January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Day of death March 16, 1974
The temperature on March 16, 1974 was between 4.4 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
May 15 » Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
November 22 » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
November 23 » Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
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