December 1974

The following events occurred in December 1974:

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December 1, 1974 (Sunday)

December 2, 1974 (Monday)
  • In Addis Ababa, the City Hall and to the Webi Shebeli Hotel are bombed, carried out (according to the international press) by Eritrean nationalists. The Derg (revolutionary council) use the bombings as a pretext for hardened repression against the notables of the negus' regime.[2]
  • British commercial diver David Keane drowns after his umbilical is cut through while conducting a bell dive in the Celtic Sea.[3]
  • Died: Sylvi Kekkonen, 74, First Lady of Finland.

December 3, 1974 (Tuesday)
  • The Pioneer 11 probe enters the shadow of Jupiter (27,000 miles (43,000 km) from the planet's atmosphere) and captures famous images of the Great Red Spot.

December 4, 1974 (Wednesday)

December 5, 1974 (Thursday)
  • In Argelato (Bologna), the brigadier of carabinieri Andrea Lombardini, in a routine patrol, is murdered with gunfire by five terrorists, who were preparing a robbery on a security officer. The killers, quickly arrested, are members of Lavoro Illegale ("Illegal work"), a terrorist organization come out of Potere Operaio, under the inspiration of Toni Negri, and later merged into the Red brigades. One of them, Bruno Valli, four days later hangs himself in jail. The month in Italy also sees a series of demonstrative attacks by the Red Brigades against industrial managers.[4]
  • Dead: Pietro Germi, 60, actor and director, author of many masterpieces of neo-realism and Italian comedy.

December 6, 1974 (Friday)

December 7, 1974 (Saturday)
  • In Arcore, the self-styled prince Luigi D'Angerio, leaving the Silvio Berlusconi's villa, luckily escapes a kidnapping. The probable organizer of the abduction is the Mafioso Vittorio Mangano, Berlusconi's groom, arrested for fraud twenty days later. The episode, never fully explained, will raise many suspicions in the following decades about the presumed links between the Milanese businessman and organized crime.[5]

December 8, 1974 (Sunday)
  • In Greece, a referendum (Greek republic referendum, 1974) confirms the end of the monarchy and the republican form of the state, with 69.4% of votes.
  • The Sistina Theatre in Rome debuts Aggiungi un posto a tavola (Add a seat at the table), a musical comedy by Garinei and Giovannini, music by Armando Trovajoli. The piece, a modern version of the Noah story, with Johnny Dorelli in the leading role of a witty country priest, gets an unheard-of success, staying on stage for a whole season, and becomes a classic of the Italian light theater.[6]

December 9, 1974 (Monday)

December 10, 1974 (Tuesday)

December 11, 1974 (Wednesday)
  • Born: Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler, in Chula Vista

December 12, 1974 (Thursday)

December 13, 1974 (Friday)

December 14, 1974 (Saturday)
  • The enquiry of the Padua procure about the "Compass Rose", an extreme-right secret society planning a military coup, causes the arrest of General Ugo Ricci, charged with conspiracy against the state. Two weeks later (on December 30), the Supreme Court of Cassation transfers the enquiry to Rome, with a decision much discussed and seen as a cover-up.
  • The Italian ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environment (now the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism) is instituted by decree; its first holder is Giovanni Spadolini.
  • Died: Walter Lippmann, 85, American journalist

December 15, 1974 (Sunday)
  • In Nicaragua, constitution of the UDEL (Union Democratica de Liberacion, Democratic liberation Union), representing the moderate and non-violent wing of the opposition to the Somoza regime.
  • Died: Anatole Litvak, 72, American director of Ukrainian origin

December 16, 1974 (Monday)
  • The army of Mali invades the French Upper Volta territory. The border conflict between the two countries will last till 1985.

December 17, 1974 (Tuesday)

December 18, 1974 (Wednesday)

December 19, 1974 (Thursday)

December 20, 1974 (Friday)
  • In France, Veil law, legalizing abortion, with the favorable vote of UDF and leftist parties and the blackball of UDR.

December 21, 1974 (Saturday)

December 22, 1974 (Sunday)
  • Referendum on independence from France in the islands of Comore (95% yes) and Mayotte (63% no).
  • In Maturin, Venezuela, crash of Avensa Flight 358 (73 victims).
  • Died: Fosco Giachetti, 72, Italian actor, star of the fascist cinema

December 23, 1974 (Monday)

December 24, 1974 (Tuesday)

December 25, 1974 (Wednesday)
  • At the Vatican, Pope Paul VI inaugurates the 1975 Jubilee. During the rite of opening the Holy Door, some falling rubble nearly hits the pontiff.
  • Born: Ed Husain, British author and activist, in London[13]
  • Died: Giacomo Devoto, 77, Italian linguist, author of a celebrated dictionary of the Italian language

December 26, 1974 (Thursday)

December 27, 1974 (Friday)
  • In Managua, an FSLN commando unit, headed by Eden Pastora, bursts into the house of Josè Maria Castillo, president of the Banco Central, and takes his guests hostage (including two relatives of the dictator Somoza). Three days later, thanks to the Managua archbishop's intermediation, the hostages are released, in exchange for a million dollars and the freedom of some political prisoners. Castillo is the only victim of the action.[15]
  • In Llevin (France), a firedamp explosion kills 42 miners.
  • The Constitutional Court of Italy abolishes the articles of the penal code forbidding strikes for political reasons. The law, enacted by the Fascist regime, was by then mostly no longer applied, though formally in force.

December 28, 1974 (Saturday)

December 29, 1974 (Sunday)
  • The Hunza earthquake in Pakistan.
  • Died: Alessandro Cervellati, 82, Italian writer and painter, historian of circus and music-hall

December 30, 1974 (Monday)

December 31, 1974 (Tuesday)

References
  1. "6 Trying To Repair Pipeline Leak Die Of Methane Fumes". Times-Union. Warsaw, Indiana. 2 December 1974. p. 2. Retrieved 12 August 2021 – via news.google.com.
  2. "Attentati terroristici ad Addis Abeba. - Forse sono nazionalisti dell'Eritrea". La Stampa. 4 December 1974.
  3. Limbrick, Jim (2001). North Sea Divers - a Requiem. Hertford: Authors OnLine. p. 117. ISBN 0-7552-0036-5.
  4. Attentati in serie delle BR contro gli industriali,
  5. Livio Abbate per l'Espresso 22 dicembre 2009
  6. Aggiungi un posto a tavola
  7. Cao Văn Viên (1983). The Final Collapse. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. pp. 59–60.
  8. "Bob Bennett Bio, Stats, and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  9. Limbrick, Jim (2001). North Sea Divers - a Requiem. Hertford: Authors OnLine. pp. 118–120. ISBN 0-7552-0036-5.
  10. "Archive.ph".
  11. Minetor, Randi (2018). Death on Mount Washington: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness on the Northeast's Highest Peak. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4930-3377-5.
  12. "Ford ritiene probabile il collasso di un alleato" [Ford believes the collapse of an ally is likely]. La Stampa. 24 December 1974.
  13. Nasta, Susheila; Stein, Mark U. (16 January 2020). The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. ISBN 9781108169004.
  14. "Salyut 4". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. NASA. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  15. Belli, Gioconda (18 October 2017). Il paese sotto la pelle [The country under the skin]. ISBN 9788866329336.
  16. "Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., 78, Is Dead; Aviator Was Astronaut's Father". The New York Times. 2 January 1975. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  17. "George Carey Stats". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
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