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Governor Wilson called yesterday for a voluntary statewide program starting Monday in which drivers with odd‐numbered license plates would buy gasoline on odd‐numbered dates and those with even‐numbered plates would do their buying on even‐numbered dates.
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Mackell trial; former Queens Chief Asst Dist Atty Frederick J Ludwig testifies on Feb 7 that Mackell told him to proceed carefully with probe of fast-money scheme because of possible embarrassment to office because staff members had invested in it; testimony detailed; Ludwig illus (M)
Weather: Mostly sunny today; cold tonight. Fair and cold tomorrow. Temp. range: today 23–38; Thursday 28–33. Additional details on Page 61.
NYC Mayor Beame urges state legis on apt rents and landlord-tenant relations that calls for repeal of vacancy-decontrol law and proposes restoring local powers to permit city to repeal maximum base rent program and allowing tenants to make their own repairs and deduct cost from their rent; landlord groups oppose Beame's proposals but Jane Benedict, head of tenant-oriented Metropolitan Council on Housing, says Mayor is responding to concerted tenant movement (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 6, 1974, covering February 8, 1974.
Jim Croce
John Denver
Jim Croce
Love Unlimited
Elton John
1974Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician, singer, composer, and record producer[†]
Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo is a French musician. He is known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. He has produced several works from his now-defunct record label Crydamoure with label co-owner Éric Chedeville.
1974Seth Green, American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer, and director[†]
Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor. His film debut was The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), and he went on to have supporting roles in comedy films in the 1980s, including Radio Days (1987) and Big Business (1988).
1974Joshua Morrow, American actor[†]
Joshua Jacob Morrow is an American television actor and musician. In 1994, he began his career when he was cast in the role of Nicholas Newman on The Young and the Restless. In 1998, he joined the soul-pop group 3Deep; the group disbanded in 2001.
1974Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist (died 2016)[†]
Kevin Ferguson, better known as Kimbo Slice, was a Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, professional boxer, and actor. Originally a bare-knuckle boxer, he became noted for his role in mutual combat street fight videos in the 2000s which were spread online, leading Rolling Stone to call him "The King of the Web Brawlers".
1974The crew of Skylab 4, the last mission to visit the American space station Skylab, returns to Earth after 84 days in space.[†]
Skylab 4 was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]