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The following events occurred in July 1974:

July 1, 1974 (Monday)

  • On "M-day", road signs in Australia changed from imperial measures (e.g. miles) to metric.[1]
  • Sweden became the first nation in the world to have a national data protection law as the Datalagen (Data Act), passed on May 11, 1973, went into effect.[2]
  • Isabel Perón became the first woman to be designated the president of a nation, being sworn in as President of Argentina after the death of her husband, Juan Perón, at the age of 78. Although other women, such as monarchs, had served as heads of state, or heads of government as prime ministers, Mrs. Perón— who had been elected Vice President after being the running mate of her husband in the 1973 election— was the first female president.[3]
  • The Communist nation of Cuba officially banned the Jehovah's Witnesses, closing houses of worship and providing for penalties, including imprisonment for violators.[4]
  • Members of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) walked out on strike after the deadline passed for the 26 owners of the teams of the National Football League (NFL) declined to meet their demands for an increase base salary and lifting of restrictions on collective bargaining and reserve clauses in contracts. Most rookie players, who were not immediately eligible to join the NFLPA, would show up to training camps, while most (but not all) veterans declined to pass the picket lines to report for NFL teams.[5]
  • The Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park opened to the public in the Philadelphia area, based in Jackson, New Jersey, near Trenton.[6]
  • Died: Gregory Ruth, 34, American collegiate wrestler and NCAA champion 1965 and 1966, was killed in a motorcycle accident[7]

July 2, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 3, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 4, 1974 (Thursday)

July 5, 1974 (Friday)

July 6, 1974 (Saturday)

July 7, 1974 (Sunday)

July 8, 1974 (Monday)

July 9, 1974 (Tuesday)

  • The Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released an enhanced version of eight of the White House tapes previously transcribed by Nixon's team. These included potentially damaging statements suppressed in Nixon's version.[25]
  • Died: Earl Warren, 83, former Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969[26]

July 10, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 11, 1974 (Thursday)

July 12, 1974 (Friday)

July 13, 1974 (Saturday)

July 14, 1974 (Sunday)

  • In the finals of the 1974 FIBA World Championship basketball competition, held in Puerto Rico, the Soviet Union won its second title. Rather than a knock-out tournament, the final was a round-robin of 8 teams (Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Soviet Union, Spain, the U.S., and Yugoslavia) playing against each other. Despite that, the decisive game was the Soviet Union's 105 to 94 win over the United States. [34]
  • Born: David Mitchell, British comedian and actor; in Salisbury, Wiltshire[35]

July 15, 1974 (Monday)

July 16, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 17, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 18, 1974 (Thursday)

  • The Soviet Union's 35th Rocket Division carried out a research exercise, including the launch of two missiles.
  • Commercial diver Fred Brening failed to surface from a dive into a flooded dry dock pump well at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Brening, who had only an hour's supply of oxygen, was found dead the following day in a maze of pipes on the second level of the well.[43][44]

July 19, 1974 (Friday)

July 20, 1974 (Saturday)

July 21, 1974 (Sunday)

July 22, 1974 (Monday)

  • Endelkachew Makonnen, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, was arrested orders of the ruling Derg, and replaced by Lij Mikael Imru, .[51]
  • Otto Kerner Jr. resigned as a U.S. federal judge with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals before the U.S. House of Representatives was to hold hearings on whether to impeach him. Kerner, former Governor of Illinois, prominent as Chairman of the Kerner Commission on the investigation of race rioting and a judge since 1968, had lost his appeal on a conviction of mail fraud, conspiracy and perjury and began serving a three-year federal prison sentence after stepping down from the bench.[52]
  • Died: Edna Lewis Thomas, 88, African-American stage actress on Broadway from 1923 to 1958[53]

July 23, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 24, 1974 (Wednesday)

  • In Colombia, a 29-year-old man hijacked an Avianca Boeing 727, shortly after it took off from Pereira, for a domestic flight to Medellín, and demanded a ransom of two million U.S. dollars and the release of a political prisoner. The airliner diverted to Cali, where police stormed it and killed the hijacker.[56]
  • The Huntsville Prison siege began in Huntsville, Texas, United States, when Fred Gómez Carrasco, serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer, and two other inmates laid siege to the education building of the Walls Unit.[57]
  • Televised coverage of committee hearings on the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon resumed after a break to assess new evidence.[58]

July 25, 1974 (Thursday)

  • U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan delivered a -minute televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment process against U.S. President Richard Nixon in what one organization rated as one of the top American speeches of all time.[59]

July 26, 1974 (Friday)

July 27, 1974 (Saturday)

July 28, 1974 (Sunday)

July 29, 1974 (Monday)

July 30, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 31, 1974 (Wednesday)

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