1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Embassy attack, End of siege
According to the ambassador Jacques Senard, at least 20 shots were fired by the terrorists during the siege. Both the captives and Dutch authorities claimed that the kidnappers were highly trained, and the ambassador called the group's leader a "skilled negotiator".


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath
The French government said on 18 September that its secret service would organise an international effort against the Japanese Red Army.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath
The Dutch Budget Day (Dutch: prinsjesdag), where the reigning monarch addresses Parliament and proposes the next year's budget, was scheduled for 17 September. The traditional ride in the Golden Coach did not happen. Instead Queen Juliana was driven in a car, along a heavily protected route.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath
The JRA's next major activity would be the August 1975 AIA building hostage crisis in Malaysia.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath, Trial of attackers
Kazue Yoshimura was arrested by Peruvian DIRCOTE agents in Lima on 25 May 1996 after alleged contacts with members of the Maoist Shining Path (SP) insurgency. The trace to her arrest was established after the 1995 Bucharest capture of Yukiko Ekita with a false Peruvian passport. She had supposedly intended on traveling to the coca-growing Huallaga Valley, the last stronghold of the diminished Peruvian Maoist insurgency as well as a drug-trafficking haven.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath, Trial of attackers
According to the Peruvian Caretas magazine, she was aiming on helping establish a JRA presence in South America and may have even established contacts with Jun Nishikawa, another JRA operative later captured in Bolivia. Yoshimura was later deported to Japan by the government of Alberto Fujimori (a Japanese Peruvian), who stated that there was no proof against her despite the overwhelming intelligence data. The move was allegedly the result of pressure from Japanese authorities. In December 1997, Yoshimura was sentenced to two and half years imprisonment for passport forgery.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath, Trial of attackers
Two of the three members who allegedly attacked the embassy, Haruo Wakō and Nishikawa were detained and extradited to Japan, where they were later imprisoned.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath, Trial of attackers
The other member, Junzō Okudaira, is still at large. Fusaku Shigenobu was captured by the Japanese police on 8 November 2000, after many years on the run. She was found guilty of her involvement in the attack and sentenced in 2006 to 20 years in prison.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Aftermath, Trial of attackers
Carlos the Jackal faced trial for the Paris café attack in 2017, and was given a third life sentence. During the trial he claimed that "no one in the Palestinian resistance has executed more people than I have," and claimed responsibility for a total of about 80 killings. It is thought he bombed the café to put more pressure on the French government into the JRA's demands in Netherlands. Carlos had already been imprisoned since 1996 for other international terrorist activities.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, In popular culture
This event was featured in the 2010 biopic miniseries Carlos about the terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In the film The Assignment the attack is fictionalized as one Carlos launched specifically to kill a CIA agent who he recognized incidentally while at the cafe there, disconnected from the French Embassy attack.


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Gallery
Members of the Japanese embassy attempting to contact the terrorists


1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague, Gallery
Dutch military vehicles on high alert at Schiphol airport after the siege's end


1974 French Grand Prix
The 1974 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Dijon on 7 July 1974. It was race 9 of 15 in both the 1974 World Championship of Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.


1974 French Grand Prix
The 80-lap race was won by Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus-Ford. Niki Lauda finished second in a Ferrari, having started from pole position, with teammate Clay Regazzoni third. Until the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, this was the only World Championship Grand Prix in which lap times of less than one minute were set, by 12 drivers during qualifying, including pole position starter Lauda.


1974 French Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying classification
*Positions with a pink background indicate drivers that failed to qualify


1974 French Grand Prix, Race, Race summary
To honor the 80th birthday of the ACF, a parade of vintage cars was organized with a selection of great drivers from the 20s and 30s up to the present day. The race itself was largely uneventful. Tom Pryce put in a superb performance to be 3rd on the grid behind Ronnie Peterson and Niki Lauda. However, he was slow off the start and was hit by Carlos Reutemann, ending his race. James Hunt and Henri Pescarolo were also taken out in the ensuing accident.


1974 French Grand Prix, Race, Race summary
Lauda led convincingly from Peterson and Clay Regazzoni with Emerson Fittipaldi up to 4th by lap 15. Lauda dropped back with handling problems on lap 16, and was passed by Peterson, who led to the flag. He was followed by Lauda and Regazzoni, who came home 3rd despite vibration problems. Regazzoni had been challenged strongly by Fittipaldi, but just as the McLaren driver was preparing to pass, Fittipaldi's engine exploded, ending his race. Jody Scheckter was fourth, less than a second behind Regazzoni.


1974 French Mount Everest expedition
On 9 September 1974, the West Ridge Direct on Mount Everest was attempted by a French expedition. It resulted in the deaths of six climbers in an avalanche on the way to the summit. These deaths took the total number of fatalities on the mountain to 36.


1974 French Mount Everest expedition
In comparison, six Sherpas died on 5 April 1970 due to an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall (see 1970 Mount Everest disaster). Other bad years were 1982 and 1996, although none of these years claimed as many lives as were lost in the avalanches of 2014 and 2015.


1974 French Open
The 1974 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from  3 June until 16 June. It was the 78th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1974.


1974 French Open, Connors and Goolagong
World no. 2 Jimmy Connors and Evonne Goolagong were banned from playing in the 1974 French Open by Philippe Chatrier, president of the French Tennis Federation (FTF), because both had signed contracts to play in the World Team Tennis league in the United States. The schedule of the inaugural edition of the World Team Tennis conflicted with the dates of several European spring tournaments including the Italian and French Open. Both players had won the singles title at the 1974 Australian Open and were thus denied the opportunity to play for the Grand Slam that year.


1974 French Open, Connors and Goolagong
Connors and Goolagong filed a suit at a French court seeking the right to participate but this was rejected on the grounds that there was no need for emergency action. In September 1974 they sued the FTF seeking $200,000 in damages each as compensation for the ban. This wouldn't be until the 2017 French Open that both of the defending champions of that year's Australian Open also absent from the competition.


1974 French Open, Finals, Men's singles
Björn Borg defeated  Manuel Orantes, 2–6, 6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–1, 6–1


1974 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles
Dick Crealy /  Onny Parun defeated  Bob Lutz /  Stanley Smith, 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 5–7, 6–1


1974 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles
Chris Evert /  Olga Morozova defeated  Gail Sherriff Chanfreau /  Katja Burgemeister Ebbinghaus, 6–4, 2–6, 6–1


1974 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Iván Molina defeated  Rosie Reyes Darmon /  Marcello Lara, 6–3, 6–3


1974 French Open – Men's Doubles
John Newcombe and Tom Okker were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.


1974 French Open – Men's Doubles
Dick Crealy and Onny Parun won in the final 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 5–7, 6–1 against Bob Lutz and Stan Smith.


1974 French Open – Men's Singles
Björn Borg defeated Manuel Orantes 2–6, 6–7(4–7), 6–0, 6–1, 6–1 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1974 French Open. It was the first of Borg's eventual six French Open titles, an all-time record until it was surpassed by Rafael Nadal at the 2012 French Open.


1974 French Open – Men's Singles
Ilie Nastase was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Harold Solomon.


1974 French Open – Men's Singles
The first two rounds of the tournament were played as best-of-three sets, while the last five rounds were played as best-of-five sets.


1974 French Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Björn Borg is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1974 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.


1974 French Open – Mixed Doubles
Françoise Dürr and Jean-Claude Barclay were the defending champions, but Dürr did not compete this year. Barclay teamed up with Julie Heldman and lost in quarterfinals to Rosie Reyes Darmon and Marcello Lara.


1974 French Open – Mixed Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Iván Molina won the title by defeating Rosie Reyes Darmon and Marcello Lara 6–3, 6–3 in the final. While this would be Molina's only Grand Slam title of any kind, this was Navratilova's first Grand Slam title in mixed doubles, and her first Grand Slam title overall, as she would go on to win another 58 Grand Slam titles over the next 32 years, including another nine mixed doubles titles.


1974 French Open – Women's Doubles
Margaret Court and Virginia Wade were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.


1974 French Open – Women's Doubles
Chris Evert and Olga Morozova won in the final 6–4, 2–6, 6–1 against Gail Chanfreau and Katja Ebbinghaus.


1974 French Open – Women's Singles
First-seeded Chris Evert defeated Olga Morozova 6–1, 6–2 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1974 French Open. Reigning champion Margaret Court did not defend her title.


1974 French Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Chris Evert is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1974 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.


