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

In December 1974 the Navy Flight Demonstration Team downsized to the subsonic Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II and was reorganized into the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron.

# McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II – 1969 – December 1974

# A-4F Skyhawk – December 1974 – November 1986

In two referendums, in December 1974 and February 1976, the population of Mayotte voted against independence from France ( by 63. 8 % and 99. 4 % respectively ).

It was then open for signature until 31 December 1974.

* Constantine II of Greece ( born 1940 ), Olympic champion ( 1960 ) and formerly King of the Hellenes March 6, 1964 – December 8, 1974

To promote it, Bowie launched the Diamond Dogs Tour, visiting cities in North America between June and December 1974.

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

" 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.

In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3rd Marine Division at MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, where he served as the commander of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, until December 1975.

On December 13, 1974, the constitution was revised, and Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth, with executive authority vested in the President of Malta which can be exercised directly or through officers subordinate to him.

hearing before the U. S. House of Representatives in December 1974.

On 27 December 1974, a group of FSLN guerrillas invaded a party at the home of the Minister of Agriculture, killing him in the process of taking several leading government officials hostage.

The film was shot at Bray Studios and Oakley Court, a country house in Berkshire, England, from October 21, 1974, to December 19, 1974.

They finished the regular season with 11 straight wins ( tying the 1961 team record & is also tied for the 5th longest win streak entering the playoffs ), finished with an impressive 13 – 3 record, ( including 4 – 0 in December, extending their NFL record with 18 straight wins in December, & also tying the Dolphins 1970 – 1974 in November for the longest winning streak in any month ).

On December 5, 1974, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced the official signing of the franchise agreement by Lloyd W. Nordstrom, representing the Nordstrom family as majority partners for the consortium.

These partly cleared the Suez Canal between May and December 1974.

His government's mismanagement of food supplies caused a famine in Bangladesh from March to December 1974, leading to the death of more than one million people.

* On December 24, 1974 Cyclone Tracy devastated the Australian city of Darwin.

* December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress ( Bewitched ) ( d. 1974 )

* December 18 – Islamic Development Bank created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) ( effective 12 August 1974 ).

The French Aviation navale drops napalm over Viet Minh guerrilla positions during an ambush ( December 1953 ).

Sassou Nguesso proclaimed himself President on October 25, 1997, but Militia forces loyal to Lissouba continued a guerrilla war, the vital Congo-Ocean Railway from the coastal city of Pointe-Noire was cut, and Brazzaville was heavily damaged before a cease-fire was agreed in December 1999.

On 15 December 2003 the Royal Bhutan Army began military operations against guerrilla camps in southern Bhutan, in coordination with Indian armed forces who lined the border to the south to prevent the guerrillas from dispersing back into Assam.

One of the most criticized measures of his administration was the pardon he granted on December 29, 1990, to Jorge Videla, Emilio Massera, Leopoldo Galtieri and other leaders of the 1976 – 83 dictatorship convicted in the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, and some guerrilla leaders as well, on the grounds of " national reconciliation ".

In December 1866, Archie Clement, an accomplice of the James brothers and perhaps the most notorious of all the guerrilla fighters, terrorized the town and was shot from his horse and killed by a sniper perched in the second floor of the Courthouse.

The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 20 October-31 December 1944.

The Senussi, encouraged by the German Empire and Ottoman Empire, played a minor part in the First World War, fighting a guerrilla war against the Italians in Libya and the British in Egypt from November 1915 until February 1917, led by Sayyid Ahmed and in the Sudan from March to December 1916, led by Ali Dinar, the Sultan of Darfur.

After December 1941, some Italians launched a limited guerrilla war in Ethiopia and Eritrea that lasted until the summer of 1943 when Italy left the war, ( see Armistice with Italy ).

After further failed talks in December 1920, the guerrilla conflict was brought to an end in July 1921, with a truce agreed between the IRA and the British.

They also helped local Mindoro guerrilla fighters and the U. S. and Australian troops defeat the Japanese Imperial forces during the Battle of Mindoro ( December 13-16, 1944 ) and during 1945 until World War II ended.

Charles Taylor, a former ally of Doe's, crossed into Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire on December 24, 1989, to wage a guerrilla war against Doe.

Puspa Kamal Dahal (; born Chhabilal Dahal on 11 December 1954, mononymously known as Prachanda ( )) is a former guerrilla leader and chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) ( CPN ).

In an act of " guerrilla art ", he trucked it to Lower Manhattan and on December 15, 1989, installed it beneath a 60-foot Christmas tree in the middle of Broad Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to the people of New York.

On December 11, 1995, Colombian authorities learned that " Simón Trinidad " had become the sixth commander in-line of the FARC's Caribbean Bloc, being in charge of guerrilla propaganda.

The period from December 2003 to March 2004 marked a relative lull in guerrilla attacks.

During the Greek Civil War ( 1946 – 1949 ) the surrounding region became a major battleground, while in December 1947 communist guerrilla units unsuccessfully tried to capture the town.

* 14 December – A guerrilla is killed and a policeman is injured in a skirmish in Ingwavuma

* 25 December – Another guerrilla is killed in Ingwavuma

* 14 December – A guerrilla is killed in Chiawelo

Wendell Fertig ( 16 December 1900 – 24 March 1975 ) was an American civil engineer, in the American-administered Commonwealth of the Philippines, who organized and commanded an American-Filipino guerrilla force on the Japanese-occupied, southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II.

Jarallah Omar al-Kuhali () ( 1942 in Kuhal, Ibb Governorate – 28 December 2002 ) was a Yemeni politician, intellectual, and guerrilla fighter.

A battle was fought between the Mukti Bahini Freedom Fighters and the Pakistani intruding soldiers at village Kagajinagar of sadar upazila on 12 December in which the Pak-soldiers being pressed by guerrilla attack dispersed.

* Captain Sakae Ōba, who led his company of 46 men in guerrilla actions against US troops following the Battle of Saipan, did not surrender until December 1, 1945, three months after the war ended.

Their operations were successful in that they reduced the threat of guerrilla attacks on the occupation forces, but their often brutal conduct and mass reprisals policy resulted in massacres of civilians such as that of Kommeno on August 16, the Massacre of Distomo, or the " Massacre of Kalavryta " in December.