It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

Mountbatten was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965 and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.

The first Australian-( and Victorian -) born Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Winneke ( appointed 1974 ).

It was in 1974 that a coup in Portugal resulted in the beginning of decolonization for Portuguese Timor, and shortly afterwards the Governor Mário Lemos Pires announced plans to grant the colony independence.

In 1974, Glenn resisted Ohio governor John J. Gilligan and the Ohio Democratic party's demand that he run for Lieutenant Governor.

He served as legal affairs secretary from 1967 – 1968 and as executive assistant and chief of staff to Governor Reagan from 1969 through 1974.

On August 20, 1974, after having previously considered Melvin R. Laird and George H. W. Bush, President Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him as Vice President.

Earl Warren ( March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974 ) was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1953-1969 ) and the 30th Governor of California.

Westmoreland ran unsuccessfully for Governor of South Carolina in 1974.

On April 10, 1974, Governor Milton J. Shapp signed their bill making the Pennsylvania Firefly their state's official insect.

He was re-elected in 1974 on a ticket with Governor Wendell Anderson.

One of the first acts of the new government in Lisbon was to appoint a new Governor for the colony on 18 November 1974, in the form of Mário Lemos Pires, who would ultimately be, as events were to prove, the last Governor of Portuguese Timor.

In 1974, Brown ran in a highly contested Democratic primary for Governor of California against Speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti, San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Representative Jerome R. Waldie, and others.

In the General Election on November 5, 1974, Brown was elected Governor of California over California State Controller Houston I. Flournoy ; Republicans ascribed the loss to anti-Republican feelings from Watergate, the election being held only ninety days after President Richard Nixon resigned from office.

* See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

The festival was conceived by Governor Evelio Javier, and first celebrated on January 11 – 13, 1974.

In 1974, he was the Democratic Party designee for Lieutenant Governor of New York but was defeated in the primary election by Mary Anne Krupsak.

In 1974, Cavanagh again ran for office, this time for Governor, but lost in the primary election to Democrat Sander Levin, who later lost in the general election to Republican William Milliken.

* Calixto Zaldivar – former representative, Lone District of Antique ( 1934 – 1935 ), former Governor of Antique ( 1951 – 1955 ) and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ( 1964 – 1974 ).

Each winner of the 1974 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

He ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1974 but beat incumbent Bob Straub in 1978, attracting 55 percent of the vote.

* Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota ( attended the college in 1974 )..

He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 1974, serving four terms from 1975 to 1991, through the terms of Governors George Busbee and Joe Frank Harris, making him the longest-serving lieutenant governor in Georgia history.

Rockefeller is related to several prominent Republican Party supporters and former officeholders: He is a great-grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island ( 1881 – 1911 ); a nephew of David Rockefeller, the Rockefeller patriarch ; Winthrop Rockefeller, 37th Governor of Arkansas ( 1967 – 71 ); and Nelson Rockefeller, 49th Governor of New York ( 1959 – 73 ) and 41st Vice President of the United States ( 1974 – 77 ); the son-in-law of Charles H. Percy, U. S. Senator from Illinois ; and a cousin of Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas ( 1996 – 2006 ).

In 1974, Askew was re-elected, with J. H. Williams ) as his running mate.

Outgoing Senator Gurney resigned on December 31, 1974 and Stone was officially appointed senator by Governor Reubin O ' Donovan Askew on January 1, 1975, two days before his term was scheduled to begin.

A prototype white helmet was developed for the team prior to the 1974 season but was never worn.

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.

In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.

Alfonso Leng ( 11 February 1894 – 11 November 1974 ) was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist.

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.

The best place the club were able to achieve during the decade was third in 1974 – 75.

A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.

The first anthroposophic bank was the Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1974.

Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent.

In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

; 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.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education.

Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.

Not until F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 did ex-Bletchley Park staff feel free to reveal something of their wartime work.

Ruth's lifetime record of 714 home runs stood until 1974 when it was surpassed by Hank Aaron.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

In 1974 the remainder of the Master Plan was canceled, leaving Boston with a severely overstressed expressway system.

Schwander died of natural causes in 1974, while Pera returned to the U. S. in 1975 and was put on probation.