1974 French presidential election
Presidential elections were held in France in 1974, following the death of President Georges Pompidou. They went to a second round, and were won by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing by a margin of 1.6%. It is to date the closest presidential election in French history.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
In 1969, Georges Pompidou, formerly Prime Minister under the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, was elected President of France for a seven-year term. However, he died in office on 2 April 1974, and the French voters were called to elect his successor. The political classes were caught unawares by Pompidou's death.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
On the Left, the Socialist Party (PS), the French Communist Party (PCF), and the Movement of Left Radicals (MRG) campaigned for the Programme commun that they agreed in 1972. Whilst the PCF was the main force of this coalition (at least in terms of popular support), they united behind the candidacy of the PS leader François Mitterrand. Indeed, they thought the "Union of Left" could not win if it was led by a Communist in the presidential race. The fear of communism was often an argument used by the French Right to win elections.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
Furthermore, Mitterrand had succeeded in forcing an unexpected second ballot when he was candidate in 1965 against General De Gaulle. Only two smaller Trotskyist parties refused to support Mitterrand and the Common Program, as well as the Social Democratic Party founded by a split of Socialist elects who disapproved the alliance with the PCF. For the first time since the beginning of the Fifth Republic in 1958, the Left had a serious chance of victory.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
The situation in the "Presidential Majority" was very confused: no "natural candidate" had appeared. Prime Minister Pierre Messmer had announced he would run if he was the only candidate of the majority. This condition being not satisfied, he withdrew. Four men declared their will to run: former Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the Chairman of the National Assembly Edgar Faure, the former Craftsmen and Shopkeepers Minister representing the ultra-conservative wing of the Gaullist Party Jean Royer, and finally the Economy Minister and leader of the Independent Republicans Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Quickly, Faure withdrew and the real competition on the Right was between Chaban-Delmas and Giscard d'Estaing.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
Chaban-Delmas conveyed an image of being a reformist Gaullist and invoked his proposals for a "New Society", which he had tried to apply when he led the cabinet (from 1969 to 1972), but he was supported by the "Barons of Gaullism" who held the bulk of ministerial offices for 16 years. His challengers denounced the continuation of the UDR-state, that is to say the appropriation of the state by the Gaullist Party.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
Giscard d'Estaing portrayed himself as "the change in the continuity", a "modern turn" for the French politics, in the incumbent majority and more reassuring for moderate voters than the Common Program which was characterised as a collectivist project. He benefited from the divisions in the UDR. Indeed, 43 Gaullist personalities close to Pompidou and led by the young Interior Minister Jacques Chirac published an appeal insinuating that Giscard d'Estaing was more likely than Chaban-Delmas to defeat Mitterrand. As a result, the left-wing candidate faced the leader of the Independent Republicans in a very competitive run-off.


1974 French presidential election, Campaign
For the first time in the history of the French presidential elections, a Radio-TV-debate between the two finalists was organized. Mitterrand presented his competitor as the representing of the elites who pursued unfair policies, while Giscard d'Estaing criticized his opponent to be "a man of the past". The turnout reached a record of over 87% and Giscard was elected with a margin of only 424,599 votes. He nominated Chirac as Prime Minister.


1974 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
The 1974 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach J. R. Boone, in his second year, and they played their home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and seven losses (5–7, 1–3 PCAA).


1974 Furman Paladins football team
The 1974 Furman Paladins football team represented the Furman University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Led by Art Baker in his second year as head coach, William & Mary Furman  the season 5–6 overall and 2–4 in SoCon play to place seventh.


1974 Gator Bowl
The 1974 Gator Bowl was a college football bowl game that featured the Auburn Tigers and the Texas Longhorns.


1974 Gator Bowl, Background
Auburn started 7–0 on the season, reaching as high as #5 in the polls, before a loss to #11 Florida. A loss to #2 Alabama three weeks later sealed their fate in second place in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) alongside Georgia. The Longhorns tied for second in the Southwest Conference, with a 3–2 start followed by with five victories in their final six games of the regular season, including a victory over #9 Texas A&M. This was the seventh straight bowl appearance for both the Tigers and the Longhorns. This was Auburn's third Gator Bowl of the decade, and the first appearance in the Gator Bowl for the Longhorns.


1974 Gator Bowl, Game summary
After Texas punted the ball to the Auburn 40 after failing to advance the ball from their own 4 after the opening kickoff. Auburn promptly drove the ball 60 yards, culminated by a 7-yard pass from Phil Gargis to Ed Butler. After the Longhorns fumbled the ball at their own 27, the Tigers scored two plays later, on a Mitzi Jackson touchdown plunge, nine minutes into the game. The Longhorns drove from their 23 to the Auburn 18, before they settled for a Billy Scott field goal from 35 yards out.


1974 Gator Bowl, Game summary
In the second quarter, Jim McKinney blocked a Longhorn punt that fell into the end zone for a safety, making it 16–3 at halftime. In the fourth quarter, a Mike Fuller interception gave the Tigers the ball at the Longhorn 29. A few plays later, Butler caught another touchdown pass from Gargis (with Nugent catching the conversion pass) to make it 24–3. With nine seconds remaining, the Tigers added in their final points on a Chris Wilson 28 yard field goal. Phil Gargis went 6-of-11 for 60 yards and 2 interceptions and 2 touchdowns, with 14 carries for 51 yards, in a co-MVP effort. Earl Campbell went for 91 yards on 23 carries for the Longhorns in an co-MVP effort.


1974 Gator Bowl, Aftermath
Jordan retired the following season. The Tigers did not return to a bowl until 1982. Neither has returned to the Gator Bowl since this game.


1974 Gent–Wevelgem
The 1974 Gent–Wevelgem was a one-day cycling classic that took place in Belgium on 9 April 1974. It was the 36th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem race. It was won by Gan–Mercier–Hutchinson's Barry Hoban in a thirteen-rider bunch sprint.


1974 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1974 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season.


1974 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 1974 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by first-year head coach Pepper Rodgers, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta.


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1974 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974. Under Georgia's constitution at the time, incumbent Democratic governor Jimmy Carter was ineligible to serve a second consecutive term. He was elected President of the United States in the 1976 presidential election. George Busbee was elected as the 77th Governor of Georgia.


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination
In the primary, Lieutenant Governor (and former Governor) Lester Maddox won a plurality with 310,384 votes (36.32%). George Busbee finished 2nd with 177,997 votes (20.83%), edging out Bert Lance who had 147,026 votes (17.20%).


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination
In the runoff, Busbee defeated Maddox 551,106 (59.8 percent) to 369,608 (40.1 percent).


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination
Notably, Macon Mayor Ronnie Thompson won 21,848 votes in the original primary, due to him cross-filing and running in both primary elections.


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican nomination
In the primary, Mayor Ronnie Thompson (who had been the first GOP member to be elected mayor of Macon, Georgia) won a plurality 17,830 votes (41 percent) over 2nd-place finisher Harold Dye and his 9,870 votes (23 percent) and George Lankford's 8,618 votes (17.95%).


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican nomination
In the runoff, Thompson won with 22,211 votes (50.6 percent) to Dye's 21,669 votes (49.3 percent).


1974 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election results
In a year marred by Richard Nixon's resignation just three months earlier alongside the continued domination of Georgia by the Democratic Party and Thompson's dividing of the GOP that inspired leaders in the party to not openly support him, Busbee was elected in a landslide. Douglas and Clayton County were the only two counties that Thompson won the most votes in. Two years later, a revision of the Georgia Constitution was done that included a rule to allow a Governor to be elected to a consecutive term. Subsequently, Busbee ran for Governor again four years later. Zell Miller was elected as lieutenant governor, serving for 16 years.


1974 Georgia's 6th congressional district election
The 1974 United States House of Representatives election in Georgia's 6th congressional district was the election for the Representative of Georgia's 6th district to the United States House of Representatives which was held on November 4, 1974. This election is notable for being the beginning of a political career of a then-little known professor from the University of West Georgia and future Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich.


1974 Georgia's 6th congressional district election
Incumbent Representative John J. Flynt in his previous nine runs had never faced any serious challenge, winning re-election in 1972 without any formal opposition. However, in 1974, he was nearly defeated by political newcomer Newt Gingrich. This came as a considerable surprise. Flynt was known as one of the most conservative Democrats in the House, and 1974 was a very poor year for Republicans nationally due to fallout from Watergate. Gingrich would face Flynt in another close race in 1976, but come short again. Flynt would retire in 1978 rather than fight another close match (and possibly unsuccessful re-election bid) with Gingrich, thus finally giving Republicans a victory in a district that had not elected a Republican to the House of Representatives since Reconstruction.


1974 German Formula Three Championship
The 1974 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1974 ADAC Preis der Formel 3) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 5 May at Neubiberg and ended at Nürburgring on 8 September after ten rounds.


