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Click on a date in the list to view a list of other events on the same date.   Number of Records Matching Query: 97   POPULAR TV SHOWS 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 1st January 1974 Description: TOP TV SHOWS OF 1974   Summary: 1974-75 1 All in the Family CBS 2 Sanford and Son NBC 3 Chico and the Man NBC 4 The Jeffersons CBS 5 M*A*S*H CBS 6 Rhoda CBS 7 Good Times CBS 8 The Waltons CBS 9 Maude CBS 10 Hawaii Five-0 CBS 11 The Mary Tyler Moore Show CBS 12 The Rockford Files NBC 13 Little House on the Prairie NBC 14 Kojak CBS 15 Police Woman NBC 16 S.W.A.T. ABC 17 The Bob Newhart Show CBS 18 The Wonderful World of Disney (tie) NBC 18 The Rookies (tie) ABC 20 Mannix CBS     TEX RITTER DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 2nd January 1974 Description: Vocalist, USA   MELANIE CHISHOLM BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th January 1974 Description: Vocalist, Actress, UK   BRAD HAWKINS BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 13th January 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   ROY BARGY DIED   Sub Title: Musican Event Date: 16th January 1974 Description: Pianist, Composer, USA   NUMBER 1 UK ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 19th January 1974   Summary: SLADE. "SLADEST"     ROVE MCMANUS BORN   Sub Title: Comedian Event Date: 21st January 1974 Description: Television presenter, Comedian, Producer, Australia   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 26th January 1974   Summary: MUD. "TIGER FEET"     BOB DYLAN EVENT   Event Date: 30th January 1974   SAMUEL GOLDWYN DIED   Sub Title: Non Entertainer Event Date: 31st January 1974 Description: American film producer. USA   ROBBIE WILLIAMS BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 13th February 1974 Description: Vocalist, UK   JAMES BLUNT BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 22nd February 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, UK   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 23rd February 1974   Summary: SUZIE QUATRO. "DEVIL GATE DRIVE"     CYRIL STAPLETON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th February 1974 Description: Band Leader, UK   NUMBER 1 UK ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 2nd March 1974   Summary: SLADE "OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE"     JENNA FISCHER BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 7th March 1974 Description: Actress, Director, USA   JOEL MADDEN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 11th March 1974 Description: Vocalist, songwriter, guitarist   JOHN LENNON EVENT   Event Date: 13th March 1974 Description: 1974, Lennon was drinking heavily and his alcohol-fuelled antics with Harry Nilsson made headlines.   GRAND OLE OPRY - RE-LOCATES EVENT   Event Date: 16th March 1974 Description: The Grand Ole Opry moves from the Ryman Auditorium, its home of the past 41 years.   Summary: The Grand Ole Opry moves from the Ryman Auditorium, its home of the past 41 years, to the newly constructed 4,400 Grand Ole Opry House, on the Opryland complex. The Ryman would essentially sit vacant for the next two decades before being renovated in the early 1990s as a historical landmark and concert hall.     THE OPRY HOUSE EVENT   Event Date: 16th March 1974   Summary: OPENED IN 1974 WITH FIRST SHOW OPENED BY RICHARD NIXON     HARRY WOMACK EVENT   Event Date: 19th March 1974   RJ ROSALES BORN   Sub Title: Musician, Acting Event Date: 24th March 1974 Description: Vocalist, Actor, Australia   ROCK DREAMS EVENT   Event Date: 27th March 1974   Summary: BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1974 GUY PELL'AERTs DEPICTING ROCK LEGENDS THROUGH THE FIFTIES TO THE SEVENTIES     ARTHUR " BIGBOY" CRUDUP EVENT   Event Date: 28th March 1974   Summary: DIES IN 1974 AFTER HEART ATTACK. AGED 69 SINGER / SONGWRITER. COMPOSER OF THE PRESLEY SONG "THAT'S ALRIGHT MAMA"     ARTHUR CRUDUP DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 28th March 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, USA   BELINDA EMMETT BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th April 1974 Description: Singer, Actress, Australia   BELINDA EMMETT BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th April 1974 Description: Singer, Actress, Australia   PATRICIA HEARST EVENT   Event Date: 15th April 1974   Summary: CAUGHT BY SECURITY CAMERAS IN 1974, ROBBING THE HIBERNIA BANK SAN FRANSISCO HOLDING A RIFLE     BLOSSOM SEELEY DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th April 1974 Description: Vocalist, Actress, USA   VINNIE TAYLOR DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th April 1974 Description: Guitarist,USA   VINNIE TAYLOR DIES 1974 DIED   Event Date: 17th April 1974 Description: Member of "Sha Na Na" is an American rock and roll group. Doo-wop hit song "Get a Job",   Summary: Vinny Taylor (1949–1974) (born Chris Donald), who replaced Henry Gross as the lead guitarist in 1970, died of a drug overdose in 1974. A member of "Sha Na Na" an American rock and roll group.     