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Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to 1974. In January, the television sitcom Happy Days premiered on the ABC network. On March 1, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted ...

America's “greatest pastime” as captured in the collections. For more see Baseball: America's Homerun from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: En ...