17 January 1974Planet WavesBob Dylan
Releases Planet Waves with the Band.
Historical records for United States of America in 1974, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Releases Planet Waves with the Band.
Helps mediate the Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement after the October War.
CIA records include a January 31, 1974, memorandum concerning a telephone call from Frank Sturgis during the period of renewed assassination speculation.
The House voted to authorized the Judiciary Committee to investigate grounds for impeaching president Nixon
Leads the House Judiciary Committee after the House authorizes a formal investigation into whether grounds exist to impeach President Nixon.
The House voted to authorized the Judiciary Committee to investigate grounds for impeaching president Nixon
Joins a unanimous committee decision to end public Watergate hearings and complete remaining work privately while criminal and impeachment proceedings continue.
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Former White House counsel specializing in political affairs;
pleaded nolo contendere on June 3, 1974 to one charge of obstruction of justice, having persuaded prosecution to change the charge from one of which he believed himself innocent to another of which he believed himself guilty, in order to
testify freely.; sentenced to 1 to 3 years of prison and fined $5,000; Colson served seven months
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Former assistant to Nixon in charge of domestic affairs; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $40,000 in fines. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges; he served 18 months in prison
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October. Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury
Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C. Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N. Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October. Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury
Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C. Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N. Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Former White House Counsel John Dean had taken a plea bargain back in October.
This record states: Haldeman, former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, former White House counsel Charles Colson, White House Aide to Haldeman Gordon C.
This record states: Indictments were handed down for what the press dubs "the Watergate Seven": Former Attorney General and Nixon campaign manager John N.
This record states: Mitchell, former White House Chief of Staff H.R.
This record states: Nixon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the grand jury.
This record states: Strachan, aide to Mitchell and CREEP counsel Robert Mardian, and CREEP counsel Kenneth Parkinson.
Is secretly named by the Watergate grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator in the alleged cover-up while still serving as president.
Is indicted with senior former Nixon aides in the Watergate cover-up case brought by the federal grand jury.
Is indicted with senior former administration officials as prosecutors bring charges over the Watergate cover-up.
Is indicted by the Watergate grand jury for alleged participation in the conspiracy and cover-up following the Democratic headquarters burglary.
Is indicted in the Watergate cover-up case alongside former administration and campaign officials.
Is indicted with other former Nixon aides on charges arising from the Watergate cover-up and conspiracy to obstruct the investigation.
Is indicted in the federal Watergate cover-up case with other former Nixon administration and campaign figures.
Is indicted as one of the defendants in the federal Watergate cover-up prosecution involving senior Nixon administration and campaign officials.
Refers to the seven advisors and aides to United States President Richard M. Nixon who were indicted by a grand jury on March 1, 1974 for their role in the Watergate scandal.
The grand jury also named Nixon an unindicted conspirator. The indictments marked the first time in U.S. history that a president was so named
A member of the Watergate Seven, who were indicted by a federal grand jury on March 1, 1974
The US Grand Jury says Nixon is involved in the Watergate cover-up
Releases Apostrophe ('), one of the most commercially successful albums of his career.
Mariner 10 magnetometer observations reveal that Mercury possesses an intrinsic magnetic field strong enough to form a magnetosphere.
John Denver reaches the top spot on the US charts with, "Sunshine On My Shoulders"
Issues the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena to Nixon for recordings and materials considered necessary to the impeachment inquiry.
Issues a subpoena seeking sixty-four additional White House recordings for the Watergate grand jury and criminal prosecution.
Announces that edited transcripts of subpoenaed Watergate conversations will be released while refusing to surrender all original recordings demanded by the House committee.
Provides more than twelve hundred pages of edited presidential conversation transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee and makes them public.
The White House releases more than 1,200 pages of edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes to the House Judiciary Committee, but the committee insists that the tapes themselves must be turned over
Begins formal House Judiciary Committee hearings on evidence gathered in the Nixon impeachment inquiry.
The House Judiciary Committee opens impeachment hearings on Nixon
Issues an additional subpoena for presidential conversations after concluding Nixon's earlier response did not satisfy the committee's evidentiary needs.
Orders Nixon to comply with Jaworski's subpoena for sixty-four White House recordings and allows the president time to appeal.
Writes that he has seen rock and roll future after watching Springsteen perform in Cambridge.
Pursues Nixon's appeal against Judge Sirica's order requiring production of subpoenaed recordings sought by Special Prosecutor Jaworski.
Mission planners retarget Pioneer 11 to use Jupiter's gravity for a later encounter with Saturn.
Pleads guilty to obstruction of justice in a Watergate-related case, removing himself from the forthcoming cover-up trial.
