larger Monmouth District ( becoming Monmouth Borough in 1988 ), which until 1996 formed one of the five districts of Gwent.

Conant, Compton, and Urey to Brigadier General L. R. Groves, Manhattan District, Oak Ridge, Tennessee ; declassified June 5, 1974.

The city's boundaries have changed at various times since 1835 the final time being in 1974 when under the Local Government Act 1972 the city and county borough merged with the Border Rural District to become the new enlarged City of Carlisle, a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria.

On April 15, 1974, she was photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank at 1450 Noriega Street in San Francisco.

From 1894 to 1974 the parish was in the Camelford Rural District.

Traditionally in Huntingdonshire, it gave its name to a hundred and, from 1894 to 1974, Norman Cross Rural District.

Under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 the borough was reformed, Beccles retaining municipal borough status until the reorganisation of local government in 1974, when it was merged with surrounding authorities to become Waveney District.

( Civil No. C-74-329 ): U. S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, 1974.

The heart of the university has been designated a National Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

The former Hamilton Air Force Base is also located in Novato, but was decommissioned in 1974 and designated a Historic District in 1998.

In June, 1973 a referendum was passed and the Sauk Village Library District was formed in 1974.

The grade school was remodeled in 1949 and 1974, but when Reddick joined the Herscher School District in 1988, the grade school was torn down.

Shah Alam was opened in 1963 with the purpose of making it the administrative centre of Selangor once Kuala Lumpur was made a Federal District on 1 February 1974.

Until 1974, this was a status that denoted towns with a certain type of local government ( a municipal corporation ).

Its territory, a result of the Turkish invasion of 1974 and whose status remains disputed, extends over the northern third of the island.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

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.

However, in August 1974, Spain formally acknowledged the 1966 United Nations ( UN ) resolution calling for a referendum on the future status of Western Sahara and requested that a plebiscite be conducted under UN supervision.

Part of the reserve was given National Reserve status in 1974, and the remaining area of was returned to local communities.

* 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.

It is recognized as the " sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people " by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed observer status at the United Nations since 1974.

The status of Kosovo was now greater than it had been between 1974 and 1990 when it was at its strongest ; the province followed Montenegro in rejecting the Yugoslav / Serbian Dinar in place of the international currencies, and went even further: Kosovo's parliament created new car registration plates for its citizens, unlike Montenegro which continues to use the old FRY type licence plates two years after independence.

Morton was relegated to backup status until he left the team in 1974 to join the New York Giants.

* Location and status of boundary with Saudi Arabia is not final, de facto boundary reflects 1974 agreement ; no defined boundary with most of Oman, but Administrative Line in far north ;

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

The borough was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974, and the status of " royal town " was granted to the community which succeeded it.

In 1974 it lost its status as the smallest county borough in England, after the Local Government Act 1972, and came under the control of Kent County Council.

* Durham and Framwelgate, a former local government district, which held city status until 1974

In 1974, the Ellice Islanders voted for separate British dependency status as Tuvalu, separating from the Gilbert Islands which became Kiribati upon independence.

The former County Borough of Carlisle had held city status until the Local Government Act 1972 was enacted in 1974.

He received the International Master title in 1971, and in 1974 attained Grandmaster status, making him the Netherlands ' third after Max Euwe and Jan Hein Donner.

This meant that the various local authorities that held city status ceased to exist on 1 April 1974.

Since local government reorganisation in 1974 city status has been awarded to a number of local government districts which are not themselves towns.

This process was followed by a number of cities since 1974, and York and Hereford's status was confirmed twice, in 1974 and again in the 1990s.

In 1974 the Ellice Islanders voted for separate British dependency status as Tuvalu, separating from the Gilbert Islands which became Kiribati upon independence.

In 1974, the school gained university status to become Idaho's third state university.