The foursome's breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with " Waterloo " on 6 April 1974.

** Swedish pop group ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.

* Eurovision Song Contest 1974

In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Long Live Love ".

* Selma Björnsdóttir ( born 1974 ), Icelandic singer, 1999 and 2005 representative in the Eurovision Song Contest

* Abba held a press photo shoot at Waterloo on 11 April 1974, the day after their first appearance on Top of the Pops, in celebration of their ' Waterloo ' winning the Eurovision Song Contest five days before

* Eurovision Song Contest 1974

The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the 19th Eurovision Song Contest.

* Sì ( song ), the name of the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974

With ABBA, Sweden entered into a new era, in which Swedish pop music gained international prominence after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

There were two secret signals in the military coup: first the airing ( at 10: 55 pm ) by ' Emissores Associados de Lisboa ' of the song E Depois do Adeus by Paulo de Carvalho, Portugal's entry in the 6 April 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the coup.

The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974.

Sweden has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times: in 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, and 2012.

In 1974 the band had three top 15 hits, after which their Eurovision entry was recorded.

" E Depois do Adeus " (" And after the farewell ") was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, performed in Portuguese by Paulo de Carvalho.

Category: Eurovision songs of 1974

Italy refused to broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 on RAI because of a song sung by Gigliola Cinquetti which coincided with the intense political campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May.

* Swedish Pop group ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song " Waterloo ", which uses the battle as a metaphor for a person surrendering to love similar to how Napoleon surrendered at Waterloo.

She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 as part of the Bendik Singers group with the song It's Just A Game and again as backing vocalist for fellow Bendik Singer Anne-Karine Strøm in 1974 before competing in her third consecutive Eurovision this time as a solo artist in 1975 with Touch My Life With Summer.

With her songwriting partner, Harold Spiro, she wrote ( under the name, " Valerie Avon ") the UK entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, " Long Live Love ", performed by Olivia Newton-John.

Despite the success with the singles they released in Yugoslavia, the band disbanded due to the little success of Not An Ordinary Life and the song " Moja generacija ", with which the band represented Yugoslavia at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

* 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

* 1974 – Sandra Diaz-Twine, American reality contestant, winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974 ( Nebula Award winner, 1974 ; Hugo and Locus Awards winner, 1975 )

He shot a final round 68 at the 1974 PGA Championship to finish tied for third, three strokes behind winner Lee Trevino.

After he was AAA's International League Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Triple Crown winner in 1974, he and fellow rookie teammate Fred Lynn were brought up to the Red Sox at the same time, and were known as the " Gold Dust Twins ".< ref >

Donald Martino, the 1974 winner, said, " If you write music long enough, sooner or later, someone is going to take pity on you and give you the damn thing.

* 2-time Avco World Trophy winner ( 1974, 1975 )

* Gary L. Davidson Trophy winner ( 1974 )

* Cindy Hill, winner of the 1974 U. S. Women's Amateur and two-time winner on the LPGA Tour.

In the wake of his record setting 118 stolen bases during the 1974 season, Brock was named the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award in March 1975, for best exemplefying the game of baseball both on and off the field.

The previous Swedish winner, " Waterloo " by ABBA in 1974, had been performed in English.

The winner of 39 PGA Tournaments, Sarazen was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.

* Walter Lawrence Trophy winner: 1974

Each winner of the 1974 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Gaylord Perry remained as Cleveland's last 20-game winner ( 21 wins in 1974 ), until Cliff Lee in 2008.

The film is being scripted by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black, and while it shares a title and event with the 1974 feature starring Charlton Heston & Ava Gardner, it will not be a remake.

* Friedrich Hayek, winner of the 1974 nobel prize

* Richard Gosling ( born 1974 ), winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2003

* Presentation Piece ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-670-57399-X — winner of the National Book Award

* 1974: Juno Award winner, Most Promising Group of the Year