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The following events occurred in August 1974:
August 9, 1974: Richard Nixon boards Army One after resigning as President of the United States
August 1, 1974 (Thursday)
- The government of Greece restored the 1952 Constitution, which had been in effect prior to the April 1967 coup d'état. The government temporarily suspended constitutional provisions relating to the monarchy, pending the country's decision on whether to recall King Constantine.[1]
- The leadership of the United States House of Representatives tentatively scheduled debate on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon to run from August 19 to August 31 and approved gavel-to-gavel television coverage.[2]
- A tugboat captain who fell asleep at the wheel rammed four barges into the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, destroying 260 feet (79 m) of roadway. At least two people in vehicles on the bridge were killed.[3]
- Former astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space and fifth man on the Moon, retired from the United States Navy after 30 years at the rank of Rear Admiral.[4]
- Died:
- Ildebrando Antoniutti, 75, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and diplomat, died in an automobile accident.[5]
- Harry Manning, 77, American mariner and aviator, vice admiral in the United States Naval Reserve[6]
- Ross Parker, 59, English songwriter ("We'll Meet Again", "There'll Always Be an England")[7]
August 2, 1974 (Friday)
- A fire aboard the Swedish motor ship Eos in the North Sea left two people dead and two missing.[8]
- John Dean, former legal counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon, was sentenced to a minimum of one year in prison and a maximum of four years for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal.[9]
- American comedian and actor Shelley Berman was robbed at gunpoint of $60 and a watch and left bound and gagged on the floor of his hotel room in Queens, New York City.[10]
- Born: Angel Boris, American model and actress; in Fort Lauderdale, Florida[11]
- Died:
- Fred Allison, 92, American physicist[12]
- Cyril Smith OBE, 64, English classical pianist, died of a heart attack.[13]
August 3, 1974 (Saturday)
- The 10-day Huntsville Prison siege ended with an escape attempt by drug baron Fred Gómez Carrasco and his two accomplices, during which two women hostages and one of Carrasco's cohorts were shot and killed and Carrasco committed suicide. Two other hostages were wounded.[14][15]
- The original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music closed after 601 performances.[16]
- Born:
- Jenny Beck, American actress; in Los Angeles, California[17]
- Pepe Gálvez (born José Gálvez Estévez), Spanish footballer and manager; in Calvià, Mallorca, Balearic Islands[18]
- García Pimienta (born Francisco Javier García Pimienta), Spanish footballer and manager; in Barcelona[19]
- Michael Gray, English footballer; in City of Sunderland[20]
- Odelín Molina, Cuban footballer; in Santa Clara, Cuba[21]
- Matteo Richetti, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies; in Sassuolo, Province of Modena[22]
- Laura Termini, Venezuelan actress and writer; in Caracas[23]
- Blaine Wilson, American Olympic gymnast; in Columbus, Ohio[24]
- Igor Yanovsky, Russian footballer; in Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union[25]
- Died:
- Joaquim Amat-Piniella, 60, Catalan writer[26]
- Fred Gómez Carrasco, 34, American criminal, suicide by firearm[14][15]
- Edna Murphy, 74, American actress[27]
- Almira Sessions, 85, American actress[28][29]
August 4, 1974 (Sunday)
- A bomb exploded on the Italicus Express train between Italy and West Germany, killing 12 and wounding 48.[30][31][32][33] Italian neo-fascists claimed responsibility.[34]
- The derailment of an express train in Dol-de-Bretagne, France, killed 9 people and injured 30.[31]
- Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni won the 1974 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.[35]
August 5, 1974 (Monday)
- U.S. President Richard Nixon released transcripts of three conversations between himself and the former White House Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, on June 23, 1972, six days after the Watergate break-in. One of the transcripts showed that Nixon had ordered that the Federal Bureau of Investigation halt its inquiry into the case. Nixon also released a statement admitting that he had discussed the political advantages of this order for his re-election campaign and acknowledged that a House vote in favor of impeachment was a virtual certainty. Several of Nixon's strongest supporters in Congress withdrew their support after the transcripts' release, including Representative Charles E. Wiggins of California, Nixon's most prominent defender on the House Judiciary Committee, who said he would now vote for impeachment on the charge of obstruction of justice.[36][37][38]
