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| 1974 |
| | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada | |
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| 1974 |
| | Faced by the prospect of impeachment over Watergate, President Nixon resigns | |
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| 1974 |
| | Richard Nixon is succeeded as US president by his vice-president, Gerald Ford | |
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| 1974 |
| | President Ford pardons ex-president Nixon for his part in the Watergate affair, thus removing the possibility of criminal charges | |
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| 1974 |
| | Muhammad Ali regains the world heavyweight title, beating George Foreman in Zaire in a fight that becomes known as the Rumble in the Jungle | |
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| 1974 |
| | Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president | |
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| 1974 |
| | Kenneth MacMillan uses Scott Joplin as his score for a ragtime ballet, Elite Syncopations | |
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| 1974 |
| | The SNP achieves a surge in Scottish nationalism, winning eleven seats at Westminster on 30% of the Scottish vote | |
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| 1974 |
| | The Canadian province of Quebec introduces Bill 22, making French the province's sole official language | |
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| 1974 |
| | Cyclone Tracy devastates the Australian city of Darwin on Christmas Day, destroying 80% of the domestic buildings | |
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