In 1974, the Mego company released two Riddler figures ; one was 8 " tall with a cloth outfit for the World's Greatest Superheroes line of toys ( this figure was in production until 1979 ), the other was a smaller figure which was molded rubber over wire for the Bend ' n Flex line.

In 1975 and 1976, Mego also released the 8 " tall Fist Fighting Riddler which was basically the same as the 1974 figure except it had a mechanism which allowed a child move a lever on the figure's back to make the arms swing.

Also, development of the Torana continued in with the larger mid-sized LH series released in 1974, offered only as a four-door sedan.

As part of the continuing investigation in 1974 – 75, Watergate scandal prosecutors offered companies that had given illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign lenient sentences if they came forward.

In October 1974, Harold Wilson offered Smith the post of Solicitor General for Scotland.

The US Army in the summer of 1974 faced the choice between the German system and their own Burlington, a decision made more difficult by the fact that Burlington offered, compared with steel armour, no weight advantage against KE-penetrators: the total armour system would have a RHA equivalence against them of about 350 mm ( compared to about 700 mm against shaped charges ).

The TD Cortina, released October 1974, was offered in L, XL and XLE trim levels and could be identified by its plastic grille.

These innovations began with the Motorola Pageboy, a simple " pager " or " beeper " introduced in 1974 that was generally offered in conjunction with answering services that handled busy / no-answer overloads and after hours calls for businesses and professionals.

He claims to be afraid of heights, once remarking to an FAA investigator who offered him a job, " I don't even like being this tall " (" Swan Song ", 1974 ).

They were first offered in 1974 as direct substitutes for Kroeber's earlier designations based upon the names of local Spanish missions.

The 400 was the biggest engine Plymouth offered with the four-speed, which could also be had with the 340 ( 1973 ) and 360 ( 1974 ) engines.

Bill Kovach, The New York Times Washington, DC bureau chief at the time, said in 2005 that the government offered a convincing argument to delay publication in early 1974 — exposure at that time, while the project was ongoing, " would have caused an international incident.

In December 1974 Cairns offered Morosi a position as his Principal Private Secretary, a job traditionally held by a senior public servant.

Meanwhile, Brian Keith kept in touch with her through letters and offered Jones a young-adult role on The Brian Keith Show ( 1972 – 1974 ).

Other hatchbacks which conformed to the new hatchback format included the 1978 Chrysler / Talbot Sunbeam Ti with and brisker acceleration than the Golf and followed a year later by the 2. 2 litre Talbot Lotus Sunbeam offered a then astonishing and a 0-60 mph time of around 6. 8 seconds ,, Peugeot 104 ZS and Simca 1100 TI ( 1974 ).

The Datsun 510 was a series of the Datsun Bluebird sold from 1968 to 1974, and offered outside the U. S. and Canada as the Datsun 1600.

In 1974, after his brother Leslie was badly burned in a fuel tank explosion on the farm, he offered to give him skin for grafts.

In 1974 he offered a marching song " Whip Inflation Now " to the Ford Administration, but it was not used.

After the Estado Novo regime which ruled Portugal and its overseas territories fell in the " Carnation Revolution " military coup of 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, independence was offered to all the territories abroad, including to Angola.

In September 1974, President Gerald R. Ford offered an amnesty program for draft dodgers that required them to work in alternative service occupations for periods of six to 24 months.

In 1974 the Co-operative Bank offered free banking for personal customers who remained in credit.

Here's Lucy was not offered in syndication when the series ended in 1974 because the other two Lucy series were hits and it was felt that this show might undermine the success of the other two shows or the fact those shows were so successful that this show would not fare as well.

Initial models were only offered in Mimosa yellow although further colours were available from 1974.

Boe served as the Guinea-Bissau de facto capital until 1974, when Portugal offered independence to Portuguese Guinea after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, and Bissau was declared the national capital of the newly-independent country.

In 1974, the University of Pittsburgh offered Filmmakers a space in an empty building at 205 Oakland Avenue.

The last Solomonic monarch to rule Ethiopia was Amha Selassie, who was offered the throne by the Derg after his father Haile Selassie's deposition September 12, 1974.

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 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

* 1974 – Western Union ( in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft ) launches the United States ' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7

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

* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia

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

* 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.

Since the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.

The first reforms were implemented in three rounds – 1974 – 1983, 1985, and 1990.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

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.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In 1974, Mike Marshall won the award, becoming the first relief pitcher to win the award.

Fairchild's effort, led by ex-Bell researcher Gil Amelio, was the first with commercial devices, and by 1974 had a linear 500-element device and a 2-D 100 x 100 pixel device.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

The first Soviet-made pocket-sized calculator, the " Elektronika B3-04 " was developed by the end of 1973 and sold at the beginning of 1974.

The first programmable pocket calculator was the HP-65, in 1974 ; it had a capacity of 100 instructions, and could store and retrieve programs with a built-in magnetic card reader.

The first paper by Puthoff and Targ on psychic research to appear in a mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journal was published in Nature in March 1974 ; in it, the team reported some degree of remote viewing success.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.

Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of The Jackson 5's " Never Can Say Goodbye " and two other songs, " Honey Bee " and " Reach Out ( I'll Be There )".

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.