1974

Events

 * January 15 - Dennis Rader commits his first confirmed murders, killing all four memebrs of the Otero family in Wichita, Kansas.
 * March 12 - Ted Bundy commits his first confirmed murder.
 * April 25 - The Estado Novo dictatorship of Portugal is overthrown during the Carnation Revolution.
 * July 24 - End of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece.
 * August 9 - Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency of the United States in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
 * September 12 - The Derg first comes to power in Ethiopia, overthrowing Emperor Haile Selassie I.
 * December 1 - Anastasio Somoza Deybale is elected President of Nicaragua for the second time.

Villain births

 * February 11 - Maria Sosa
 * April 9 - Alexander Pichushkin
 * August 13 - Orlando Anderson
 * October 5 - Laurie Tackett

Victim births

 * November 14 - Adam Walsh

Villain deaths

 * January 26 - Johanna Langefeld

Victim deaths

 * January 15 - Joseph, Julie, Josephine, and Joseph Otero, Jr.