1974 Rhodesian general election, Background
Since the previous election in 1970, the main African nationalist groups had changed their strategy and gone into exile in Zambia (and to a lesser extent Mozambique and Botswana), launching a war to overthrow white minority rule by force. The main African groups, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe (FROLIZI), formed the African National Council under Bishop Abel Muzorewa to act as a collective political leadership and undertake any negotiations with the Rhodesian government.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Background
In June 1974, the African National Council rejected settlement proposals which had come out of discussions between itself and the Rhodesian government. As the Rhodesian Parliament was into its fifth year, a general election became a real prospect. Timothy Gibbs of the Rhodesia Party announced on 9 June 1974 that he expected a September election, and on 19 June, Prime Minister Ian Smith announced that there would be an election imminently (he did not name the date). He also announced round table talks with Africans, including the Council of Chiefs. These talks were rejected by the African National Council as a waste of time.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Background, Campaign
The Rhodesia Party, a white opposition party, had been formed by ex-Rhodesian Front MP Allan Savory in 1972. They were a moderate group which advocated more moves towards including the African population in internal politics. Early in June 1974, Savory made a speech at Hartley in which he was reported as saying that if he had been a black Rhodesian, he would be a terrorist. The uproar was such that Savory was forced from the leadership (replaced by Gibbs) and resigned from the party on 16 June. Despite the turmoil, the Rhodesia Party managed to nominate candidates in 40 out of the 50 seats.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Background, Campaign
There were also several Independent candidates including six right-wingers sponsored by the Rhodesian Group. The multi-racial Centre Party, which had provided the main opposition at the previous election, nominated a single candidate (who was from an Indian background). When nominations closed on 7 July, two seats (including that of Ian Smith) were elected unopposed. A victory by the Rhodesian Front was almost inevitable, although six seats were regarded as marginal.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Background, Campaign
The most marginal seat was clearly Salisbury City, where a right-wing Rhodesian Front candidate Ted Sutton-Pryce faced Dr Ahrn Palley, an Independent ex-member of the House of Assembly who had been a lone white opponent of UDI. In the 1970 election, the Rhodesian Front had defeated a mixed-race Independent candidate by only 40 votes, with a Centre Party candidate taking 157. Allan Savory, despite his departure from the Rhodesia Party, fought in Highlands North in the Salisbury suburbs as an Independent.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Background, Campaign
The Rhodesian Front responded to the challenge from the Rhodesia Party by attacking it for holding secret negotiations with the African National Council behind the backs of the Rhodesia government with the intent of undermining them. Ian Smith identified the Rhodesia Party with the 'liberal establishment' of Rhodesia, which had been responsible for the 1962 constitution and the inadequate arrangements of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
The electorate of Rhodesia returned 66 members of the House of Assembly of Rhodesia, in three different classes of seat:


1974 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system
Both European and African rolls had a range of property qualifications. No change to boundaries or the qualification of voters was made compared to the 1970 election.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Pioneer
Josia Hove died on 14 June 1976. At the byelection on 5 August 1976, Adam Hove was elected to replace him; Benjamin Panga Mbuisa and Twyman Mafohla Sibanda were unsuccessful candidates.


1974 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Party changes
The Land Tenure Amendment Bill of 1977 was highly controversial among Rhodesian Front MPs who objected to the opening of some areas previously designated for Europeans to African ownership. In a vote on 4 March 1977, twelve Rhodesian Front MPs voted against the Bill on a three line whip. They were Reginald Cowper, Dennis Fawcett Phillips, Richard Hope Hall, Robert McGee, John Newington, Peter Nilson, Gordon Olds, Ian Sandeman, Rodney Simmonds and Ted Sutton-Pryce. The Rhodesian press quickly nicknamed them The Dirty Dozen. In July 1977 these MPs formed the right-wing Rhodesian Action Party; this action precipitated the 1977 election as it deprived the government of the needed two-thirds majority to amend the constitution.


1974 Rice Owls football team
The 1974 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University in the Southwest Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their third year under head coach Al Conover, the team compiled a 2–8–1 record.


1974 Richmond WCT
The 1974 Richmond WCT, also known as the Fidelity Tournament for sponsorship reasons, was a men's professional tennis tournament. It was held on indoor carpet courts in Richmond. It was the fourth  edition of the tournament and was held from January 29 through February 3, 1974. The tournament was part of the red group of the 1974 World Championship Tennis circuit. First-seeded Ilie Năstase won the singles title.


1974 Richmond WCT, Finals, Doubles
Nikola Pilić /  Allan Stone defeated  John Alexander /  Phil Dent 6–3, 3–6, 7–6


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


1974 Road Atlanta Can-Am
The 1974 WQXI Can-Am was the second round of the 1974 Can-Am season. It was held July 7, 1974, at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. It was the fifth Can-Am race held at the track.


1974 Roller Hockey World Cup
The 1974 Roller Hockey World Cup was the twenty-first roller hockey world cup, organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 12 national teams (8 from Europe, 2 from South America, 1 from North America and 1 from Oceania). All the games were played in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal, the chosen city to host the World Cup.


1974 Romanian presidential election
A presidential election was held in the Socialist Republic of Romania on 28 March 1974. It was the first election held after the post of President of the Republic was created by an amendment to the Constitution earlier in the year.


1974 Romanian presidential election
Nicolae Ceaușescu, incumbent General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and president of the State Council, was elected by the Great National Assembly as the first President of the Republic on 28 March 1974; he was the only candidate. On 4 April 1974, the Communist Party daily Scînteia published a congratulatory telegram, in which Salvador Dalí actually mocked Ceaușescu on his "introducing the presidential scepter". Being successively re-elected, Ceaușescu served as the president until 22 December 1989.


1974 Rose Bowl
The 1974 Rose Bowl was the 60th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday, January 1. The Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference defeated the USC Trojans of the Pacific-8 Conference, 42–21. Sophomore quarterback Cornelius Greene of Ohio State was named  Player of the Game. This was the sole win for the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl in the 1970s.


1974 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State
The Ohio State Buckeyes began the 1973 season ranked third and went undefeated, with a tie. They were led by tailback Archie Griffin on offense and a defense that held its opponents to less than 100 yards per game of total offense. Going into the showdown at #4 Michigan, they had risen to #1 by outscoring their first nine opponents 361–33, including three straight shutouts of Northwestern, Illinois, and Michigan State.


1974 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State
The Buckeyes and Wolverines then battled to a 10–10 tie, making it uncertain who would win the vote among Big Ten athletic directors to determine the league's Rose Bowl representative. Although the Big Ten had done away with its "no repeat" rule a year earlier, many projected that Michigan would win the vote since Ohio State had gone to Pasadena the prior year. But Michigan starting quarterback Dennis Franklin had broken his collarbone late in the Ohio State game; perhaps influenced by the injury, the athletic directors voted 6–4 to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl. Michigan head coach Bo Schembechler called it a gross injustice.


1974 Rose Bowl, Teams, USC
USC was the defending national champion and began the season ranked first. But a 7–7 tie vs. Oklahoma and a 23–14 loss to Notre Dame dropped the Trojans to #9. They then needed a miracle comeback to beat Stanford 27–26, getting a touchdown and field goal sandwiched around an onside kick in the last minute of the game. They went into the Rose Bowl decider as a slight underdog against #8 UCLA, but forced six turnovers and knocked off the Bruins 23–13.


1974 Rose Bowl, Game notes
Similar to the previous year, the game was tied at halftime, then dominated by the victor in the second half. USC regained the lead briefly at 21–14 early in the third quarter, then Ohio State scored four unanswered touchdowns to win 42–21.


1974 Rose Bowl, Game notes
Kicker Chris Limahelu's 47-yard field goal was the longest ever by a Trojan, breaking a 64-year-old record (Limahelu died of prostate cancer in 2010 at age 59). This was the last time Ohio State defeated USC until 2017 in the Cotton Bowl. The Trojans won the next seven meetings from 1974 to 2009, including three Rose Bowls (January 1975, 1980, 1985).


1974 Rose Bowl, Game notes
This was the second of three consecutive Rose Bowls involving these two teams, and USC won the other two. Ohio State stopped a four-game winning streak by the Pac-8 (now Pac-12), but the next Big Ten victories were seven and fourteen years away. The Buckeyes' next Rose Bowl win came in January 1997, stopping previously undefeated Arizona State.


1974 Rothmans 5000 European Championship
The 1974 Rothmans 5000  European Championship  was a motor racing series for Formula 5000 cars. The series was organized in the United Kingdom by the British Racing and Sports Car Club, but also incorporated European rounds. It was the sixth in a sequence of annual European Formula 5000 Championships, and the second to be contested as the Rothmans 5000 European Championship. The 1974 championship was won by Bob Evans, driving a Lola T332.


