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Posting tidbits about what happened 50 years prior.
Take a look back at what happened on this date, 50 years ago.
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May 1974. Esquire - The great art of the 70's.
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2024/05/01
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April 27, 1974. Anti-Nixon demonstrators in Washington, DC.
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2024/04/27
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April 27, 1974. All 109 passengers and crew on an Aeroflot flight are killed in the Soviet Union, shortly after it took off from Leningrad. News of the crash was not reported in Soviet media.
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2024/04/27
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Jane Goodall with her favorite chimpanzee, David Greybeard, 1974
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2024/04/27
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April 25, 1974. Portugal's Carnation Revolution puts an end to 48 years of dictatorship.
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2024/04/25
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April 23, 1974. Happy Days features an episode on racism.
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2024/04/23
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April 22, 1974. Frank Zappa - "Cosmik Debris" released.
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2024/04/22
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April 16, 1974. Queen play their first concert in the United States, appearing at the auditorium at Regis University in Denver.
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2024/04/16
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April 8, 1974. Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a 7 to 4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking the record held by Babe Ruth since Ruth's retirement in 1935.
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2024/04/08
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April 6, 1974. Abba's "Waterloo" wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
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2024/04/06
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April 3–4, 1974. In one of the largest tornado outbreaks in history, 148 tornadoes form across 13 US states and Ontario, killing 335 people and causing $843 million ($5.3 billion in 2024 USD) in damage. Aerial photo showing devastation from the Xenia, Ohio tornado, provisionally rated as F6 ± 1.
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2024/04/05
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April 5, 1974. 26-year-old Stephen King releases his first novel, Carrie. It was initially a failure.
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2024/04/05
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March 30, 1974. Little House on the Prairie premieres on NBC.
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2024/03/30
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March 29, 1974. A post-processed mosaic of the partly lit surface of Mercury, compiled from images sent by the inbound Mariner 10 shortly before its first fly-by of the planet (credit: NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk).
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2024/03/30
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March 25, 1974. Gordon Lightfoot - "Sundown" released.
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2024/03/25
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