Timeline January 1974

Events in January 1974 13

• 1974 Australian Open 1974 Men: Jimmy Connors · Women: Evonne Goolagong
• 1974 1974: Emerson Fittipaldi McLaren Fittipaldi won his second title, this time with McLaren, edging out Ferrari's Clay Regazzoni in a tight championship battle.
• 1974 Duke Ellington Tribute in Grant Park Following Duke Ellington's death in May 1974, organised a tribute concert in Grant Park that united Chicago's jazz community. The event became an annual tradition and laid the foundation for what would become the Chicago Jazz Festival.
• 1974 First Arrest Arrested after resigning from her position as a producer at National Iranian Radio and Television in protest against the execution of two political dissidents. This was the first of four imprisonments.
• 1974 I Will Always Love You Wrote and recorded I Will Always Love You as a farewell to her mentor Porter Wagoner, leaving his television show to pursue a solo career. The song reached number one on the country chart. She famously turned down Elvis Presley's request to record it when his manager demanded half the publishing rights.
• 1974 Joined MIT Joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research), where he would spend the rest of his career.
• 1974 – 1981 Peter Cat Jazz Bar Opened Peter Cat, a jazz bar in the basement of a building in Kokubunji on the western outskirts of Tokyo, named after his pet cat. He and Yoko ran the bar together — she met the public while he washed dishes, mixed drinks and spun records from a collection of 3,000 jazz albums. They were so deep in debt they could not afford heating, warming themselves by sleeping with their cat. In 1977 they relocated the bar to Sendagaya in central Tokyo.
• 1974 Prostitution Scandal and Comeback Resigned from Cincinnati City Council after admitting to writing a personal cheque to a prostitute. Won re-election at the next opportunity, his honesty earning public respect.
• 1974 Shuttle Diplomacy Pioneered shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, flying repeatedly between capitals to negotiate disengagement agreements between Israel, Egypt and Syria following the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
• 1974 The Dog and the Long Winter Published her first adult novel, The Dog and the Long Winter, becoming only the second woman in Iranian literary history to publish a novel, after Simin Daneshvar.
• 1974 The Band tour with Bob Dylan Tour 1974 Dylan's first tour in eight years, recorded for Before the Flood.
• 1974 Joni Mitchell releases Court and Spark Biggest seller Jazz-tinged pop, her best-selling album.
• 1974 YF-16 unplanned first flight Edwards Air Force Base During a high-speed taxi test, pilot Phil Oestricher lifts off to save the prototype from damage and flies it for six minutes — two weeks before the official first flight.