1974 Rothmans 5000 European Championship, Points system
Championship points were awarded on a 20–15–12–10–8–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the first ten places at each of the first seventeen rounds and on a 40–30–24–20–16–12–8–6–4–2 basis for the first ten places at the final round. Each driver could retain points from fourteen rounds.


1974 Rothmans Canadian Open
The 1974 Rothmans Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club in Toronto in Canada that was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and of the 1974 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from August 12 through August 18, 1974.


1974 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles
Manuel Orantes /  Guillermo Vilas defeated  Jürgen Fassbender /  Hans-Jürgen Pohmann 6–1, 2–6, 6–2


1974 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles
Gail Chanfreau /  Julie Heldman defeated  Chris Evert /  Jeanne Evert 6–3, 6–4


1974 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament
The 1974 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament was a men's professional tennis tournament held on indoor carpet courts in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 15 to 23 February 1974. The event was part of the 1974 World Championship Tennis circuit. Sixth-seeded Björn Borg won the singles title.


1974 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles
Björn Borg /  Ove Bengtson defeated  Mark Farrell /  John Lloyd 7–6, 6–3


1974 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team
The 1974 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their second season under head coach Frank R. Burns, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 7–3–1 record. Rutgers outscored opponents 244 to 146. The team's statistical leaders included Bret Kosup with 1,070 passing yards, Curt Edwards with 889 rushing yards, and Mark Twitty with 314 receiving yards.


1974 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team
The Scarlet Knights played their home games at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the river from the university's main campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.


1974 SANFL Grand Final
The 1974 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Sturt defeated Glenelg by 15 points.


1974 SANFL season
The 1974 South Australian National Football League season was the 95th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1974 SCCA Formula Super Vee season
The 1974 SCCA Formula Super Vee season was the fourth season of the Sports Car Club of America sanctioned Formula Super Vee championship. This season marked the first season of the second generation of the Formula Super Vee. One of the innovations was the introduction of slick tyres. As of 1974 not all of the series races were sanctioned by the SCCA, seven rounds were sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association.


1974 SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship
The 1974 SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship was the eighth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier open wheel racing series. It was the first to be sanctioned jointly by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and the United States Auto Club (USAC), and the first to be held under the "SCCA /USAC Formula 5000 Championship" name. Sponsorship by the L&M cigarette brand was not carried forward from the 1973 championship.


1974 SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship
The championship was open to SCCA Formula 5000 cars and, for the first time, to USAC cars powered by 161 cid turbocharged, 255 cid double overhead camshaft or 305 cid "stock block" engines. It was won by Brian Redman driving a Lola T332 Chevrolet.


1974 SCCA/USAC Formula 5000 Championship, Points system
Championship points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten positions at each race.


1974 SMU Mustangs football team
The 1974 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Led by second-year head coach Dave Smith, the Mustangs compiled an overall record of 6–4–1 with a mark of 3–3–1 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the SWC.


1974 Sacramento State Hornets football team
The 1974 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season.


1974 Sacramento State Hornets football team
Sacramento State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Hornets were led by head coach Ray Clemons in his fourteenth season. They played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. The team finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2–9, 2–3 FWC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 116–240 for the season.


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


1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid
The August 24, 1974 military raid  on the Sacred Heart Novitiate in the Novaliches district of Quezon City in the Philippines is considered an important turning point in the Philippine Catholic church's resistance to the Marcos dictatorship.


1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid
A Jesuit seminary, the Novitiate had become the subject of the raid because the regime's forces had mistakenly thought that a communist leader was holding a meeting there. When the 150 soldiers who conducted the raid found that the communist leader they were looking for was not at the seminary, they arrested a priest, Rev. Jose Blanco, S.J., and accused him of being the "secretary general of an allegedly anti-government organization." They also arrested the head of the Jesuit order in the Philippines at the time, Fr. Benigno "Benny" Mayo, S.J., and 21 leaders of a youth group called Student Catholic Action (SCA), who were at the seminary to attend a workshop.


1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid
The raid took place mere months after the appointment of Jaime Cardinal Sin as the new Archbishop of Manila, and it resulted in Cardinal Sin's first act of dissent against the Marcos dictatorship - issuing a pastoral letter which would be read aloud in all the churches of the Archdiocese of Manila, which covered the whole of the Philippine's capital region.


1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid
Various leaders of the Roman Catholic church in the Philippines would continue to criticise and sometimes actively resist Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship for the next fourteen years, culminating with Cardinal Sin calling on Filipinos to rally in the streets in late February, 1986 - the beginning of the People Power Revolution which finally ousted Marcos.


1974 Safari Rally
The 1974 Safari Rally (formally the 22nd East African Safari Rally) was the second round of the shortened 1974 World Rally Championship season. It took place between 11 and 15 April 1974. The Safari Rally didn't use special stages at this time to decide a winner. Instead all of the route was competitive -  with the driver with the lowest accumulation of penalty time between time controls being declared the winner.


1974 Safari Rally, Report
The rally was won by local driver, and Safari specialist Joginder Singh. Singh beat off competition from WRC regulars such as Björn Waldegård and Sandro Munari to secure his first WRC victory. The Safari often saw unheralded cars on the winners ramp and this year was no exception - the Mitsubishi Colt Lancer scored no more points throughout the rest of the season. Fiat held on to their lead in the championship for manufacturers through picking up one point for tenth place.


1974 Saint Lucian general election
General elections were held in Saint Lucia on 7 May 1974. The result was a victory for the United Workers Party, which won ten of the seventeen seats. Voter turnout was 84.4%.


1974 Salvadoran legislative election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1974. The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 36 of the 52 seats whilst the National Opposing Union (an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement and the Nationalist Democratic Union) won only 15. However, the election was marred by massive fraud and the official vote counts were not published.


1974 Sammarinese general election
General elections were held in San Marino on 8 September 1974. The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 60 seats in the Grand and General Council.


1974 Sammarinese general election, Electoral system
Voters had to be citizens of San Marino and at least 24 years old. This was the first election in San Marino with passive suffrage for women.


1974 San Diego Chargers season
The 1974 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's fifth season in the National Football League (NFL), and its 15th overall. The team improved on their 2–11–1 record in 1973 and finished 5-9. It was Tommy Prothro's first season as the team's head coach.


1974 San Diego Chargers season
Before the season, the team changed from white helmets and powder blue jerseys—which it had had since its inception in 1960—to royal blue helmets and jerseys. Players' uniform numbers were also removed from the helmets. The royal blue would remain through 1984, when the helmets and jerseys became a darker shade of blue (navy blue); that blue became even darker in 1988. The Chargers switched back permanently to modified white helmets in 2007.


1974 San Diego Padres season
The 1974 San Diego Padres season was the sixth in franchise history. The team finished last in the National League West with a record of 60–102, 42 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.


1974 San Diego Padres season, Regular season
In his first home game as the Padres' new owner in 1974, Ray Kroc grabbed the public address system microphone and apologized to fans for the poor performance of the team, saying, "I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in my life." At the same time, a streaker raced across the field, eluding security personnel. Kroc shouted, "Throw him in jail!"


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


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


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


1974 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1974 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State University during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.


1974 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The team was led by head coach Claude Gilbert, in his second year, and played home games at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished the season as Conference Champion for the third consecutive year, with a record of eight wins, two losses and one tie (8–2–1, 4–0 PCAA).


1974 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1974, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1974 San Francisco 49ers season
The 1974 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 25th season in the National Football League and their 29th overall.


1974 San Francisco Giants season
The 1974 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 92nd season in Major League Baseball, their 17th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 15th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in fifth place in the National League West with a 72–90 record, 30 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.


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


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


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


1974 San Francisco State Gators football team
The 1974 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season.


1974 San Francisco State Gators football team
San Francisco State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 14th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the regular season with a record of five wins and six losses (5–6, 2–3 FWC). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 175–234.


1974 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL
No San Francisco State players were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft.


1974 San Jose Earthquakes season
The 1974 San Jose Earthquakes season marked their debut as a franchise in the North American Soccer League. They finished secondin the Western Division and qualified for the playoffs.


1974 San Jose Earthquakes season, Squad
The 1974 squad Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1974 San Jose Earthquakes season, Competitions, NASL, Standings
W = Wins, L = Losses, T= PK Shootout Wins, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system


1974 San Jose Earthquakes season, Competitions, NASL, Standings
6 points for a win,3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.


1974 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1974 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State University during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by second year head coach Darryl Rogers. They played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. The Spartans finished the season with a record of eight wins, three losses and one tie (8–3–1, 2–2–0 PCAA).