Releases the live album Before the Flood.
Submits the Senate Watergate Committee's final report with recommendations on campaign finance, a permanent special prosecutor and congressional legal authority.
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to the Protocol to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement, which limits ABM deployment to a single area.
Signs the Threshold Test Ban Treaty limiting underground nuclear weapon tests to yields of 150 kilotons or less.
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
Defends Nixon before the Supreme Court, arguing that presidential confidentiality protects the subpoenaed Watergate recordings from judicial compulsion.
Argues before the Supreme Court that the criminal justice process requires access to subpoenaed presidential recordings despite Nixon's executive privilege claim.
Announces the Supreme Court's unanimous decision requiring Nixon to provide subpoenaed recordings, rejecting an absolute presidential privilege against judicial process.
Delivers a nationally noted Judiciary Committee statement explaining the constitutional responsibility to judge evidence and determine whether Nixon committed impeachable offenses.
Chairs the Judiciary Committee as it approves an article charging Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate investigation.
Chairs the Judiciary Committee as it approves an article accusing Nixon of abuse of presidential power.
Chairs the Judiciary Committee as it approves an article charging Nixon with contempt of Congress for defying committee subpoenas.
Records concerts in Philadelphia that are released as David Live, documenting his Diamond Dogs tour.
Releases transcripts of June 23, 1972 conversations showing his early participation in efforts to limit the FBI's Watergate funding investigation.
Meets Nixon with Republican congressional leaders and makes clear that the president lacks sufficient support to survive the approaching impeachment process.
Announces in a televised address that he will resign the presidency at noon the following day as congressional support collapses.
Faced with the threat of impeachment
Immediately sworn in after Nixons resignation
Appointed President of the USA, 38th President
Formally resigns the presidency in a letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, becoming the first United States president to leave office by resignation.
Is sworn in as president after Nixon's resignation and declares that the long national nightmare is over.
Death of Clay Shaw
Shaw was engaged in a $5 million suit against Garrison and members of an organization, Truth and Consequences Inc., that financed Garrisons investigation. With no surviving relatives, the United States Supreme Court dismissed the suit in 1978
ERISA establishes federal standards for private pension and employee-benefit plans.
Death of Creighton Abrams
Grants Richard Nixon a full, free and absolute pardon for federal offenses he committed or may have committed while president.
Given a pardon by Gerald ford for involvement in Watergate
Receives a "full, complete & absolute pardon" from Gerald Ford
Accepts President Ford's pardon and states that he hopes the decision will help lift the burden of Watergate from the country.
Releases Roxy & Elsewhere, combining live performances with extensive studio editing and overdubbing.
Announces conditional clemency for Vietnam-era draft evaders and military deserters
Ali regains his title by defeating champion George Foreman in their bizarre bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, hyped as "The Rumble In The Jungle"
Ali regains his title by defeating champion George Foreman in their bizarre bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, hyped as "The Rumble In The Jungle"
Ali regains his title by defeating champion George Foreman in their bizarre bout in Kinshasa, Zaire, hyped as "The Rumble In The Jungle"
A simulated missile attack accidentally fed into the American early warning system fools operators, during the six minutes it takes to discover that the attack is not authentic, fighters from bases in the United States and Canada take off
President Gerald Ford and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the Vladivostok Accord, which establishes a framework for future Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) between the United States and the Soviet Union
President Gerald Ford and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the Vladivostok Accord, which establishes a framework for future Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) between the United States and the Soviet Union
President Gerald Ford and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sign the Vladivostok Accord, which establishes a framework for future Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) between the United States and the Soviet Union
Pioneer 11 returns the first close spacecraft views of Jupiter's polar regions.
Pioneer 11 obtains the most detailed spacecraft images then available of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.
Pioneer 11 passes closer to Jupiter than Pioneer 10 and surveys high latitudes.
The 1974 Protocol reduces the number of sites to one per party, largely because neither country had developed a second site, the sites are Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota
His father leaves his mother when Lance is two years old, his mother marries Terry Keith Armstrong, who adopts Lance in 1974
Directs, Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore
Reaches the Billboard album Top Ten with Apostrophe ('), his highest-charting album in the United States.
Wins the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Sings Best of My Love, giving Eagles their first number one single in the United States.
Discovers the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar, a strong-field test of relativistic gravity.
Hulse discovers a binary pulsar that provides an indirect test of gravitational wave emission
Analyzes the binary pulsar whose orbital decay later confirms gravitational wave emission.
Taylor studies the binary pulsar whose orbital decay later confirms energy loss by gravitational waves
Arecibo observations extend precision timing methods beyond radar astronomy.
