August 1974
The following events occurred in August 1974:
August 9, 1974: Richard Nixon boards Army One after resigning his office as President of the United States
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August 3, 1974 (Saturday)
- Died: Edna Murphy, 74, American actress
August 4, 1974 (Sunday)
- A bomb exploded in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing twelve and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascists claimed responsibility.
August 5, 1974 (Monday)
August 6, 1974 (Tuesday)
- A bombing at Los Angeles International Airport killed three people and injured 35.[5]
- Born: Ever Carradine, American actress
August 7, 1974 (Wednesday)
- Born: Michael Shannon, American actor[6]
- Died: Rosario Castellanos, 49, Mexican poet and author
August 8, 1974 (Thursday)
- U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his resignation due to the Watergate scandal, effective at noon on August 9.
- Died: Baldur von Schirach, 67, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader
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.
- Born: Derek Fisher, American basketball player
August 11, 1974 (Sunday)
- Died: Jan Tschichold, 72, German-born typographer
August 13, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Born: Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
August 14, 1974 (Wednesday)
- Turkey invaded Cyprus for the second time, 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.
- Born: Christopher Gorham, American actor
August 15, 1974 (Thursday)
- Born: Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
- Died: Edmund Cobb, 82, American actor
August 16, 1974 (Friday)
- Born:
- Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
- Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
August 17, 1974 (Saturday)
- Died: Aldo Palazzeschi, 89, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist
August 20, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Born:
- Amy Adams, American actress
- Misha Collins, American actor
- Deborah Gravenstijn, Brazilian Olympic judoka[7]
- Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist
August 22, 1974 (Thursday)
- Born:
- Cory Gardner, American politician
- Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
- Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist
- Died: Jacob Bronowski, 66, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian
August 23, 1974 (Friday)
- Born:
- Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu (aka Ovi), Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician; in Botoșani, Romania
- Ray Park, Scottish actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace) and martial artist; in Glasgow
- Shifty Shellshock, American singer
- Died: Roberto Assagioli, 86, Italian psychiatrist and pioneering psychologist
August 24, 1974 (Saturday)
- Born: Jennifer Lien, American actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
- Died: Alexander P. de Seversky, 80, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor
August 26, 1974 (Monday)
- Died: Charles Lindbergh, 72, American aviator
August 27, 1974 (Tuesday)
- Died: Otto Strasser, 76, Nazi German politician
August 28, 1974 (Wednesday)
- Born: Carsten Jancker, German footballer
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.[8][9]
- Died: William M. Cann, 32, Chief of Police in Union City, California, from wounds sustained in a mass shooting on June 11, 1974.[10]
August 30, 1974 (Friday)
- Radical far-left terrorists bombed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Tokyo, killing 8 and wounding more than 376.
- An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derailed in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
August 31, 1974 (Saturday)
- Died:
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, 79, Emir of Qatar
- Norman Kirk, 51, New Zealander politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand
References
- "Office Building Roof Collapses in Miami". The New York Times. 6 August 1974. Page 66, columns 5-8. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- "Last of 7 Bodies Recovered In Collapsed Miami Building". The New York Times. 7 August 1974. Page 38, column 2. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- "Special Agent Charles H. Mann, United States Department of Justice - Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Government". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- "Special Agent Nickolas Fragos, United States Department of Justice - Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Government". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- Simon, Jeffrey D. (2000). "The Alphabet Bomber (1974)". In Tucker, Jonathan B. (ed.). Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons. BCSIA Studies in International Security. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: MIT Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780262700719. Retrieved 18 October 2023 – via Google Books.
- "Kentucky Births, 1911–1999". Family Tree Legends. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Archived from the original (subscription required) on 6 September 2012.
- "Deborah Gravenstijn". Olympedia. OlyMADMen.
- Parke, Erin (30 May 2023). "Jimmy Taylor vanished in Derby 49 years ago. Now the cold case has a new suspect and a $1 million reward". ABC News. ABC. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- Czachor, Emily Mae (31 May 2023). "Australia police offer $1 million reward in case of boy who vanished half a century ago". World. CBS News. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- "Chief of Police William M. Cann, Union City Police Department, California". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
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