1974 German Formula Three Championship
Willi Deutsch was the champion, winning four races and 137 points. Dieter Kern finished as runner-up, winning five races and 135 points. Ernst Maring completed the top-three in the drivers' standings. Harald Ertl was the only other driver who was able to win a race in the season.


1974 German Formula Three Championship, Calendar
All rounds were held in West Germany, excepting Salzburg round which were held in Austria.


1974 German Grand Prix
The 1974 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 4 August 1974. It was race 11 of 15 in both the 1974 World Championship of Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was the 36th German Grand Prix and the 33rd to be held at the Nürburgring complex of circuits. The race was won by Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni driving a Ferrari 312B3. Regazzoni led every lap on the way to his second Grand Prix victory, some four years after his debut victory at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix. South African driver Jody Scheckter was second driving a Tyrrell 007 ahead of Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann (Brabham BT44).


1974 German Grand Prix
Since the 1973 event the main straight had been widened and resurfaced. In response to new FIA regulations stating that all FIA-mandated races must have safety walls, the organizers replaced the bushes lining the straight with Armco and placed sandy surface where grass could grow on both sides of the straight. Regazzoni's win, coupled with Niki Lauda's first lap crash, put the Swiss Ferrari driver back into the lead of the championship he had previous held earlier in the year. Lauda crashed his Ferrari 312B3 attempting to pass Scheckter.


1974 German Grand Prix
Emerson Fittipaldi also was an early retirement after making a very slow start in his McLaren M23 and was struck by his teammate Denny Hulme putting out both cars within a lap. Hulme attempted to restart the race in a spare car and was disqualified for doing so. Mike Hailwood was another to crash, having a large accident on the second last lap at Pflanzgarten in his McLaren M23. The former motorcyclist received a badly broken leg in the accident which became a career-ending injury.


1974 German Grand Prix
Occasional showers fell during the race, contributing to the accident toll which also claimed Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell 007), Jacques Laffite (Williams FW02) and John Watson (Brabham BT44). Just 14 cars finished the race, although Hailwood would also be classified as a finisher, out of the 26 starters. There was six cars who failed to qualify including Chris Amon (Amon AF101) who pulled out due to illness.


1974 German Grand Prix
Howden Ganley also suffered a serious accident during Friday's practice. The rear suspension failed on the Maki at Hatzenbach and he swerved right into the Armco barrier, ripping off the nose section of the car. Ganley's legs were dangling out the front of the car. He got out by himself but he collapsed when he got to the fence, his ankles seriously injured. This led to Ganley's retirement from Formula 1.


1974 German Grand Prix
Regazzoni moved into a three-point lead in the championship over Scheckter. Former points leader Lauda dropped to third, six points behind his Ferrari teammate and just one ahead of Fittipaldi. Ferrari moved eight points clear of McLaren in the constructor's standings.


1974 German Grand Prix, Classification, Qualifying
*Positions with a pink background indicate drivers that failed to qualify. Ashley failed to qualify, but started at the back of the grid.


1974 German Open (tennis)
The 1974 Grand Prix German Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 66th edition of the event and was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 20 May through 26 May 1974. Third-seeded Eddie Dibbs won the singles title.


1974 German Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Jürgen Fassbender /  Hans-Jürgen Pohmann defeated  Brian Gottfried /  Raúl Ramírez 6–3, 6–4, 6–4


1974 German Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Helga Hösl /  Raquel Giscafré defeated  Martina Navratilova /  Renáta Tomanová 6–3, 6–2


1974 German Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles
Heide Orth /  Jürgen Fassbender defeated  Katja Ebbinghaus / Hans-Jürgen Pohmann 7–6, 6–3


1974 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election
General elections were held in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on 4 April 1974. All candidates ran as independents.


1974 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Background
The system of government was changed again prior to the 1974 elections; the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Order 1974 replaced the Legislative Council with a 31-member House of Assembly, including 28 elected members and three ex officio members. A Council of Ministers replaced the Executive Council, and consisted of the Chief Minister elected by the House of Assembly and six ministers. Only around 60% of people eligible to vote registered to do so.


1974 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Results
Leader of Government business, Reuben Uatioa, who had been favourite to become the first Chief Minister was defeated by Abete Merang in Urban Tarawa. Voter turnout was around 70%.


1974 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Aftermath
Following the elections, Naboua Ratieta was appointed Chief Minister. Ratieta appointed a six-member cabinet, including Ellice Islanders Sione Tui Kleis as Minister for Commerce and Industry and Isakala Paeniu as Minister for Natural Resources. Bwebwetake Areieta became Minister of Communications, Works and Utilities, Tekarei Russell was Minister of Health and Welfare, Roniti Teiwaki was Minister of Education, Training and Culture, Ibeata Tonganibeia was Minister of State and Teweai Uaruta was Minister of Local Government and Rural Development. Uatioa was appointed Speaker. Toaripi Lauti was considered to be the Leader of the Opposition.


1974 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Aftermath
When the Ellice Islands separated following a referendum later in 1974, the eight seats representing the Ellice Islands were abolished. Otiuea Tanentoa replaced Kleis as Minister for Commerce and Industry.


1974 Gillette Cup
The 1974 Gillette Cup was the twelfth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 29 June and 7 September 1974. The tournament was won by Kent County Cricket Club who defeated Lancashire County Cricket Club by 4 wickets in the final at Lord's.


1974 Gillette Cup, Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Buckinghamshire, Durham, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire and Shropshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 7 September 1974.


1974 Giro d'Italia
The 1974 Giro d'Italia was the 57th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Vatican City, on 16 May, with a 164 km (102 mi) stage and concluded in Milan, on 8 June, with 257 km (160 mi) leg. A total of 140 riders from fourteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Belgian Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team. The second and third places were taken by Italians Gianbattista Baronchelli (Scic) and Felice Gimondi (Bianchi), respectively.


1974 Giro d'Italia
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Roger De Vlaeminck (Brooklyn) won the points classification and José Manuel Fuente of KAS won the mountains classification. KAS finished as the winners of the team points classification. Merckx's victory in the 1974 Giro was his first step in completing the Triple Crown of Cycling–winning the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, and the World Championship road race in one calendar year–becoming the first rider ever to do so.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Teams
A total of fourteen teams were invited to participate in the 1974 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 140 cyclists. Three riders from Rokado did not start the race after enrolling, which reduced the starting field to 137. From the riders that began this edition, 96 made it to the finish Milan.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Reigning champion and four-time winner Eddy Merckx (Molteni) returned to the race in 1974 to defend his crown and to claim fifth victory and join the likes of Alfredo Binda and Fausto Coppi who also had five Giro victories. He arrived to the race the day before after racing in the Four Days of Dunkirk. Merckx came into the Giro d'Italia after not having won a single spring classic for the first time since 1965. In March, he was forced to take a rest from cycling due to a respiratory ailment.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Merckx gradually returned to racing after beating the illness in late March, and writer Giuliano Califano stated that several experts found him to be in great form coming into the Giro. La Stampa writer Gianni Pignata felt Merckx's form and his poor performances in the early season would provide motivation for this race. In particular, he referenced Merckx's poor sprinting in the early season and how the Giro was his first race longer than seven stages this season. Merckx himself told a radiohost "After my long illness, I am now in an increasing form and I estimate myself already for 80 hundred of my means," before the race started.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
José Manuel Fuente (Kas) was thought to have entered the Giro in good form after winning the Vuelta a España weeks earlier. Pignata commented that Fuente would provide Merckx a stiff opposition through his ability to attack in the mountains, but his poor time trialing ability was his weakness. l'Unita interviewed several of the riders and many named Merckx as the favorite to take the victory. The third main contender to win the race named by the media was reigning world champion Felice Gimondi (Bianchi).


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Gimondi was viewed to have a strong team for support which included former world champion and sprinter Marino Basso, Antoine Houbrechts, and Martín Emilio Rodríguez, among others. Gimondi downplayed his chances stating that he was not 20 year-old anymore and "... it takes me a long time to get into action."


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Scic's Gianbattista Baronchelli, Tour de l'Avenir winner Giovanni Battaglin (Jolly Ceramica), and Francesco Moser (Filcas) as three young riders who have the potential to become stars during the race. Despite suffering an accident early in the season, Pignata believed Battaglin's participation in the Tour de Romandie provided a great lead-up into the Giro. Moser was thought to have a strong season and showed a sprinting prowess as evidenced by his second place in Paris–Roubaix.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Pignata ultimately concluded that these younger riders should not be cautious during the race as it would play into the hands of Merckx, who then would only have to react to Fuente's attacks. Amid rumors of not participating, Luis Ocaña confirmed his absence due to bronchitis three days prior to the start. La Stampa columnist Maurizio Caravella gave Merckx a 60% chance to win, while giving Gimondi, Fuente, and Battaglin at 10% chance and Baronchelli and Moser a 5% chance at victory. The peloton also featured 1971 winner Gösta Pettersson (Magniflex).


