Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

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

A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, and closed on August 3, 1974 after 601 performances and 12 previews.

In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

Negotiations continued in the years after 1974 with varying degrees of regularity and success, but none resulted in a full reunification.

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.

His personal library, purchased after his death, eventually came to the University of Glasgow, where a commemorative exhibition of books from his library was held in 1974.

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.

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

In the 1974 case of Kathy Crampton, whose abduction and deprogramming were televised nationally, she went back to the Love Family group several days after the apparently successful deprogramming.

The war continued after Haile Sellassie was ousted in a coup in 1974.

Although nominally a member of the Non-Aligned Movement, after the 1974 revolution, Ethiopia moved into a close relationship with the Soviet Union and its allies and supported their international policies and positions until the change of government in 1991.

This situation changed after 1974 when the Film-Fernseh-Abkommen ( Film and Television Accord ) was agreed between the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board ( a government body created in 1968 to support film-making in Germany ).

The original screenplay that Yukiko Takayama created after winning Toho's story contest for the next establishment in the Godzilla series, which was picked by assistant producer Kenji Tokoro and was submitted for approval on July 1st, 1974, less than four months after Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla ( 1974 ) was released.

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.

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 and, after a two-week pause, from 1982 to 1992, making him Germany's longest serving Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor.

In the SPD-FDP coalition, he helped shape Brandt's policy of deescalation with the communist East, commonly known as Ostpolitik, which was continued under Helmut Schmidt after Brandt's resignation in 1974.

A strong political alliance with China followed, leading to several billion dollars in aid, which was curtailed after 1974.

North Korea was a Member State from 1974 – 1994, but withdrew after the Board of Governors found it in non-compliance with its safeguards agreement and suspended most technical cooperation.

* 1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

* 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.

* 1974 – Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, American actor

* 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

* 1895 – Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian philosopher and jurist ( d. 1974 )

Pakistan's Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed in June 1974 that he would never succumb to " nuclear blackmail " or accept " Indian hegemony or domination over the subcontinent ".< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

All That Heaven Allows was the inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( 1974 ) in which a mature woman falls in love with an Arab man.

Ali blamed his poor performance on thyroid medication that he had been taking, claiming that it helped him lose weight ( he weighed 217½, his lowest weight since he fought George Foreman in 1974 ), but it also left him drained for the fight.

* Johnny Wakelin's " Black Superman ( Muhammad Ali )" ( 1974 ) – Added quotes from Howard Cosell between vocals.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

Freestyle wrestlers from Batman have won national competitions, and Ali Riza Alan won gold in 1970 and silver in 1974 in world championships in the weight category under 52 kg.

( Ali's only previous loss was to Smokin ' Joe Frazier, and Ali would later go on to defeat George Foreman to regain the heavyweight title in 1974 ).

In 1976 Norton would again fight Ali, who was now the World Heavyweight Champion since regaining the title with an eighth round knockout of George Foreman in 1974.

* Muhammad Ali, the Greatest ( 1974 )

The film tells the story of boxing icon Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston ( Michael Bentt ), his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier ( James Toney ) in 1971, and, lastly, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974.

Foreman and Ali spent much of the summer of 1974 training in Zaire, getting their bodies acclimated to the weather in the tropical African country.

Several songs were written and released about the fight: the Jethro Tull song Bungle in the Jungle was released in October, 1974, though Ian Anderson claims he wrote the song at least a year before the " Rumble in the Jungle ", Johnny Wakelin wrote a song about the match called " In Zaire ", the Fugees also wrote a song about the event with A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes and John Forté titled " Rumble in the Jungle ", and The Hours wrote a song about the event titled " Ali in the Jungle ".

Ali remained dominant among his opponents, but would not win another world title fight until three and a half years later, on October 30, 1974, in the historic Rumble in the Jungle fight.

* 1974: Michael Parkinson / Muhammad Ali-television interview of Ali in his prime

The Message of the Qur ' an: Presented in Perspective ( 1974 ) was published by Dr. Hashim Amir Ali.

The Heavyweights, of course, had Muhammad Ali, who ruled twice between 1974 and 1979.

Other leaders were also arrested under the ISA like Syed Husin Ali in 1974 and Kassim himself in 1976.

* Tariq Ali and Gerry Hedley, Chile ( 1974 )

Add caption hereThen he became in the era of President Abdullah Al-Sallal the commander of the commandos, then the responsible for the western, eastern and central provinces in 1972 then he was promoted to become the Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs, then he was appointed to the position of the higher representative Commander of the Armed Forces, then in 13 June 1974 he was an effective member of the officers who ran the white military coup overthrewing the Judge Abdullrahman Al-Eryani in the revolutionary correction movement of June 13, 1974 and handed over all the president's and the member's of the republican council authorities to the military forces which represented in the leadership of the general and senior officers mentioned: Ahmad Ghashmi, Yahya Mutawakil, Mujahid Abu Shawareb, Ali Al-Shibh, Hammoud Pedder, Ali Alilla ' a, AED Abu meat, Ali Abu lohoum, and added later Abdaziz Abdul Ghani and Abdullah Abdulalim.