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.

* took a strong line on the right of return for refugees to properties vacated in the 1974 displacement of Cypriots on both sides, which was based on both UN Resolutions and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ;

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

In 1974, Led Zeppelin took a break from touring and launched their own record label, Swan Song, named after an unreleased song.

After Bruce McLaren died in a testing accident in 1970, Teddy Mayer took over and led the team to their first Formula One constructors ' championship in 1974, with Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt winning the drivers ' championship in 1974 and 1976 respectively.

Barassi took North to a Grand Final ( defeated by Richmond ) in 1974 and brought success in his 1975 and 1977 seasons.

When Cal Poly's starting shortstop broke his leg midway through the 1974 season, Smith subsequently took over the starting role.

By 1974, Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr. designed the silver wings took on a white outline, and this style on a kelly green helmet became standard for over two decades.

China and South Vietnam both occupied portions of the Paracel Islands until 1974, when the Battle of the Paracel Islands occurred ; China took over and has controlled all of the Paracel Islands since then.

From the 1960s onwards intensive housing development took place, consisting mainly of pre-fabricated concrete blocks of flats, especially in Rataje and Winogrady, and later ( following its incorporation into the city in 1974 ) Piątkowo.

The first rally was an amateur competition and it took place in 1974.

But most importantly, he helped the team out of the National League West basement for the first time in 1975, under the guidance of manager John McNamara, who took over the club at the start of the 1974 season.

Following 1974, after Dr. Qadeer Khan took over the uranium enrichment route from him as he was dissatisfied with Mehmood's progress.

Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8: 05 a. m. ( IST ).

In 1974, Moon took full-page ads in major newspapers defending President Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate controversy.

In December 1974, he took the lead of the Union of Democrats for the Republic ( UDR ) against the will of its more senior personalities.

His formal coronation took place in June 1974, and soon thereafter the strains between the Wangchucks and Dorjis were relieved with the return that year of the exiled members of the latter family.

In 1974 he went to Los Angeles to work on a script ( never produced ) with Sam Shepard, and to his own surprise took up residence there.

After ten years of sporadic warfare and after Portugal's return to democracy through a leftist military coup in Lisbon which replaced Portugal's Estado Novo regime in favor of a military junta ( the Carnation Revolution of April 1974 ), FRELIMO took control of the territory.

The term bionic took on a different connotation when Martin Caidin referenced Jack Steele and his work in the novel " Cyborg " which later resulted in the 1974 television series " The Six Million Dollar Man " and its spin-offs.

In 1974 Greek Cypriots performed a military coup with the support of military junta in Greece and took control of the whole island.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

In 1974 Peugeot bought a 30 % share of Citroën, and took it over completely in 1975 after the French government gave large sums of money to the new company.

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

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, since 1974, the town has formed part of the larger Borough of Hyndburn including the former Urban Districts of Oswaldtwistle, Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood and Rishton.

As part of a large-scale reform of local government in England and Wales in 1974, municipal boroughs were finally abolished ( having become increasingly irrelevant ).

The economic achievements of Cyprus during the preceding decades have been significant, bearing in mind the severe economic and social dislocation created by the Turkish invasion of 1974 and the continuing occupation of the northern part of the island by Turkey.

The ELN guerrilla had been seriously crippled by military operations in the region of Anorí by 1974, but it managed to reconstitute itself and escape destruction, in part due to the administration of Alfonso López Michelsen ( 1974 – 1978 ) allowing it to escape encirclement, hoping to initiate a peace process with the group.

Camilla Hall takes part in the April 1974 Hibernia bank raid with other Symbionese Liberation Army members.

He was imprisoned in 1967 for taking part in robbing a branch of the Bank of America while brandishing a machine gun, but was released in late 1974 along with other Sandinista prisoners in exchange for Somocista hostages.

In 1974 St Albans City Council, St Albans Rural District Council and Harpenden Town Council were merged to form St Albans District Council ( part of a much wider local government reorganisation ).

" Mayotte, geographically a part of the Comoro Islands, was the only island of the four to vote against independence from France ( independence losing 37 %- 63 %) in the referendum held December 22, 1974.

Public Law 93-380, enacted 21 Aug 1974, states that it is the policy of the U. S. to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement with ease and facility as a part of the regular education program.

After some TV commercial and radio appearances, including the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974, Patinkin had his first success in musical theater, where he played the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979.

Following the adoption of the 1974 Instrument of Government on January 1, 1975, the Swedish Monarch ( King Carl XVI Gustaf since September 15, 1973 ) is no longer vested any executive authority at all, and is neither part of the executive branch nor of the legislature.

Long considered a part of the Arab World, the nation joined the League of Arab States ( Arab League ) in 1974 under the aegis of Mohamed Siad Barre.

As a result of the mediation efforts of then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Syria and Israel concluded a disengagement agreement in May 1974, enabling Syria to recover territory lost in the October war and part of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel since 1967, including Quneitra.

On 20 July 1974, the TAF launched an invasion of Cyprus on the pretext of a coup which had been staged by the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention of annexing the island to Greece, but the invasion ended up with Turkey occupying a considerable area on the north part of it and establishing a government on it that only Turkey recognizes.

Collins and his wife, Judy, had taken part in the triathlons staged in 1974 and 1975 by the San Diego Track Club in and around Mission Bay, California, as well as the Optimist Sports Fiesta Triathlon in Coronado, California, in 1975.

In 1974, a document purporting to be the galley proofs of the missing section was sold at Sotheby's ; the catalogue description read, in part, that " The proofs were bought at the sale of the author's ... personal effects ... Oxford, 1898 ...".

Vietnam became a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 2007, which freed Vietnam from textile quotas enacted worldwide as part of the Multi Fibre Arrangement ( MFA ) in 1974.

Oskar Schindler ( 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974 ) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia, which was that time part of Austria-Hungary.

The city became part of Avon when that county was created in 1974.

In 1974, the neighbouring villages Hoyvík and Hvítanes were made part of the town area.

The film had its premiere on U. S. television on 12 November 1974 as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC.

This conflict, along with the two others already initiated in the other Portuguese colonies of Angola and Guinea, became part of the so-called Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ).