Born in 1974

£1 in 1974 would be worth approximately £14.90 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1974 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 1 January – 7 March – The Three-Day Week is introduced by the Conservative Government as a measure to conserve electricity during the period of industrial action by coal miners.
• 7 February – Grenada becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• 28 February – The general election results in the first hung parliament since 1929, with the Conservative government having 297 seats – four fewer than Labour, who have 301 – and the largest number of votes.
• 20 May – The Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative social market think tank established by Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher and Alfred Sherman, holds its first meeting.
• 21 July – 10,000 Greek-Cypriots protest in London against the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
• 23 September – Ceefax is started by the BBC – one of the first public service information systems.
• 10 October – The second general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Harold Wilson, giving Labour a majority of three seats.
• 19 December – The ninth James Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun, premieres in London. It is the second of seven films to star Roger Moore as James Bond.

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