1974 the year my mother graduated high school & my cousin Barry was born
- The Brady Bunch canceled
- UPC is scanned for the first time – 4 votes
- Richard Nixon resigns – 7 votes
- Gerald Ford pardons Nixon for any crimes he may have committed in office – 2 votes
- “Rumble in the Jungle” – Ali regains the Heavyweight boxing title from George Foreman
- Anti-trust suit filed against AT&T – 1 vote
- World population reaches 4 billion people – 3 votes
- Patty Hurst kidnapped, later photographed robbing banks with her captors – 2 votes
- People magazine debuts with Mia Farrow on the cover – 1 vote
- Premier Russian Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the US – 4 votes