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2 unusual facts about October 1974


Malcolm Bishop

He has also been a Prospective parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, standing for Bath in February 1974 and October 1974.

Simon Kerslake

Boundary changes lead to the abolition of his constituency at the February 1974 general election but he finds another and returns to the Commons at the October 1974 general election.


Colin Shepherd

He was MP for Hereford from October 1974 until his defeat by Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch in May 1997.

Glyndwr Jones

Glyndwr is the son of Gwynoro Jones, the former Welsh Labour and SDP politician, who was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen from 1970 until October 1974.


see also

Air Maldives

It was established on 1 October 1974 during the presidency of Ibrahim Nasir.

Akina Pau

Pau Ming Wai Akina (born 14 October 1974) is a fencer from Hong Kong, China who won a bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in the women's sabre team competition.

Altair 8800

-- It was not Bill Gates, Yates designed hardware at MITS, Gates was the software guy from Harvard --> finished the first prototype in October 1974 and shipped it to Popular Electronics in New York via the Railway Express Agency.

Billy Robinson

12 October 1974 Robinson's image as a legitimate wrestler landed him a role in the film The Wrestler alongside Verne Gagne and Ed Asner.

Chiara Moroni

Chiara Moroni (Iseo, BS, 23 October 1974) is an Italian politician, daughter of Sergio Moroni, a Socialist politician who killed himself during Tangentopoli.

D Magazine

The first issue was published in October 1974 by its founders, Wick Allison and Jim Atkinson.

Dejan Stefanović

Dejan Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Стефановић), (born 28 October 1974 in Vranje, Serbia) is a Serbian football player who plays for Conference South side Havant & Waterlooville He is a central defender who can also play at full back.

Denis Howell, Baron Howell

On 28 October 1974, his wife and son escaped unharmed when an IRA bomb exploded in their Ford Cortina on the driveway of the family home in Birmingham.

Dynamic soaring

In his 1975 book Streckensegelflug (published in English in 1978 as Cross-Country Soaring by the Soaring Society of America), Helmut Reichmann describes a flight made by Ingo Renner in a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle glider over Tocumwal in Australia on 24 October 1974.

Help Me Make It Through the Night

Though it was also recorded in 1971 by Elvis Presley, four others recorded it in 1971 — Joan Baez for her album, Blessed Are... (July 1971), Bryan Ferry for his album, Another Time, Another Place (October 1974), Jerry Lee Lewis who did a bluesy version for his album "Touching Home" and country singer Sammi Smith, whose recording of the song is the most commercially successful and most well-known version.

John C. Sawhill

Those included being Deputy Secretary of Energy; Chairman of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation; Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration (appointed by President Nixon, he resigned that position in October, 1974), and Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, Science and Environment in the Office of Management and Budget.

John Conteh

He won the WBC Light Heavyweight crown in October 1974 by defeating Jorge Ahumada and held the title until 1977 when he was stripped for not going through with a mandated defence.

Land and Valuation Court of New South Wales

Laurence Street, who subsequently became Chief Justice of New South Wales, was also appointed a judge of the Court on 28 October 1974.

Leon Gast

The film captured the band's October 1974 five-night performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

Naida Cole

Naida Margaret Cole (born 28 October 1974 in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.) is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, where she is currently enrolled.

Nea Salamis Famagusta

On 14 October 1974 eight of the eleven board members had a meeting (the other three were absent abroad) in the clubhouse of Aris Limassol F.C. in Limassol.

Négritude

Novelist Norman Mailer used the term to describe boxer George Foreman's physical and psychological presence in his book The Fight, a journalistic treatment of the legendary Ali vs. Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" bout in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in October 1974.

Neil Thorne

He contested the constituency of Ilford South six times from October 1974 to 1997, and was the Member of Parliament for the seat from 1979 to 1992, when he lost by 402 votes to Labour's Mike Gapes.

Netscape portable runtime

Thread synchronization loosely depends on monitors as described by C. A. R. Hoare in "Monitors: An operating system structuring concept", Communications of the ACM, 17(10), October 1974 and then formalized by Xerox' Mesa programming language ("Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al., Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)).

New South Wales 79 class locomotive

In October 1974 the two NSWGR units were sold to the British Phosphate Commission for use on Christmas Island.

Nicholas Shackell

Nicholas Shackell (also Nick) (born 31 October 1974) is a former freestyle swimmer from Great Britain.

Nicole Brandebusemeyer

Nicole Brandebusemeyer (born 9 October 1974 in Georgsmarienhütte, Lower Saxony) is a retired German football defender.

Paul Frankeur

Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty).

Paul G. Hoffman

Paul Gray Hoffman (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1974, New York City) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator.

Pedestrian

The first person to walk around the world was Dave Kunst who started his walk travelling east from Waseca, Minnesota on 20 June 1970 and completed his journey on 5 October 1974 when he re-entered the town from the west.

Petersfield by-election, 1960

Quennell held the seat at three further general elections before retiring in October 1974.

Terry Magaoa Chapman

Born in the village of Hakupu and educated at the Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand from which he graduated with Diploma in Public Administration, Chapman was leading architect of the modern Niue and in the formulation of the Niue Constitution, creating a pathway for Niu to become self-governing on 19 October 1974.

Tihomir Novakov

In October, 1974 Science Magazine published Sulfates as Pollution Particulates: Catalytic Formation on Carbon (Soot) Particles, which Novakov co-wrote with S. G. Chang and A. B. Harker.

Valentin Năstase

Vasile Valentin Năstase (born 4 October 1974 in Călineşti) is a Romanian football (soccer) player who plays as a defender.

William D. Rogers

He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (October 1974 – June 1976) and Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (June 1976–January 1977) under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the administration of President Gerald Ford.