1974 San Jose mayoral election
The 1974 San Jose mayoral election was held to elect the mayor of San Jose, California. It saw an initial election held on June 4, 1974, followed by a runoff election on November 5, 1974 after no candidate managed to obtain a majority in the initial election. The runoff was won by Janet Gray Hayes, who became the first female mayor of the city, making San Jose the first United States city of more than 500,000 residents to elect a female mayor.


1974 San Jose mayoral election
While incumbent mayor Norman Mineta had been eligible to seek reelection to a second term, he instead opted to run for the United States House of Representatives.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
San Jose was considered to be the fastest growing city in California at the time the election took place.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
The runoff campaign was regarded as very contentious and negative.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
Collins initially accused Hayes of being sacred to debate him face-to-face. However, when the League of Women Voters attempted to organize televised debates between the two candidates during the runoff campaign, Collins refused to participate in any debate which featured a black or Mexican-American panelist.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
When he was accused of racism for this, Collins denied it, giving the excuse that he only did not one to do so because he believed questions that would be "prejudiced " against him might be asked by such a panelist, since claimed that he had once arrested a community leader of one of those two ethnic groups.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
During the campaign, Collins alleged that Hayes had voted in favor of a developer's project after receiving a $500 campaign contribution the developer, accusing her of having had a conflict of interest. Despite him trying to tie her to developers, local developers were reported to actually have unfavorable opinions of both Hayes and Collins. Developers reportedly felt that Collins did not have a grasp on the concerns developers had about strict city controls over development. Developers also were unhappy with the position that Hayes had staked out in favor of controlled growth in the city.


1974 San Jose mayoral election, Campaign
Collins had served 38 years on the city's police force, and his only previous experience in politics was an unsuccessful effort he had made, in partnership with downtown businessmen and real estate interests, to pressure the San Jose City Council to appoint him the city's police chief after Ray Blackmore retired.


1974 Sandown 250
The 1974 Sandown 250 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars. Entries were divided into four classes:


1974 Sandown 250
The event was held at the Sandown Park circuit in Victoria, Australia on 8 September 1974 over a race distance of 130 laps (251 miles,  404 km).


1974 Sandown 250
The race was the second round of the 1974 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.


1974 Sarawak state election
The second Sarawak state election was held between Saturday, 24 August and Saturday, 14 September 1974 which lasted for 3 weeks. The election was carried out in stages because of lack of communication and transportation systems.


1974 Sarawak state election
This election was held simultaneously with 1974 Malaysian general election with the exception of Sabah state legislative assembly. The dissolution of the state assembly was carried out with the dissolution of state assemblies from other states and House of Representatives of Malaysian Parliament on 31 July 1974. This was the first time the election was held before 5 years tenure has finished.


1974 Sarawak state election
A total of 48 seats were contested in this election.


1974 Sarawak state election
This election saw 375,282 registered voters with 75.1% of the voters cast their votes.


1974 Sarawak state election
All the 48 seats were contested by Sarawak Barisan Nasional. The coalition was consisting of United Traditional Bumiputera Party (PBB) and Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP).


1974 Sarawak state election
A total of 47 seats was contested by Sarawak National Party (SNAP) and 4 seats by BISAMAH.


1974 Sarawak state election, Results
Barisan Nasional won 30 seats and the remaining 18 seats were won by SNAP.


1974 Sardinian regional election
The Sardinian regional election of 1974 took place on 16 June 1974.


1974 Sardinian regional election
After the election Giovanni Del Rio, a Christian Democrat, formed a government with the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In 1976 Del Rio was replaced by fellow Christian Democrat Pietro Soddu and the Socialists eventually left the government in 1978.


1974 Scheldeprijs
The 1974 Scheldeprijs was the 61st edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 30 July 1974. The race was won by Marc Demeyer.


1974 Scottish Cup Final
The 1974 Scottish Cup Final was played on 4 May 1974 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 89th Scottish Cup. Celtic and Dundee United contested the match, Celtic won the match 3–0 with goals from Harry Hood, Steve Murray and Dixie Deans.


1974 Scottish Cup Final
The game was Celtic's sixth successive appearance in the final, and Dundee United's first cup final appearance. It was Celtic's 23rd Scottish cup.


1974 Scottish Cup Final
In a poor game Celtic rarely looked troubled by the young Dundee United team who appeared nervous in their first cup final appearance. Though United's Doug Houston put a couple of early chances wide, after that Celtic had the bulk of the play and once Harry Hood scored in the 20th minute the result never looked in doubt.


1974 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1974 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 26 October 1974 and was the final of the 29th Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Hibernian and Celtic. Celtic won the match 6–3, with John "Dixie" Deans and Joe Harper scoring hat-tricks for each side. Jimmy Johnstone, Steve Murray and Paul Wilson scored Celtic's other goals.


1974 Scottish League Cup Final, Media coverage
In Scotland highlights of the Scottish League Cup Final were shown on BBC One Scotland on their Sportsreel programme in the evening and also on STV and Grampian Television on the former's Scotsport programme the following day.


1974 Scottish local elections
There were elections for the Scottish district councils on Tuesday 7 May 1974, for both the new regional and district councils, between the two United Kingdom general elections of February and October in that same year.


1974 Scottish local elections
These were the first elections held to the 53 district councils established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The Labour Party did reasonably well and the Scottish National Party (SNP) did not. The councillors acted as "shadow" councils until May 1975, when the provisions of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 came into effect.


1974 Scottish local elections, Results, National results
Note: Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles were governed at the district level as unitary authorities, meaning they were not included in any larger region.


1974 Scottish local elections, Results, Council Results, District Councils
The seats on each council after the election were as follows:


1974 Segunda División de Chile
The 1974 Segunda División de Chile was the 23rd season of the Segunda División de Chile.


1974 Senior League World Series
The 1974 Senior League World Series took place from August 12–17 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Pingtung, Taiwan defeated Charlotte, North Carolina in the championship game. It was Taiwan's third straight championship.


1974 Senior League World Series
This year saw the tournament field reduced, from ten, to eight teams.


1974 Seychellois parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Seychelles on 25 April 1974. The result was a victory for the Seychelles Democratic Party, which won 13 of the 15 seats.


1974 Shahsavar by-election
A by-election was held in September 1974 to fill the vacant seat for Shahsavar in the National Consultative Assembly, the lower house of the Imperial State of Iran.


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Campaign
At the time, the ruling New Iran Party led by Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda held the absolute majority in the parliament and its opposition, the People's Party, was regarded a "pseudo-opposition" party loyal to the state. The representative of Shahsavar in Mazandaran Province who had been appointed to a cabinet office, resigned his seat due to legal requirements. In October 1974, the newly-appointed Minister of Interior Jamshid Amouzegar chose his deputy ministers, neither of whom having any experience in holding elections.


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Campaign
The next general elections were scheduled in less than a year and though it was not legally mandatory for the government to hold an election for that vacancy, Amouzegar decided to use the occasion to gain experience. Iran's monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi agreed that the election could to be held, stating "They will tell you I prefer this man or that woman, this party or that party. This is false. What I want is a clean election".


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Campaign
Nasser Ameri, the new secretary-general of the People's Party, had become overly critical of the governing party to the extent it was perceived to had "endangered the legitimacy of the system". He initially instructed the local of branch of his party in Shahsavar to boycott the by-election for the vacated seat but then was able to persuade the government to allow his party campaign freely. People's Party launched a serious campaign for its candidate, which focused on criticizing the government's ability to "implement efficiently the shah's intentions (manviat-e shahaneh)".


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Campaign
The party's candidate Mohammad-Reza Kabiri also acted like a real opposition candidate (in contrast to his role as a "pseudo-opposition") during the campaign and even condemned the administration of Hoveyda. This led the city to undergo an "election fever", and both parties sent several of their leaders to the city to boost the campaign. This was a sign that the New Iran Party's candidate might lose the election, though the former representative of the constituency from the ruling party had won the previous election by a wide margin.


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Controversy
Mansour Khalatbari, the candidate of the ruling New Iran Party, said on 28 September "my defeat is utterly impossible" as the ballots were being counted. The opposition candidate Mohammad-Reza Kabiri won a large majority, but the government did not acknowledge this and officially declared that the former had won the election by a narrow margin of 646 votes. People's Party immediately denounced the results and its secretary-general publicly stated that an electoral fraud had happened. The government denied this, and initiated a complaint against a female member of the opposition party for "undermining credibility in the fairness of the elections".


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Controversy
In response to the controversy, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi remarked that the election was fair, but also said the ruling party "must probe this event to see what has caused it. The same applies to the opposition party", adding that "on the basis of sound democracy... one vote more or less is enough to have one elected or defeated. But it is not right to repudiate elections if one loses by even a single vote. Iranians must bear in mind that they must refrain from slander when engaged in free elections".