- A Federal office building in downtown Miami, Florida, collapsed, killing 7 employees of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and injuring 15 others.[39][40][41][42]
- Born: Kajol (born Kajol Mukherjee), Indian actress; in Bombay, Maharashtra[43]
August 6, 1974 (Tuesday)
- A bombing at Los Angeles International Airport killed 3 people and injured 35.[44][45][46]
- 46-year-old Robert C. Berger died during an attempt to make the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon. An hour after Berger took off from Lakehurst Naval Air Station, his helium balloon disintegrated over Barnegat Bay in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Berger had reportedly never flown in a balloon before.[47]
- A tank car filled with ammonium nitrate exploded in a railroad yard near Wenatchee, Washington, killing two people and injuring over 60.[48]
- Born:
- Ever Carradine, American actress; in Los Angeles, California[49]
- Olivier Dubois, French journalist on Malian affairs held hostage from 2021 to 2023; in Créteil[50][51]
- Died:
- Gene Ammons, 49, American jazz tenor saxophonist, died of bone cancer and pneumonia.[52][53]
- Henry Jacques Gaisman, 104, American philanthropist and inventor[54]
- Emma Fordyce MacRae, 87, American representational painter[55]
- Robert Rounseville, 60, American actor and tenor, died of a heart attack.[56]
August 7, 1974 (Wednesday)
- 24-year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit conducted an unauthorized walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, crossing a 131-foot (40 m) cable at a height of 1,350 feet (410 m). Members of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department arrested Petit for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass, but Richard Kuh, the New York County District Attorney, ordered the charges dropped in exchange for Petit giving a free performance for the children of New York City. Kuh suggested at a news conference that Port Authority security was insufficiently "keen".[57]
- United Artists released the neo-Western film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah.[58][59]
- Born:
- Deon Dreyer, South African recreational scuba diver who disappeared during a dive in Bushman's Hole in December 1994. Diver Dave Shaw died on a dive to recover Dreyer's body in 2005.[60]
- Andy Priaulx, British racing driver; in Guernsey[61]
- Michael Shannon, American actor; in Lexington, Kentucky[62]
- Died:
- Virginia Apgar, 65, American physician, inventor of the Apgar score, died of cirrhosis.[63][64]
- Rosario Castellanos, 49, Mexican poet and author, Ambassador of Mexico to Israel, died due to an electrical accident.[65][66]
- Richard Corts, 69, German Olympic sprinter, committed suicide.[67]
August 8, 1974 (Thursday)
- U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation due to the Watergate scandal, effective at noon on August 9.[68] In a televised address to the nation, Nixon said, "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first."[69]
- A team of Japanese and American climbers discovered the bodies of 7 members of an 8-woman team of Soviet climbers, led by Elvira Shatayeva, which had reached the summit of Lenin Peak, the third-tallest mountain in the Soviet Union, on August 5. The eighth woman was believed to have been swept off the mountain by high winds.[70][71][72]
- Born:
- Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager; in Windsor, Ontario[73]
- Brian Harvey, British singer (East 17); in London[74]
- Died:
- Howie Pollet, 53, American Major League Baseball pitcher, died of adenocarcinoma.[75][76]
- Baldur von Schirach, 67, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader, died of coronary thrombosis.[77][78]
August 9, 1974 (Friday)
August 9, 1974: Chief Justice Warren Burger swears in Gerald Ford as President of the United States
- U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation. In a speech after being sworn in, President Ford said, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."[79]
