1973 Jan 3, The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) got out
of the baseball business this day by selling the New York Yankees to a
12-man syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner III for $10-12 million.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)(MC, 1/3/02)
1973 Jan 8, Secret peace talks between the United States and North
Vietnam resumed near Paris.
(AP, 1/8/98)
1973 Jan 10, Gas tank on Staten Island exploded and 40 people
were killed.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1973 Jan 11, Owners of American League baseball teams voted to
adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1973 Jan 11, Trial of Watergate burglars began in Washington,
DC.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1973 Jan 11, The Dow Jones Industrials hit a peak of 1051.70.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)
1973 Jan 12, Yasir Arafat was re-elected as head of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization.
(HN, 1/12/99)
1973 Jan 13, In Bernardsville, N.J., Rabbit Wells was shot a killed
by a local patrolman. His story was later told by William Loizaux in: "The
Shooting of Rabbit Wells: An American Tragedy."
(SFEC, 2/8/98, BR p.5)
1973 Jan 15, Gene Shalit joined the Today Show panel.
(MC, 1/15/02)
1973 Jan 15, President Nixon announced the suspension of all
U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
(AP, 1/15/98)
1973 Jan 15, Four of six remaining Watergate defendants pleaded
guilty.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1973 Jan 15, Pope Paul VI had an audience with Golda Meir at
Vatican.
(MC, 1/15/02)
1973 Jan 16, NBC presented the 440th and final showing of "Bonanza."
(MC, 1/16/02)
1973 Jan 17, Public Health Service linked smoking to fetal and
infant risks.
(HN, 1/17/99)
1973 Jan 17, A new Philippine constitution named Ferdinand Marcos
president for life.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1973 Jan 22, The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling handed down its
Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion, using a trimester approach.
The court ruled that a woman's right to privacy encompasses her decision
to terminate a pregnancy. Norma McCorvey, the anonymous Jane Roe, revealed
her identity in 1989. She ended up having her 3rd baby that was the initial
focus of the issue.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 1/28/98, p.E1)(SFC, 3/5/99,
p.A15)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1973 Jan 22, Former President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) died
at his Texas ranch at age 64. Robert Dallek in 1998 published the biography
"Flawed Giant."
(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A6)(AP, 1/22/98)(SFC, 3/16/98, p.A2)
1973 Jan 23, President Nixon claimed that Vietnam peace had been
reached in Paris and that the POWs would be home in 60 days.
(AP, 1/23/98)(HN, 1/23/99)
1973 Jan 23, Helgafell, an island of Heimaey, Iceland, erupted
for the 1st time in 7,000 yrs.
(MC, 1/23/02)
1973 Jan 27, The Paris Agreement froze the status quo on the ground
in South Vietnam. The agreement by the United States and North Vietnam
included a ban on infiltration of arms or personnel to reinforce North
Vietnamese troops in the South, as well as a ban on the use of Laotian
or Cambodian territory for that purpose. The Paris Agreement provided for
continued US supply of the army of the Republic of Vietnam. Peace Accords
were signed in Paris over events in Vietnam.
(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-19)(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(HN, 1/27/99)
1973 Jan 30, A jury found Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord
guilty on all counts.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1973 Jan, Pres. Nixon adopted an austerity policy as another recession
began.
(WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1973 Jan, The Vietnam War resulted in the death of 58,153 (58,167)
Americans, 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Southern resistance fighters
(Viet Cong), and 2 million civilians. In 2001 Gerald Nicosia authored "Home
to War: A History of the Vietnam Veteran’s Movement."
