In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

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

Tom Stoppard used this coincidence as a premise for his play Travesties ( 1974 ), which includes Tzara, Lenin, and James Joyce as characters.

Kenny Price made occasional appearances ( starting in 1974 ) as their son Elrod ; and Wendy Suits of the show's background singing group, The Nashville Edition, would sometimes play Ida Lee's equally nagging mother.

By 1974, the scene's top act, Dr. Feelgood, was paving the way for others such as The Stranglers and Cock Sparrer that would play a role in the punk explosion.

On the next play, Dallas committed a 15-yard holding penalty on the 42-yard line, which was a spot foul, pushing the team all the way back to their own 27-yard line ( the NFL did not reduce the penalty for offensive holding to 10 yards until 1974 ).

* Sondheim appears in the 1974 PBS television version of the play June Moon by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.

* Thieves ( play ), a 1974 play by Herb Gardner

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Fonda's health had been deteriorating for years, but his first outward symptoms occurred after a performance of the play in April 1974, when he collapsed from exhaustion.

Of the eleven actors to portray the role, only three would play the Doctor for longer chronological time: Pertwee's immediate successor, Tom Baker ( seven years from 1974 to 1981 ), Sylvester McCoy ( eight years from 1987 – 1996 ) and David Tennant ( four years and six and a half months from June 2005 to January 2010, thus longer by a month ).

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.

It was written by Laird Koenig, based on Koenig's 1974 novel of the same title ; Koenig also wrote a stage play based on his book.

*( 1956 ) Die letzte Station ; English translation: Full Circle ( 1974 ); play

Both leagues were forced to fold ; the ACFL and half the SFL folded immediately, with two teams joining the four remaining SFL teams to play in 1974.

Perhaps one of the most bizarre incidents for the WFL in 1974 involved former Raiders defensive end John Matuszak, who had left the NFL's Houston Oilers to play for the WFL's Houston Texans.

Eino Tamberg composed another opera titled Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974, to a libretto by Jaan Kross, based on Rostand's play.

After splitting the first two games at The Palace, the Pistons went to Portland, where they had not won a game since 1974, to play Games 3, 4 and 5.

Folkestone Rugby Club was formed in 1974 and currently play in London and SE league 4.

Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974.

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 ).

During his 1974 North American tour, Harrison would play a recording of " The Lumberjack Song " over the arena public address systems prior to taking the stage to perform.

However in 1974 he got his chance to play on the international stage when he suited up for the WHA team representing Canada in a series against the USSR national team.

The men's and women's basketball teams play at the J. Ollie Edmunds Center, an on-campus arena which opened in 1974 and seats approximately 5, 000 spectators.

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.