- Three missiles fired from a Syrian airfield struck and destroyed Buffalo 461, a de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo of the Canadian Armed Forces assigned to United Nations Emergency Force II, killing all 9 peacekeepers aboard.[80]
- Three aviators died in a mid-air collision in Norfolk, England, between a Royal Air Force McDonnell Douglas Phantom and a Piper PA-25 Pawnee agricultural aircraft.[81]
- A small plane crashed about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Jackson, Minnesota, killing all six people on board, including four members of the rock-jazz group Chase and the plane's pilot and co-pilot.[82]
- Born: Derek Fisher, American basketball player; in Little Rock, Arkansas[83]
- Died:
- Henry Bjorkman, 72, American football player, coach and stockbroker (Spencer Trask & Co.), died of cancer.[84]
- Bill Chase, 39, American musician, plane crash[82]
- Randolph Hale, 65, American theatrical producer and actor, husband of Marjorie Lord, died of cancer.[85][86]
- Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., 49, president and board chairman of Luckenbach Steamship Company, son of Edgar F. Luckenbach[87]
- Sidney Sugarman, 69, United States district judge[88]
August 10, 1974 (Saturday)
- 12 people died and 14 were injured in a collision between a bus and a train in Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines.[89]
- U.S. President Gerald Ford requested that all members of President Nixon's Cabinet and all heads of U.S. Government agencies remain in office for "continuity and stability."[90]
August 10, 1974: August Jam
- Over 300,000 people attended the August Jam outdoor rock concert at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina. The Allman Brothers Band and Emerson, Lake & Palmer were among the performers at the event.[91][92]
- In West Branch, Iowa, the hometown of former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, nearly 7,000 people gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. President Nixon had been scheduled to attend prior to the events of the week leading to his resignation.[93]
- Physician L. Michael Kuhn, a hemophilia specialist from Plainfield, New Jersey, his wife and their six children were killed in the crash of their Piper Aztec airplane 1,000 feet (300 m) short of the runway at the Fergus Falls Municipal Airport in Minnesota.[94][95]
- Died:
- Wallace R. Brode, 74, American chemist, died of cancer.[96]
- Chuck Hall, 56, American politician, Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, died of a heart attack.[97]
- Theodore McKeldin, 73, American politician, former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland, died of cancer.[98]
- José Miró Cardona, 71, Cuban politician, former Prime Minister of Cuba, died of a heart attack.[99]
- Albert Parker, 87, American actor and film director (Sherlock Holmes, The Black Pirate, The Love of Sunya)[100]
- Frei Tito (Tito de Alencar Lima, O.P.), 28, Brazilian Dominican friar, hanged himself in France after being tortured by the Brazilian military dictatorship.[101][102][103]
August 11, 1974 (Sunday)
- In front of an audience of 20,000 at an air show in northern Japan, 23-year-old skydiver Nobutaka Yoshinoya fell 1 mile (1.6 km) to his death after his parachute struck the parachute of another skydiver and failed to open properly.[104]
- A collision between two buses on the Ankara-Istanbul highway near Bolu, Turkey, killed 21 people and injured 41.[105]
- 47 people died in the crash of an Air Mali Ilyushin Il-18V turboprop airliner near Linonghin, about 25 miles (40 km) east of Ouagadougou, Upper Volta. The plane crashed during an attempted emergency landing on the highway between Niamey and Ouagadougou. 13 people survived.[106][107]
- At Patricia Nixon Historical Park in Cerritos, California, former First Lady Pat Nixon's childhood home was firebombed, causing $2,000 in damage.[108][109] The home would be destroyed by fire in 1978.[110]
- Born: Audrey Mestre, French world-record setting freediver; in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis (died during record attempt in 2002)[111][112]
- Died:
- José Falcón (born José Carlos Frita Falcão), 29, Portuguese matador, was killed in the ring during a bullfight in Barcelona, Spain.[113]
- Christian Fouchet, 63, French politician, died of a heart attack.[114]
- Jan Tschichold, 72, German-born typographer, died of cancer.[115]
August 12, 1974 (Monday)
