Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Date: December 19, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 19 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese forces launch their 1975 Spring Offensive (to 30 April 1975), which results in the final capitulation of South Vietnam. Date: December 13, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 13 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Date: December 13, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 13 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece. Date: December 8, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
Martinair Flight 138 crashes into the Saptha Kanya mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing 191. Date: December 4, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 4 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Date: December 1, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 1 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board. Date: December 1, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 1 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Date: November 24, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 24 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅…
Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government. Date: November 23, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 23 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but are later exonerated. Date: November 21, 1974 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 21 📅 Events on this day in 1974 📅 On This Day (Today)