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.

* 1974 – At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.

Guitarist Al Di Meola, who started his career with Return to Forever in 1974, was one of the first guitarists to perform in a " shred " style, a technique later used in rock and heavy metal playing.

Dylan continued to collaborate with The Band over the course of their career, including a joint 1974 tour.

He retained many other records for almost a half century or more, including most career hits until 1985 ( 4, 189 or 4, 191, depending on source ), most career runs ( 2, 245 or 2, 246 depending on source ) until 2001, most career games played ( 3, 035 ) and at bats ( 11, 429 or 11, 434 depending on source ) until 1974, and the modern record for most career stolen bases ( 892 ) until 1977.

In 1974, he was re-elected in Rockford with the lowest percentage of his career.

The later years of his career were spent with the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1972 ), California Angels ( 1973 – 1974 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1974 – 1976 ).

Close started her professional stage career in 1974, and her film work in 1982.

In early 1974, Pertwee announced he would step down as the Doctor in order to resume his stage career in The Bedwinner, also citing typecasting in the role as the reason for leaving, though later he would say that the catalyst for his departure was the death of his good friend and co-star Roger Delgado and the departures of co-star Katy Manning and producer Barry Letts.

In a 1974 interview with BBC Radio, Haley said Turner's career was in a slump at this time, so he used his then-considerable influence with Orfeon to get Turner a recording session.

First sent to Vietnam ( 1929 ) at the end of his studies, he was disgusted by colonialism and returned to Paris to spend most of his career as a professor of agricultural sciences ( 1933 – 1974 ).

He first joined Yes in 1971 to replace Tony Kaye, and left the group in 1974 to work on his solo career.

On July 4 of that season, at Riverfront Stadium, Ryan recorded his 3, 000th career strikeout, the victim being César Gerónimo of the Cincinnati Reds ( Gerónimo had also been Bob Gibson's 3, 000th strikeout victim, in 1974 ).

In 1974 Mariska Veres left the group to start a solo career until 1982.

Throughout a varied career the club reached a pinnacle between 1974 and 1977, making it into top Polish league Ekstraklasa.

Jim Rice played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

Born in Alonsotegi, Biscay, Goikoetxea began his playing career as a youth with Arbuyo, before joining Athletic Bilbao in 1974.

After appearing in a series of films and telenovelas ( El Edificio de Enfrente in 1974 and Barata de Primavera in 1978, among others ) her career took off with Los ricos también lloran, playing a poor orphan, with Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells.

He began his career as the youngest radio presenter in the UK at the time, as the on air character " Deck Rider " on the Kenny Everett Radio Show on Capital Radio ( London ) in 1974.