- In Uganda, physician Peter Mbalu Mukasa died of poisoning. Police discovered the dismembered body of Kay Adroa, a former wife of President Idi Amin, in the trunk of a car belonging to Mukasa. Adroa's autopsy showed she had died from bleeding after an incomplete abortion. Mukasa's death was ruled a suicide.[116][117]
- All 27 people aboard died in the crash of an Avianca Douglas C-47-DL airliner into Trujillo Mountain in Colombia at an altitude of 9,670 feet (2,950 m). The plane's wreckage would not be discovered until October 31.[118]
- Four mountain climbers died in the Alps in two separate incidents. Two Austrians fell while climbing the Matterhorn, while two West Germans fell on the Rimpfischhorn.[119]
- 20th Century Fox released the road movie Harry and Tonto, starring Art Carney and directed by Paul Mazursky.[120][121]
August 12, 1974: President Ford addresses Congress in the United States House chamber
- During a televised address to a joint session of the United States Congress, U.S. President Ford said, "To the limits of my strength and ability, I will be the President of the black, brown, red and white Americans, of old and young, of women's liberationists and male chauvinists and all the rest of us in between, of the poor and the rich, of native sons and new refugees, of those who work at lathes or at desks or in mines or in the fields, and of Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists and atheists, if there really are any atheists after what we have all been through."[122]
- An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Miami derailed near Wake Forest, North Carolina, injuring 8-10 people.[123]
- 23-year-old jockey Johnny Hathaway was fatally injured when his horse threw him into the path of another horse during a race at Waterford Park in West Virginia.[124]
August 13, 1974 (Tuesday)
- On the second day of principal photography for the film The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, a falling rock on the north face of the Eiger killed 26-year-old British climber David Knowles and injured climbing advisor and cameraman Mike Hoover.[125][126][127]
- A head-on collision between a bus and a fruit truck near Saragossa, Spain, killed 9 people and injured 20.[128]
- Born:
- Nassima al-Sadah, Saudi Arabian Shia human rights writer and activist[129]
- Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician (Dark Tranquillity); in Gothenburg[130]
- Died:
- Ross L. Malone, 63, American attorney, former United States Deputy Attorney General[131]
- Kate O'Brien, 76, Irish novelist and playwright[132]
August 14, 1974 (Wednesday)
- Turkey invaded Cyprus for the second time,[133] occupying 37% of the island's territory.
- Greece withdrew its forces from NATO's military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[134]
- On Margarita Island, a Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner of the Venezuelan airline Aeropostal crashed into a hill during a storm, killing all 50 people aboard. The plane's co-pilot, Ivan Magallenes, was initially the sole survivor, but died of brain damage 17 days later.[135][136][137][138]
- In Kansas City, Missouri, 15-year-old David Eyman was found bound at the wrists and knees and burned alive on the boundary road between Jackson and Cass counties. As of 2021 his murder remained unsolved.[139]
- 22-year-old American motorcycle racer Rickie K. Milner was killed during a competition at the Corona Raceway in Corona, California. Milner spilled his motorcycle and was struck in the neck from behind by racer Bill Matherson's motorcycle.[140]
- Born:
- Christopher Gorham, American actor; in Fresno, California[141]
- Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit), Israeli-French actor and comedian; in West Berlin[142][143]
- Died:
- Emett Clay Choate, 83, United States district judge, died of a stroke.[144]
- Arnulf Klett, 69, German lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, died of a heart attack.[145]
August 15, 1974 (Thursday)
- Mun Se-gwang, a Japanese-born North Korean sympathizer, unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, who was giving a National Liberation Day speech at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul. Yuk Young-soo, President Park's wife, was mortally wounded in the attack and died later that day. A bullet fired by a member of the president's security detail ricocheted and killed Jang Bong-hwa, a member of a high school choir performing at the event. After the shooting and Mun's arrest, President Park completed his speech and the girls' choir performed a song.[146][147][148] President Park would be assassinated in 1979.
