Historical Events in 1973 (Part 2)

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• Apr 12 Swaziland suspends constitution
• Apr 14 Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
• Apr 17 German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded

• Apr 19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Apr 20 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
• Apr 20 Mass murderer Ed Kemper attempts to dispose of his mother's vocal chords in a domestic waste disposal unit
• Apr 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 26 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Apr 27 KC Royals pitcher Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
• Apr 28 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)

• Apr 30 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
• May 3 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), tops out
• May 4 1st TV network female nudity in "Steambath" on PBS by Valerie Perrine
• May 4 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
• May 4 Longest baseball game in Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
• May 4 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
• May 4 Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK

• May 6 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1
• May 7 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Eudora Welty for "Optimist's Daughter"

• May 10 Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania
• May 10 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Yvan Cournoyer has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 6-4 to take title, 4 games to 2
• May 11 Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the "Pentagon Papers" to The New York Times dismissed
• May 11 Dutch government of Uyl forms

• May 12 "Dueling Tubas" novelty single by Martin Mull hits #92

• May 14 French film "Day for Night" written and directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud premieres at Cannes (Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film)
• May 14 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
• May 14 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
• May 14 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

• May 16 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
• May 17 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
• May 17 Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone
• May 17 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run

• May 17 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
• May 17 US Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings into the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C.

• May 18 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
• May 19 Sentimental ballad "Daisy A Day" single by Jud Strunk hits #14
• May 20 2 motorcycle racers killed and a dozen injured in a crash during the 1973 Nations Grand Prix in Monza,Italy

• May 22 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
• May 24 George [Earl] Jellicoe resigns as British Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
• May 25 26th Cannes Film Festival: "The Hireling" directed by Alan Bridges and "Scarecrow" directed by Jerry Schatzberg jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film

• May 25 Peronist Hector Campora installed as President of Argentina
• May 25 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
• May 26 "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players hits #15
• May 26 "Super Fly Meets Shaft" by John & Ernest hits #31
• May 26 Bahrain adopts its constitution
• May 26 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970" album (the blue one) goes #1
• May 26 British composer Michael Tippett's 3rd Piano Sonata premieres
• May 27 American athlete Rick Wohlhuter runs world record 880 yards in 1:44.6
• May 28 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 innings (game started 5/26)
• May 29 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
• May 29 Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
• May 30 George Harrison releases his fourth studio album "Living in the Material World" in the US
• May 31 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th run of English cricket season
• Jun 1 Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
• Jun 1 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" album goes gold, 2 days after its US release
• Jun 1 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
• Jun 1 Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Live & Let Die"
• Jun 3 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed
• Jun 4 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
• Jun 7 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
• Jun 8 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain

• Jun 10 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
• Jun 11 Libya nationalizes Bunker Hunt concession; Nigeria acquires 35 percent participation in Shell-BP concession
• Jun 12 Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry
• Jun 12 New Zealand all-rounder Bevan Congdon scores 176 as Kiwis chase 479 in 1st Test v England at Nottingham; tourists just miss out, dismissed for 440
• Jun 12 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
• Jun 13 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
• Jun 14 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

• Jun 18 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
• Jun 18 Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev visits the US and President Nixon
• Jun 19 "The Rocky Horror Show" stage production first opens in London written by Richard O'Brian and directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry

• Jun 20 Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
• Jun 20 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured

• Jun 22 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
• Jun 22 George Harrison releases his fourth studio album "Living in the Material World" in the UK
• Jun 22 Skylab 2's astronauts land on return voyage from US space station - 1st to safely return to earth

• Jun 23 World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific
• Jun 24 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
• Jun 25 John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee
• Jun 25 Russian communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits France
• Jun 25 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
• Jun 26 London production of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease", starring Richard Gere, opens at the New London Theatre
• Jun 26 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

• Jun 27 John Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
• Jun 27 Uruguayan president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and heads a coup d'état - beginning of the civic-military dictatorship

