About the day » Friday November 1, 1974Calender converter

• johannes gerardus martinus mathildis (johan) spreeuwenberg
• Johannes Hendrikus Van Gijlswijk, Amstelveen,Amstelveen,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• NN Swart, Terschelling († 1974)
• Olivier PETITJEAN († 1991)
• Thomas Lester Ragan Jr († 2011)

• Clementine Doom (68)
• Cornelis Johannes Vedder (Vedders,Fedder,Veder,Verders,Feders,Ferder) (55), Geleen, Nederland
• Anna Philippina Cornelia Smits (83), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cliffort Wehrmann (76), Cincinatti, Ohio, VS
• Antonius Verdeuseldonck (91), Bakel en Milheeze
• Antonie Johannes Misset (73), 's Gravenhage
• Cornelis Joannes Vedder (55), Geleen (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Arnold Joseph Palm (70)
• Cornelia Louisa Kostermans (90), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Françoise Trum (57), Helmond

• 1972 » Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model
• 1972 » Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1972 » Toni Collette, Australian actress
• 1973 » Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indian model and actress.
• 1973 » Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager
• 1974 » V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
• 1975 » Bo Bice, American singer and musician
• 1975 » Keryn Jordan, South African footballer († 2013)
• 1975 » Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1976 » Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler († 2012)

• 1968 » Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (b. 1902)
• 1982 » James Broderick, American actor and director (b. 1927)
• 1982 » King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1983 » Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Norman Krasna, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Arnold Pihlak, Estonian-English footballer (b. 1902)

• 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.
• April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
• May 17 » Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
• May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• July 15 » In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
• September 17 » Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
• December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The temperature on November 1, 1974 was between -3.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.