1974 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
The route for the 1974 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by race director Vincenzo Torriani on 29 March 1974. It contained one were individual time trial. There were eleven stages containing twenty three categorized climbs, of which four had summit finishes: stage 11a, to Il Cioccio; stage 16, to Monte Generoso; stage 18, to Borgo Valsugana; and stage 20, to Tre Cime di Lavaredo. In total the race route contained 26.78 km (17 mi) of official climbing across the twenty-three climbs. The organizers chose to include two rest days, in Capri and Sanremo.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 200 km (124 mi) longer, lacked a prologue, and had the same number of rest days and individual time trials. In addition, this race contained two more stages, as well as one more set of half stages. In Italy, the race was televised daily in thirty-minute segments at during the evening on the second channel of RAI. The race, however, was still to be broadcast normally over radio.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
Upon the release of the route in March, La Stampa writer Gianni Pignata believed that the first leg of the split eleventh stage, to Il Cioccio, along with stages 20 and 21, which featured eight total climbs in the Dolomites, would be decisive in determining the race's winner. Pignata believed this edition of the Giro d'Italia was geared towards climbers. He added that if a rider wanted to best Merckx, he would need to make his move earlier in the race and not wait for the Dolomites, as Merckx would likely be in top form by then.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
After looking over the race route, Italian rider Basso stated that there were few opportunities for sprinters to try and win a stage. Two-time winner Gimondi felt the race started off hard and agreed with Pignata and Basso, in that the race favored climbers and lacked chances for sprint finishes. He stated that the route suited the riding styles of Ocaña, Merckx, and Jose Manuel Fuente. In addition, Gimondi criticized Torriani for placing a rest day in after the third day of racing, stating that there was no justification for it there. The route did not enter the high mountains until 27 May, which was thought to work against Fuente's chances to win the race and take advantage of Merckx's unknown condition.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The first day of racing was gearing up to finish with a bunch sprint, when neo-professional cyclist Wilfried Reybrouck attacked with 400 meters to go. Reybrouck managed to hold off the chasing sprinters Roger De Vlaeminck and Basso, among others to win the stage. A strike had been rumored to happen on the race route near Naples, which caused the riders to stick together and not attack. The pack of riders finished together, with Belgian Patrick Sercu taking the stage victory.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The third stage featured a late climb of Mount Faito, where José Manuel Fuente attacked ten kilometers from the summit and rode 25 kilometers solo to the finish. Merckx, Baronchelli, Gimondi, Moser, and other general classification hopefuls remained behind and attacked each other within the group until the finish. The group finished 33 seconds after Fuente, but Merckx, who had been dropped, lost 42 seconds to Fuente, along with some other riders. Race leader Reybrouck lost the lead to Fuente upon finishing thirty minutes behind and ultimately being eliminated from the race because he finished outside the time limit. This was the first time a rider had gone from leading the race to being disqualified after the next stage in the race's history.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The following stage was interrupted 102 kilometers into the day for five minutes because of a strike conducted in response to a dam built. Pierino Gavazzi won the first stage of his career upon beating the likes of De Vlaeminck and Franco Bitossi. During the sprint, José Gonzales Linares and Jos Huysmans led out their teammates respective teammates Fuente and Merckx, but were found guilty of illegally boosting their teammates during the sprint. The four riders were fined 50,000 lire each and relegated to 37th position on the stage.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The sixth leg had little action until the final twenty kilometers, when the headwinds picked up and splintered the peloton into several groups just hundreds of meters apart. Giacinto Santambrogio made a move closer to the finish line and rode solo until Bitossi joined him. Eventually Bitossi dropped Santambrogio and then held off the charging sprinters in order to win the day, which was his 100th career victory.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Ugo Colombo won the race's seventh leg after telling race leader Fuente he was riding up the road to greet some family - as is custom - although none of his family lived anywhere near the region. Colombo was allowed a maximum advantage of around thirteen minutes before the peloton closed the gap to within one minute. The race for second place brought out the general classification contenders as there was a slight incline near the end of the stage.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
In particular, Francesco Moser, Merckx, and De Vlaeminck attacked several times and Fuente could not counter, allowing the riders to gain seven seconds on the race lead. The eighth leg of the race was a rather flat stage that featured heavy winds throughout the stage. During the stage a dog ran in the road and caused a reaction in the peloton, but no injuries or falls were reported. As the main field rode under the kilometer to go banner, they had just caught the leading rider Zilioli who had made a last ditch solo effort to win the stage.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Merckx opened up the sprint as the group made the final bend into the final 200 meters. His wheel skidded out and forced him to ride and graze the barriers, which hindered several sprinters who had been using his slipstream. Bitossi and Martín Emilio Rodríguez (Bianchi) contested the sprint the best, with Bitossi taking the day after coming of Rodríguez' wheel.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
There were three main individual classifications contested in the 1974 Giro d'Italia, as well as a team competition. Three of them awarded jerseys to their leaders. The general classification was the most important and was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Giro. The rider leading the classification wore a pink jersey to signify the classification's leadership.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the top positions in a stage finish, with first place getting the most points, and lower placings getting successively fewer points. The rider leading this classification wore a purple (or cyclamen) jersey. The mountains classification was the third classification and its leader was denoted by the green jersey. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
Most stages of the race included one or more categorized climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs. The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The first rider to cross the Tre Cime di Lavaredo was Spanish rider José Manuel Fuente.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The final classification, the team classification, awarded no jersey to its leaders. This was calculated by adding together points earned by each rider on the team during each stage through the intermediate sprints, the categorized climbs, stage finishes, etc. The team with the most points led the classification.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
There were other minor classifications within the race, including the neo-professional competition. The classification was determined in the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing).


1974 Giro d'Italia, Aftermath
This victory in the race gave Merckx five career victories at the Giro d'Italia, equaling the record of Binda and Coppi. In July, Merckx entered the Tour de France. He emerged victorious, winning eight stages en route to his fifth career Tour victory, again equaling the record for career Tour victories. He won the Tour by a margin of eight minutes and four seconds over the second-place finisher and thus became the only cyclist to win the Giro and Tour in the same year three times in a career.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Aftermath
In August, he won the men's road race at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships and became the first rider to achieve the Triple Crown of Cycling, which consists of winning two Grand Tour races and the men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships in a calendar year. For his career successes in the Giro d'Italia, Merckx became the first rider inducted into the race's Hall of Fame in 2012. When being inducted, Merckx was given the modern-day trophy with the winners engraved until 1974, the last year he won the race.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b
The 1974 Giro d'Italia was the 57th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in the Vatican City on 16 May, and Stage 11b occurred on 27 May with a stage to Forte dei Marmi. The race finished in Milan on 8 June.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 1
16 May 1974 — Vatican City to Formia, 164 km (102 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 2
17 May 1974 — Formia to Pompei, 121 km (75 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 3
18 May 1974 — Pompei to Sorrento, 137 km (85 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 4
20 May 1974 — Sorrento to Sapri, 208 km (129 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 5
21 May 1974 — Sapri to Taranto, 215 km (134 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 6
22 May 1974 — Taranto to Foggia, 206 km (128 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 7
23 May 1974 — Foggia to Chieti, 257 km (160 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 8
24 May 1974 — Chieti to Macerata, 150 km (93 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 9
25 May 1974 — Macerata to Carpegna, 191 km (119 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 10
26 May 1974 — Carpegna to Modena, 205 km (127 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 11a
27 May 1974 — Modena to Il Ciocco, 153 km (95 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11b, Stage 11b
27 May 1974 — Il Ciocco to Forte dei Marmi, 62 km (39 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22
The 1974 Giro d'Italia was the 57th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in the Vatican City on 16 May, and Stage 12 occurred on 28 May with a stage from Forte dei Marmi. The race finished in Milan on 8 June.


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 12
28 May 1974 — Forte dei Marmi to Forte dei Marmi, 40 km (25 mi) (ITT)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 13
30 May 1974 — Forte dei Marmi to Pietra Ligure, 231 km (144 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 14
31 May 1974 — Pietra Ligure to Sanremo, 189 km (117 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 15
1 June 1974 — Sanremo to Valenza, 206 km (128 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 16
2 June 1974 — Valenza to Monte Generoso, 158 km (98 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 17
3 June 1974 — Como to Iseo, 158 km (98 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 18
4 June 1974 — Iseo to Sella Valsugana, 190 km (120 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 19
5 June 1974 — Borgo Valsugana to Pordenone, 146 km (91 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 20
6 June 1974 — Pordenone to Tre Cime di Lavaredo, 163 km (101 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 21
7 June 1974 — Misurina to Bassano del Grappa, 194 km (121 mi)


1974 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 22
8 June 1974 — Bassano del Grappa to Milan, 257 km (160 mi)


1974 Giro di Lombardia
The 1974 Giro di Lombardia was the 68th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 12 October 1974. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck of the Brooklyn team.