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(SFEM, 11/10/96, p.12)(SSFC, 6/3/01, DB
p.68)
1973 Jan, The US stock market began a 24 month decline of 46%.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)
1973 Feb 1, Top hits included: Crocodile Rock Elton John; You’re
So Vain Carly Simon; Do It Again Steely Dan; (Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon
Wine Tom T. Hall.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1973 Feb 4, "No, No Nanette" closed at 46th St. Theater in NYC
after 861 performances.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1973 Feb 5, Juan Corona was sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms
for 25 murders.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1973 Feb 5, A funeral was held for L.C. William Nolde, the last
US soldier killed in Vietnam.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1973 Feb 8, Senate leaders named seven members of a select committee
to investigate the Watergate scandal, including the chairman, Sam J. Ervin
Jr., D-N.C.
(AP, 2/8/99)
1973 Feb 9, Max Yasgur (53), owner Woodstock festival farmland,
died.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1973 Feb 12, The first release of American prisoners of war from
the Vietnam conflict took place.
(AP, 2/12/98)
1973 Feb 13, Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1973 Feb 14, U.S. and Hanoi set up a group to channel reconstruction
aid directly to Hanoi. In 1972 the U.S. had begun to "de-Americanize" the
Vietnam war. It was a policy of gradual withdrawal.
(HN, 2/14/98)
1973 Feb 15, Friendsville Academy in Tenn. ended a 138-game basketball
losing streak.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1973 Feb 15, The USSR launched Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300
km).
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1973 Feb 17, President Richard Nixon named Patrick Gray director
of the FBI.
(HN, 2/17/98)
1973 Feb 18, Frank Costello (82), US gangster, died.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1973 Feb 20, Joseph Szigeti (80), Hungarian-US violinist, died.
(MC, 2/20/02)
1973 Feb 21, Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines
jet over the Sinai Desert, killing 108 people.
(AP, 2/21/98)(MC, 2/21/02)
1973 Feb 22, The United States and Communist China agreed to establish
liaison offices.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1973 Feb 22, Winthrop Rockefeller (60), US governor of Arkansas,
died.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1973 Feb 25, The Stephen Sondheim musical "A Little Night Music"
opened at Broadway's Shubert Theater.
(AP, 2/25/98)
1973 Feb 26, A publisher and 10 reporters were subpoenaed to testify
on Watergate.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1973 Feb 26, Triple Crown horse Secretariat was bought for a
record $5.7m.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1973 Feb 27, U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia pool club
could not bar residents because of color.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1973 Feb 27, Members of the American Indian Movement occupied
the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890
massacre of Sioux men, women and children. They protested illegal and discriminatory
acts on the part of the Pine Ridge Sioux Tribal Council. The occupation
lasted until May.
(AP, 2/27/98)(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A17)
1973 Mar 1, Robert Joffrey Dance Company opened.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1973 Mar 1, Robyn Smith became the 1st female jockey to win a
major race.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1973 Mar 2, Federal forces surrounded Wounded Knee, South Dakota,
which was occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement
who were holding at least 10 hostages.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1973 Mar 2, Arab commandos, "Black September" terrorists, led
by Abu Jihad executed 3 hostages in Khartoum, Sudan, after Pres. Nixon
refused their demands. US ambassador Cleo A. Noel, deputy George Curtis
Moore and Belgian charge d’affaires Guy Eid. The operation was later reported
to have been organized by Yasser Arafat.
(WSJ, 1/10/02, p.A12)(SC, 3/2/02)
1973 Mar 3, "Shelter" closed at John Golden Theater in NYC after
31 performances.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1973 Mar 3, Japan disclosed its first defense plan since World
War II.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1973 Mar 4, In the 15th Grammy Awards winners included: The First
Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1973 Mar 5, Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announced they
swapped wives.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1973 Mar 6, President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on
oil and gas.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(HN, 3/6/98)
1973 Mar 6, Paul Kletzki (72), Polish violinist, composer, conductor,
died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1973 Mar 6, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (Pearl Buck, 80), author
(Good Earth- Nobel 1938), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1973 Mar 7, Sheikh Mujibar Rahman, a leader of the Bangladeshi
independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, won a landslide
victory in the country's first general elections. Rahman and the Awami
League won elections.
