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In 1974, the house was closed to complete renovations required by updated safety regulations, but cost over-runs, corruption, and political in-fighting all added to the delay and it remained closed for twenty-three years, finally re-opening on 12 May 1997, four days before its centenary.
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* 1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
* 1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
The film was shot at Bray Studios and Oakley Court, a country house in Berkshire, England, from October 21, 1974, to December 19, 1974.
In December 1974, a guerrilla group affiliated with FSLN seized government hostages at a party in the house of the Minister of Agriculture in the Managua suburb Los Robles, among them several leading Nicaraguan officials and Somoza relatives.
Since 1974, and separated from auspices of the Naval Observatory, Number One Observatory Circle, a house situated in the grounds of the observatory ( formerly the residence of its superintendent, and later the home of the Chief of Naval Operations ), has been the official residence of the Vice President of the United States.
The house has been opened as a museum devoted to Holst's life and times since 1974, devoted partly to him and partly to illustrating local domestic life of the mid-19th century.
In 1974, Peter Manhardt made models for him of the pit house, the grass roof house and the green service station – along with his idea of the invisible, inaudible Green Motorway.
* Postřižiny ( Cutting It Short ), Prague: Petlice, 1974 ( secret anti-Communist publishing house )
* Městečko, kde se zastavil čas ( The Little Town Where Time Stood Still ), Prague: Petlice, 1974 ( secret anti-Communist publishing house ); Exile Edition: Comenius, Innsbruck, 1978.
His printmaking was a major part of his output, and a whole museum is devoted to it, the Turner Museum in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1974 by Douglass Montrose-Graem to house his collection of Turner prints.
In retirement Macmillan also took up the chairmanship of his family's publishing house, Macmillan Publishers, from 1964 to 1974.
The modernist house of Cameron Frye is located at 370 Beech Street, Highland Park, Illinois 60035, known as Ben Rose House designed by architects A. James Speyer, who designed the main building in 1954, and David Haid, who designed the pavilion in 1974, and once owned by photographer Ben Rose.
He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).
In 1974, the Washington County Historical Society purchased the old log house and moved it one and a half miles to its present site.
In 1967, Elbert Smith died, and the Longwood Estate was carved into housing developments and nearly destroyed until enough noise was made about preservation to have the house and of land given to the Town of Brookhaven in 1974.
The area around the meeting house, known as Old Chappaqua Historic District, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
When Robersonville Elementary School burned down in 1974, two new hallways with 10 classrooms and a library were added to East End to house grades K-3.
When Anne Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend Louis Dell ' Ollio, became head designer of the house.
On 9 August 1974, Bygraves became stuck on cliffs near his house in Westbourne, Bournemouth when a kite flown by his grandson Michael became trapped beneath the edge of the cliff.
He donated the collection, as well as the house that is now the museum to his home state ( Oaxaca ) in 1974.
In 1974, a large, fortress-like residential compound and school was established in North Riverdale by the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations ( now the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN ) to house diplomats and their families.
The Teus house next door was purchased and converted to a guesthouse in 1974, under the supervision of decorator Ronnie Laing.
To house the museum, in 1974 Noguchi purchased a photogravure plant and gas station located across the street from his New York studio, where he had worked and lived since 1961.
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A prototype white helmet was developed for the team prior to the 1974 season but was never worn.
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.
In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.
Alfonso Leng ( 11 February 1894 – 11 November 1974 ) was a post-romantic composer of classical music and dentist.
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.
The best place the club were able to achieve during the decade was third in 1974 – 75.
A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.
The first anthroposophic bank was the Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken in Bochum, Germany, founded in 1974.
Under the Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the borough of Islwyn, Gwent.
In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.
; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.
The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.
Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.
On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.
The University of Ouagadougou, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education.
Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.
Not until F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 did ex-Bletchley Park staff feel free to reveal something of their wartime work.
Ruth's lifetime record of 714 home runs stood until 1974 when it was surpassed by Hank Aaron.
The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.
In 1974 the remainder of the Master Plan was canceled, leaving Boston with a severely overstressed expressway system.
Schwander died of natural causes in 1974, while Pera returned to the U. S. in 1975 and was put on probation.
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