1974 Golden Helmet (Poland)
The Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Złoty Kask, ZK) is an annual motorcycle speedway event, and has been organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1961. Currently the race is held in PC Team 3rd from last season (previously Wrocław), with the top twelve riders in the Extraleague and the top four riders in the First League.


1974 Golden Helmet (Poland)
1974 Golden Helmet season was the 14th since its establishment.


1974 Golden Helmet (Poland), Final classification
Note: Result from final score was subtracted with two the weakest events.


1974 Goulburn state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Goulburn on 20 July 1974 because Country Party member Ron Brewer resigned to contest the 1974 federal election for Eden-Monaro. Brewer was defeated by 146 votes, and re-contested Goulburn.


1974 Governor General's Awards
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.


1974 Goyder state by-election
The Goyder state by-election, 1974 was a by-election held on 8 June 1974 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Goyder. This was triggered by the resignation of former Premier and Liberal and Country League/Liberal Movement MHA Steele Hall, who resigned to run for the Australian Senate at the 1974 federal election. Created and first contested at the 1970 state election, the seat had been held by the Liberal parties since its creation. Hall won the seat at the 1973 state election as an LCL candidate but afterward changed to the LM.


1974 Goyder state by-election, Results
D D Gardner, who contested the previous election as an independent on 17.6 percent, stood under the LCL banner at the by-election. The Liberal Movement easily retained the seat.


1974 Grambling State Tigers football team
The 1974 Grambling Tigers football team represented Grambling State University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. In its 32nd season under head coach Eddie Robinson, Grambling compiled an 11–1 record (5–1 against conference opponents), tied for the SWAC championship, defeated South Carolina State in the Pelican Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 308 to 120. The team was recognized as the 1974 black college football national co-champion and was ranked No. 7 by the Associated Press in the final 1974 NCAA College Division football rankings.


1974 Grambling State Tigers football team
Key players included freshman quarterback Doug Williams and split end Dwight Scales. Williams later played nine seasons in the National Football League.


1974 Grand National
Commentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1974 National


1974 Grand National
The 1974 Grand National was the 128th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 30 March 1974. The race is famous for the second of Red Rum's three Grand National wins. L'Escargot finished second.


1974 Grand National, Media coverage
David Coleman presented Grand National Grandstand, the fifteenth year the race was shown live.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis)
The 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The circuit consisted of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments and open tournaments recognised by the ILTF. The season-ending Commercial Union Assurance Masters and Davis Cup Final are included in this calendar but did not count towards the Grand Prix ranking.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule
The Grand Prix circuit was scheduled from May until December so that it would not to conflict with the competing World Championship Tennis circuit which ran from January until early May.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), Points system
The tournaments of the Grand Prix circuit were divided into five groups. Group TC consisted of the Triple Crown events—the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships, and the US Open—while the other tournaments were divided into four other groups—AA, A, B, and C—by prize money and draw size. Group AA tournaments had a minimum prize money of $100,000 while the minimum for Group A, B and C tournaments was $75,000, $50,000 and $25,000 respectively. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. No points were awarded to first-round losers, and ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. Grand Prix points were also allocated to doubles results for the first time this year and are listed in brackets in the points allocation below:


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), Points system
In addition a player could earn ranking points for participating in the Davis Cup team competition if the matches coincided with a Grand Prix tournament.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), ATP Rankings
These are the ATP Rankings of the top twenty singles players at the end of the 1973 season  and at the end of the 1974 season, with numbers of ranking points, points averages, numbers of tournaments played, year-end rankings in 1974, highest and lowest positions during the season and number of spots gained or lost from the first rankings to the year-end rankings.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), ATP Rankings
*The official ATP year-end rankings were listed from January 17th, 1975.


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners
The list of winners and number of Grand Prix singles titles won, sorted by number of titles (Grand Slam titles in bold):


1974 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners
The following players won their first Grand Prix title in 1974:


1974 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1974 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 26th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.


1974 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
MV Agusta and Phil Read claimed a second successive 500cc crown. It would be the Italian firm's last world championship and their seventeenth 500cc title in a row. Giacomo Agostini switched to the two-stroke Yamahas but was troubled by injuries and mechanical troubles. Suzuki started to get competitive with Barry Sheene and Jack Findlay on four cylinder two-strokes. MV Agusta pulled out of the 350cc class, giving Agostini a free run, taking his fourteenth world title.


1974 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Walter Villa took over for the deceased Renzo Pasolini and won the 250cc crown giving Harley-Davidson the title after they bought the Aermacchi factory, reworked  and renamed the bikes. Kent Andersson won his second championship title in the 125cc class. Kreidler continued to dominate the 50cc class with Dutchman Henk Van Kessel winning the crown.


1974 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Safety continued to be an issue with most riders boycotting the rainy German round at the improved Nürburgring Nordschleife as the track had not been fitted with straw bales to accommodate automobile racing on the same day. Thus, rather unknown German riders took all wins. It served as a focal point in the increasingly bitter debate about safety. British rider Billie Nelson died after crashing into the crowd during the 250cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix, injuring several spectators. He died later that night at a hospital.


1974 Grantland Rice Bowl
The 1974 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA Division II game following the 1974 season, between the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens and the UNLV Rebels. This was the first time that the game was played at Tiger Stadium on the campus of LSU. Delaware running back Vern Roberts was named the game's outstanding offensive player, while his teammate defensive back Mike Ebersol was named the game's outstanding defensive player.


1974 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants
UNLV running back Mike Thomas and wide receiver Steve Haggerty were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft, while guard Joe Ingersoll was selected in the 1976 NFL Draft. Quarterback Glenn Carano, tight end Reggie Haynes, and tackle Blanchard Carter were selected in the 1977 NFL Draft. Thomas, Ingersoll, Carano, and wide receiver Mike Haverty are inductees of the UNLV athletic hall of fame. Head coach Ron Meyer would later lead the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts.


1974 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants
Delaware running back Nate Beasley was selected in the 1976 NFL Draft. Beasley and head coach Tubby Raymond  are inductees of the Delaware athletics hall of fame. Raymond is an inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame, and the field at Delaware Stadium is named in his honor.


1974 Greek legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1974. They were the first after the end of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 and took place during the metapolitefsi era. The winner was Konstantinos Karamanlis and his newly formed conservative party, ND (New Democracy, Νέα Δημοκρατία). Karamanlis had already formed a government of national unity just after the fall of the dictatorship. The second biggest party was the centrist Center Union - New Forces (Ένωσις Κέντρου-Νέες Δυνάμεις). Third power in the Parliament became the newly formed PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα), a radical socialist party led by Andreas Papandreou, son of the former prime minister Georgios Papandreou.


1974 Greek legislative election, Aftermath
The new government decided to hold a referendum on retaining the republic. It was held on 8 December 1974.


1974 Greek legislative election, Aftermath
In 1975 Konstantinos Tsatsos, a close friend of Karamanlis, was elected President of the Republic by the Greek Parliament.


1974 Greek presidential election
An indirect election for the position of President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the Hellenic Parliament on 18 December 1974.


1974 Greek presidential election
Following the restoration of democracy in Greece, the 17 November 1974 election, and the abolition of the Greek monarchy in the 8 December 1974 referendum, distinguished jurist and former president of the Council of State Michail Stasinopoulos was elected as the first, President of the Third Hellenic Republic on 18 December with 206 votes. He served as an president until July 1975, when Konstantinos Tsatsos replaced him as the first regular President with the full five-year term.


