February 1974

Friday 01:

1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.

Monday 04:

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.

Tuesday 05:

John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.

Thursday 07:

Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Friday 08:

Military coup in Upper Volta.

Wednesday 13:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

Sunday 17:

Robert Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.

Monday 18:

KISS releases their self-titled debut album.

Wednesday 20:

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick claims he began experiencing intense gnostic visions on this date.

Thursday 21:

The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt.

Saturday 23:

The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.

Wednesday 27:

People magazine is published for the first time.

Thursday 28:

After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.