• Jun 28 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
• Jun 28 New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing
• Jun 28 Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place
• Jun 30 "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour" TV Variety; debut on ABC
• Jun 30 Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
• Jun 30 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
• Jul 1 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61

• Jul 1 British Library established as the country's national library and legal depository, one of the largest libraries in the world with over 170 million items (previously part of the British Museum) [1]

• Jul 2 James R Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA
• Jul 2 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
• Jul 3 Brothers Gaylord (Hall of Fame) and Jim Perry (3-time All Star) face each other for only time in MLB, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, Gaylord charged with loss
• Jul 3 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA

• Jul 4 CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms

• Jul 5 Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps
• Jul 5 Test cricket debut of English umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds (66 Tests, 69 ODI)
• Jul 7 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
• Jul 7 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
• Jul 7 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
• Jul 8 NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant
• Jul 9 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
• Jul 10 Bahamas declares Independence from the United Kingdom and adopts constitution
• Jul 10 John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom
• Jul 11 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
• Jul 12 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
• Jul 13 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
• Jul 13 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina

• Jul 15 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0

• Jul 16 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
• Jul 17 Military coup in Afghanistan, led by former prime minister, and cousin to the king, Mohammad Daoud Khan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah remains in Italy were he was receiving medical treatment at the time

• Jul 20 Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0

• Jul 20 The US Senate passes the War Powers Act

• Jul 21 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
• Jul 21 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
• Jul 23 Ozark AL Flight 809 knocked out of air by lightning landing in St Louis, killing 38
• Jul 23 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
• Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 25 George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
• Jul 25 USSR launches Mars 5

• Jul 27 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
• Jul 27 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
• Jul 28 600,000 attend the "Summer Jam" rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead, The Band, and The Allman Brothers Band, at Watkins Glen, New York; at the time the largest ever audience at a pop festival
• Jul 28 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
• Jul 28 NASA launches Skylab 3's astronauts (Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma) to the space station for a 59 day stay
• Jul 29 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
• Jul 29 Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
• Jul 30 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
• Jul 31 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later
• Jul 31 England cricket batsman Frank Hayes scores unbeaten 106 in Test debut in 1st Test v West Indies at The Oval, London; tourists win by 158 runs
• Aug 1 Johan Witteveen appointed as the 5th managing director of the International Monetary Fund
• Aug 1 MLB All Star catchers Thurman Munson of the NY Yankees and Boston Red Sox' Carlton Fisk brawl at home plate Fenway Park; Red Sox win, 3-2

• Aug 3 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
• Aug 3 National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
• Aug 4 NY Yankees pitcher Lindy McDaniel puts in one of the best relief stints in MLB history, entering in 2nd inning, allows only 1 run in 13 innings in 3-2 win v Detroit Tigers
• Aug 5 15-year-old Australian swimmer Stephen Holland smashes Mike Burton's 1,500m world record by a massive 14.78 seconds (15:37.8) in Brisbane
• Aug 5 Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kill 3 injure 55

• Aug 5 USSR launches Mars 6

• Aug 6 Stevie Wonder involved (as a passenger) in car crash in North Carolina, goes into a 4 day coma

• Aug 9 Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough quits rock band Wings, founded by Paul McCartney
• Aug 9 USSR launches Mars 7
• Aug 10 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
• Aug 11 "American Graffiti", directed by George Lucas, opens in cinemas across the United States
• Aug 11 The birth of hip-hop: DJ Kool Herc uses two turntables, playing the same record simultaneously to create the “merry-go-round” technique, at a party in the Bronx [1]
• Aug 12 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris

• Aug 14 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
• Aug 15 Black September kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens
• Aug 15 David Storey's play "Cromwell" premieres in London
• Aug 15 USSR performs nuclear test

• Aug 17 Mets first baseman Willie Mays hits 660th & last career home run. off Don Gullett of Cincinnati Reds, in 2-1 loss at Shea Stadium, in New York

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