1974 Greek republic referendum
A referendum on retaining the republic was held in Greece on 8 December 1974. After the collapse of the military junta that ruled the country from 1967, the issue of the form of government remained unsolved. The Junta had already staged a referendum held on 29 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic. However, after the fall of the military regime, the new government, under Constantine Karamanlis, decided to hold another one, as Junta legal acts were considered void. Constantine II, the former King, was banned by the new government from returning to Greece to campaign in the referendum, but the Karamanlis government allowed him to make a televised address to the nation. The proposal was approved by 69.2% of voters with a turnout of 75.6%.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Campaign
The referendum campaign included television debates in which Constantine himself took part on the monarchist side, whilst those debating in favour of a republic included Marios Ploritis, Leonidas Kyrkos, Phaedon Vegleris, George Koumandos, Alexandros Panagoulis and Costas Simitis, who later (from 1996 to 2004) served as Prime Minister of Greece.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Campaign
Political parties abstained from taking part in the referendum campaign, with the television debates confined to ordinary citizens who represented one side or the other. On 23 November 1974 Prime Minister Karamanlis requested that his parliamentary party group adopt a neutral stance on the issue. Two televised speeches a week were given to each side, with an additional two messages broadcast by the former king; a radio broadcast on 26 November and a television speech on 6 December.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Results
The electorate voted categorically in favour of republic. Crete gave more than 90% of its vote for a republic, whilst in around thirty constituencies the result for republic was around 60–70%. The biggest wins for monarchy were in Peloponnisos and Thrace, with around 45%. The constituencies with the highest votes for a monarchy were Laconia at 59.52%, Rhodope at 50.54%, Messenia with 49.24%, Elis at 46.88% and Argos at 46.67%.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Aftermath
With the announcement of the results, Karamanlis said: "A cancer has been removed from the body of the nation today." On 15 December 1974, the incumbent President, Phaedon Gizikis, submitted his resignation, and Karamanlis thanked him with a personal visit and in writing for his services to the country. On 18 December 1974, Michail Stasinopoulos, a state list MP for New Democracy, was elected and sworn in as President of Greece.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Aftermath
In February 1988, Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis stated in an interview given in London that, although he was a republican, the manner in which the referendum was carried out was "unfair". The statement attracted wide criticism in Greece at the time and was debated in the media. For the remainder of his life, and under the pretense of invoking the narrative style reserved for historical reminiscence, Mitsotakis continued to refer to the deposed monarch deferentially, referring to him as the "King" in multiple interviews.


1974 Greek republic referendum, Aftermath
In April 2007, the newspaper To Vima carried out a survey in which only 11.6% of those polled wished for Greece to become a monarchy again.


1974 Green Bay Packers season
The 1974 Green Bay Packers season was their 56th season overall and their 54th season in the National Football League. The team finished with a 6–8 record under fourth-year head coach Dan Devine, a consecutive third-place finish in the NFC Central division. The Packers lost their last three games, all to non-playoff teams.


1974 Green Bay Packers season
With a year remaining on his five-year contract, Devine resigned a day after the last game of the regular season and returned to college football at Notre Dame, following the sudden retirement of Ara Parseghian. Devine was succeeded as head coach at Green Bay by hall of fame quarterback Bart Starr, hired on Christmas Eve.


1974 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
The 1974 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 4th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Sisimiut. It was won by Siumut Amerdlok Kunuk.


1974 Greenwich London Borough Council election
The 1974 Greenwich Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
The 1974 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the tenth edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 15 September 1974. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Freddy Maertens.


1974 Guatemalan general election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 3 March 1974. All candidates had to be members of the military, but with opposition candidate Efraín Ríos Montt leading the count in the presidential election, the government stopped releasing updates and several days later declared the military's preferred candidate Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García as the winner. Opposition Congress members subsequently boycotted the confirmation vote, and Ríos Montt was posted to Madrid by the army.


1974 Guatemalan general election
The Congressional elections were won by an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party and the National Liberation Movement. The National Opposition Front was an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy, the Social Democratic Party and the Authentic Revolutionary Party.


1974 Guinean general election
General elections were held in Guinea on 27 December 1974 to elect a President and National Assembly. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally as the sole legal party. Its leader Ahmed Sékou Touré was re-elected President unopposed, whilst in the National Assembly elections the party produced a list of 150 candidates for the 150 seats (increased from 75). It was ultimately approved by 100% of voters with turnout reported to be 99.7%.


1974 Hackney London Borough Council election
The 1974 Hackney Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 1974 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 17th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 25th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with a 7–9 record, but lost the Eastern Semi-Final to the Ottawa Rough Riders. In 1974, Tony Gabriel had a career year as he caught 61 passes for 795 yards to lead the East in pass receiving. It was also Gabriel's last season in Hamilton. Hamilton sent Gabriel to the Ottawa Rough Riders at the end of the season because Gabriel suggested that the players should get a raise when the East increased the number of games played from 14 to 16 in 1974.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election
The 1974 Hammersmith Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Hammersmith London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
Both Labour and the Conservatives fielded a full slate of 60 candidate, as usual.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
The Liberal Party ran 19 candidates across seven wards - an increase on the seven candidates across three wards which they ran in 1971.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
In an era when candidates could choose their party designation without reference to an officially registered entity - two candidates in the Avonmore ward ran under the 'Powellite Conservative' banner. These were the only candidates across the whole of the London local elections to use this designation.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
Whilst 125 people across London stood as Communist Party candidates - there was just one in Hammersmith. Mr J Gould stood again in the White City ward.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
Across London 72 people stood under the 'Save London Action Group' banner - but in Hammersmith there was a single such candidate, in the Crabtree ward.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
Two independent candidates stood for election - one each in Crabtree ward and St Stephen's ward.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Background
A total of 145 candidates put themselves forward for the 60 seats.


1974 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Election result
The Labour Party won 48 seats - a loss of 10 seats from the previous election, but remained firmly in control. The Conservative Party won 10 seats - a gain of 8 seats from their previous result. The Liberal Party won 2 seats - a gain of two from the last election, and the first time that any party other than Labour and the Conservatives won a seat on this council. One of the newly elected Liberal councillors (Simon Knott) previously stood as a candidate at all three elections for the same ward.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000
The 1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars, held at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1974. The race was  Round 3 of the 1974 Australian Manufacturers' Championship and was the 15th in a sequence of annual “Bathurst 1000” races commencing with the 1960 Armstrong 500.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000
The wettest race in the event's history to that time saw John Goss and Kevin Bartlett take victory in a Ford Falcon GT under pressure in the late stages from the Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34 of Bob Forbes and Wayne Negus. New Zealand drivers Jim Richards and Rod Coppins finished third, five laps down in another Holden Torana SL/R 5000 L34. 1974 marked what was the longest running in the race's history at the time, at 7h 50m 59.01s. This record stood until the 2014 race, which ran for 7h 58m 53.20s.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000
The No.1 Holden Dealer Team Torana of pole winner Peter Brock and Brian Sampson dominated the first ⅔ of the race and had built up an incredible 6 lap lead over the field until their race was ended on lap 118. The expected challenge from defending race winner Allan Moffat and his co-driver, 1971 European Touring Car Champion Dieter Glemser in their XB Falcon was in trouble early. Moffat, who had easily won the Sandown 250 a month earlier, only qualified in 15th place and after numerous engine and gearbox problems, the Falcon was retired after 92 laps with engine failure.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, Up to 1300cc
The Up to 1300cc class  was contested by Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior, Datsun 1200, Ford Escort, Honda Civic, Mazda 1300, Morris Cooper S and Morris Clubman GT.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, 1301 – 2000cc
The 1301 – 2000cc class  was contested by Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV, Datsun 180B, Ford Escort, Mazda RX-3 and Volkswagen Passat.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, 2001 – 3000cc
The 2001 – 3000cc class  was contested by BMW 3.0Si, Datsun 240K, Ford Capri, Holden Torana, Leyland Marina and Mazda RX-3.


1974 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, 3001 – 6000cc
The 3001 – 6000cc class  was contested by Ford Falcon, Holden Monaro and Holden Torana.


1974 Hardy Cup
The 1974 Hardy Cup was the 1974 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election
The 1974 Haringey Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Haringey London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Alexandra-Bowes
D. F. W. Billingsley was a sitting councillor for Noel Park ward. R. A. Penton was a sitting councillor for Noel Park ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Coleraine
Mrs D. Cunningham was a sitting councillor for Seven Sisters ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Crouch End
U. M. Thompson was a sitting councillor for South Hornsey ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Muswell Hill
Miss C. D. Jackson was a sitting councillor for Stroud Green ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Noel Park
A. G. Krokou was a sitting councillor for West Green ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Stroud Green
Mrs E. M. Murphy was a sitting councillor for Town Hall ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Town Hall
Mrs L. H. Lipson was a sitting councillor for South Hornsey ward. Mrs S. A. Berkery Smith was a sitting councillor for South Tottenham ward.


1974 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, West Green
D. Clark was a sitting councillor for Tottenham Central ward.


1974 Harrow London Borough Council election
The 1974 Harrow Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council.


1974 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1974 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Harvard was co-champion of the Ivy League.


1974 Harvard Crimson football team
In their fourth year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents 236 to 129. Brian P. Hehir was the team captain.


1974 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard's 6–1  conference record tied for best in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 191 to 91. Harvard shared the league title with Yale, despite beating the Bulldogs in the final game of the season.