- False statements attributed to two Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives appeared in the Congressional Record, the official record of U.S. Congress proceedings and debates. Representative Earl Landgrebe of Indiana, who had supported President Nixon during the Watergate scandal, was represented as recommending that President Ford appoint Nixon as Vice President and then resign. Representative John M. Ashbrook of Ohio supposedly praised the military dictatorship of Chile. Both men denied making the statements and asked for them to be expunged from the permanent bound version of the Congressional Record.[149]
- Born: Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model; in Springdale, Newfoundland and Labrador[150]
- Died:
- Otto Braun (aka Li De), 73, German communist journalist, Comintern agent and military adviser to the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War[151]
- Edmund Cobb, 82, American actor, died of a heart attack.[152]
- Clay Shaw, 61, American businessman and CIA contact, the only person brought to trial for involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, died of metastatic lung cancer.[153][154]
- Yuk Young-soo, 48, First Lady of South Korea, shot to death.[147][148]
August 16, 1974 (Friday)
- 6 people died and 2 were injured in an early morning fire at Moore's Rest Home, a nursing home in Brookhaven, Mississippi.[155]
- In Santo Domingo, Joaquín Balaguer was sworn in for his third consecutive term as President of the Dominican Republic. Bombs had exploded in the city during the previous night, and the country's main opposition parties called for a two-day curfew to protest the inauguration.[156]
August 16, 1974: President and Mrs. Ford with the King and Queen of Jordan
- U.S. President Ford gave the first state dinner of his administration, hosting King Hussein and Queen Alia of Jordan at the White House.[157]
- Born:
- Didier Cuche, Swiss Olympic alpine skier; in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel[158]
- Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer, winner of 5 Olympic gold medals; in Budapest[159]
- Died: Karl Mundt, 74, American educator and politician, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from South Dakota, died of a heart ailment.[160][161]
August 17, 1974 (Saturday)
- 5 mountain climbers, including professional guide Paul Luquin, died in a fall in the Meiji region of the French Alps.[162]
- Died: Aldo Palazzeschi (pen name of Aldo Giurlani), 89, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist[163][164]
August 18, 1974 (Sunday)
- Argentinian driver Carlos Reutemann won the 1974 Austrian Grand Prix at the Österreichring.[165]
- A C-130 transport of the Zaire Air Force crashed near Kisangani, killing all 31 people aboard.[166]
- Died: Laura Clifford Barney, 94, American Baháʼí teacher and philanthropist, officer of the Legion of Honour[167]
August 19, 1974 (Monday)
- A bomb threat forced American musician Ray Charles to cut short a performance at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park after only four songs. No bomb was discovered.[168] Charles would return to Central Park to fulfill his engagement on September 2.[169]
- Died:
- Rodger Davies, 53, the United States Ambassador to Cyprus, was shot and killed while standing in the central hall of the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia during a demonstration outside by Greek Cypriots. A bullet fired from outside passed through the shuttered window of Davies' office and through another office before striking him in the chest. Antoinette Varnavas, an embassy secretary who was a Greek Cypriot national, was struck in the head by a bullet and killed after going to Davies' assistance.[170] The shooters were believed to be gunmen from the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation EOKA B.[171]
- Gene Gedman, 42, former National Football League running back, died of a heart attack.[172]
August 20, 1974 (Tuesday)
August 20, 1974: Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller in the Oval Office
- U.S. President Gerald Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller, the former Governor of New York, to be Vice President of the United States.[173]
- President Ford also nominated former child star Shirley Temple Black as United States Ambassador to Ghana.[174]
- Born:
- Amy Adams, American actress known for Enchanted, Man of Steel and Arrival; in Aviano, Italy[175]
- Misha Collins (born Dmitri Tippens Krushnic), American actor known for Supernatural; in Boston, Massachusetts[176]
- Deborah Gravenstijn, Dutch Olympic judoka; in Tholen, Zeeland[177]
- Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist; in Novosibirsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union[178]
- Died:
- Mort Lloyd, 43, a Democratic nominee for Congress in Tennessee, died in a light plane crash.[179] Lloyd's widow, Marilyn Lloyd, would be named to replace him on the ballot, and would go on to serve ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.[180]
- Ilona Massey (born Ilona Hajmássy), 64, Hungarian-American film, stage and radio actress, died of cancer.[181]
- Guido Schoenberger, 83, German-born American art historian[182]
August 21, 1974 (Wednesday)
- The Singapore-registered freighter Toulouse sank east of Taiwan, leaving 31 crewmen missing. Three crewmembers were rescued.[183]
- Paramount Pictures released the sports comedy film The Longest Yard, starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Robert Aldrich.[184]
- The nude, strangled body of aspiring actress Karin Schlegel was discovered on the roof of a building in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Music teacher Charles Yukl, who had pled guilty in 1968 to first-degree manslaughter in the strangulation death of another young woman and had been released on parole in 1973, would be arrested for Schlegel's murder on August 24.[185] Yukl would plead guilty in 1976 and would hang himself in prison in 1982.
