In 1974, Barbara Mullen played Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage at the Savoy Theatre, London.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

( Hume 1974: 322 ) In explaining how matters of fact are entirely a product of experience, he dismisses the notion that they may be arrived at through a priori reasoning.

* 1974 – A Belgrade – Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

* 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.

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.

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.

* 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.

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.

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.

But the CFSD failed to gain nationwide support, and Taverne lost the seat at the October 1974 General Election.

A native of Britain, Hilton arrived in the U. S. in 1969 joining the faculty of the Juilliard School in 1972 and establishing her own baroque dance workshop at Stanford University in 1974 which endured for more than 25 years.

* 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.

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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.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

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.

In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

From 1960 to 1993, the Indians managed one third-place finish ( in 1968 ) and six fourth-place finishes ( in 1960, 1974 to 1976, 1990, and 1992 ) but spent the rest of the time at or near the bottom of the standings.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975.

" One such work was published in 1974, at the urging of the widow of the French poet Robert Desnos, titled " Les pénalités de l ' enfer ou les nouvelles Hébrides " ( The Penalties of Hell or The New Hebrides ).

In 2000, at the urging of Haverford ’ s inQUEERy, co-ed roommate options were officially permitted for the first time, having occurred without official sanction since 1974.

In 1974, the band was informed that another act was already using the name Mammoth, and, at Roth's urging, they opted to rename themselves Van Halen.

In April 1974, the DMK government brought in a resolution in the House urging the Centre to accept the Rajamannar Committee recommendations on state autonomy and amend the Constitution of India to pave the way for a true federal system.

Two years later at the urging of his graduate student, Greg Chesson, Gillies became in 1974 the first licensee for the UNIX operating system from Bell Labs.

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* 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 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 1971, Earnhardt married his second wife, Brenda Gee ( the daughter of NASCAR car builder Robert Gee ), with whom he had a daughter, Kelley King, in 1972, and a son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., in 1974.

In 1974, the decision to create a new revision of the DSM was made, and Robert Spitzer was selected as chairman of the task force.

* 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U. S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.

Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ) was made by Robert Bresson.

John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews ( 1974 ).

* Robert Hardy in the 1974 television production The Gathering Storm

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Robert Evans quit as head of production in 1974 ; his successor, Richard Sylbert, proved to be too literary and too tasteful for Gulf + Western's Bluhdorn.

In May 1974, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn reviewed the second New York Dolls album, Too Much Too Soon.

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

* The Chocolate War ( 1974 ) by Robert Cormier

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

In 1974, Robert Bjork and William B. Whitten presented subjects with word pairs to be remembered ; however, before and after each word pair, subjects had to do a simple multiplication task for 12 seconds.

The first retrovirus infecting humans was identified by Robert Gallo in 1974.

Until recently, as of 2005 the x86 architecture did not meet the Popek and Goldberg requirements-a specification for virtualization created in 1974 by Gerald J. Popek and Robert P. Goldberg.

On 21 August 1974, the Whitlam Government appointed Justice Robert Hope to conduct a Royal Commission into the structure of security and intelligence services, the nature and scope of the intelligence required and the machinery for ministerial control, direction and coordination of the security services.

The Bill of Rights was also invoked in New Zealand in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v. Muldoon and Others, which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Muldoon that he would advise the Governor-General to abolish a superannuation scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act, 1974, without new legislation.

Robert Peter " Robbie " Williams ( born 13 February 1974 ) is an English singer-songwriter, and occasional actor.