His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

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

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

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

* 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 first anthroposophic bank was the Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1974.

* 1974 – Christina Davis, Australian ballet dancer and contestant on the first season of Big Brother Australia

The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education.

* 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.

Since the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor ( the Intel 4004 ) in 1970, and the first widely used microprocessor ( the Intel 8080 ) in 1974, this class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other central processing unit implementation methods.

The first reforms were implemented in three rounds – 1974 – 1983, 1985, and 1990.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

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.

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 1974, Mike Marshall won the award, becoming the first relief pitcher to win the award.

Fairchild's effort, led by ex-Bell researcher Gil Amelio, was the first with commercial devices, and by 1974 had a linear 500-element device and a 2-D 100 x 100 pixel device.

The roles of Bet Lynch, Ivy Tilsley ( Lynne Perrie ), Deirdre Hunt ( Anne Kirkbride ), Rita Littlewood ( Barbara Knox ) and Mavis Riley ( Thelma Barlow ) were built up between 1972 and 1973 with characters such as Gail Potter ( Helen Worth ), Blanche Hunt ( Patricia Cutts and Maggie Jones ) and Vera Duckworth ( Elizabeth Dawn ) first appearing in 1974.

The first Soviet-made pocket-sized calculator, the " Elektronika B3-04 " was developed by the end of 1973 and sold at the beginning of 1974.

The first programmable pocket calculator was the HP-65, in 1974 ; it had a capacity of 100 instructions, and could store and retrieve programs with a built-in magnetic card reader.

The first paper by Puthoff and Targ on psychic research to appear in a mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journal was published in Nature in March 1974 ; in it, the team reported some degree of remote viewing success.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.

Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of The Jackson 5's " Never Can Say Goodbye " and two other songs, " Honey Bee " and " Reach Out ( I'll Be There )".

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.

After a more than a century as a two-way thoroughfare, Orchard Road became a one-way street in 1974.

Deployment continued in 1974, with three packet switches installed by February, although at that point the network was only operational for three hours each day.

During the war Foot made a speech that was later featured during The World at War documentary TV series broadcast in February 1974.

Nixon announced the release of the transcripts in a speech to the nation on April 29, 1974.

The historical speech itself is depicted in the 2000 film Thirteen Days with Michael Fairman playing Stevenson, as well as partially depicted in the 1974 television play The Missiles of October by Ralph Bellamy.

Influenced by Egon Bahr, who proposed " change through rapprochement " in a 1963 speech, the policies were implemented beginning with Willy Brandt, fourth Chancellor of the FRG from 1969 to 1974.

The metaphorical use of " cargo cult " was popularized by physicist Richard Feynman at a 1974 Caltech commencement speech, which later became a chapter in his book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman !, where he coined the phrase " cargo cult science " to describe science that had some of the trappings of real science ( such as publication in scientific journals ) but lacked a basis in honest experimentation.

On 17 November 1974, just after making a speech to the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, Childers suffered a heart attack.

In a speech in Lincoln on 18 February 1974, reported in The Times the following day, Healey went further, promising he would " squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak " and said Lord Carrington, the Conservative Secretary of State for Energy, had made £ 10m profit from selling agricultural land at prices 30 to 60 times as high as it would command as farming land.

* Air Force One landed at the airport two times during the 2004 United States Election for nearby rallies in support of George W. Bush ( Air Force One also visited the airport in 1974 when then President Richard M. Nixon made a speech at the airport and arrived to give endorsement to James Sparling, a Congressional candidate ).

Acceptance speech for Grand Austrian State Prize, 1974, Vienna, Hofburg

A savage indictment of Treatise may be seen in a speech delivered by Cardew at the ‘ International Symposium on the Problematic of Today ’ s Musical Notation ’ held in Rome in October 1972, as transcribed in his highly polemical book Stockhausen Serves Imperialism ( 1974 ), available in PDF format at UBUweb.

In 1974, she made an influential, televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the process of impeachment of Richard Nixon, Johnson's successor as President.

Many on the right-wing of the Conservative Party looked to Joseph to challenge Heath for the leadership, but Joseph's chances of this were damaged by a controversial speech at Edgbaston on 19 October 1974.

His first trip to the West was in 1974 to South America, to deliver a speech in Sanskrit at an international yoga conference.

* Marxist Political Economy and the Crisis ( 1974 speech )

D ' Angelo who served from 1970 to 1974 while he also served as a speech writer and adviser to then Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

" During the commencement speech, Jobs also quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of the catalog: " Stay hungry.

Following the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the Portuguese society, after several decades of repression, regained freedom of speech.

" Just before noon on August 9, 1974, Julie stood behind her father while he gave his goodbye speech to the White House staff.

On August 15, 1974, Park was delivering a speech in the National Theater during a ceremony to celebrate the nation's deliverance from Japanese colonial domination 29 years before, when a presumed North Korean agent Mun Se-gwang fired a gun at Park from the front row.

* ( 1974 ): How does a mynah bird imitate human speech?

The Hatch Act was challenged in the Supreme Court in 1947 and 1974 as a violation of free speech.

The " Man in the Arena " passage was quoted by another US president, Richard Nixon, during both in his victory speech on November 6, 1968, and in his resignation address to the nation on August 8, 1974:

In a speech delivered at the Blacktown Civic Centre, on 29 April 1974, Whitlam stated:

In his inaugural speech on August 7, 1974, López was mostly remembered for calling the border disputed area in the Gulf of Venezuela by its native name " Gulf of Coquibacoa " given by the wayuus.