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The test, code-named Centaure, had been carried out at 7:04 in the morning local time based on inaccurate weather predictions and the cloud of radioactive fallout passed directly over Tahiti and surrounding islands 42 hours later, on July 19, 1974, [109] exposing as many as 110,000 people with 500 times the maximum exposure to radioactivity. [110]
1974 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
July 1 – Six Flags Great Adventure opens for the first time. [5] July 8 – Two weeks after the attraction's opening, an 18-year-old employee is crushed to her death while working on America Sings at Disneyland. This is the first employee fatality at a Disney Park. July 11–17 – Baltimore police strike.
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The tornado was part of the 1974 Super Outbreak. May 23 – The RCMP accepts applications from women for regular police duties for the first time. The first 32 women formed Troop 17, were sworn in on September 16, 1974, and graduated on March 3, 1975. Beverly Busson, a member of Troop 17, became the first female RCMP commissioner on December 16 ...
The Gleaner of July 3 reported a six-man coroner’s jury on June 29 had ruled the two deaths were homicides, citing “many unanswered questions.” ... Henderson history: Mystery surrounded 1974 ...
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The Fourth of July was celebrated annually throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and in 1870, Congress declared the day a federal holiday. But it wasn’t until 1941 that the date became a paid ...