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January 6 – Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898) January 10 – Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1877) January 12 – Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919) January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (b ...
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
American International Pictures: Jack Hill (director/screenplay); Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Harry Holcombe, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, Bob Minor, Tony Giorgio, H.B. Haggerty, Kathryn Loder, Juanita Brown, Fred Lerner, Boyd "Red" Morgan 7 Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter: Paramount Pictures / Hammer Film Productions
1974 Asian Games held in Teheran, Iran; 1974 British Commonwealth Games held in Christchurch, New Zealand [2] Central American and Caribbean Games held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; International Olympic Committee choose Moscow to host the 1980 Summer Olympics
Miss America 1974 delegates (4 P) 1974 in American music (8 P) N. 1974 American novels (110 P) P. 1974 in American politics (5 C, 7 P) S. 1974 in American sports (29 ...
The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year ...
The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand was the number one song of 1974. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1974. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in the Talent In Action section of Billboard dated December 28, 1974, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 24, 1973, through October 26, 1974.
The Australian plant genus Alexgeorgea was discovered by American botanist Sherwin Carlquist, beginning with the flower species Alexgeorgea subterranea. [21]The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, providing for minimum standards for pension plans in private industry, was signed into law.