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    • 10 Aug 1974
      Peter Sutcliffe · Peter and Sonia get married. Age: 28
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    • 26 Sep 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · Award for May.Pang received an RIAA gold record award for her work on "Walls and Bridges", she was only 24.
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    • 26 Sep 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · Lennons #1Lennon's album "Walls and Bridges" rose to the top spot on the album charts. Lennon achieved his only number-one solo US single in his lifetime with “Whatever Gets You thru the Night”. Pang’s is the voice whispering Lennon’s name on “#9 Dream”. “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” was written about her.
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    • 23 Aug 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · UFO sighting.In the early summer, Lennon was working on his "Walls and Bridges" album when the couple moved into a penthouse apartment at 434 East 52nd Street. On August 23, Lennon and Pang claimed to have seen a UFO from their terrace, which had a panoramic view of Queens.
      Lennon called photographer Bob Gruen and told him what had happened. Gruen called the local police precinct which confirmed that three other people had reported a sighting, and the Daily News wrote that five people had reported a sighting in the same area of New York where Lennon and Pang lived. Lennon references the incident in the song “Nobody Told Me”.
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    • Jun 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · Living together and with cats.On June 1974, Lennon and Pang returned to live in Manhattan. Lennon stopped drinking and concentrated on recording. Lennon previously had cats while he lived at his Aunt Mimi’s house in Liverpool; he and Pang adopted two cats that they named Major and Minor
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    • Mar 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · Lennon & Macca together for the last time.Lennon thought it would be a good idea for the musicians to live under one roof to ensure they would get to the studio on time, so Pang rented a beach house in Santa Monica for her, Lennon, Nilsson, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon to live.

      At this time, Pang encouraged Lennon to reach out to family and friends. He and Paul McCartney mended fences and played together for the first and only time after the breakup of the Beatles.
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    • Mar 1974
      John Lennon and May Pang · Harry Nilsson's recordings.On March 1974, Lennon began producing Harry Nilsson’s Pussy Cats album, thus named to counter the “bad boy” image the pair had earned in the media with two drinking incidents at the Troubadour.
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    • 26 Sep 1974
      May Pang · Pang received an RIAA gold record award for her work on "Walls and Bridges". Age: 23
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    • 26 Sep 1974
      May Pang · Lennon's album "Walls and Bridges" rose to the top spot on the album charts. Lennon achieved his only number-one solo US single in his lifetime with “Whatever Gets You thru the Night”. Pang’s is the voice whispering Lennon’s name on “#9 Dream”. “Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox)” was written about her. Age: 23
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    • 23 Aug 1974
      May Pang · In the early summer, Lennon was working on his Walls and Bridges album when the couple moved into a penthouse apartment at 434 East 52nd Street. On August 23, Lennon and Pang claimed to have seen a UFO from their terrace, which had a panoramic view of Queens.
      Lennon called photographer Bob Gruen and told him what had happened. Gruen called the local police precinct which confirmed that three other people had reported a sighting, and the Daily News wrote that five people had reported a sighting in the same area of New York where Lennon and Pang lived. Lennon references the incident in the song “Nobody Told Me”. Age: 23
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    • Jun 1974
      May Pang · In June 1974, Lennon and Pang returned to live in Manhattan. Lennon stopped drinking and concentrated on recording. Lennon previously had cats while he lived at his Aunt Mimi’s house in Liverpool; he and Pang adopted two cats that they named Major and Minor. Age: 23
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    • 1 Mar 1974
      May Pang · Lennon thought it would be a good idea for the musicians to live under one roof to ensure they would get to the studio on time, so Pang rented a beach house in Santa Monica for her, Lennon, Nilsson, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon to live. At this time, Pang encouraged Lennon to reach out to family and friends. He and Paul McCartney mended fences and played together for the first and only time after the breakup of the Beatles. Age: 23
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    • Mar 1974
      May Pang · In March 1974, Lennon began producing Harry Nilsson’s Pussy Cats album, thus named to counter the “bad boy” image the pair had earned in the media with two drinking incidents at the Troubadour. Age: 23
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    • 8 Sep 1974
      Rada Krivokapic Radonjic · Rada Krivokapic Radonjic was born on 8 September 1974 in Kotor, Montenegro.