A Northrop YF-17 in 1976
- The Northrop YF-17 prototype jet fighter aircraft made its first test flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California, reaching an altitude of 27,000 feet (8,200 m) and a speed of 615 miles per hour (990 km/h).[186]
- Died:
- James P. Cannon, 84, American Trotskyist politician, former National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party[187]
- Haim Moussa Douek, 70, the last Chief Rabbi of Egypt, died of a heart attack in New York.[188]
- Georgia Harkness, 83, American Methodist theologian and philosopher, died of a heart attack.[189]
- Clifford J. Laube, 82, American newspaper editor and Roman Catholic poet, died of cancer.[190]
- Buford Pusser, 36, former sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, subject of the Walking Tall series of films, died in an automobile accident.[191]
August 22, 1974 (Thursday)
- At the Downtown Holiday Inn in Des Moines, Iowa, 21-year-old security guard Danny Lee Peters and 22-year-old assistant night auditor Luis A. Trujillo, Jr., were shot and killed during a 2:00 am robbery; another employee and a hotel guest were wounded. One of the two main suspects, Kenneth Hunter, would be granted immunity from prosecution for testifying against the other, Terrance Duane Hollowell, who would be acquitted. The case remains unsolved.[192]
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August 22, 1974: Sinking of USS Thorn
- The decommissioned Gleaves-class destroyer USS Thorn (DD-647) was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 75 nautical miles (139 km) east of Jacksonville, Florida, by aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60).[193][194]
- During preliminary trials for the 1974 America's Cup, a television helicopter crashed into Rhode Island Sound 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Point Judith, Rhode Island, killing a technician and injuring a cameraman and the pilot.[195]
- Born:
- Cory Gardner, American politician, former United States Representative and Senator from Colorado; in Yuma, Colorado[196]
- Jenna Leigh Green (born Jennifer Leigh Greenberg), American actress and singer known for Sabrina the Teenage Witch; in West Hills, Los Angeles, California[197]
- Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist; in Paddington, New South Wales
- Died:
- Jacob Bronowski, 66, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian, died of a heart attack.[198]
- Alfredo Edmead, 17, Dominican minor league baseball player, died of a skull fracture and cerebral hemorrhage after an on-field collision with teammate Pablo Cruz while playing for the Salem Pirates in the Carolina League.[199][200] Edmead remains the youngest professional baseball player ever to die on the field.[200]
- Sir Charles Wheeler KCVO CBE PRA, 82, English sculptor, former president of the Royal Academy[201]
- Robert Wilder, 73, American novelist, playwright and screenwriter[202]
August 23, 1974 (Friday)
- A Cessna light plane crashed into a house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, shortly after 3 a.m., killing the plane's pilot, his passenger and two children in the house.[203]
- 40-year-old former lightweight boxing champion Tommy Tibbs was shot during an argument at a cafe in Roxbury, Boston. He would die the following day at Boston City Hospital.[204]
- Born:
- Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu (aka Ovi, Ovi Jacobsen), Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician; in Botoșani, Romania[205]
- Ray Park, Scottish actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace) and martial artist; in Glasgow[206]
- Shifty Shellshock (stage name of Seth Brooks Binzer), American singer (Crazy Town); in Los Angeles, California[207]
- Died:
- Roberto Assagioli, 86, Italian psychiatrist and pioneering psychologist, died of pneumonia.[208]
- Antoine Marc Gaudin, 74, American metallurgist, researcher for the Manhattan Project[209]
August 24, 1974 (Saturday)
- Voting began in the 1974 Malaysian general election, without a recurrence of the violence that had marred the 1969 election.[210]
- Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed took office as the 5th President of India.[211]
- 17-year-old Blackpool F.C. fan Kevin Olsson was stabbed to death during a Blackpool v Bolton match at Bloomfield Road football stadium in Blackpool, England, the first fan ever murdered inside an English football ground. A juvenile would be acquitted of Olsson's murder. As of 2014 no one else had been charged.[212]
- Polish racer Janusz Kowalski and French racer Geneviève Gambillon won the men's and women's amateur road races at the 1974 UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[213]
The Johnson statue in 2014
- U.S. Congressman J. J. Pickle and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson unveiled a larger-than-life-size bronze statue of Lyndon B. Johnson, carved by sculptor Jimilu Mason, at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park in Texas.[214]
- 44-year-old jockey Kent Roberts was killed during a race at Prescott Downs in Arizona.[215]
- Born:
- Jennifer Lien, American actress (Star Trek: Voyager); in Palos Heights, Illinois[216]
- Titus (gorilla), known as "The Gorilla King," silverback mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains (d. 2009, old age)[217]
- Died: Alexander P. de Seversky, 80, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor[218]
August 25, 1974 (Sunday)
- In Auckland, New Zealand, politician Robert Muldoon, leader of the New Zealand National Party, punched demonstrators at a protest outside a meeting of landlords and property investors after a sack of flour struck him in the back.[219]
- A 3 a.m. fire that broke out in the Washington House Hotel in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, destroyed almost an entire block of buildings, killing 13 people and causing $750,000 in damage.[220][221]
- Belgian racer Eddy Merckx won the Men's Individual Road Race at the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal.[222][223]
Bridge 12 after collision
- In Port Robinson, Ontario, the freighter Steelton struck Bridge 12 on the Welland Canal, destroying it and injuring two people.[224] The bridge was never rebuilt and was replaced by a passenger ferry in 1977.
