July 1974

July 1, 1974 (Monday)

July 2, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 3, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 4, 1974 (Thursday)

July 5, 1974 (Friday)

July 6, 1974 (Saturday)

July 7, 1974 (Sunday)

July 8, 1974 (Monday)

July 9, 1974 (Tuesday)

  • Impeachment process against Richard Nixon: Following the Watergate scandal, a US Judiciary Committee releases an enhanced version of eight of the White House tapes previously transcribed by Nixon's team. These include potentially damaging statements suppressed in Nixon's version.[15]
  • The Derg, the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army that is in the process of taking power in Ethiopia, issues its first political statement.
  • Died: Earl Warren, 83, US jurist and politician, 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969)[16]

July 10, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 11, 1974 (Thursday)

July 12, 1974 (Friday)

July 13, 1974 (Saturday)

July 14, 1974 (Sunday)

July 15, 1974 (Monday)

July 16, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 17, 1974 (Wednesday)

July 18, 1974 (Thursday)

  • The Soviet Union's 35th Rocket Division carries out a research exercise, including the launch of two missiles.

July 19, 1974 (Friday)

July 20, 1974 (Saturday)

July 21, 1974 (Sunday)

July 22, 1974 (Monday)

July 23, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 24, 1974 (Wednesday)

  • An armed 29-year-old male hijacker attempts to take over an Avianca Boeing 727-24C with 123 people on board shortly after it takes off from Pereira, Colombia, for a domestic flight to Medellín; he demands a US$2 million ransom and the release of a political prisoner. The airliner diverts to Cali, where police storm it and kill the hijacker.[36]
  • The Huntsville Prison siege begins in Huntsville, Texas, United States, when Fred Gómez Carrasco, serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer, and two other inmates lay siege to the education building of the Walls Unit.[37]
  • Televised coverage of committee hearings on the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon are resumed after a break in which new evidence was assessed.[38]

July 25, 1974 (Thursday)

  • Texas Democrat Barbara Jordan delivers a fifteen-minute televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment process against US President Richard Nixon, which would come to be regarded as one of the top speeches of all time by an American.[39]

July 26, 1974 (Friday)

July 27, 1974 (Saturday)

July 28, 1974 (Sunday)

  • A U.S. Air Force SR-71 Blackbird sets an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet (25,929 m) and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 mph (3,531.7 km/hr), both records for non-rocket-powered aircraft.[42]

July 29, 1974 (Monday)

July 30, 1974 (Tuesday)

July 31, 1974 (Wednesday)

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