* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the " Green Line ", dividing Cyprus into two zones.

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

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

* 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

The squadron was officially redesignated as the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron in December 1974.

He graduated from Wichita High School East in 1970 and earned a bachelor of science in astronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

Bowie moved to the United States in 1974, initially staying in New York City before settling in Los Angeles.

Here that agent is the Defendant Patrick ( District Court of the United States 1974: 79 ; New York Times 1974 ).

The 1974 album Homeless Brother, produced by Joel Dorn, was McLean ’ s final studio collaboration with United Artists.

Other legislation included National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ), signed into law in 1970, which established a United States Environmental Protection Agency and a Council on Environmental Quality ; the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 ; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the Safe Drinking Water Act ( 1974 ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( 1976 ), the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977, which became known as the Clean Water Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, commonly known as the Superfund Act ( 1980 ).

Under Mountbatten's presidency and personal involvement, the United World College of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the United World College of the Pacific ( now known as the Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific ) in Victoria, Canada, in 1974.

Bangladesh joined the United Nations in 1974.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 ( FERPA or the Buckley Amendment ) is a United States federal law.

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* 1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Grenada from the United Kingdom in 1974.

Eric Gairy served as Premier from August 1967 until February 1974, as the Grenada United Labour Party party won majorities in both the 1967 and 1972 general elections.

It joined the United Nations in 1974, and the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Organization of American States in 1975.

( However, the 9-digit SBN code was used in the United Kingdom until 1974.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

Since its arrival in 1974, what is known as Danza Azteca in the U. S., ( and known by several names in its homeland of the central States of Mexico: danza Conchera, De la Conquista, Chichimeca, and so on.

* 1974 – Watergate scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

* 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

J. Edgar Hoover: Memorial Tributes in the Congress of the United States and Various Articles and Editorials Relating to His Life and Work appeared in 1974.

Between 1974 and 1985, it's estimated that 22 million gold Krugerrand coins were imported into the United States alone.

* 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

* 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.

The word " Moonie " was first used by the American news media in the 1970s when Sun Myung Moon moved to the United States and came into public notice through a series of public speeches he gave, including at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1974 and Yankee Stadium and the grounds of the Washington Monument in 1976.

A conservative foreign policy has meant that under Niger's first president and — following military coup — the 1974 – 1991 military government, Niger maintained good relations with the United States, Israel, and NATO governments in general.

* 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT & T.

Late in 1971, BJU filed suit to prevent the IRS from taking its tax exemption, but in 1974, in Bob Jones University v. Simon, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the university did not have standing to sue until the IRS actually assessed taxes.

In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979.

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.

The Supreme Court ruled in Milliken v. Bradley ( 1974 ) that de-facto racial segregation was acceptable, as long as schools were not actively making policies for racial exclusion ; since then, schools have been segregated due to myriad indirect factors.

California formerly had " justice of the peace " courts staffed by lay judges, but gradually phased them out after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of due process to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which could result in incarceration of the defendant.

In 1958 – 1974 Sukhoi served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

From 1974 to 1979, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ), the Commander of NATO forces in Europe, and Commander-in-Chief of United States European Command ( CinCUSEUR ).

Ultimately, on August 8, 1974, after the U. S. Supreme Court voted by 8 to 0 to reject Nixon's claims of executive privilege and release the tapes ( with then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist recusing himself because, as an assistant attorney general during Nixon's first term, he had taken part in internal executive-branch discussions of the scope of executive privilege ), Nixon announced his decision to resign as President.

Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U. S. 717 ( 1974 ), was a significant United States Supreme Court case dealing with the planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit.

The accused officials appealed to the Supreme Court, which took up the case on February 27, 1974.

In 1974, the Supreme Court also ruled that the San Francisco school district was violating non-English speaking students ' rights under the 1964 act by placing them in regular classes rather than providing some sort of accommodation for them.

Due to her prominence she was chosen for several political positions: from 1966 to 1974 she was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, from 1974 to 1989 a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and from 1969 to 1991 she was in the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

She was made a member of the World Peace Council in 1966, a member of the Yaroslavl Soviet in 1967, a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1966 – 1970 and 1970 – 1974, and was elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1974.

Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo, 418 U. S. 241 ( 1974 ), was a United States Supreme Court case that overturned a Florida state law requiring newspapers to allow equal space in their newspapers to political candidates in the case of a political editorial or endorsement content.

He rose quickly in the Razak government, returning to UMNO's Supreme Council in 1973, and being appointed to Cabinet in 1974 as the Minister for Education.

California formerly had Justice of the Peace courts staffed by lay judges, but began phasing them out after a landmark 1974 decision in which the Supreme Court of California unanimously held that it was a violation of federal due process ( under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution ) to allow a non-lawyer to preside over a criminal trial which could result in incarceration of the defendant.