After his premiership, De Jong remained in active politics and became the Parliamentary leader of the Catholic People's Party in the Senate and a Member of the Senate serving from May 11, 1971 until September 17, 1974 and finally retiring from active politics at the age of fifty nine.

The Company of Knights Limited, founded in early 1974 undertook jousting shows ranging from as few as five or six participants to as many as fifty actors.

The popular Bart Cummings trained mare Leilani was the favourite for the 1974 Melbourne Cup but she was run down in the last fifty metres by her stablemate Think Big under jockey Harry White.

In 1969, Lane was named the best cornerback of the first fifty years of professional football, then enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1974.

However, fifty years after the events of that story, in The Monster of Peladon ( 1974 ), trisilicate was also being mined on the planet Peladon.

* 1967 – Greek military junta of 1967 – 1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d ' état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.

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.

A rehabilitation project, begun in 1974 and completed ten years later, centered on three highways running north, west, and south from Nola.

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.

In previous years, the team had compiled a record of sixteen consecutive victories, but the 1974 squad opened the season with two losses.

In later years, when his distributor, New American Library, threatened to withhold Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy How Are the Mighty Fallen ( 1974 ) because of its homosexual content, Wollheim fought vigorously against their decision.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

Other well known 8-bit microprocessors that emerged during these years were Motorola 6800 ( 1974 ), General Instrument PIC16X ( 1975 ), MOS Technology 6502 ( 1975 ), Zilog Z80 ( 1976 ), and Motorola 6809 ( 1978 ).

He returned to China for the first time in 1974 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later.

* John Ford ( Tennessee politician ) ( born May 1942 ), American Democratic legislator who served 31 years ( 1974 – 2005 ) in state senate ; convicted in 2007 for bribery

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

In 1974, Weissmuller broke both his hip and leg, marking the beginning of years of declining health.

Cosby became the company's pudding spokesperson in 1974, and continued to serve as the voice of Jell-O for almost thirty years.

Mozambique became independent after ten years of sporadic warfare in Mozambique and Portugal's return to democracy through a leftist military coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974 ( partially as a result of the expenses from the wars in the overseas territories in Africa ).

In later years there has been a diligent search for societies in which women dominate men, or for signs of such past societies, but none have been found ( Bamberger 1974 ).

After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin / Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over three years from 1976.

After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, which marked the definitive split between left and right-wing Peronism, the Montoneros were expelled from the Justicialist party in May 1974 by Perón.

Three years later, in 1974, he was made a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs.

Ten years after " the Phold ", they suffered another minor collapse in August and September 1974, missing out on the playoffs yet again.

The Qatar Emiri Air Force was formed in 1974, three years after achieving independence from Great Britain in 1971.

In September 1974, Red Brigades founders Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini were arrested by General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

Following several years of losses and to avoid the economic effects of a closure of the company, the St Helena government eventually bought a majority share in the company in 1974.

The status of Kosovo was now greater than it had been between 1974 and 1990 when it was at its strongest ; the province followed Montenegro in rejecting the Yugoslav / Serbian Dinar in place of the international currencies, and went even further: Kosovo's parliament created new car registration plates for its citizens, unlike Montenegro which continues to use the old FRY type licence plates two years after independence.

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.

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.