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Controversy
The opposition party stated that the ballot box in a village with 80 residents, included 1,044 ballots. About two weeks later, the government declared that 444 lived there and other voters had gone to the village to vote.


1974 Shahsavar by-election, Aftermath
Asadollah Alam, the founder of People's Party said Ameri has "reached the end of his rope" and he should either choose to let go or become a dissident. On 29 December 1974, the party's central committee discharged Ameri from his office and replaced him with Mohammad Fazaeli. A few days later in January 1975, Ameri died in a car accident.


1974 Shetland Islands Area Council election
Elections to the Shetland Islands Council were held on 7 May 1974 as part of Scottish local elections. This was the first election for the all-purpose Shetland Islands Council, as established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, combining the Lerwick Town Council and the Zetland County Council. 11 seats were uncontested.


1974 Shetland Islands Area Council election, Aggregate results
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1974 Sikkimese general election
General elections were held in Sikkim on 13 April 1974. They were the first elections in Sikkim to be held on the basis of universal suffrage, and also the last as an independent country. The result was a victory for the Sikkim National Congress, which won 31 of the 32 seats in the State Council. Kazi Lhendup Dorjee subsequently became Chief Minister. In May 1975 Sikkim became a state of India, at which point the State Council became the Sikkim Legislative Assembly.


1974 Sikkimese general election, Background
In the 1973 elections the Sikkim National Party won nine seats out of eighteen elected seats in the 24-seat Sikkim State Council. The Sikkim National Congress and Sikkim Janata Congress claimed there had been vote rigging, leading to protests. Political parties and members of the public demanded one man, one vote. On 8 May 1973 a tripartite agreement was signed between the Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal, political parties and the government of India. The agreement provided for the establishment of a responsible government under the supervision of a Chief Executive nominated by the Indian government.


1974 Sikkimese general election, Electoral system
Through the Representations of Sikkim Subjects Act, 1974, the Chogyal divided Sikkim into 31 territorial constituencies and one Sangha constituency. The 31 territorial constituencies were allocated as 15 for Nepalis, 15 for the Bhutia-Lepcha and one for scheduled castes, under a parity formula. The Sangha constituency represented Chogyal-recognized monasteries.


1974 Sikkimese general election, Campaign
The Sikkim National Congress contested all the 32 seats, whilst the Sikkim National Party contested five seats. Elections were held with the support of Election Commission of India.


1974 Sikkimese general election, Council of Ministers
The Chogyal appointed the Council of Ministers on 23 July.


1974 Singaporean presidential election
The 1974 Singaporean presidential election was held to elect the next President of Singapore with Benjamin Sheares as the winning candidate elected by the Parliament of Singapore.


1974 Singaporean presidential election, Results
The election took place during a sitting of Parliament on 6 November 1974 where 59 members were present and 6 members were absent.


1974 Singaporean presidential election, Results
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew nominated Benjamin Sheares for a second term as president. Sheares was unanimously re-elected by Parliament as president.


1974 Singaporean presidential election, Results
Sheares was sworn in for his second four-year term as president on 2 January 1975.


1974 Skate Canada International
The 1974 Skate Canada International was held in Kitchener, Ontario on October 24–26. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.


1974 South African Grand Prix
The 1974 South African Grand Prix (formally the XX Lucky Strike Grand Prix of South Africa) was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 30 March 1974. It was race 3 of 15 in both the 1974 World Championship of Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.


1974 South African Grand Prix, Race summary
It was initially uncertain that the South African Grand Prix would go ahead due to the 1973 oil crisis, but it did so, albeit at the end of March rather than at the start of the month. Lotus stunned the paddock with an innovative car which used four pedals and an electric clutch.


1974 South African Grand Prix, Race summary
However, practice was overshadowed by an accident which killed Peter Revson. While driving his Shadow-Ford in a test session before the race, Revson suffered a front suspension failure on the outside of Barbecue Bend and crashed heavily into the Armco barrier, the car bursting into flames. Revson died instantly, and the Shadow team withdrew from the race.


1974 South African Grand Prix, Race summary
Niki Lauda took pole by a fraction of a second from Carlos Pace. The two Lotus cars tangled shortly after the start, the incident also involving Jochen Mass and Henri Pescarolo whilst Tom Belsø's race lasted no more than a few hundred yards due to clutch failure. Lauda led a train of cars consisting of Carlos Reutemann, Clay Regazzoni, Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, whose Hesketh was suffering vibration problems.


1974 South African Grand Prix, Race summary
Mike Hailwood caught and passed Scheckter when he missed a gear, and then passed Reutemann on lap 9. On lap 75, nearly at the finish, Lauda was forced to retire with ignition problems and low oil pressure, handing the lead to Reutemann. This was Reutemann's first win, the first for an Argentinian driver since Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1957 German Grand Prix, and Brabham's first since the 1970 South African Grand Prix. Jean-Pierre Beltoise fought his way up through the field to 2nd, holding off a determined challenge from Hailwood who took the final podium place. Beltoise's 2nd place would turn out to be the last podium finish for a BRM.


1974 South African Open (tennis)
The 1974 South African Open, also known by its sponsored name South African Breweries Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Johannesburg, South Africa that was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 71st edition of the tournament and was held from 18 November through 26 November 1974. Jimmy Connors and Kerry Melville won the singles titles.


1974 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles
Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan defeated  Tom Okker /  Marty Riessen 7–5, 6–4, 6–3


1974 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles
Ilana Kloss /  Kerry Melville defeated  Margaret Court /  Dianne Fromholtz 6–2, 6–3


1974 South African Senate election
The election for the tenth Senate of South Africa took place on May 30, 1974. The result was a victory for the ruling National Party, winning 32 out of the 44 elected seats and 42 out of the total 54 seats. This was the final election for the Senate before it was abolished in 1980 and replaced by the President's Council, an advisory body to the State President designed to draft a new constitution that would allow more political participation to the colored and Indian populations in South Africa.


1974 South African Senate election
According to section 29(2)(b) of the 1961 constitution, "at least one of the two senators nominated from each province under this section shall be thoroughly acquainted, by reason of official experience or otherwise, with the interests of the coloured population in the province for which the said senator is nominated".


1974 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on 24 April 1974. They were called one year earlier than scheduled by Prime Minister John Vorster on 4 February. The House of Assembly was increased from 166 to 171 members. The election was once again won by the National Party, with a slightly increased parliamentary majority.


1974 South African general election
The Progressive Party made a major advance, however. In addition to Helen Suzman, re-elected for Houghton, five other members won seats including the party leader Colin Eglin. A seventh member of the caucus was elected at a by-election soon after. The United Party won 41 seats. The election also saw Harry Schwarz, leader of the United Party in the Transvaal, enter Parliament. Schwartz would soon lead a break away from the United Party and would become one of the Apartheid's more prominent opponents in Parliament, first forming the Reform Party and then joining with the Progressive Party to form the Progressive Reform Party in 1975, under the leadership of Colin Eglin.


1974 South African general election, Nominations
Nominations closed on 18 March. A total of 334 candidates were nominated for 171 seats: National Party 137, United Party 110, Herstigte Nasionale Party 46, Progressive Party 23, Democratic Party 7 and others 11. 46 seats were won unopposed, 32 for the National Party and 14 for the United Party.


1974 South African general election, Results, House of Assembly
125 of the 171 seats were contested. Voting did not take place in two constituencies, Pinelands and Wonderboom, where by-elections were later held; Pinelands was won by the Progressive Party and  Wonderboom by the National Party.


1974 South African general election, Results, Senate
The elections for the Senate were held on 30 May by an electoral college made up of members of the Assembly and various others. The National Party gained one seat at the expense of the United Party, winning 32 of the 44 seats (the United Party held 12 seats).


1974 South American Championships (tennis)
The 1974 South American Championships was a men's tennis tournament for male players that was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was played in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and held from 18 November through 24 November 1974. First-seeded Guillermo Vilas won the singles title.


1974 South American Championships (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Manuel Orantes /  Guillermo Vilas defeated  Patricio Cornejo /  Jaime Fillol 6–4, 6–3


1974 South American Championships in Athletics
The 1974 South American Championships in Athletics  were held in Santiago, Chile, between 16 and 21 April.


1974 South American Championships – Singles
Guillermo Vilas was the defending champion and won in the final 6–3, 0–6, 7–5, 6–2 against Manuel Orantes.


1974 South American Junior Championships in Athletics
The tenth South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru, at the Estadio Nacional between October 9–13, 1974.


