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16 January 1974 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 16 January 1974 was a Wednesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band.
- Top Film of 1974
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1974 was The Towering Inferno.
- Bestselling Novel of 1974
- “Centennial” by James A. Michener was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1974.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “All in the Family” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1974–75 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 16 January is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 16 January 1974 fell in the Year of the Ox.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 16 January 1974 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 16 January
- 1969 Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1979 Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
- 1984 A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.
- 1991 Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
- 1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
Famous people born on January 16
- Aaliyah, American singer and actress (1979–2001)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer (born 1980)
- Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1959)
- Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor (born 1985)
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Events of 1974 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1974 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 15 – Happy Days, a sitcom about life in the 1950s, debuts on ABC.
- March 4 – People magazine's first issue is published in the U.S., with Mia Farrow on the cover.
- April 2 – The 46th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston and David Niven, is held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. George Roy Hill's The Sting wins seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Hill.
Life in the US in 1974
President
Richard Nixon
Gas (per gallon)
$0.53
Loaf of Bread
$0.34
Average House
$25,900
Weekly Wage
$176
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