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Movie history events from 1974
Greg Marmalard is raped in prison. (Animal House)
Jack Nicholson 1974. (United States) (Billy Madison)
1974 Dodge Sedan is made. (The Blues Brothers)
Billy Brown poses for aphoto with his dog Bingo. (Buffalo 66) (Buffalo '66)
A boy who later goes by the nickname "Windows" is born. (Fanboys)
Ray Kinsella marries Annie. (Field of Dreams)
Lieutenant Dan hashes it out with God, perched atop the mast of the shrimping boat "Jenny" during Hurricane Carmen. (Bayou Le Batre, Louisiana) (Forrest Gump)
Lenore Case is born. (Los Angeles, California) (The Green Hornet)
Anna Marks' mother meets Tim Buckley in a coffee shop. (He's Just Not That Into You)
A woman makes a wax sculpture in the kitchen while her son eats breakfast in his highchair. Her husband enters with another son who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place by his father. After being strapped and taped to his chair by his mother, he scratches her hand. She then slaps her child across the face. (Ambrose, Louisiana) (House of Wax)
Howard Stark holds what would be the last Stark Expo for 34 years. (Queens, New York City, New York) (Iron Man 2)
O-ren Ishii is born. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Darlene C. is born. (Santa Carla, California) (The Lost Boys)
Suicidal folkist Mitch Cohen releases his first solo album, 'A Cry For Help'. (A Mighty Wind)
The imprisonment sentences of Frank Bailey, Clinton Pell, and Clayton Townley end. (Jessup County, Mississippi) (Mississippi Burning)
My Girl 2. (My Girl 2)
Kominsky begins working in Times Square. (New York City) (New Year's Eve)
The Chesapeake Ripper terrorises locals. (Baltimore) (Red Dragon)
Mark Rodriguez is born. (Saw)
Englishman Alec Stewart finishes second in the Albanian Grand Prix. (Albania) (Speed Zone!)
Frank Berkman is born. (Brooklyn, New York) (The Squid and the Whale)
Wednesday 2nd January: Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, setting a new national maximum speed limit. (Nixon)
Friday 11th January: Large Marge dies in a car accident. (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
Friday 1st February: Lynda Ann Healy disappears from her apartment and is killed by Ted Bundy. (Ted Bundy)
Monday 4th February: The Symbionese Liberation Army abducts Patty Hearst. (Berkeley, California) (Citizen Tania)
Saturday 9th February: Leigh Crosby is born. (Black Christmas)
Saturday 9th February: Madison Elizabeth Frank born. (Vermont) (What Lies Beneath)
Friday 22nd February: The Assassination of Richard Nixon. (The Assassination of Richard Nixon)
Tuesday 26th February: Herbert Kalmbach pleads guilty to illegal White House fundraising. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 24th March: Dave Lockwood is born. (Atlanta, Georgia) (The Change-Up)
April: Stealer's Wheel reach no.5 with 'Stuck In The Middle With You'. (Reservoir Dogs)
Saturday 6th April: Dwight Chapin guilty of lying to Grand Jury. (All the President's Men)
Friday 12th April: Herbert Porter gets 30 days for lying to the FBI. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 14th April: Donald Jacobi is born. (Birmingham, Alabama) (Manhunter)
Thursday 25th April: Pamela Courson dies from a heroin overdose. (Paris, France) (The Doors)
Monday 29th April: President Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes. (Nixon)
Friday 17th May: Richard Kleindienst enters guilty plea. (All the President's Men)
Friday 24th May: Duke Ellington dies. (New York, New York) (Cotton Club, The )
Tuesday 4th June: Charles Colson pleads guilty to felony obstruction. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 14th July: Carl Spaatz dies. (Washington, D.C.) (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The )
Saturday 27th July: U.S. President Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment. (Nixon)
Monday 29th July: Christopher Boyce signs a security agreement to not transmit classified information to any unauthorized person or agency. (The Falcon and the Snowman)
Monday 5th August: Elena Benanidio checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City) (Hotel for Dogs)
Tuesday 6th August: Tapes show Richard Nixon approved Watergate cover-up. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 8th August: Brad Majors' car breaks down and he and Janet Weiss encounter alien beings in a large mansion. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Friday 9th August: Richard Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford sworn in. (All the President's Men)
Monday 26th August: Charles Lindbergh dies. (Maui, Hawaii) (The Spirit of St. Louis)
Sunday 8th September: President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. (Nixon)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate. (Tremors 2)
Saturday 5th October: A bomb destroys a pub killing 5 and seriously injuring 75 people. (Guildford, England) (In the Name of the Father)
Wednesday 9th October: Oskar Shindler dies, and is taken for burial at the Latin Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. (Frankfurt Germany) (Schindler's List)
Friday 8th November: Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Ted Bundy)
Sunday 10th November: Nyah Nordoff-Hall born. (Mission: Impossible 2)
Wednesday 13th November: Ronald DeFeo Jr massacres his parents, two brothers and two sisters - in his defense, the house told him to do it. (Amityville, New York) (The Amityville Horror (2005))
Wednesday 13th November: A mother, father and four of their children murdered... No apparent motive. (Amityville, Long Island) (The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: Karen Silkwood is discovered dead in a single car accident. (Crescent, Oklahoma) (Silkwood)
Thursday 14th November: An article about the DeFeo murders appears in the newspaper. (Amityville, Long Island) (The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 11th December: Drake Myers checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City) (Hotel for Dogs)