1974 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 239 athletes from about 9 countries:  Argentina (44), Bolivia (11), Brazil (40), Chile (29), Colombia (17), Panama (10), Paraguay (11), Peru (45), Venezuela (32).


1974 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1974 South American U-20 Championship
The South American Youth Championship 1974 was held in Arica, Concepción and Santiago, Chile.


1974 South Australian Tennis Championships
The 1974 South Australian Championships was a combined men's and women's professional tennis tournament held in Adelaide, Australia that was held from 1 December until 7 December 1974. First-seeded Björn Borg and Olga Morozova won the singles titles.


1974 South Australian Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Björn Borg won the title, defeating Onny Parun 6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2 in the final.


1974 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1974 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent team in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. The Gamecocks finished the season 4–7 overall.


1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. James B. Edwards defeated W. J. Bryan Dorn and became the first Republican since Daniel Henry Chamberlain in 1874 to win a gubernatorial election in South Carolina. It was also the closest gubernatorial election in South Carolina since the disputed election of 1876.


1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on July 16, 1974 . Charles D. Ravenel emerged as the winner of the runoff election, but the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Ravenel did not meet the five-year residency requirement in the state's constitution. W. J. Bryan Dorn was chosen in a special state convention to be the Democratic candidate in the general election for governor.


1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Republican primary
The South Carolina Republican Party held their primary on July 16, 1974 and the contest pitted state senator James B. Edwards against former Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland. Edwards scored an upset victory in the first Republican primary of the state and earned the right to face Dorn in the general election.


1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election
The general election was held on November 5, 1974 and James B. Edwards defeated W.J. Bryan Dorn in what was a banner year for the Democrats in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Turnout was higher than the previous gubernatorial election because of the increasingly competitive nature of the race between the two parties.


1974 South Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1974 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974, to elect a Governor of South Dakota. This election was the first in South Dakota to elect the governor for a four-year term, after it was allowed by a constitutional amendment passed in 1972. Democratic nominee and Governor Richard F. Kneip was re-elected, defeating Republican nominee John E. Olson. As of 2021, this is the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of South Dakota and this marks the beginning of the longest winning streak for Republicans of gubernatorial offices in the United States.


1974 South Pacific Championships
The 1974 South Pacific Championships was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tournament held at the Royal South Yarra Tennis Club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that was part of the 1974 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 21 October until 27 October 1974. Dick Stockton won the singles title.


1974 South Pacific Championships, Finals, Doubles
Grover Raz Reid /  Allan Stone defeated  Mike Estep /  Paul Kronk 7–6, 6–4


1974 South Pacific Championships – Doubles
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1974 South Pacific Championships – Doubles
Raz Reid and Allan Stone won the title, defeating Mike Estep and Paul Kronk 7–6, 6–4 in the final.


1974 South Pacific Championships – Singles
Dick Stockton won the title, defeating Geoff Masters 6–2, 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


1974 South Pacific Touring Series
The 1974 South Pacific Touring Car Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Group C Touring Cars. It was contested over four rounds, each staged as a support race to an Australian round of the 1974 International Tasman Championship. The series, which was the fourth South Pacific Touring Series, was won by Peter Brock and his entrant, the Holden Dealer Team.


1974 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system
Points were awarded on a 4-3-2-1 basis to the top four outright placegetters in each round and on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the top six placegetters in each class in each round. Points were only awarded conditional on the driver competing in the same make and model of car entered by the same entrant in all four rounds.


1974 South Pacific Touring Series, Series results
Note: The series winner was considered to be the driver and his entrant.


1974 South West African legislative election
Legislative elections were held in South West Africa on 24 April 1974. The last Whites-only election saw a victory for the National Party of South West Africa, which won all 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly.


1974 Southeastern 500
The 1974 Southeastern 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on March 17, 1974, at Bristol International Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.


1974 Southeastern 500
Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.


1974 Southeastern 500, Background
Bristol Motor Speedway is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating. It has also been named one of the loudest NASCAR tracks.


1974 Southeastern 500, Race report
There were 30 American-born drivers on the grid; the distance of the race was 500 laps. Jabe Thomas was credited as the last-place finisher due to problems with his oil pan on lap 63 of the race. The first 50 laps of the race were not scored due to the fuel crisis that took place during this year. Donnie Allison, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Isaac, Benny Parsons, and Bobby Allison would be the respective leaders for certain parts of the race.


1974 Southeastern 500, Race report
After three hours and forty-two minutes of racing, Cale Yarborough defeated Bobby Isaac by one lap in front of a live audience of eighteen thousand people. Yarborough would be the only driver on the lead lap by the end of the race. With a strong second-place run with Issac at the wheel, this was the last race for car owner Banjo Matthew and his famous #27 team.


1974 Southeastern 500, Race report
Most of the drivers in the race either used Chevrolet or Ford vehicles for their official racing vehicle; Chevrolet swept the entire top-ten for this race. The total purse of this race was $45,075 ($233,678.29 when adjusted for inflation). Donnie Allison achieved the pole position for this race by driving up to 107.785 miles per hour (173.463 km/h) during solo qualifying runs. Yarborough's average speed for the entire racing event was 64.533 miles per hour (103.856 km/h).


1974 Southeastern 500, Race report
The model years of the vehicles ranged from 1972 to 1974; complying with the homologation policies set forth by NASCAR during this era. Engine issues and accidents were the main reasons for the DNFs found in this racing event. Joe Mihalic would have the best finish of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career at this race.


1974 Southern 500
The 1974 Southern 500, the 25th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race on September 2, 1974, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina.


1974 Southern 500
Jerry Schild would make his only top-ten finish at this event. The 1974 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was dominated by Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, and David Pearson. David Sisco finished a career-best third place.


1974 Southern 500, Background
Darlington Raceway, nicknamed by many NASCAR fans and drivers as "The Lady in Black" or "The Track Too Tough to Tame" and advertised as a "NASCAR Tradition", is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.


1974 Southern 500, Background
The track is a four-turn 1.366 miles (2.198 km) oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees. The front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch is banked at six degrees. Darlington Raceway can seat up to 60,000 people.


1974 Southern 500, Background
Darlington has something of a legendary quality among drivers and older fans; this is probably due to its long track length relative to other NASCAR speedways of its era and hence the first venue where many of them became cognizant of the truly high speeds that stock cars could achieve on a long track. The track allegedly earned the moniker The Lady in Black because the night before the race the track maintenance crew would cover the entire track with fresh asphalt sealant, in the early years of the speedway, thus making the racing surface dark black.


1974 Southern 500, Background
Darlington is also known as "The Track Too Tough to Tame" because drivers can run lap after lap without a problem and then bounce off of the wall the following lap. Racers will frequently explain that they have to race the racetrack, not their competition. Drivers hitting the wall are considered to have received their "Darlington Stripe" thanks to the missing paint on the right side of the car.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
A crowd of 65,000 people would see a race lasting four hours and thirty minutes. There were eleven cautions for 101 laps; which has become the longest duration under the yellow flag in Darlington Raceway history. The race itself lasted 367 laps on the paved track spanning 1.366 miles (2.198 km) in distance. Richard Petty was the pole winner at a speed of 150.132 miles per hour (241.614 km/h). There were 39 Americans and one Canadian competitor in the race; Earl Ross. Roy Mayne and Jerry Hansen would make their respective exits from the NASCAR Cup Series after this race.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
Bobby Allison climbed into the #24 Cecil Gordon car after falling out early and substituted for Gordon until his car fell out also. He did not want to blow the engine and possibly crash Cecil's only car.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
Only twelve vehicles finished the race; Cale Yarborough defeated Darrell Waltrip by one lap. Yarborough was able to successfully spin his vehicle trying to avoid a crash involving Bobby Allison, Bob Burcham, and Richie Panch early in the race, becoming a three-time Southern 500 winner. Petty didn't get more points than Waltrip during the race. The trick was that overall standings after each race were made by multiplying each driver's points tally with the number of races he started. Thus became possible that Richard Petty could increase his lead by finishing behind.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
This is the best career finish for Pee Wee Wentz.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
Last-place finisher Earl Brooks had a water pump issue on the first lap of the race, earning $1,100 ($5,703 when adjusted for inflation) while the race winner went home $28,000 richer ($145,158 when adjusted for inflation). Chevrolet and Dodge vehicles were the mainstay of the racing lineup; with racing models varying from 1972 to 1974. The average speed of the race was 111.075 miles per hour (178.758 km/h); with speeds improving measurably since the 1964 Southern 500. Not counting bonus money, this race counted as $15,000 to win and $10,000 for second. Petty had about $200,000 in season winnings and Cale was closer to accumulating $175,000 in his 1974 NASCAR season.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
Notable crew chiefs for this race were Tim Brewer, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, Bud Moore among others.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
A lot of veterans might do well to take driving lessons from teen-aged Jerry Schild.


