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| 1974 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon | |
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| 1974 |
| | | British physicist Stephen Hawking describes how black holes can emit radiation, a process now known as 'Hawking radiation' | |
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| 1974 |
| | | More than 7000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi | |
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| 1974 |
| | | A military coup in Portugal ends four decades of Salazar's and Caetano's dictatorial New State | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Donald Johanson and Tom Gray find an almost complete Australopithecus female skeleton at Hadar in Ethiopia, and nickname her Lucy after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Willy Brandt resigns and is succeeded by Helmut Schmidt, as leader of the SDP and chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Former prime minister Harold Wilson returns to Downing Street as leader of a minority government, but wins a second general election later in the year | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing defeats François Mitterrand in the French presidential election | |
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