Stories from 1974
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May 24, 1974
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New York, NY
Famed jazz composer and orchestra leader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington passed away.
August 8, 1974
Richard M. Nixon was the first U.S. President to resign after public discontent from the Watergate Scandal and the threat of impeachment from Congress.
October 5, 1974
David Kunst set a record for being the first person to travel around the earth on foot. The 14,500-mile adventure took four years and wore out twenty-one pairs of shoes.
November 13, 1974
Italian Neorealist director and actor Vittorio de Sica passed away. He directed such famous films like The Bicycle Thief (1948) and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970).
November 24, 1974
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Hadar, Ethiopia
The partial skeleton of an extinct hominim, ancestor to Homo sapiens, was found in Hadar, Ethiopia. Nicknamed Lucy after the Beatles' song, Australopithecus afarensis was 3.2 million years old.