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    • Dec 1974
      Bebe Buell · After posing nude for Playboy in 1974, becoming the first fashion model to become a Playboy Playmate, her controversial layout caused her to be fired by the prestigious Ford modelling agency. It was also the first Playmate pictorial with a model and rock star boyfriend on the pages of the magazine. Being one of the first top-line fashion models to pose for the men’s magazine, it cost her the contract with Ford, but she was promptly signed to Wilhelmina in the USA and Models One in the UK. Even after the Playboy appearance affected her career in the States she was still in demand in Europe appearing in British and French Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan to name a few. Age: 21
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    • Nov 1974
      Bebe Buell · Bebe was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue. Photographer Richard Fegley shot her Centerfold. Age: 21
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    • 2 Apr 1974
      Georges Pompidou · Died while still in office, at 9 PM,in his apartment, from Waldenström macroglobulinemia. Age: 62
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    • 16 May 1974
      Josip Broz Tito · New Constitution was passed, and the 82-year-old Tito was named president for life. Age: 81
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    • 7 May 1974 - 16 May 1974
      Walter Scheel · Became acting Chancellor of West Germany following Brandt's resignation after the Guillaume Affair Age: 54 - 54
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    • 20 Jun 1974
      Demri Parrott · Her younger brother Devin C. Remme is born. Age: 5
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    • 14 Apr 1974
      Jane Asher and Gerald Scarfe · Jane Asher gives birth to hers and Gerald's first child together, daughter Kate Geraldine, "Katie".
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    • 17 Apr 1974
      Jane Asher · Jane Asher gives birth to hers and Gerald's first child together, daughter Kate Geraldine, "Katie". Age: 28
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    • 17 Dec 1974
      Rosheen Raugi · Rosheen Nicole Raugi was born on December 17, 1974 to Richard and Tina Raugi.
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    • 1974 - 1978
      María Montez · Stage work with the Roy Hart company, first in London and then in France. Age: 22 - 26
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    • Nov 1974
      Alice Ormsby-Gore · In November 1974, aged 22, Alice went to call on her elder brother Julian, who worked as a waiter, and found him dead on the floor of his Fulham flat. He had shot himself and died aged 33. Age: 22
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    • 1974
      Lee Starkey · Her parents separate. Age: 3
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    • 3 Apr 1974
      Patricia Hearst · Announced on an audiotape that she had joined the SLA and taken the name "Tania". Age: 20
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    • 4 Feb 1974
      Patricia Hearst · Was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment. Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), claimed responsibility for the abduction Age: 19
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    • 4 Jan 1974
      Ted Bundy · Entered the basement apartment of 18-year-old Karen Sparks and sexually assaulted although she survived, she was left with physical disabilities Age: 27
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    • 2 Sep 1974
      Ted Bundy · He raped and strangled a still-unidentified hitchhiker in Idaho, then either disposed of the remains immediately in a nearby river Age: 27
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    • 30 Oct 1974
      Muhammad Ali · Defeated the previously unbeaten, heavy-hitting Foreman in The Rumble in the Jungle Age: 32
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    • 11 Nov 1974
      Leonardo DiCaprio · Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin DiCaprio (née Indenbirken) and former comic book artist George DiCaprio.
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    • 25 Feb 1974
      Bill Clinton · Announced his candidacy in Arkansas's 3rd congressional district making him one of the youngest candidates for a congressional election in the nation Age: 27
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    • 12 Dec 1974
      Jimmy Carter · Announced his presidential campaign at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Age: 50
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    • 21 Nov 1974
      George W. Bush · Was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve Age: 28
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    • 20 Aug 1974
      Nelson Rockefeller · Nominated to be the next Vice President of the United States by Ford Age: 66
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    • 6 Dec 1974
      Shirley Temple · Was appointed as United States Ambassador to Ghana Age: 46
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    • 27 May 1974
      Valéry Giscard d'Estaing · Was elected President of France, defeating Socialist candidate François Mitterrand by 425,000 votes.[ Age: 48
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    • 30 Mar 1974
      Henry Kissinger · Married Nancy Maginnes Age: 50
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    • 9 Aug 1974
      Gerald Ford · Automatically assumed the presidency When Nixon resigned Age: 61
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    • 16 May 1974
      Helmut Schmidt · Became Chancellor of West Germany Age: 55
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    • 1 Jul 1974
      Isabel Martínez de Perón · Ascended to the presidency after her husband's death, thus becoming the first woman in the world to hold the title of "President", Age: 43
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    • 12 Sep 1974
      Amha Selassie of Ethiopia · Was proclaimed Emperor again in absentia Age: 58
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    • 1974
      Lisa Christiansen · First film Lisa Christiansen was featured in is now a classic of historic significance. Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. Age: 7
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    • 9 Sep 1974
      Richard Nixon · Pardoned by President Ford Age: 61
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    • 9 Aug 1974
      Richard Nixon · Resigned the presidency after addressing the nation on television the previous evening Age: 61
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1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.

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