- Died:
- M. J. Coldwell PC CC, 85, English-born Canadian democratic socialist politician, died of a heart attack.[225]
- Pierre-Louis Gabriel Falaize, 69, French journalist and diplomat[226]
- Harry K. Newburn, 68, American educator and university president, died of a heart attack.[227][228]
- Audrey Stern Hess, 50, former president of the Citizens' Committee for Children, daughter of Edgar B. Stern and wife of art critic Thomas B. Hess, died of a heart ailment.[229]
August 26, 1974 (Monday)
- The Soviet Union launched the Soyuz 15 mission, crewed by cosmonauts Gennady Sarafanov and Lev Dyomin.[230][231][232] 48-year-old Dyomin was the oldest human to have flown in space up to this time. Soyuz 15 was intended to dock with the Salyut 3 space station (which was secretly the second Almaz military station) but failed to do so due to a malfunction in the Igla docking system.[232] The spacecraft returned safely to Earth on August 28.[232][233]
- 21-year-old American sailor Robert Gainer landed at Falmouth, Cornwall, after a two-month solo voyage across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the 22-foot (6.7 m) Sea Sprite sloop Hitchhiker.[234][235]
- Died:
- Junio Valerio Borghese, 68, World War II Regia Marina commander and neo-fascist politician known as the "Black Prince" who fled Italy after the failure of the Golpe Borghese.[236]
- Sir Donald Hopson, KCMG, DSO, MC, TD, 58, British diplomat, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Argentina, died of a heart attack.[237]
- Charles Lindbergh, 72, American aviator, military officer and activist who made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, died of lymphatic cancer.[238] U.S. President Ford commented on Lindbergh's death: "In later years, his life was darkened by tragedy, and colored by political controversy. But, in both public and private life, General Lindbergh always remained a brave, sincere patriot."[239]
August 27, 1974 (Tuesday)
- British commercial diver P. Kelly died of anoxia due to pure helium being fed through his breathing mask during a bell dive in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea. The other diver in the bell pulled off his mask before losing consciousness and survived.[240]
- 19-year-old tractor driver Andrew Head discovered a woman's headless body near Swaffham, Norfolk, England. Police concluded that the woman was murdered during the first two weeks of August.[241] The woman's head has never been found; she remains unidentified and her murder remains unsolved.
- Five people died in an explosion at a meatpacking plant in Cipolletti, Argentina.[242]
- By a vote of 40,083 to 27,932, residents of Alaska voted to move the state capital from Juneau to a location at least 30 miles (48 km) from Anchorage or Fairbanks, Alaska.[243] However, voters would later reject the move's associated construction costs, and Juneau remains the state capital.
