Historical Events in 1973 (Part 3)

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• Aug 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 19 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
• Aug 22 Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
• Aug 23 Intelsat communications satellite launched

• Aug 24 John Adams & his bass drum become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
• Aug 25 Butch Trucks, drummer of the Allman Brothers, breaks a leg in a car crash
• Aug 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 25 Zambia adopts constitution
• Aug 26 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
• Aug 26 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
• Aug 26 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing
• Aug 28 "Smoke on the Water" single by British rock band Deep Purple goes gold
• Aug 28 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
• Aug 28 Bobby "Boris" Pickett's song "Monster Mash" goes gold
• Aug 28 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Aug 28 India & Pakistan sign POW accord

• Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Sep 1 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Sep 1 Gloucestershire beats Sussex by 40 runs in the Gillette Cup cricket final at Lord's to win their first major trophy since the Championship in 1877; South African all-rounder Mike Procter stars with 94 and 2 for 37

• Sep 1 Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies' concessions

• Sep 2 Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands

• Sep 3 General Walters ends term as acting director of CIA

• Sep 4 William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of the CIA
• Sep 5 1st one-day Cricket international for West Indies (vs England) - lose by 1 wicket
• Sep 5 Conference of less developed countries approves forming "producers' associations" and calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands
• Sep 6 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
• Sep 7 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
• Sep 8 "Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV
• Sep 8 Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
• Sep 8 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)

• Sep 10 NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis

• Sep 12 2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
• Sep 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 13 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
• Sep 13 Syrian-Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
• Sep 13 US Congress passes & sends a bill to President Nixon to lift NFL football's television blackout of sold out games
• Sep 14 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
• Sep 14 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s

• Sep 15 Dutch Guilder devalued by 5%
• Sep 15 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
• Sep 15 OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually

• Sep 18 German FR & German DR admitted to UN
• Sep 19 Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden

• Sep 19 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington, D.C.
• Sep 19 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
• Sep 19 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Sep 21 NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12½ games
• Sep 22 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers

• Sep 23 Largest known prime number, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is found with computer aid by David Slowinski; holds as largest until 1985
• Sep 24 West African nation of Portuguese Guinea declares independence from Portugal as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
• Sep 25 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
• Sep 25 New York Mets beat Montreal Expos, 2-1 on 'Willie Mays Night' at Shea Stadium, NYC
• Sep 26 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m).
• Sep 26 Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)

• Sep 27 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)
• Sep 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Sep 28 ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
• Sep 28 Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train
• Sep 29 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33
• Sep 29 "We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1
• Sep 29 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
• Sep 29 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
• Sep 30 Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
• Sep 30 New York Yankees close 50th year at Yankee Stadium with an 8-5 loss to Detroit Tigers for an 80-82 season record; manager Ralph Houk resigns
• Sep 30 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Oct 1 USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens

• Oct 4 Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam

• Oct 5 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
• Oct 6 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
• Oct 7 Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.
• Oct 7 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi

• Oct 8 OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
• Oct 8 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
• Oct 9 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
• Oct 9 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
• Oct 9 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors

• Oct 11 Héctor José Cámpora is elected President of Argentina
• Oct 11 Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
• Oct 12 Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria

• Oct 13 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war

• Oct 14 Egyptian tanks move further into Israel

• Oct 15 Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
• Oct 16 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
• Oct 16 Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
• Oct 16 Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage
• Oct 16 The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent
• Oct 16 US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam that later failed
• Oct 17 OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandating a cut in exports and recommending an embargo against unfriendly states [1]
• Oct 18 Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin
• Oct 18 Nobel prize for Economic Sciences awarded to American Wassily Leontief
• Oct 19 OPEC oil embargo on the United States begins as participating nations cease oil exports to the US and begin a series of production cuts [1]

• Oct 19 Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States
• Oct 20 Mariette Hartley appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Have You Met Miss Dietz?"

• Oct 20 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes call letters to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate, Massachusetts
• Oct 20 US President Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders to discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what has become known as "The Saturday Night Massacre"; after the resignations, Acting Attorney General Robert Bork fires Cox

• Oct 21 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
• Oct 22 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
• Oct 22 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War

• Oct 23 Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands

• Oct 23 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
• Oct 23 Yankee GM & President Lee MacPhail named AL president
• Oct 24 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike

• Oct 24 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
• Oct 25 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship

• Oct 26 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
• Oct 26 President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal
• Oct 26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 26 Wings release single "Helen Wheels"
• Oct 27 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
• Oct 27 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
• Oct 28 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)

• Oct 29 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fourth studio album, "Mind Games" in US

• Oct 31 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter
• Oct 31 Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award
• Nov 1 Indian state of Mysore is renamed Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu
• Nov 2 "Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments" special premieres on CBS TV
• Nov 2 Apple Records releases "Ringo", Ringo Starr's third studio album, in the US; his biggest commercial and critical success, featuring the singles "Photograph", "You're Sixteen", and "Oh My My"
• Nov 2 OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
• Nov 3 Atlantic Records releases "Abandoned Luncheonette", the second studio album by the American pop rock duo Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Nov 3 BYU receiver Jay Miller sets an NCAA football single game record with 22 catches (for 263 yards) en route to a 56-21 victory over New Mexico at Cougar Stadium, Provo, Utah
• Nov 3 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury

• Nov 4 Mark Medoff's "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" premieres in NYC
• Nov 4 New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
• Nov 4 The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
• Nov 4 Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou
• Nov 5 Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production
• Nov 5 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service

• Nov 6 Abe Beame elected 1st Jewish mayor of NYC
• Nov 6 Coleman Young elected Mayor of Detroit

• Nov 7 NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
• Nov 7 US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
• Nov 8 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
• Nov 9 Apple Records releases "Ringo", Ringo Starr's third studio album, in the UK - a week after its US release; his biggest commercial and critical success, featuring the singles "Photograph", "You're Sixteen", and "Oh My My"

• Nov 9 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
• Nov 9 Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
• Nov 10 "Ship Ahoy" album by The O'Jays is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1974)

• Nov 14 Canada begins production of Olympic coins

• Nov 15 Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
• Nov 16 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fourth studio album, "Mind Games" in UK

• Nov 16 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
• Nov 16 US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
• Nov 17 Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
• Nov 17 Teri Garr plays new nurse, Lt Suzanne Marquetten, on "The Sniper" episode of TV series M*A*S*H

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