(SFC, 6/12/96, p.E3)(MC, 3/7/02)
1973 Mar 8, Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square, injuring
234.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was shot at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1973 Mar 13, George Norman skipped out of Denver on a 2-year sentence
for embezzling more than $500,000 from the now defunct Rocky Mountain Bank.
He evaded arrest for 23 years and made millions by legal means until his
capture in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1996.
(SFC, 11/26/96, p.A8)
1973 Mar 17, Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge.
(MC, 3/17/02)
1973 Mar 17, St. Patrick Day marchers carried 14 coffins commemorating
Bloody Sunday.
(MC, 3/17/02)
1973 Mar 17, First POWs were released from the "Hanoi Hilton"
in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1973 Mar 17, Twenty people were killed in Cambodia when a bomb
went off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1973 Mar 19, Dean told Nixon: "There is a cancer growing on the
Presidency."
(MC, 3/19/02)
1973 Mar 23, US performed a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1973 Mar 23, After a 5½ year run, soap "Love is a Many
Splendored Thing" ended.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1973 Mar 23, Yoko Ono was granted permanent residence in US.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1973 Mar 25, Edward Steichen (93), pioneer US photographer, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1973 Mar 26, Soap opera "The Young and the Restless" premiered.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1973 Mar 26, Susan Shaw became the 1st woman in 171 years in
London's Stock exchange.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1973 Mar 26, Noel Coward (73), English playwright, died. He was
called "The Master" and his work included "The Vortex," "Hay Fever," "Private
Lives," "Brief Encounter" and "Blithe Spirit." "Noel Coward: A Biography"
by Philip Hoare was published in 1996. Another biography, "A Talent to
Amuse" by Sheridan Morley, published in 1974, was recommended. In 1970
he was given knighthood.
(WSJ, 8/15/96, p.A10)(SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.9)(SS, 3/26/02)
1973 Mar 27, The 45th Academy Awards were held in Los Angeles
at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "The Godfather" won the Academy Award
for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept
his Oscar for best actor. Liza Minnelli won best actress for "Cabaret."
(AP, 3/27/98)(SFC, 3/19/02, p.D1)
1973 Mar 29, The last United States troops left South Vietnam,
ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1973 Mar 30, Ellsworth Bunker resigned as U.S. ambassador
to South Vietnam, and was succeeded by Graham A. Martin.
(AP, 3/30/97)(HN, 3/30/98)
1973 Mar, Gen’l. Lanusse called elections and the Peronists led
by Hector Campora and Vicente Solano Lima returned to power.
(SFC, 8/27/96, p.A17)WSJ, 11/14/96, p.A20)
1973
Apr 1, Japan allowed its citizens to own gold.
(OTD)
1973 Apr 2, CBS radio began on hour news 24 hours a day.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1973 Apr 2, ITT pleaded guilty to asking CIA to "influence" Chilean
presidential elections.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1973 Apr 6, Yankee Ron Blomberg became the 1st designated hitter.
He walked.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1973 Apr 8, Artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins,
France, at age 91. He left some 50,000 works that included 1,885 paintings,
1,228 sculptures, 2,880 ceramics, 18,095 engravings, 6,112 lithographs,
3,181 linocuts, 7,089 drawings plus 4,669 drawings and sketches in 149
notebooks, 11 tapestries and 8 rugs. Two books of a planned 4-volume biography
were published by John Richardson, who then interrupted the series in 2000
with "The Sourceror's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper."
His estate owed so much in death duties that many of his works fell into
government hands.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.E1)(AP, 4/8/97)(SFEC, 1/30/00, BR p.6)(SSFC,
5/20/01, p.T8)
1973 Apr 12, France recognized North Vietnam.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1973 Apr 14, Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray resigned after
admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal.