- A memorial service for Charles Lindbergh was held in Kipahulu, Hawaii, at the small church next to which Lindbergh had been buried the previous day. Lindbergh's name was not mentioned during the half-hour service, at which fewer than 24 people were present.[244]
- Died: Otto Strasser, 76, Nazi German politician[245][246]
August 28, 1974 (Wednesday)
- Rhodesia announced the selection of the "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as its new national anthem. Lyrics for the anthem would be chosen through a nationwide competition.[247]
- Gerald Ford held his first news conference as President of the United States in the East Room of the White House.[248]
- The CBS network withdrew its $50,000 bid for live television coverage of stuntman Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon jump, planned for September 8. Top Rank, Inc., which was promoting the jump, had threatened to cancel it if the state of Idaho granted live TV rights to any broadcaster.[249]
- Born: Carsten Jancker, German footballer; in Grevesmühlen, East Germany[250]
- Died: Philip Rhodes, 79, American naval architect and marine engineer[251]
August 29, 1974 (Thursday)
- Jimmy Taylor, a 12-year-old Aboriginal Australian boy, disappeared from Derby, Western Australia. As of 2023 the case remains unsolved.[252][253]
- At Windsor Great Park, a Crown Estate property in southern England, police took action to disperse the 2,000 music fans attending the "Festival of the People", resulting in an eight-hour battle, 220 arrests and over 50 injuries.[254]
- A 3:05 a.m. explosion destroyed an entire city block in the African-American nightclub district of Chattanooga, Tennessee, causing one death and at least 13 injuries.[255]
- The August Rebellion, a prison riot, took place shortly after dusk at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford, New York, as 200 prisoners took control of two buildings and a recreation yard to protest the brutal treatment of fellow prisoner Carol Crooks. The prisoners returned to their cells after midnight.[256]
- Aerialist Philippe Petit fulfilled his promise to give a free show for the children of New York, crossing a 600-foot (180 m) cable at a 30-degree angle from a stand of trees on the northeast side of Belvedere Lake in Central Park to an 80-foot (24 m) height on the watchtower of Belvedere Castle, southwest of the lake.[257]
- Malcolm "Mac" Graham and Eleanor "Muff" Graham (born Eleanor LaVerne Eddington), a married couple from San Diego, California, disappeared on Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, to which they had traveled from Hawaii aboard their sailboat, the Sea Wind. Another sailor would discover Eleanor Graham's remains on the beach of Palmyra in 1981, after which ex-convict Buck Duane Walker and his girlfriend, Stephanie Stearns, the only other persons on Palmyra at the time of the Grahams' disappearance, would be charged with murdering Eleanor. Walker was convicted of the killing, but Stearns was acquitted. Stearns' defense attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, would co-write a 1991 book about the case, And the Sea Will Tell, which was adapted the same year into a television film.[258]
- Died:
- William M. Cann, 32, Chief of Police in Union City, California, died from wounds sustained in a mass shooting on June 11, 1974.[259]
- Stanton Griffis, 87, American diplomat and financier, died of pneumonia subsequent to burns and smoke inhalation.[260]
- Fred W. Preller, 73, former member of the New York State Assembly[261]
- G. Ernest Wright, 64, American Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist[262]
August 30, 1974 (Friday)
- Radical far-left terrorists bombed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Tokyo, killing 8 and wounding more than 376.[263][264][265]
- The Soviet Kashin-class destroyer Otvazhny sank after a defective anti-aircraft missile launched during Black Sea Fleet drills ignited a fire which resulted in the explosion of the ship magazines.[266]
- An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derailed in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.[267][268]
- The Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, the first Dutch satellite, was launched by a Scout rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.[269][270]
- 27-year-old American racing driver Robert W. Bunselmeier was injured during a sprint car race in Bloomington, Indiana. He would die of his injuries the following day.[271]
- Died:
- Marion Canby, 89, poet, widow of critic and editor Henry Seidel Canby[272]
- Eleanor Platt, 64, American sculptor, was found dead in her studio at the Park Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York City.[273] Her death was ascribed to heart failure.[274] After Calvin Jackson's arrest for the murder of Pauline Spanierman the following month, he would confess to the murders of 8 other women, including Platt.[275]
August 31, 1974 (Saturday)
- In the early morning hours on Interstate 10 in California, a sniper in a car pulled up alongside other drivers at random and fired at them, killing 3 people and wounding 6. A suspect was arrested shortly after 6 a.m.[276]
- Died:
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, 79, Emir of Qatar[277]
- Norman Kirk PC, 51, New Zealand politician, the 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand, died unexpectedly of a pulmonary embolism.[278]
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