1974

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1974.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: The Kartchner Caverns in Arizona are discovered.

• Event: The Tipler Cylinder is first theorized/proposed.

January

• Sometime in January:
  • Event: The first edition of Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game is printed, and subsequently released.

February

* Event: Revolution begins in Ethiopia.

March

April

May

June

• Event: Beginning of the Derg military junta in Ethiopia- every arrest, every interrogation, and every killing was documented, authorized, and filed. See Ethiopia's passion for bureaucracy.

• June 28:
  • Event: Death of Vannevar Bush.

July

August

September

October

November

• November 16:
  • Event: The Arecibo Message is broadcast into space by the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. Hello, Aliens, are you listening?

December