What happened with running shoes in 1974?
The Nike Waffle trainer sells well.
What else happened in 1974?
On February 4, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnap heiress Patty Hearst outside her apartment in Berkeley, California.
Turkey invade Cyprus on July 20.
On August 8 Richard Nixon announces his resignation as the USA president and on August 9 Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the USA.
Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in eight rounds in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ held in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30 to regain the boxing heavyweight title
The skeleton of the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy on November 24.
On December 24–25, Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
The Rubik’s Cube puzzle is invented by the Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik
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