Ford, Teeing Off Like Agnew, Hits Spectator in Head With Golf Ball
Vice Pres Ford's golf shot strikes 17-yr-old spectator Tom Gerard on head during celebrity golf tourn, Minneapolis; illus (M)
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Vice Pres Ford's golf shot strikes 17-yr-old spectator Tom Gerard on head during celebrity golf tourn, Minneapolis; illus (M)
White House on June 24 discloses that Pres Nixon suffered phlebitis during his recent trip to Middle East (S)
Darius. Milhaud, composer who helped overturn traditional French music in the nineteen‐twenties, died at his home in Geneva. He was 81 years old. Page 40.
House Judiciary Com on June 24 issues subpoena for tapes among which are those of five '71 conversations that com attys may document charge by Charles W Colson that Nixon had urged him to disseminate derogatory information about Daniel Ellsberg (S)
US Treas Dept Revenue Sharing Office repts that Conn will receive $79.7-million in revenue sharing funds in fiscal '75, compared with $75.2-million in fiscal '74 (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 19, 1974, covering June 25, 1974.
Gordon Lightfoot
Paul McCartney And Wings
Soundtrack
Cat Stevens
Maria Muldaur
1974Nisha Ganatra, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Nisha Ganatra is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama Chutney Popcorn (1999) and later directed the independent film Cosmopolitan (2003) and the romantic-comedy Cake (2005). Ganatra has directed for numerous television shows, including The Real World, Transparent, You Me Her, Better Things, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She also directed the comedy-dramas Late Night (2019) and The High Note (2020). Ganatra served as a consulting producer on the first season of Transparent, for which she was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series.
1974Glen Metropolit, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Glen David Metropolit is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who most notably played over 400 games in the National Hockey League (NHL)
1974Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (born 1893)[†]
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian-Jewish, Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]