1974 Southern 500, Race report
Thirteen of the 40 drivers on the starting grid would see their race end prematurely due to engine failures. Eight crashes were recorded by NASCAR; making a good portion of the starting grid not to finish the race. The total prize purse for this event was $132,435 ($686,571 when adjusted for inflation).


1974 Southern 500, Race report, Qualifying
Failed to qualify: Rick Newsom (#20) Withdrew from race: Dick Skillen (#78)


1974 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1974 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 27–March 2, 1974, at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The Furman Paladins, led by head coach Joe Williams, won their third Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1974 NCAA Tournament.


1974 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All of the conference's eight members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.


1974 Southern Cross Rally
The 1974 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Sun-Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the ninth running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 9th and the 13th of October 1974. The event covered 3,506 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie. It was won by Andrew Cowan and John Bryson, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.


1974 Southern Illinois Salukis football team
The 1974 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Under first-year head coach Doug Weaver, the team compiled a 2–9 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.


1974 Southern Jaguars football team
The 1974 Southern Jaguars football team was an American football team that represented Southern University as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. Led by coach Charles Bates in his third season as coach, the Jaguars compiled an overall record of 8–3 and a mark of 3–3 in conference play, finishing fourth in the SWAC.


1974 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 1974 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. In their sixth year under head coach P. W. Underwood, the team compiled a 6–5 record.


1974 Southwark London Borough Council election
Elections to Southwark Council were held in May 1974. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 24.2%.


1974 Southwark London Borough Council election
This was the last local election to feature aldermen as well as councillors. Labour got all ten aldermen as well as 56 elected councillors.


1974 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 1974 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southland Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division II football season. In their first year under head coach Augie Tammariello, the team compiled a 2–9 record.


1974 Soviet Cup
The 1974 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Kiev qualified for the continental tournament.


1974 Soviet First League
The 1974 Soviet First League was the fourth season of the Soviet First League and the 34th season of the Soviet second tier league competition.


1974 Soviet Second League
1974 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.


1974 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group VI (Ukraine)
The 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 44th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 6. The season started on 6 April 1974.


1974 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group VI (Ukraine)
The 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.


1974 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
The 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 44th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 6. The season started on 6 April 1974.


1974 Soviet Second League, Zone 6
The 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv.


1974 Soviet Top League, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship.


1974 Soviet Union legislative election
Elections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 16 June 1974.


1974 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system
Candidates had to be nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) or by a public organisation. However, all public organisations were controlled by the party and were subservient to a 1931 law that required them to accept party rule. The CPSU itself remained the only legal one in the country.


1974 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system
Voters could vote against the CPSU candidate, but could only do so by using polling booths, whereas votes for the party could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot. Turnout was required to be over 50% for the election to be valid.


1974 Soviet Union legislative election, Candidates
CPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.


1974 Soviet nuclear tests
The Soviet Union's 1974 nuclear test series was a group of 21 nuclear tests conducted in 1974. These tests  followed the 1973 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1975 Soviet nuclear tests series.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1974 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 28 April 1974 at the Circuito Permanente del Jarama near Madrid, Spain. It was race 4 of 15 in both the 1974 World Championship of Drivers and the 1974 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix
The 84-lap race was won from pole position by Austrian driver Niki Lauda, driving a Ferrari. It was Lauda's first of 25 Formula One victories. Swiss teammate Clay Regazzoni finished second, with Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi third in a McLaren-Ford.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Race summary
With James Hunt's Hesketh having won the non-championship International Trophy three weeks previously, the 1974 season was turning out to be one of the most open ever, with five drivers from four teams having won the first five races (also including the non-championship Race of Champions), and a driver who had not won at all - Clay Regazzoni - leading the Drivers' Championship.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Race summary
The Spanish Grand Prix marked the debuts of the Trojan and Amon teams, as well as Liechtensteiner driver Rikky von Opel.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Race summary
Jorge de Bagration, a local driver of Georgian royal descent, was to have taken part in the race, driving a Surtees TS16 with sponsorship from department store El Corte Inglés, but missed out due to a very unusual set of circumstances: the outgoing president of the Spanish Motor Sport Federation cleared his office, taking with him all paper files including the official entry list for the race; a replacement list was hurriedly drawn up that omitted de Bagration, whose sponsorship had just fallen through. Despite this, de Bagration should still have been included on the replacement list, regardless whether or not he would have been able to race.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Race summary
Niki Lauda took pole from Ronnie Peterson in a qualifying session disrupted by a large accident to Patrick Depailler, but it was Peterson who led from the start as rain began to fall. Jacky Ickx moved into the podium places, taking 3rd place on lap 19.


1974 Spanish Grand Prix, Race summary
As the track dried, cars dived into the pits for replacement tyres. Ferrari got Lauda in and out for a total pit stop time of 35 seconds, enabling him to take the lead. The race ended at the two-hour mark, six laps short of the scheduled 90, with Lauda leading Regazzoni home in a Ferrari 1-2 and no other driver on the lead lap. Arturo Merzario lost out on a solid points finish when the hit the wall in 4th. Emerson Fittipaldi held off a strong challenge from Hans-Joachim Stuck, whilst Jody Scheckter claimed his first points.


1974 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 1974 Special Honours in New Zealand were two Special Honours List, published on 3 May and 4 October 1974, in which four judges and a former prime minister received knighthoods.


1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship
The 1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the fifth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place at the Hyde Road Speedway in Belle Vue, Manchester, England. The championship was won by Sweden (28 points) from Australia (23 pts) and New Zealand (21 pts). Host nation England, represented by Peter Collins and Dave Jessup, finished 4th with 21 points.


1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship
Swedish rider Anders Michanek, who successfully defended his World Pairs crown at this meeting, completed the double later in 1974 when he won the Individual World Championship.


1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship, Semifinal 1
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship, Semifinal 2
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1974 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1974 Speedway World Team Cup was the 15th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1974 Speedway World Team Cup
The final took place at Stadion Śląski, Chorzów in Poland. The title was won by England for the fourth consecutive year and fifth time in total. However they previously rode as Great Britain when they had the benefit of using Commonwealth riders  The fifth win took them ahead of Poland (on four titles) and one behind Sweden (on six titles).


1974 Speedway World Team Cup, World final
Peter Collins - 12John Louis - 12Dave Jessup - 10Malcolm Simmons - 8Ray Wilson - dnr


1974 Speedway World Team Cup, World final
Sören Sjösten - 10Anders Michanek - 9Tommy Jansson 7Christer Löfqvist 5Tommy Johansson dnr


1974 Speedway World Team Cup, World final
Jan Mucha - 4Zenon Plech - 4Andrzej Jurczyński - 3Andrzej Tkocz - 2Jerzy Szczakiel - 0


1974 Speedway World Team Cup, World final
Mikhail Krasnov - 5Valery Gordeev - 4Viktor Kalmykov - 1Anatoly Kuzmin - 0Mikhail Starostin - dnr


1974 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The 1974 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 55th year with the National Football League and the 15th season in St. Louis. The Cardinals scored 285 points while the defense gave up 218 points, en route to the NFC East Championship.


1974 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The 10–4 Cardinals qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1948 when the franchise was based in Chicago. It was the Cardinals first winning season since 1970 when the Cardinals went 8–5–1. Although the Cardinals and the Washington Redskins finished with identical 10–4 records, the Cardinals won the NFC East title, because of their two victories over Washington that season.


1974 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
The Cardinals won their first seven games, and were at least tied for first place from Week One to the end of the regular season.


1974 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1974 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 93rd season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 83rd season in the National League. The Cardinals went 86–75 during the season and finished second in the National League East, 1½ games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1974 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
Outfielder Lou Brock led the NL with 118 stolen bases, breaking the modern-era (post-1898) MLB single-season mark of 104, set by Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills in 1962. He also broke the all-time National League record of 111 set by John Montgomery Ward in 1887, when stolen bases were counted differently. Brock broke Wills' record on September 10 in a game against the visiting Philadelphia Phillies. Brock's record still stands as the NL record, but Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics broke the modern MLB mark in 1982, with 130 steals. The all-time MLB record was, and still is, held by Hugh Nicol, who stole 138, also in 1887, while playing in the American Association.


1974 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
Outfielder Bake McBride won the Rookie of the Year Award this year, batting .309, with 6 home runs and 56 RBIs.


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


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


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


1974 Stadthalle Open
The 1974 Stadthalle Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna in Austria that was part of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 28 October through 3 November 1974. Vitas Gerulaitis won the singles title.


