Related Research Articles
Edward Teach,better known as Blackbeard,was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life,but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence,a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold,whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured,and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships,one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet,but Hornigold retired from piracy toward the end of 1717,taking two vessels with him.
Charles I was King of England,Scotland,and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,the 974th year of the 2nd millennium,the 74th year of the 20th century,and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470,then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses,a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17,1972,break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington,D.C.,at the Watergate Office Building.
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film. The film is produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola,loosely based on the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo,who co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. It is both a sequel and a prequel to the 1972 film The Godfather,presenting parallel dramas:one picks up the 1958 story of Michael Corleone,the new Don of the Corleone family,protecting the family business in the aftermath of an attempt on his life;the prequel covers the journey of his father,Vito Corleone,from his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New York City. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall,Diane Keaton,Talia Shire,Morgana King,John Cazale,Mariana Hill,and Lee Strasberg.
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup,a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams,and was played in West Germany between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the current trophy,the FIFA World Cup Trophy,created by the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga,was awarded. The previous trophy,the Jules Rimet Trophy,had been won for the third time by Brazil in 1970 and awarded permanently to the Brazilians. This was the first out of three World Cups to feature two rounds of group stages.
Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first president and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and a conservative,he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death.
The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the 19th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Brighton,United Kingdom and was organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The UK agreed to host the event after Luxembourg,having won in both 1972 and 1973,declined to host it for a second successive year on the grounds of expense. The contest was held at the Brighton Dome on 6 April 1974 and was hosted by Katie Boyle for the fourth and final time.
The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974. The Labour Party,led by Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson,gained 14 seats but was seventeen short of an overall majority. The Conservative Party,led by incumbent Prime Minister Edward Heath,lost 28 seats. That resulted in a hung parliament,the first since 1929. Heath sought a coalition with the Liberals,but the two parties failed to come to an agreement and so Wilson became Prime Minister for a second time,his first with a minority government. Wilson called another early election in September,which was held in October and resulted in a Labour majority. The February election was also the first general election to be held with the United Kingdom as a member state of the European Communities (EC),which was widely known as the "Common Market".
The October 1974 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 10 October 1974 to elect 635 members of the British House of Commons. It was the second general election held that year;the first year that two general elections were held in the same year since 1910;and the first time that two general elections were held less than a year apart from each other since the 1923 and 1924 elections,which took place 10 months apart. The election resulted in the Labour Party,led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson,winning a bare majority of three seats. That enabled the remainder of the Labour government to take place,but it saw a gradual loss of its majority.
The Carnation Revolution,also known as the 25 April,was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon,producing major social,economic,territorial,demographic,and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso. It resulted in the Portuguese transition to democracy and the end of the Portuguese Colonial War.
The counties of England are divisions of England. Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are two main legal definitions of the counties in modern usage:the 84 counties for the purposes of local government,and the 48 counties for the purposes of lieutenancy,also termed the ceremonial counties.
The 1974 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives on November 5,1974,to elect members to serve in the 94th United States Congress. They occurred in the wake of the Watergate scandal,which had forced President Richard Nixon to resign in favor of Gerald Ford. This scandal,along with high inflation,allowed the Democrats to make large gains in the midterm elections,taking 48 seats from the Republicans,and increasing their majority above the two-thirds mark. Altogether,there were 93 freshmen representatives in the 94th Congress when it convened on January 3,1975. Those elected to office that year later came to be known collectively as "Watergate Babies." The gain of 49 Democratic seats was the largest pickup by the party since 1958. Only four Democratic incumbents lost their seats.
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots,and in response to a Greek junta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier,it led to the Turkish capture and occupation of the northern part of the island.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973,and as the 40th vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1973 to 1974. Ford succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned in 1974,but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976. Ford is the only person to become U.S. president without winning an election for president or vice president.
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988,the Australian Recording Industry Association,which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983,chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views,Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime,but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death,and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets,including Robert Browning,Algernon Charles Swinburne,Thomas Hardy,and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman,a lyric poet without rival,and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
The 1974 World Rowing Championships was the fourth World Rowing Championships. It was held from 4 to 8 September 1974 and from 29 August to 1 September 1974 on the Rotsee in Lucerne,Switzerland. The event was significantly extended from the 1970 edition,with the addition of both women's and lightweight men's events. Six women boat classes were added,three lightweight men classes,plus quad scull for men,increasing the number of boat classes from seven in 1970 to seventeen in 1974. This was also the last World Championships held on a quadrennial cycle –from this point,World Championships were held annually.
The Dutch Album Top 100 or Album Top 100 is a weekly hit list of music albums,compiled by Dutch Charts. The list shows the 100 best-selling music albums of the moment in the Netherlands,it has passed through various name changes and has expanded from a Top 10 to a Top 100.
References
- ↑ "Guide Parlementaire Canadien". 1974.
  | This article about a New Brunswick politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |