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October 17: President Ford testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee regarding his pardon of Nixon. October 2 – U.S. release of film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Jerry Stiller.
Unix time. 126230400 – 157766399. 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
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June 1, 1974 (Saturday) The U.S. medical magazine Emergency Medicine published "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary", an informal article by thoracic surgeon Henry Heimlich, describing the effective use of abdominal thrusts to dislodge an object blocking an airway to save a person choking on food. [2] [3] On June 11, Arthur Snider, science columnist for ...
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Compared to the 1970s, the 1980s were a time of restrained optimism in New York. The boom on Wall Street was fueling the speculative real estate market, and unemployment numbers dropped noticeably. Koch successfully balanced the city's budget ahead of schedule, allowing the city to re-enter the bond market and raise cash, effectively ending the cit...
The city rebounded in the mid- and late 1990s due to the steady expansion of the national economy and the Wall Street stock market boom that took place concomitantly, as well as the precipitous drop in crime, although stubbornly high unemployment remained a local problem. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, is credited by many for ...
Billionaire media baron Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, was elected mayor in 2001, and reelected in 2005 and 2009. He used a statistical, results-based approach to city management, appointing city commissioners based on their expertise and granting them wide autonomy in their decision-making. Breaking with 190 years of tradition, he implemented wh...
Bloomberg was term-limited; after his third term, he could not run again in 2013. Bill de Blasio won the subsequent mayoral election, and was sworn into the mayor's office on January 1, 2014, by former President Bill Clinton. In 2017, a transit crisis was declared after years of deferred maintenance on the city's subways, buses, and railroads. Cong...
On 2 November 2021, Democratic candidate Eric Adams won the New York City mayoral election. Incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election. On 1 January 2022, Eric Adams was sworn in as mayor of New York City. As of October 2023, more than 130 600 migrants had arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022....
Sorkin, Michael, and Sharon Zukin, eds. After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City. Routledge, 2013.Spear, Michael. "The struggle to build a progressive urban politics: Frank Barbaro's 1981 New York City mayoral campaign." New York History (2010): 45–69. in JSTORTaylor, Clarence. Fight the power: African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City(NYU Press, 2021).Williams, Mason B. "How the Rockefeller Laws Hit the Streets: Drug Policing and the Politics of State Competence in New York City, 1973–1989." Modern American History 4.1 (2021): 67-90. onlineJune 6, 1979 (Wednesday) The Kola Superdeep Borehole broke the world record for greatest depth drilled into the Earth, reaching 31,441 feet (9,583 m) to break the mark set in the U.S. in 1974 by the "Bertha Rogers hole" in Washita County, Oklahoma. Drilling would cease in 1989 at a depth of 40,230 feet (12,260 m) which has not been exceeded since.
6/10 [3] June 1, 1974 is a live album of songs performed at the Rainbow Theatre in London on the titular date. The album is officially attributed to all principal performers Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico, although other well-known musicians, including Mike Oldfield, Robert Wyatt, and Ollie Halsall, also contributed to the concert ...
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