Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Tiger people are sensitive towards others feelings. Deep thinkers who share great sympathy with other people. One not so positive attribute of a Tiger is having a short temper. Even though people usually respect them, Tigers love their freedom and can get into conflict with different types of authority. Indecisiveness is a big reason for problems in the lives of Tigers. Leaving decisions to the last moment can result in bad choices. Powerful and courageous Tigers tend to seek adventure. In regards to other people they tend to be suspicious at times.
Astrology character and traits of Tiger sign: Sensitive, short tempered, courageous, hesitant, playful, tireless, cannot make up their mind and makes poor decisions.
1974 Zodiac Sign Tiger Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1974 then your astrological sign is Tiger. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Tiger are: Pig, Dog, Rabbit, Horse, Rooster
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Tiger are: Monkey
Historical Events for the Year 1974
2nd January Star Sign » President of the United States known as United States President Richard Nixon signs a National Maximum Speed Law Enactment e.g bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
4th January Star Sign » United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate scandal e.g Watergate Committee.
5th January Star Sign » An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
5th January » Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
6th January Star Sign » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
13th January Star Sign » Archbishop Seraphim of Athens called Seraphim is elected List of archbishops of Athens called Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
15th January Star Sign » Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
27th January Star Sign » The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing 1974 Brisbane flood e.g the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
1st February Star Sign » Joelma fire named A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1st February » Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory (Malaysia) named Federal Territory.
4th February Star Sign » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
4th February » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
8th February Star Sign » After 84 days in outer space named space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit United States or American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
8th February » Military coup in Burkina Faso or Upper Volta.
12th February Star Sign » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
17th February Star Sign » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
21st February Star Sign » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
22nd February Star Sign » The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation called Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
22nd February » Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
23rd February Star Sign » The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1st March Star Sign » Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
3rd March Star Sign » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
4th March Star Sign » 'People (American magazine) or People' magazine is published for the first time in the United States as 'People Weekly'.
5th March Star Sign » Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
18th March Star Sign » Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
20th March Star Sign » Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Anne, Princess Royal or Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall (London) named The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
26th March Star Sign » Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
1st April Star Sign » In the United Kingdom, the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
3rd April Star Sign » Super Outbreak called The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
6th April Star Sign » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the song "Waterloo (ABBA song) or Waterloo", launching their international career.
25th April Star Sign » Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist 'Estado Novo (Portugal) e.g Estado Novo' regime and establishes a democratic government.
27th April Star Sign » Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
29th April Star Sign » Watergate Scandal: President of the United States e.g President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1st May Star Sign » The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is Expulsion of Montoneros from Plaza de Mayo called expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
4th May Star Sign » An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
7th May Star Sign » West Germany known as West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
9th May Star Sign » Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives United States House Committee on the Judiciary Judiciary Committee opens formal and public Impeachment in the United States impeachment hearings against President of the United States President
16th May Star Sign » Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected president for Life e.g for life.
18th May Star Sign » Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
18th May » Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
30th May Star Sign » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1st June Star Sign » Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1st June » The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal 'Emergency Medicine'.
4th June Star Sign » During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers (baseball) e.g Texas Rangers.
6th June Star Sign » A new Instrument of Government (1974) known as Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a Parliamentarism e.g parliamentary monarchy.
9th June Star Sign » Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
27th June Star Sign » President of the United States e.g U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
29th June Star Sign » Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina e.g President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
29th June » Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
24th July Star Sign » Watergate scandal: The Supreme Court of the United States or United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President of the United States or President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order hi
27th July Star Sign » Watergate scandal: The United States House of Representatives House of Representatives United States House Committee on the Judiciary Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against Pre
30th July Star Sign » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
30th July » Six Canadian Army known as Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
1st August Star Sign » Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus e.g UNFICYP to create the "United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus called Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
4th August Star Sign » A Italicus Express bombing 1974 called bomb explodes in the 'Italicus Express' train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
5th August Star Sign » Vietnam War: The United States Congress called U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
7th August Star Sign » Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center Convert 1368 ft m in the air.
8th August Star Sign » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
9th August Star Sign » As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President of the United States of America called Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
14th August Star Sign » The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus known as Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. Around 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
15th August Star Sign » Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea called President, Park Chung-hee.
16th August Star Sign » Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.
30th August Star Sign » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train Zagreb train disaster e.g derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
30th August » A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1st September Star Sign » The 'SR-71 Blackbird' sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of convert 1435.587 mph km/h.
8th September Star Sign » Watergate Scandal: President of the United States named US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
11th September Star Sign » Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina e.g Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
12th September Star Sign » 'African Youth Amílcar Cabral e.g Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral' is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
15th September Star Sign » Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
18th September Star Sign » Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
25th September Star Sign » The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.
4th October Star Sign » Founding of the New Democracy (Greece) or New Democracy party in Greece.
5th October Star Sign » Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
8th October Star Sign » Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
19th October Star Sign » Niue Constitution Act 1974 (NZ) known as Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
30th October Star Sign » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
30th October » As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 MPH.
2nd November Star Sign » 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
13th November Star Sign » Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
20th November Star Sign » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
21st November Star Sign » The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
22nd November Star Sign » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
23rd November Star Sign » 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are Massacre of the Sixty called executed by the provisional military government.
1st December Star Sign » TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1st December » Harriman State Park plane crash named Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
8th December Star Sign » A Greek plebiscite, 1974 named plebiscite results in the abolition of Monarchy of Greece named monarchy in Greece.
19th December Star Sign » Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
22nd December Star Sign » Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli Comorian independence referendum, 1974 named vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
22nd December » The house of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom named British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army known as Provisional IRA.
24th December Star Sign » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory named Darwin, Australia.
25th December » Marshall Fields (White House intruder) named Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.