Stars in Blazing Saddles
Releases Album, "Blood on the Tracks"
The House of Representatives rejects Nixon's $474M increase in military aid to Saigon
Mariner 10 imagery reveals the immense Caloris impact basin and surrounding tectonic terrain on Mercury.
In a Time article Sturgis claims that the Watergate burglars had been instructed to find a particular document in the Democratic Party offices.
In a Time article Sturgis claims that the Watergate burglars had been instructed to find a particular document in the Democratic Party offices.
Appointed White House Chief of Staff
Appointed Commander in Chief of the US forces in Europe
Smoot begins observational work on microwave background anisotropy with airborne and balloon instruments
It is charged that the CIA has spent $8 million to overthrow President Allende
Produces the album Diamond Dogs
Heads a diplomatic mission to Beijing
Negotiations about the new settlement over Panama Canal starts, they eventually lead to Torrijos-Carter treaties and handing the Canal over to Panamanian control
Discovers Leda, a small irregular moon of Jupiter.
Stars in Earthquake
Stars in, "Earthquake"
In his first year as a University of Arkansas law professor, Clinton runs for the House of Representatives, the incumbent, John Paul Hammerschmidt, defeats Clinton with 52% of the vote
Leads the SPEAR electron-positron collider team that discovers the J-psi particle, demonstrating the power of lepton colliders for particle physics.
Directs, "F for Fake"
Begins building a Senate profile on foreign and judiciary issues.
Stevie Wonder hits no 1 with "You Havent Done Nothin" and no 8 with "Living For the City" in the USA
Mariner 10 returns more than two thousand photographs during its first Mercury encounter, providing the first close views of the planet.
The second Mariner 10 flyby adds images of Mercury's southern polar region and expands the mapped surface.
Mariner 10 images reveal a heavily cratered Mercury surface with ridges, scarps and extensive impact terrain.
Stars in the film adaptation of the Elmore Leonard hard-boiled gangster-meets-his-match in a farmer saga, "Mr. Majestyk". Stars in, "Death Wish"
Directs "Murder on the Orient Express"
Makes his Thin Lizzy studio debut on Nightlife after joining the band as guitarist.
Joins Eagles during the On the Border period, strengthening the band's electric guitar sound.
Begins producing Eagles during On the Border, helping push the band toward a harder rock sound.
Announces himself as a candidate for the Presidency
It is charged that the CIA has spent $8 million to overthrow President Allende
Releases Rock n Roll Animal, a live album that reshapes Velvet Underground songs for arena rock audiences.
Negotiations about the new settlement over Panama Canal starts, they eventually lead to Torrijos-Carter treaties and handing the Canal over to Panamanian control
With Robert Brown, discovers the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way.
With Bruce Balick, discovers the compact Galactic Centre radio source Sagittarius A*, later associated with the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.
Releases Sally Can’t Dance, one of his most commercially successful solo albums.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young release "So Far", USA no 1 Album
Publication of " Something Happened"
Stars in The Castaway Cowboy
Directs The Conversation, a surveillance thriller centred on an increasingly troubled sound expert.
Stars in, "The Front Page"
Directs The Godfather Part II, continuing the Corleone saga across two generations.
Plays Michael Corleone in the sequel The Godfather Part II, acclaimed as being comparable to the original, the film became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar, and Pacino was nominated for his third Oscar
Stars in "The Towering Inferno"
Joins Thin Lizzy as guitarist and becomes central to the band's twin-guitar sound.
Assassination researchers Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield compared photographs of the "Three Tramps" to people they believed to be suspects involved in a conspiracy and said that two of the men were Watergate burglars Hunt and Sturgis
The claim that Sturgis was one of the so-called three tramps became a prominent assassination allegation after photographic comparisons circulated publicly.
Clint Eastwood teams up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges)
Directs Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Stars with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Clint Eastwood teams up with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a road movie about a veteran bank robber Thunderbolt (Eastwood) and a young con man drifter, Lightfoot (Bridges)
Hunt published Undercover, a memoir describing his intelligence career, Bay of Pigs work, White House assignments, and account of the Watergate scandal.
Winner of the mens US tennis open
Founder Member of Van Halen
Founder Member of Van Halen
Founder Member of Van Halen
Frazier is defeated by Ali in their 2nd fight & Ali earns a title fight with George Foreman
Researchers Alan Weberman and Michael Canfield argued that photographs of Dealey Plaza detainees resembled E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis.
Defeated by Ali in the "Rumble in the Jungle"
Stevie Wonder hits no 1 with "You Havent Done Nothin" and no 8 with "Living For the City" in the USA
Stars in "Young Frankenstein"
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