PAM MORRISON DIES OF DRUG OVERDOSE EVENT   Event Date: 25th April 1974   Summary: WIDOW OF JIM MORRISON     AGNES MOOREHEAD DIED   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 30th April 1974 Description: Actress, USA   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 4th May 1974   Summary: ABBA "WATERLOO"     KELLIE CRAWFORD BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 7th May 1974 Description: Vocal, Dancers, Actor, Australia   GRAHAM BOND DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 8th May 1974 Description: Keyboardiist, Saxophonist, UK   ANDREA CORR BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th May 1974 Description: Vocalist, Ireland   JEWEL BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 23rd May 1974 Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   DUKE ELLINGTON DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th May 1974 Description: Pianist, Band leader, USA   DUKE ELLINGTON 100 YEARS DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 24th May 1974 Description: Pianist, Band leader, USA   DUKE ELLINGTON EVENT   Event Date: 25th May 1974   CEE LO GREEN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 30th May 1974 Description: Vocalist, USA   ALANIS MORISSETTE BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 1st June 1974 Description: Vocalist, USA   STEFAN LESSARD BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 4th June 1974 Description: Bassist, USA   NUMBER 1 ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Sub Title: "DIAMOND AND DOGS" Event Date: 8th June 1974   Summary: DAVID BOWIE. "DIAMOND AND DOGS"     NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 24th June 1974   Summary: GARRY GLITTER. "ALWAYS YOURS"     JIMMY RICKS DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 2nd July 1974 Description: Vocalist, USA   MOOSE CHARLAP DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 8th July 1974 Description: Composer , USA   CROSBY STILLS NASH AND YOUNG EVENT   Event Date: 9th July 1974   Summary: REUNION CONCERT HLD IN 1974     DEBORAH COX BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 13th July 1974 Description: Vocalist, Canada   NUMBER 1 UK ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 13th July 1974   Summary: ELTON JOHN. "CARIBOU"     DON RICH DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th July 1974 Description: Guitarist, USA   DON RICH - KILLED EVENT   Event Date: 17th July 1974 Description: Don Rich, a key member of Buck Owens   Summary: Don Rich, a key member of Buck Owens' backing band, The Buckaroos, is killed in a motorcycle crash on State Route 99 north of Bakersfield, California; he was 32. Owens is deeply saddened by Rich's death, and it will gravely affect his career for many years.     JEANNIE C RILEY EVENT   Event Date: 26th July 1974   THE BEATLES EVENT   Event Date: 26th July 1974   Summary: THE FIRST BEATLES CONVENTION, 1974 STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER FAN CLUB BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES.USA     LIGHTNIN SLIM DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 27th July 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   NUMBER 1 UK ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 27th July 1974   Summary: WINGS. "BAND ON THE RUN"     CASS ELLIOTT EVENT   Event Date: 29th July 1974   Summary: DIES. LONDON IN 1974 MEMBER OF "THE MAMAS AND PAPAS". SHE WAS AGED 34.     MAMA CASS ELLIOT DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 29th July 1974 Description: Vocalist   HILARY SWANK BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 30th July 1974 Description: Actress, USA   GENE AMMONS DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 6th August 1974 Description: Saxophonist, Composer, USA   WATERGATE SCANDAL EVENT   Event Date: 9th August 1974 Description: Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974   Summary: The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. Leading to the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974; this has been the only resignation of a U.S. President.     