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The Oakland A's defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 5 to 0, in Oakland yesterday and evened the American League championship playoff at one game for each team.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Officials have disclosed that the Ford Administration, faced with what it considers almost certain Senate rejection of the treaty former President Nixon signed in Moscow last July to limit the underground testing of nuclear weapons, is seeking to broaden the agreement to include peaceful nuclear tests.
Article details rising costs in USSR though officially there is no inflation; inflation has not been as rampant as in many Western countries, with factors including relatively fixed state controls; illus (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 1974, covering October 7, 1974.
The Beach Boys
Olivia Newton-John
Bad Company
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Elton John
1974Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder[†]
Rune Glifberg, nicknamed "The Danish Destroyer", is a Danish professional skateboarder. He is one of three skaters to have competed at every X Games. He has a total of 12 X Games medals. At 46, he became the oldest skateboarder to ever compete in the Olympic Games and the first male skateboarder to ever compete in a park event in the Olympic Games when he represented Denmark in the men's park event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
1974Allison Munn, American actress[†]
Allison Munn is an American actress. She played Caroline Dupree in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, Tina Haven in The WB sitcom What I Like About You, Lauren in The WB/CW drama One Tree Hill, and Anne Harper on the Nickelodeon series Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn.
1974Ruslan Nigmatullin, Russian footballer[†]
Ruslan Karimovich Nigmatullin is a retired association footballer of Volga Tatar ethnicity who played goalkeeper and is currently working as a DJ. He has appeared for the Russian national team 24 times and was their starting keeper at the 2002 World Cup. He was voted Russian Player of the Year 2001 and is considered the best Russian goalkeeper of his period.
1974Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer[†]
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli, known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven".
In 1974, the world population was approximately 3,996,416,096 people[†]