Events
- January 2 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
- January 4 - U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
- February 28 - After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
- February 28 - General election in the U.K. results in no majority for any party; Labour will form a minority government until October despite having received fewer votes nationally than the Conservatives. See United Kingdom general election, February 1974.
- March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- April 25 - Portuguese democratic revolution.
- May 18 - "Smiling Buddha" nuclear weapon test by India.
- July 20 - Turkey invades the country of Cyprus and occupies the northern third of the island (later declared the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus).
- August 9 - Resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- September 12 - Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ousted in a coup by the Derg.
- October 10 - General election in the UK is won narrowly by Labour. See United Kingdom general election, October 1974.
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“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
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—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)