Page 13: Historical Events In 1974
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Oct 12 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74 


Oct 13 Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73. 


Oct 15 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing. 


Oct 17 René A de Rooy, Suriname/Antillean poet, dies at 57. 


Oct 24 David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65. 


Oct 24 The Earl of Ulster, Son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester is born 


Oct 25 Wings release "Junior's Farm" 


Oct 29 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82. 


Oct 30 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa, Za‹re. 


Oct 31 Ted Bundy victim Laura Aime disappears in Utah. 


Nov 01 Ralf Harolde, actor (Safe, Framed, Stolen Harmony), dies at 75 


Nov 04 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62. 


Nov 05 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected inaugural woman US gov not related to previous gov. 


Nov 05 Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56. 


Nov 05 Walter E Washington, is recorded as becoming inaugural elected mayor of Wash DC 


Nov 07 Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54. 


Nov 08 Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60. 


Nov 09 Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89 


Nov 11 Alfonso Leng, composer, dies at 80 


Nov 12 Charles Quinlivan, actor (7 Guns to Mesa), dies at 50 


Nov 13 Karen Silkwood killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances. 


Nov 13 Karen Silkwood, killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances. 


Nov 14 Johnny Mack Brown, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies at 70 


Nov 15 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday. 


Nov 16 inaugural intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25000 light years away 


Nov 16 John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night". 


Nov 16 Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91 


Nov 17 Clive Brook, actor/director (On Approval), dies at 87 


Nov 21 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84 


Nov 23 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54 


Nov 25 Nick Drake, rocker, dies of a drug overdose at 26. 


Nov 25 U Thant UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65. 


Nov 26 Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) 


Nov 27 Louis B Russell Jr, longest living heart transplant, dies at 49 


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