About the day » Thursday January 24, 1974Calender converter

• Laura Daphne Lavina Weiller [[Ch-Wikibio]] sss († 1980)
• Roy Ruijter de, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Sonja Driessen, Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands († 2016)
• Wolter Gritter († 1974)

• Conrad d'Ursel (82), Bruxelles (Brussel), 21004, Belgique
• Bernardus Hendrikus Langenhof (88), Giesbeek
• (82), Zwijndrecht, Flemish Region, Belgium
• Arie Johannes van der Nol (48)
• Antonius Paulus de Keijzer (88), Dreumel
• Arie Kooger (77), Den Helder
• Andreas Franciscus Janssens (71), Lier, België
• Arie Martinus Nieuwpoort (106), Rotterdam
• Alice Széchényi van Sárvár-Felsövidék (62), Lissabon
• Catharinus Berendsd Luik (59), Echten, dr.nld

• 1972 » Beth Hart, American blues-rock singer and piano player
• 1974 » Cyril Despres, French rally racer
• 1974 » Ed Helms, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Melissa Tkautz, Australian actress and singer
• 1974 » Rokia Traoré, Malian singer
• 1975 » Gianluca Basile, Italian former professional basketball player
• 1975 » Henna Raita, Finnish alpine skier
• 1975 » Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer and manager
• 1975 » Reto Hug, Swiss triathlonist
• 1976 » Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer, coach, and choreographer

• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
• 1983 » George Cukor, American director and producer (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Jolanda
13. Nicole
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• February 1 » A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
• April 3 » The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
• August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• November 24 » Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• December 22 » The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

The temperature on January 24, 1974 was between 5.1 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.