1974 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.


1974 Havering London Borough Council election
The 1974 Havering Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went in no overall control.


1974 Hawaii Open
The 1974 Hawaii Open, also known by its sponsored name Island Holidays Pro Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played an outdoor hard courts in Maui, Hawaii, USA. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 30 September through 6 October 1974. The tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and categorized in Group B. Second-seeded John Newcombe won the singles title and $9,000 first-prize money.


1974 Hawaii Open, Finals, Doubles
Dick Stockton /  Roscoe Tanner defeated  Owen Davidson /  John Newcombe 6–3, 7–6


1974 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
The 1974 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Larry Price, the Rainbow Warriors compiled a 6–5 record.


1974 Hawaii gubernatorial election
The 1974 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's fifth gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 5, 1974, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. George Ariyoshi over Republican candidate, former State Senator Randolph Crossley. Ariyoshi received more votes than Crossley in every county in the state.


1974 Hawaii gubernatorial election
Although he was by law Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii at the time of this election, George Ariyoshi had had all the power and responsibility of the Governorship since October 26, 1973, when Governor John A. Burns was incapacitated due to illness and Ariyoshi was made acting governor.


1974 Hawaii gubernatorial election
This was Crossley's second failed attempt to win the Governorship, having previously lost the 1966 election.


1974 Hawaii gubernatorial election, Primaries
Both the Democratic and Republican were held on October 5, 1974, with the Democratic primary strongly contested.


1974 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1974 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 50th season in the Victorian Football League and 73rd overall. Hawthorn qualified for finals for the first time since 1971, where they were defeated by North Melbourne in the Preliminary final 51–56.


1974 Herbert Pell Cup
The 1974 Herbert Pell Cup was held in Newport, Rhode Island, United States in 1974. The winner, Southern Cross, was awarded the Herbert Pell Cup and went on to challenge for the 1974 America's Cup.


1974 Herbert Pell Cup
In a defenders selection series that was held simultaneously, four boats competed for the right to defend the America's Cup.


1974 Herbert Pell Cup, The teams, Southern Cross (AUS)
Representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club, Southern Cross was owned by Alan Bond. The boat was skippered by James Hardy and the crew included tactician John Cuneo, mainsheet trimmer John Bertrand, grinder Rob Stirling, tactician Hugh Treharne, Noel Robins, Warren Jones, Jack Baxter, James Sargeant, John Longley and Kenneth Judge.


1974 Herbert Pell Cup, The teams, France (FRA)
France was owned by Marcel Bich, skippered by Jean Marie Le Guillot and represented Cercle de la Voile de Paris. The same boat competed in the 1970 Herbert Pell Cup.


1974 Herbert Pell Cup, Matches
In a best of seven series, Southern Cross was undefeated and won the series 4-0.


1974 Highland Regional Council election
The first election to Highland Regional Council was held on 7 May 1974 as part of the wider 1974 Scottish local elections. The election saw Independents win control of 37 of the councils 47 seats.


1974 Hillingdon London Borough Council election
The 1974 Hillingdon Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Hillingdon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1974 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Ed Doherty returned for his fourth year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 5–5–1.


1974 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
All home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1974 Honduran Segunda División
The 1974 Honduran Segunda División was the eighth season of the Honduran Segunda División. Under the management of Héctor Bernárdez, C.D. Atlántida won the tournament after defeating Salamar de San Lorenzo in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1975–76 Honduran Liga Nacional.


1974 Hounslow London Borough Council election
The 1974 Hounslow Council election took place on 2 May 1974 to elect members of Hounslow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1974 Houses of Parliament bombing
On 17 June 1974 the Provisional IRA bombed the British Houses of Parliament causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people.


1974 Houses of Parliament bombing, Background
The Provisional IRA began a bombing campaign of mainland Britain in March 1973 when they bombed the Old Bailey court house, injuring over 200 people. The following year  was the worst year of the Troubles outside of Northern Ireland: at the beginning of 1974 the IRA exploded a bomb on a coach carrying soldiers and some family members on the M62, killing 12 people including four civilians. A month before the Houses of Parliament bombing, 34 people were killed in the Republic of Ireland in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974 carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force, the worst single incident of the conflict.


1974 Houses of Parliament bombing, Bombing
A man with an Irish accent telephoned the Press Association with a warning given just six minutes before the device exploded. London police said a recognised IRA codeword was given. The bomb exploded in a corner of Westminster Hall at about 08:30 am on 17 June 1974. The IRA in a telephoned warning said it planted the bomb that weighed around 20 lb (9.1 kg). The explosion is suspected to have damaged a gas main and a fire spread fast through the centuries-old hall in one of Britain's most security-tight buildings.


1974 Houses of Parliament bombing, Bombing
An annex housing a canteen and a number of offices was destroyed, but the great hall itself received only light damage. The attack signaled the start of a renewed IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland that was to last until late 1975 and was to claim the lives of dozens of people. The most notorious attacks of the bombing campaign were the Guildford pub bombings in October 1974 that killed five and injured 60, and the Birmingham pub bombings of November 1974, which killed 21 people and injured 180.


1974 Houses of Parliament bombing, Aftermath
The year 1974 ended with the IRA killing 28 people (23 civilians and 5 British soldiers) in bombing operations in mainland Britain, 21 people were killed in the Birmingham pub bombings and a further 7 were killed in the Guildford and Woolwich Pub bombings. Nearly 300 people were injured from these bombings alone. The IRA called off their bombing campaign in February 1975 but restarted it in August 1975 with a bombing in a Caterham pub which  injured over 30 people. A week later the same IRA unit carried out the London Hilton bombing which killed 2 and injured over 60.


1974 Houston Astros season
The 1974 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the National League West with a record of 81–81, 21 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.


1974 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1974 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1974 Houston Cougars football team
The 1974 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The team was coached by 13th-year head coach Bill Yeoman, compiled an 8–3–1 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 280 to 185.


1974 Houston Oilers season
The 1974 Houston Oilers season was the 15th season overall and fifth with the National Football League. The team improved upon their previous season's 1–13 record, winning seven games. Despite the improvement, they failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season.


1974 Houston Oilers season, Schedule, Preseason
Due to a player's strike affecting the 1974 preseason, the Oilers, like the rest of the NFL, played the preseason using an all-rookie roster. The strike was resolved prior to the start of the regular season.


1974 Houston Oilers season, Schedule, Preseason
On July 16, the Oilers played a preseason game vs the minor league San Antonio Toros, marking the last time an NFL team would play a game against a minor league team. (In 1969, the Atlanta Falcons rookies would play the minor league Alabama Hawks and in 1972 the New York Jets rookies would play the minor league Long Island Chiefs)


1974 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1974 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).


1974 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1974 Lumberjacks were led by ninth-year head coach Bud Van Deren. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of four wins and six losses (4–6, 2–3 FWC). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 201–200 for the season.


1974 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege
The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
From July 24 to August 3, 1974, Federico "Fred" Gomez Carrasco and two other inmates laid siege to the education/library building of the Walls Unit. "Fred" Carrasco, the most powerful heroin kingpin in South Texas, was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer. He was also suspected in the murder of dozens of people in Mexico and Texas. Having smuggled pistols and ammunition into the prison, he and two other convicts took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
At the precise moment that a one o'clock work bell sounded, Carrasco walked up a ramp to the third-story library and forced several prisoners out at gunpoint. When two guards tried to go up the ramp, Carrasco fired at them. His two accomplices, who were also armed, immediately joined him in the library. The prison warden and the director of the Texas Department of Corrections immediately began negotiations with the convicts. FBI agents and Texas Rangers arrived to assist them, as the media descended on Huntsville.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
Over the next several days the convicts made a number of demands, such as tailored suits, dress shoes, toothpaste, cologne, walkie-talkies and bulletproof helmets, all of which were provided promptly. With the approval of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, an armored getaway car was rolled into the prison courtyard. Carrasco claimed that they were planning to flee to Cuba and appeal to Fidel Castro.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
After a grueling eleven-day standoff, the convicts finally made their desperate escape attempt just before 10 PM on Saturday August 3, 1974. They moved out of the library toward the waiting vehicle in a makeshift shield consisting of legal books taped to mobile blackboards that was later dubbed by the press the "Trojan Taco". Inside the shield were the three convicts and four hostages, while eight other hostages ringed the exterior of the "taco".


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
Acting on a prearranged plan, prison guards and Texas Rangers blasted the group with fire hoses. However, a rupture in the hose gave the convicts time to fatally shoot the two women hostages who had volunteered to join the convicts in the armored car. When prison officials returned fire, Carrasco committed suicide and one of his two accomplices, Rodolpho Dominguez, was killed. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, who was an onsite reporter for Houston's KPRC-TV at the time, later wrote, "It is a tragedy that two hostages died. It is a miracle all the rest lived."


