INPUT 1974
Setting the scene for 1974:
- MUAC: Hannover sectors were transferred to Maastricht, with a division level of FL245 (24500 feet). The Hannover sectors comprise the northern part of (West) Germany.
- Fire breaks out in the Joelman Bank Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries;
- A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49;
- A Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard;
- Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France;
- 29 years after the end of World War II, the last Japanese soldier surrenders in the Philippines;
- French President Georges Pompidou dies;
- The largest series of tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. 149 tornadoes kill 315 people;
- ABBA win the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England;
- In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister;
- In Germany, Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns. Helmut Schmidt succeeds him.
- India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nation to do so;
- An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK, kills 28 people;
- West Germany beat the Netherlands in the 1974 FIFA World Cup final;
- An IRA bomb damages Westminster Hall, London;
- Isabel Peron becomes president of Argentina, when her husband Juan Peron falls seriously dies;
- The Greek military junta government collapses;
- French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a high wire slung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York;
- U.S. President Richard Nixon becomes the first US president who resigns, following the Watergate schandal. Gerald Ford succeeds him;
- An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers;
- TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people;
- A TWA B727 near Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
- Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy;
- Volkswagen Golf enters production as the replacement for the Beetle;
- World population reaches 4 billion;
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1974 - Issue 1 (January)
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1974 - Issue 2 (March)
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1974 - Issue 3 (June)
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1974 - Issue 4 (September)
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