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 system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
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