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HR Speaker Albert and Sen Majority Leader Mansfield acknowledge that it is unlikely that repeal of daylight saving time can be voted before protested inconveniences end (S)
Fed Energy Regional Admr Gerald J Turetsky on Jan 30 repts cos have promised to increase domestic heating oil flow to NYâNJ wholesalers to reduce prices, news conf; says 2âtier price system, caused by controlled price of domestic oil and uncontrolled price of foreign oil, will end; says surplus being tapped is result of conservation and mild weather; predicts bankruptcies of oil speculators (S)
Nixon, in his State of Union Address to Cong Jan 30, outlines program for â74 he says will make new progress toward peace, stressing that his overriding aim has been and continues to be establishment of a ânew structure of peace in worldâ (S)
An improvement in the energy supply that would assure “reasonable prices with adequate environmental protection.”
Pres Nixon, at end of State of Union Message, promises not to resign (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 1974, covering January 31, 1974.
Jim Croce
Jim Croce
John Denver
Elton John
The Steve Miller Band
1974Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach[â ]
Othella Harrington is an American former professional basketball player. After he finished his high school career at Murrah High School, he played in college at Georgetown University where he teamed with future NBA star Allen Iverson. Harrington was drafted 30th overall in the 1996 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets.
1974Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player[â ]
Ariel Osvaldo Pestano Valdés, better known as El Veterano, is a Cuban baseball catcher, and is known as one of the greatest catchers in Cuban history. He has won both silver and gold medals in the Olympic Games and also played catcher on Cuba's World Baseball Classic team in March 2006 and March 2009. In Cuba, Pestano plays with the Villa Clara Naranjas of the Cuban National Series.
1974Samuel Goldwyn, Polish American film producer, co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (born 1882)[â ]
Samuel Goldwyn, also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced Hollywood's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. He was awarded the 1973 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958).
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[â ]