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Siege
The two female hostages who were killed during the incident were Yvonne Beseda and Julia Standley.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Aftermath
Ignacio Cuevas (July 31, 1931 – May 23, 1991), the surviving perpetrator, received the Texas Department of Corrections Death Row ID #526. Cuevas was received as a death row prisoner on May 30, 1975. Cuevas was held at the Ellis Unit, and he was executed on May 23, 1991. Cuevas's last meal request consisted of chicken dumplings, steamed rice, sliced bread, black-eyed peas, and iced tea. Cuevas's last words were "I'm going to a beautiful place. O.K., warden, roll 'em."


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Cultural references
Tex-Mex musician Joe "King" Carrasco (born Joe Teusch) adopted the drug king's surname.


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Cultural references
"When I was playing with the Mexican bands, they couldn't say Teusch," he says. "That was when Fred Carrasco had tried to break out of Huntsville back in 1974 with a big shootout. Carrasco was killed, so that week the Mexican guys said, "We're going to call you Carrasco."


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Cultural references
Los Socios de San Antonio have a tribute song entitled "La Muerte de Fred Gomez Carrasco".


1974 Huntsville Prison siege, Cultural references
The Riot and the "Trojan Taco" was also mentioned in the episode "The Reverse Midas Touch" during the 5th season of Orange is the New Black, in a news segment in which a historian unfolds several prison riots and the fatal consequence prisoners typically face afterwards.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Monza, Italy, at the Mirabello Racecourse on March 16, 1974. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Complete results for men, junior men, women, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 269 athletes from 23 countries.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
The Junior men's race at the 1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Monza, Italy, at the Mirabello Racecourse on March 16, 1974. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 75 athletes from 14 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
The Senior men's race at the 1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Monza, Italy, at the Mirabello Racecourse on March 16, 1974. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 125 athletes from 19 countries in the Senior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
The Senior women's race at the 1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Monza, Italy, at the Mirabello Racecourse on March 16, 1974. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 69 athletes from 13 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.


1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mexico City, Mexico in neighboring Xochimilco. This marked the first time the championships took place outside Europe. As of 2009, all championships have taken place either in Europe or North America. The lake was where the canoeing and rowing events took place for the 1968 Summer Olympics.


1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.


1974 IIHF European U19 Championship
The 1974 IIHF European U19 Championship was the seventh playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.


1974 IMSA GT Championship
The 1974 Camel GT Challenge season was the 4th season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. The series was for GTO and GTU class Grand tourer racing cars. It began April 21, 1974, and ended December 1, 1974, after twelve rounds. 1974 would be the first time that the series would leave the United States, with races in Canada and Mexico. It would also be the only time IMSA GT would leave northern North America (i.e. the United States and Canada). The TO and TU classes, which had been composed of former Trans Am Series cars from before the championship's debut, were dropped due to Trans Am having been "absorbed" by IMSA GT and thus becoming nigh indistinguishable from IMSA.


1974 IMSA GT Championship, Schedule
Some events were run twice, with each running counting as one round.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships
The 1974 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 41st Ice Hockey World Championships and the 52nd European Championships in ice hockey. The tournament took place in Finland from 5 to 20 April and the games were played in the capital, Helsinki. Six teams took part in the main tournament, all playing each other twice. The Soviet Union won the world championships for the 13th time, and also won their 16th European title.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships
The event was the second Ice Hockey World Championships hosted by Finland, and was organized by Harry Lindblad, president of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships
For the first time in ice hockey World Championship history, two players were suspended for doping. They were the Swede Ulf Nilsson and the Finn Stig Wetzell who failed a drug test for the forbidden substance ephedrine. Both players were suspended for the rest of the tournament. Nilsson failed the test after Sweden's game against Poland, which Sweden won 4–1. The game was awarded to Poland as a 5–0 forfeit. The Finn, Wetzell, failed the test after Finland's match against Czechoslovakia, which Finland won 5–2, which was also awarded to Czechoslovakia as a 5–0 forfeit. The Finns were able to defeat Czechoslovakia again on the last day, which would have earned the Finns their first medal in history, if not for the points lost in the forfeited win.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Finland)
East Germany were very unlucky to be relegated to Group B, as Poland's only win was the awarded default for a doping violation against Sweden.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group B (Yugoslavia)
Played in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia 21–30 March.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group B (Yugoslavia)
The USA was promoted to Group A, and both Norway and Austria were relegated to Group C.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group C (France)
Played in Grenoble, Gap and Lyon, 8–17 March. This was North Korea's first World Championship.


1974 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ranking and statistics, European championships final standings
The final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:


1974 Icelandic Cup
The 1974 Icelandic Cup was the 15th edition of the National Football Cup.


1974 Icelandic Cup
It took place between 3 July 1973 and 11 September 1974, with the final played at Laugardalsvöllur in Reykjavik. The cup was important, as winners qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (if a club won both the league and the cup, the defeated finalists would take their place in the Cup Winners' Cup).


1974 Icelandic Cup
Clubs from the 1. Deild entered in the last 16, with clubs from lower tiers entering in the three preliminary rounds. Teams played one-legged matches. In case of a draw, the match was replayed at the opposition's ground.


1974 Icelandic Cup
Valur Reykjavik won their second Icelandic Cup, beating ÍA Akranes in the final. The club therefore qualified for Europe.


1974 Icelandic parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 30 June 1974. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 17 of the 40 seats. They formed a coalition with the Progressive Party and Independence Party leader Geir Hallgrímsson was elected Prime Minister.


1974 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background
Following the 1971 elections, a coalition government had been formed by the Progressive Party, People's Alliance and Union of Liberals and Leftists with the Progressives' Ólafur Jóhannesson as Prime Minister.


1974 Icelandic parliamentary election, Background
Early elections were triggered by the collapse of the coalition due to a petition to reconsider a policy that would close the United States naval base in Keflavik.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team
The 1974 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The Vandals were led by first-year head coach Ed Troxel and were members of the Big Sky Conference, then in Division II. They played their home games at new Idaho Stadium, an unlit outdoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team
Troxel was promoted to head coach in December 1973, after seven seasons at Idaho as an assistant under three head coaches, and several years as head coach of the track team. Before his move north to Moscow in 1967, he was very successful at the high school level at Borah in Boise. Troxel had previously declined the job in 1970 and days earlier in 1973, but was persuaded to reconsider by player support.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Season
With quarterbacks Dave Comstock, Dennis Ballock, and Ken Schrom running the veer offense, the Vandals were 2–8–1 overall and 2–2–1 in the Big Sky.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Season
In the Battle of the Palouse, Idaho suffered a seventh straight loss to neighbor Washington State of the Pac-8, falling 17–10 at Martin Stadium in Pullman on September 21. In the fourth game with new rival Boise State, the Vandals fell for the third time as the Broncos repeated as conference champions. Idaho did not schedule Northern Arizona until the following season and both played only five games in conference this year.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Season
This was the last year the Vandals played outdoors on campus; its new Idaho Stadium opened in October 1971 in the same footprint as its predecessor, wooden Neale Stadium (1937–1968), and neither venue had lights. Artificial turf was installed in 1972; the 3M Tartan Turf was the first in the world produced in one continuous piece to allow it to be rolled up on a spool. Following this season, an arched roof and end walls were constructed in ten months to enclose it and the inaugural indoor game at the renamed Kibbie Dome was played on September 27, 1975.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable players and coaches
Sophomore center John Yarno was a first-team AP All-American as a senior in 1976; he was selected in fourth round of the 1977 NFL Draft and played six seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, the last five as a starter. Although quarterback Ken Schrom was projected as the starter for 1976 as a redshirt junior, he opted to pursue professional baseball after the 1976 baseball draft. A pitcher, he was a major leaguer for seven seasons and an all-star as a reliever in 1986.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable players and coaches
Dennis Erickson, age 27, was in his first year as an offensive coordinator, and stayed for two seasons. He left for Fresno State and later San Jose State, then returned to the UI program in 1982 as head coach and the Vandals began a streak of fifteen consecutive winning seasons.


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, Division I
Through 1977, the Big Sky was a Division II conference for football, except for Division I member Idaho, which moved down to I-AA in 1978. Idaho maintained its upper division status in the NCAA by playing Division I non-conference opponents (and was ineligible for the Division II postseason).


1974 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference
Two Vandals were named to the Big Sky all-conference team: fullback J.C. Chadband and tight end Steve Duncanson.