Timeline June 1974

Events in June 1974 8

• 1890 – 1974 Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) Died 28 June 1974, aged 84 Vannevar Bush was an American engineer who directed the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, overseeing the early atomic bomb effort. His 1945 essay "As We May Think" anticipated hypertext and the modern computer.
• 1896 – 1974 Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974) Died 18 June 1974, aged 77 Georgy Zhukov was the Soviet Union's most celebrated Second World War commander, leading the defense of Moscow, Stalingrad and the final assault on Berlin. He later served as Soviet defense minister before falling from political favor.
• 1974 French Open 1974 Men: Björn Borg · Women: Chris Evert Borg won his first Roland Garros. Evert won her first of seven French Open titles.
• 1974 Heimlich maneuver published Surgeon Henry Heimlich describes his anti-choking technique Surgeon Henry Heimlich published a description of an abdominal thrust technique for dislodging objects from a choking person's airway. The maneuver quickly became standard first-aid practice worldwide.
• 1974 Sly Stone marries on stage at Madison Square Garden Wedding concert Marries Kathy Silva before a concert audience.
• 1974 1974 FIFA World Cup The New Trophy The first tournament to use the current FIFA World Cup Trophy. Winner: West Germany.
• 1974 First UPC barcode scanned at retail A pack of gum inaugurates the barcode era A ten-pack of Wrigley's chewing gum became the first retail product scanned using the Universal Product Code, at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The barcode system went on to transform retail inventory and checkout worldwide.
• 1974 Molina and Rowland The stratosphere bill arrives Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland publish in Nature: chlorofluorocarbons are so stable that they drift intact to the stratosphere, where ultraviolet light breaks them apart and the freed chlorine destroys ozone catalytically — one atom taking out tens of thousands of molecules. The chemical industry spends years attacking the finding. The two share the Nobel Prize in 1995.