THE RAMONES EVENT   Event Date: 16th August 1974   Summary: PERFORM THEIR FIRST SHOW. 1974     AMY ADAMS BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 20th August 1974 Description: Actress, USA   GEORGE HARRISON EVENT   Event Date: 6th September 1974   NINA PERSSON BORN   Sub Title: Musican Event Date: 6th September 1974 Description: Vocalist, Compose, Sweden   ANA CAROLINA BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 9th September 1974 Description: Vocalist, Composer, Brazilian   ARJ BARKER BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th September 1974 Description: Comedian, USA   JENNIFER NETTLES BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 12th September 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist   ANDREW HANSEN BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 18th September 1974 Description: Comedian and musician, Australia   ALEX LLOYD BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 19th September 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter, Australia   NO 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 21st September 1974   Summary: KUNG FU FIGHTING BY CARL DOUGLAS     WALTER BRENNAN DIED   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 21st September 1974 Description: Actor, USA   GIL TURNER EVENT   Event Date: 23rd September 1974   Summary: MEMBER OF “THE NEW WORLD SINGERS” DIES IN 1974.     ROBBIE MCINTOSH EVENT   Event Date: 23rd September 1974   Summary: DIES IN 1974 OF HEROIN DRUMMER WITH “THE AVERAGE WHITE BAND”     ROBBIE MCINTOSH DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 23rd September 1974 Description: Drummer, UK   NO 1 UK ALBUM 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 5th October 1974   Summary: TUBULAR BELLS BY MIKE OLDFIELD     ED SULLIVAN DIED   Sub Title: Columnists Event Date: 13th October 1974 Description: Television host, USA   NATALIE MAINES BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 14th October 1974 Description: Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA   EMINEM BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 17th October 1974 Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA   NICK DRAKE EVENT   Event Date: 25th October 1974   JOAQUIN PHOENIX BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 28th October 1974 Description: Actor, Musician, USA   OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - OUTCRY EVENT   Event Date: 1st November 1974 Description: Country purists troubled by Newton-John winning Female Vocalist of the Year. Let Me Be There.   Summary: Country purists were troubled by a growing trend of pop music-influenced country, resulting in an outcry over the 1974 Country Music Association awards program, where pop diva Olivia Newton-John won Female Vocalist of the Year. Was her song country ?     COUNTDOWN AUSTRALIA - BEGINS EVENT   Event Date: 8th November 1974 Description: Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation   Summary: Countdown (Australian) Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 8 November 1974 until 19 July 1987. It was created by Executive Producer Michael Shrimpton, producer/director Robbie Weekes and record producer and music journalist Ian Meldrum. Countdown was produced at the studios of the ABC in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea.     IVORY JOE HUNTER - (COMPOSER) DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 8th November 1974 Description: Vocalist,Pianist, USA   JOE HUNTER EVENT   Event Date: 8th November 1974   Summary: SINGER - PIANIST DIES IN 1974.     LEONARDO DICAPRIO BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 11th November 1974 Description: Actor, USA   MIKE LEAD BITTER EVENT   Event Date: 16th November 1974   Summary: DIES IN 1974 DISCOGROPHER.     NICK DRAKE DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 25th November 1974 Description: Vocalist, Composer, UK   PETER DRAKE DIED   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 25th November 1974 Description: Guitarist, Record Producer, USA   NELLY FURTADO BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 2nd December 1974 Description: Vocals, Composer, Canadian   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 7th December 1974   Summary: BARRY WHITE. "YOU'RE MY FIRST, MY LAST, MY EVERYTHING".     NICHOLAS MCCATHY BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 13th December 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, UK   SARAH PAULSON BORN   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 17th December 1974 Description: Actress, USA   ADAM HARVEY BORN   Sub Title: Musician Event Date: 21st December 1974 Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia   NUMBER 1 UK SINGLE 1974 EVENT   Event Date: 21st December 1974   Summary: MUD. "LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS".     JACK BENNY DIED   Sub Title: Acting Event Date: 26th December 1974 Description: Comedian, Actor, USA     © Music Minder All rights reserved: Prosecution rights will be exercised for any breaches of copyright.