Aug 1974 Events

1974 Aug Alice Cooper releases Greatest Hits
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Alice Cooper, released in 1974. It features the hit singles of songs from their third album (Love It to Death) to the last album w...
1974 Aug 9 Richard M. Nixon Resigns the Office of the President of the United States
On March 1, 1974, former aides to the president, known as the "Watergate Seven" — Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson ...
1974 Aug 12 "Harry And Tonto" Is Released
Harry and Tonto is a 1974 film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his ...
1974 Aug 12 Wallace Yohn Dies
Chase's work on a fourth studio album in mid-1974 came to an end on August 9, 1974. While en route to a scheduled performance at the Jackson County Fair, Chase died in a plane crash in Ja...
1974 Aug 17 Stephanie Marley is born
Stephanie was born in Kingston, Jamaica August 17th, sharing her birthday with Jamaica's first National Hero and a leader against oppression, Marcus Mossiah Garvey. After completing he...
1974 Aug 26 Charles Lindbergh Dies
.After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1974, he flew with his family from New York to Maui and he died at his home there a few days later on August 26th 1974. He is buried in the ...
1974 Aug 30 Zagreb Train Disaster
The Zagreb train disaster occurred on August 30, 1974, when an express train traveling from Belgrade to Dortmund derailed before entering Zagreb Main Station (then in Socialist Federal Re...