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1974
 
    
Golda Meir resigns and Yitzhak Rabin succeeds her as leader of the Labour party and Israeli prime minister       
1974
 
    
US tennis player Chris Evert wins the first of three victories at Wimbledon and of seven in the French Open       
1974
 
    
Jimmy Connors wins both Wimbledon and the US Open, on each occasion defeating the veteran Ken Rosewall       
1974
 
    
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England       
1974
 
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Isabel Perón becomes president of Argentina on the death of her husband Juan Perón       
1974
 
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An uprising organized in Ethiopia by the Dergue results in the arrest of Haile Selassie and his murder a year later        
1974
 
  
Turkish troops invade and occupy northeast Cyprus, causing the island to be divided for decades to come     
1974
 
     
The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over White House tapes of conversations relevant to Watergate        
1974
 
    
The House Judiciary Committee takes the first steps in the process of impeaching President Nixon, citing obstruction of justice       
1974
 
    
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada