Video: 'JACK BENNY COMEDY IN BLOOM'
(Thursday, December 26, 1974) — Jack Benny, the master comedian who won America’s laughter for 50 years by portraying himself as a violin playing miser, died today of pancreatic cancer in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. He was 80 years old.
Video: 'Rolling Stones;1969-74 - The Mick Taylor Years'
(Thursday, December 12, 1974) — The Rolling Stones announced today guitarist Mick Taylor, who had replaced Brian Jones in 1969, had left the band after more than five years. Ronnie Wood would eventually replace Taylor.
Video: 'Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature'
(Tuesday, December 10, 1974, during the Cold War) — Exiled Soviet writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn took possession today of the Nobel Prize for Literature that he was unable to claim when it was awarded to him in 1970.
Video: 'Mony Python Party Political Broadcast'
(Thursday, December 5, 1974) — “Party Political Broadcast,” the final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python, aired today on BBC Television.
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Sunday, November 24, 1974) — American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev agreed today to terms that would limit both nations an “equal aggregate number” of various weapons on the second and final day of the Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control.
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Saturday, November 23, 1974) — The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, a two-day summit between American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States, began this afternoon in Vladivostok, Russia. Continue reading Ford, Brezhnev begin two-day summit in Vladivostok, Russia 40 years ago today (Nov 23 1974)
Video: 'Earthquake' trailer
(Friday, November 15, 1974) — Earthquake, an ensemble disaster film about the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, was released today in the U.S. Continue reading ‘Earthquake’ released in U.S. theaters 40 years ago today (Nov 15 1974)
Video: 'Karen Silkwood Biography'
(Wednesday, November 13, 1974, at about 7:00-7:30 p.m. CST) — Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent, Oklahoma, died tonight in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter.
Video: 'True Stories ,Dead Lucky,,,lord lucan'
(Thursday, November 7, 1974, at about 8:55 p.m. GMT) — British peer Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared today after his children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death at his family’s London home; he has not been seen since. Lady Lucan was also attacked; she later identified Lucan as her assailant.
Video: 'Elton John's Greatest Hits'
(Monday, November 4, 1974) — Elton John’s Greatest Hits, the ninth album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, was released today in the U.S. (Nov. 8, 1974, in the UK).
In 2003, the album was ranked at number 136 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