1974 Stadthalle Open, Finals, Doubles
Raymond Moore /  Andrew Pattison defeated  Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan 6–4, 5–7, 6–4


1974 Stadthalle Open – Doubles
Raymond Moore and Andrew Pattison won in the final 6–4, 5–7, 6–4 against Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan.


1974 Stadthalle Open – Singles
Vitas Gerulaitis won in the final 6–4, 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 against Andrew Pattison.


1974 Stanford Cardinals football team
The 1974 Stanford Cardinals football team represented Stanford University in the Pacific-8 Conference during the 1974 NCAA Division I football season. Led by third-year head coach Jack Christiansen, the Cardinals were 5–4–2 overall (5–1–1 in Pac-8, second) and played home games on campus at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1974 Stanley Cup Final was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1973–74 season, and the culmination of the 1974 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers made their first Final appearance and the Bruins returned to the Final for the third time in five years, having won the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972. The Flyers won the best-of-seven series, four games to two, becoming the first team from the 1967 Expansion to win the Stanley Cup, as well as the first non-Original Six Cup champion since the Montreal Maroons in 1935.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Final
Boston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–0 and the Chicago Black Hawks 4–2 to advance to the final.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Final
Philadelphia defeated the Atlanta Flames 4–0 and the New York Rangers 4–3 to make it to the final.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
In the previous 19 games against the Bruins in Boston, the Flyers had lost 17 and tied two. Boston had the best regular season record in the league finishing one point ahead of the Flyers. The Bruins also had home ice advantage in the Stanley Cup Final, and were made heavy favorites to win the series. A key confidence-building win late in the regular season saw the Flyers defeating the Bruins 5–3 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The first two games at Boston Garden were full of late game dramatics. In game one, the Flyers nearly scored late in the third period to break a 2–2 tie. Bobby Orr, having saved the Flyers' shot by blocking the open Boston net with his leg, then took the puck up the ice and scored on a slapshot past goaltender Bernie Parent with a little over a minute remaining in regulation time to propel the Bruins to a 3–2 win. Game two saw the Bruins on the verge of a 2–0 series lead when Flyers defenseman Andre Dupont scored with Parent pulled with less than a minute remaining for an extra attacker to tie the score at 2–2, and Bobby Clarke scored the 3–2 game winner in overtime.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
The Flyers, led by Parent's play in goal, won the next two games on home ice to take a 3–1 series lead. Game five in Boston was a sloppy affair marred by many fights and penalties as Boston easily won to extend the series to a game six in Philadelphia. Before a national audience watching the game on NBC and a raucous Philadelphia crowd, Parent posted an epic 30-save shutout against the Bruins as the Flyers won the game 1–0, the series four games to two, and the Stanley Cup.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Parent made a spectacular kick save to stop a tremendous slapshot from Ken Hodge with less than three minutes left to play. The blast was the Bruins' final shot of the series. Parent was named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. The Flyers were the first of the 1967 expansion teams in the NHL to win the championship.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Aftermath
The Flyers Stanley Cup win triggered the largest celebration in Philadelphia sports history. Some observers of the celebration noted that they had seen that type of event in Philadelphia only once before, upon the announcement of the surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945. The day after the Flyers won the Cup, more than two million lined Broad Street for a ticker-tape parade, making it the largest championship parade in the history of Philadelphia sports. One of the fans who attended the parade was future New York Rangers goaltender Mike Richter. Richter grew up near Philadelphia in Flourtown, Pennsylvania idolizing Flyers goalie Bernie Parent.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Aftermath
The following year, the Flyers successfully returned to the Final and captured their second consecutive Stanley Cup; this time, over the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo, also winning in six games.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Aftermath
As for the Bruins, they lost in the first round to the Chicago Blackhawks 2–1.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1974 Stanley Cup was presented to Flyers captain Bobby Clarke by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Flyers 1–0 win over the Bruins in game six.


1974 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Flyers players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1974 Star World Championships
The 1974 Star World Championships were held in Laredo, Spain in 1974.


1974 State of the Union Address
The 1974 State of the Union Address was given to the 93rd United States Congress, on Wednesday, January 30, 1974, by Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. He said, "We meet here tonight at a time of great challenge and great opportunities for America. We meet at a time when we face great problems at home and abroad that will test the strength of our fiber as a nation. But we also meet at a time when that fiber has been tested, and it has proved strong.


1974 State of the Union Address
"America is a great and good land, and we are a great and good land because we are a strong, free, creative people and because America is the single greatest force for peace anywhere in the world. Today, as always in our history, we can base our confidence in what the American people will achieve in the future on the record of what the American people have achieved in the past." It was given in the same year America withdrew all assistance from South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Nixon also called for the end of the Watergate investigations. He resigned months later due to the investigations.


1974 Stockholm Open
The 1974 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts which was part of the AA category of the 1974 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from 26 October through 11 November 1974. Fourth-seeded Arthur Ashe won the singles title, his second at the event after 1971, and earned $12,000 first-prize money.


1974 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles
Tom Okker /  Marty Riessen defeated  Bob Hewitt /  Frew McMillan, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4


1974 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Jimmy Connors and Ilie Năstase were the defending champions, but Riessen did not participate this year. Okker partnered Arthur Ashe, losing in the quarterfinals.


1974 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Tom Okker and Marty Riessen won the title, defeating Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


1974 Stockholm Open – Singles
Tom Gorman was the defending champion but withdrew due to an ankle injury sustained playing in the Vienna Open.


1974 Stockholm Open – Singles
Arthur Ashe won the title, defeating Tom Okker 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


1974 Strathclyde Regional Council election
The 1974 Strathclyde Regional Council election was held in May 1974, alongside regional elections across Scotland. All 103 of the Strathclyde Regional Council seats were up for election.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation
Following the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel in 1973, an international agreement was reached in October 1973 to provide measures to reopen the Suez Canal after its closure during the 1967 Six-Day War.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation
The U.S.-led clearing effort undertaken in 1974 consisted of three operations: the sweeping of mines in the Suez Canal by naval units from the United States, the United Kingdom and France (Operation Nimbus Star), the provision of training and advisory assistance for land and water explosive ordnance clearance for Egyptian forces (Operation Nimbus Moon) and the removal and salvage of wrecks from the Canal (Operation Nimrod Spar).


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Star
Operation Nimbus Star involved the clearance of naval mines and unexploded ordnance from portions of the Suez Canal and its approaches The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) (later relieved by USS Inchon (LPH-12)) deployed more than a month early with only five days notice, and became the flagship of "Task Force 65" to clear mines from the Suez Canal. On board, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12 (HM-12), flying RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters and towing Mk 105 hydrofoil sleds, performed the minesweeping operation. A detachment from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron HMM-261, flying CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, provided airborne search and rescue stand-by support. The main body of HMM-261 had been off-loaded at Sigonella, Sicily prior to departure for Egypt.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Star
One of the first steps to reopen the canal was taken on 22 April 1974, when a U.S. Navy RH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter of HM-12 took Iwo Jima, which was anchored off the northern end of the canal, picked up a Mark-105 magnetic minesweeping sled from the U.S. support teams ashore, and began sweeping the approaches to Port Said harbor. For the next six weeks, U.S. Navy helicopters gradually worked their way down the canal, pulling the sleds through each area of the canal waters a number of times, to ensure the absence of any live magnetic ordnance.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Star
When this first phase of the operations, known as "Nimbus Star", was finished on 3 June 1974, Sea Stallions from HM-12 and the minesweeping support crews from the Mobile Mine Countermeasures Command at Charleston, South Carolina, had swept a total of 7600 linear miles in about 500 hours of on-station time. An area of 310 square kilometers was swept in 43 days.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon
Nearly 1,700 Egyptian Army engineers received training by U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and engineering personnel in the tools and techniques of American land mine clearance. The Egyptian Army’s job was to sweep along the banks of the canal’s entire length, out to a distance of 250 meters. They were to find and disarm or destroy any land mines, or other unexploded ordnance left from previous wars. In July 1974, they announced that they had found a total of 686,000 land mines, both anti-tank and anti-personnel, in the area. They also reported finding 13,500 other pieces of unexploded ordnance. The U.S. Army land ordnance clearing advisory effort was known as "Operation Nimbus Moon".


