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Clockwise from top-left: Turkey invades Cyprus; a bus depicting the 1974 FIFA World Cup, which was held in West Germany; Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at the Ermenonville Forest leaving no survivors; Richard Nixon resigns as President of United States in the wake of the Watergate Scandal; a famine takes place in Bangladesh; Hurricane Fifi–Orlene wreaks havoc in Honduras, becoming the ...
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the 10th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy, the FIFA World Cup Trophy , created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga , was awarded.
17 to 30 August – First World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Havana, Cuba 30 October in Kinshasa , Zaire – Muhammad Ali regained the World Heavyweight title by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round of what was called The Rumble in the Jungle .
1974 1974 Battle of the Paracel Islands. Part of the Vietnam War China South Vietnam: 1974 1974 Arube uprising Uganda: Putschists 1974 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War. Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict. Iraq: KDP: 1974 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict: Iran: Iraq: 1974 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus Turkey Cyprus Greece: 1974 1991 ...
1974 in politics covers information on political events occurred worldwide. Events. January 2 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to ...
The 1974 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup held in Munich, Germany (formerly West Germany). It was the 10th FIFA World Cup competition, held to determine the world champion among national men's football sides. The match was contested by the Netherlands and West Germany, with West Germany winning 2–1.
September 21, 1974: Maiorca preparing for world record attempt. In the Gulf of Salerno, Italian freediver Enzo Maiorca attempted to set a new world depth record of 90 metres (300 ft) on live television.
The two presidents announced the next day, 12 January 1974, that referendums would take place in each country on 18 January 1974, later postponed to 20 March 1974, to vote on the issue. [167] [168] [169] The scheduled vote was soon cancelled after Tunisia's Foreign Minister Mohammed Masmoudi was fired on January 14. [170]