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon
At the same time the land operation was concluding, a water clearance operation called "Nimbus Moon" was underway. It continued to run until the end of 1974 and, at a much-reduced rate, into 1975. In "Nimbus Moon", U.S. Navy EOD divers were to provide both diving and explosives training to Egyptian Navy men. While the Americans were prohibited from actual ordnance operations, they accompanied the Egyptians in the diving boats, serving as on-scene advisors. The canal was searched from bank to bank by an American sonar installed in a Suez Canal Authority pilot boat.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon
Linked with a precise radio navigation system, the sonar made highly accurate charts of the canal bottom. These charts were given to the diving advisors, who directed the Egyptians in systematic investigations of likely ordnance contacts. The ordnance that was discovered, ranging from hand grenades to 907 kg bombs, was usually destroyed in place with explosive charges. Non -ordnance items, from oil drums to tanks, were marked for later removal by Egyptian police divers. Because the canal was slated for future dredging, every piece of refuse of any substantial size had to be removed. The American-Egyptian team completed one full sweep of the canal bottom in late November 1974.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon
Meanwhile, British and French EOD divers were conducting their own searches. Through double-sweeping and, at times, triple-sweeping various areas, more complete coverage could be obtained. Inevitably, each group found items missed by previous divers. The Royal Navy used three minehunting ships, with their high-resolution sonar equipment, and an independent diving group known as the Fleet Clearance Diving Team. The French Navy used both minehunting ships in an active role and minesweepers as support ships. When all the search operations covered by "Nimbus Moon" were finished in December 1974, a large amount of ordnance had been discovered:


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon, Operation Moon Water
Operation Moon Water was part of the clearance of naval mines from the Suez Canal in Operation Nimbus Moon.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon, Operation Moon Water
The United States Navy trained and supervised Egyptian Navy divers who made a final sweep of the canal, disposing of a huge number of explosives, ranging from hand grenades to at least one German bomb left from World War II.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimbus Moon, Operation Moon Water
The operation was completed by the end of July 1975.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimrod Spar
The final stage of the operation was "Nimrod Spar", removing ten designated wrecks from the canal channel. This salvage operation was undertaken by the Murphy Pacific Marine Salvage Company under the direct supervision of the U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage, John H. Boyd, Jr. Work commenced on 29 May as teams of divers began to cut away the superstructure of the SS Mecca, the largest of the wrecks, a 6,700-ton Arab shipwreck blocking the channel. Additional salvage assets including two large heavy cranes and two heavy-lift craft were brought to the canal zone.


1974 Suez Canal Clearance Operation, Operation Nimrod Spar
The survey, trim and rigging, and lift operations were conducted simultaneously at multiple locations along the canal. The German heavy cranes Thor and Roland were employed first in the northern reaches of the canal to remove sections of the Mecca and Ismailia, and then near the southern terminus of the canal to clear the Dredge 22, tug Barren and tanker Magd. They then proceeded to the northern end of the Great Bitter Lake to salvage the dredge 15 September, the only wreck slated for reuse. The heavy-lift craft Crandell and Crilly were employed to lift and remove the four wrecks from the central region of the canal: Dredge 23, tug Mongued, dredge Kasser and a concrete caisson. All salvage operations were completed by 19 December 1974.


1974 Sugar Bowl
The 1974 Sugar Bowl was the 41st edition of the Sugar Bowl, a college football bowl game traditionally held in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was played on New Year's Eve at the conclusion of the 1974 NCAA Division I football season and featured the #8 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #18 ranked Florida Gators of the Southeastern Conference. Both teams featured stout defenses, and at the end of three quarters, the underdog Gators held a 10-0 lead over the favored Huskers, who committed five turnovers up to that point. However, Nebraska relied on its strong running game in the final period to rally for a 13–10 win, the program's first Sugar Bowl victory.


1974 Sugar Bowl
The 1974 Sugar Bowl was the last played at Tulane Stadium, which also hosted the Super Bowl for the final time just twelve days later. The Sugar Bowl moved indoors to the new Louisiana Superdome for the 1975 edition,


1974 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Nebraska
The Huskers entered the Sugar Bowl with an 8-3 record and were ranked #8 in the AP poll. They finished third in the Big Eight Conference and closed the regular season with a loss to rival Oklahoma. Nebraska was led by second team All American quarterback David Humm and an I formation offense that featured an offensive line which placed three out of five starters on the 1974 All-Big Eight Conference football team. This was the Huskers' second appearance in the contest, as they had lost to Alabama in the 1967 Sugar Bowl.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Florida
The Gators were also 8-3 leading up to the Sugar Bowl but had plummeted from #6 to #18 in the AP poll after having lost two of three games to end the regular season, dropping them to fifth place in the SEC standings. They were the only team ranked in the bottom of the top 20 to appear in a major bowl game that season.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Florida
Head coach Doug Dickey had debuted the wishbone offense in 1974, and with quarterback Don Gaffney guiding the option attack, Florida relied heavily on its running game along with a stout defense that had five starters named to the 1974 All-SEC football team. This was also the Gators' second trip to the Sugar Bowl, as they had lost to Missouri in the 1966 edition.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
The game kicked off shortly after 7 p.m. CST on New Year's Eve and was televised by ABC. Because the game did not sell out, it was blacked out in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Both defenses asserted themselves early, and Florida got on the scoreboard first when running back Tony Green ran for a 21-yard touchdown after an interception. Neither team could sustain a drive until late in the second quarter, when the Gators moved into Nebraska territory and kicked a field goal to build a 10-0 halftime lead.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
The score was unchanged in the third quarter when Nebraska QB David Humm threw his fourth interception of the contest (against two completed passes). Florida gained possession at the Nebraska 35-yard line and appeared to take a commanding lead soon thereafter when Tony Green ran 18 yards down the sideline for an apparent touchdown, but the officials incorrectly ruled that he had stepped out of bounds at the five-yard line. Florida soon faced fourth and goal from inside the Nebraska one yard line and coach Doug Dickey chose to leave his offense on the field. The Gators ran an option pitch to the left side and running back James Richards slipped and fell while trying to cut towards the goal line, giving Nebraska possession on downs.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska head coach Tom Osborne inserted reserve quarterback Terry Luck into the game as his offense lined up in the shadow of their own goal posts, but the backup would not factor prominently in the outcome. Instead, Osborne turned to his running backs, as the Huskers mounted an 18-play, 99-yard drive that consumed almost nine minutes off the clock and did not include a forward pass. The lengthy drive culminated in a short touchdown run by freshman back Monte Anthony early in the fourth quarter, cutting the Gators' lead to 10-7.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Florida was forced to punt on their next possession, and Nebraska again used their ground game to slowly move the ball down the field. After converting on fourth and two from the Florida 49-yard line, the Huskers tied the game at 10-10 on a Mike Coyle field goal with 7:12 remaining. Florida's offense was again unable to move the ball, and after another punt, Nebraska took possession at their own 25 with about four minutes left.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska continuing to rely on its bruising running attack against a tiring Gator defense, which nevertheless seemed to slow the Huskers' offense until running back Tony Davis broke free on a 41 yard run into Florida territory, setting up a 39-yard field goal with 1:46 remaining to give Nebraska the lead. Florida QB Don Gaffney's last-minute desperation pass was intercepted, and Nebraska held on for a 13-10 win.


1974 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Nebraska's running backs gained over 300 yards in the contest led by Sugar Bowl MVP Tony Davis. Davis rushed 17 times for 126 yards in the game, with 112 of those yards gained in the second half.


1974 Suisse Open Gstaad
The 1974 Suisse Open Gstaad was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Gstaad, Switzerland. It was the 29th edition of the tournament and was held from 8 July through 14 July 1974. The tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and categorized in Group B. Guillermo Vilas won the singles title and the accompanying $8,000 prize money.


1974 Suisse Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles
José Higueras /  Manuel Orantes defeated  Roy Emerson /  Thomaz Koch 7–5, 0–6, 6–1, 9–8


1974 Summit Series
The 1974 Summit Series was the second of two competitions between Soviet and Canadian professional ice hockey players, following the same format  as the 1972 Summit Series, with four games across Canada and four in Moscow. The Soviet team won the series 4–1–3, with Canada's lone victory coming Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. A significant difference from the previous series was that Canada's roster was selected from the World Hockey Association instead of the National Hockey League.


1974 Summit Series
Negotiations for the event started at the 1974 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, when Andrey Starovoytov of the Soviet Union approached Jack Devine and Gordon Juckes of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association regarding another series. Initially the event was to be six-games, but it was later extended to eight.


1974 Summit Series
WHA players had been banned from playing in the 1972 series. Bobby Hull, who had just jumped from the NHL to the Winnipeg Jets, had been named to the Canadian team by Harry Sinden, but was not allowed to participate. The 1974 series was an opportunity for Hull and 46-year-old Gordie Howe to play for Canada against the Soviet Union. The number one goaltender was Gerry Cheevers who played in seven of the eight games, missing game three to attend the funeral of his father. Don McLeod and Gilles Gratton were the backup goalies for Team Canada. Vladislav Tretiak and Alexander Sidelnikov were the goaltenders for the Soviets, with Tretiak playing in all but game eight for the Soviets.