(MC, 4/14/02)
1973 Apr 16, Istvan Kertesc (43), Hungarian-German conductor (London
Symphony), drowned.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1973 Apr 26, Popular music of the day included: "Tie a Yellow
Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando; "Sing" by
the Carpenters; "The Cisco Kid" by War; and "Superman" by Donna Fargo.
(440 Int’l. Internet, 4/26/97, p.1)
1973 Apr 26, "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opened in London.
(MC, 4/26/02)
1973 Apr 27, During the Watergate scandal, acting FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray resigned.
(AP, 4/27/97)
1973 Apr 28, In Roseville, Ca., a huge explosion of military ordnance
occurred on a trainload of bombs and ammunition headed for the Port Chicago
Naval Weapons Station and then to US troops in Vietnam. Nobody was killed.
18 government-owned boxcars, each with more than 330 250-pound bombs, exploded
in a daylong series of blasts.
(SFC, 10/8/97, p.A20)(SFC, 10/9/97, p.A28)
1973 Apr 30, President Nixon announced the resignations of his
aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard
Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
(AP, 4/30/97)(HN, 4/30/98)
1973 Apr, Pres. Nixon appointed Elliot Richardson as US attorney
general to oversee the Watergate investigation.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A25)
1973 May 3, Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443
m), topped out.
(MC, 5/3/02)
1973 May 4, The 1st TV network female nudity: Bruce Jay Smith's
Steambath (PBS) with Valerie Perrine.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1973 May 8, Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota
hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
(AP, 5/8/97)
1973 May 11, Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the
Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited
government misconduct.
(AP, 5/11/97)
1973 May 12, U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian
forces. [see May 11, 1975]
(HN, 5/12/98)
1973 May 13, Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith
Court in a Mother's Day match in California.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1973 May 14, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In last aired on
NBC-TV.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1973 May 14, US Supreme court approved equal rights to females
in military.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1973 May 14, The United States launched the 85-ton Skylab 1,
its first manned space station. It fell to Earth Jul 11, 1979.
(AP, 5/14/97)(HN, 5/14/98)(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.A1)
1973 May 18, Russian party leader Brezhnev visited West Germany.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1973 May 18, Jeannette Rankin (92), 1st US Congresswoman (1917-19,
41-43), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1973 May 20, "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closed at St. James Theater
in NYC after 613 performances.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1973 May 20, In the 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family
& Mary Tyler Moore won.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1973 May 22, President Nixon confessed his role in the Watergate
cover-up.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1973 May 25, George Harrison released "Give Me Love" in UK.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1973 May 25, Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora was installed
as president.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1973 May 26, Jacques Lipchitz (81), Lithuanian-French-US cubist
sculptor, died on Capri and was buried in Jerusalem.
(MC, 5/26/02)(EB online)
1973 May 27, Betty Tyson (24), a prostitute and heroin addict,
was arrested for the strangulation death of a businessman. Her murder conviction
was overturned in 1998, due to a wrongfully suppressed police report, and
she was released from prison 25 years to the day from her arrest in New
York.
(SFC, 5/28/98, p.A3)
1973 May 28, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (73), German composer, conductor
(Hassan), died.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1973 May 29, Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of
Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Sam Yorty.
(AP, 5/29/97)
1973 May 29, Columbia Records fired president Clive Davis for
misappropriating $100,000 in funds. Davis went on to start Arista records.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1973 May 29, Eric Applewhite, entertainer, died,
(SC, 5/29/02)
1973 May, In Greece royalist Navy officers attempted a coup. Col.
Papadopoulos abolished the monarchy and declared Greece a republic.
(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)
1973 May, Pres. Nixon told Gen'l. Alexander Haig that "I'd authorize
any means to achieve a goal abroad" - including "the break-in of embassies
and so forth."
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A4)
1973 Jun 1, Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let
Die"
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1973 Jun 1, Harvey Jr. Firestone (b.Apr 20, 1898), Manufacturer,
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. chairman; where the rubber meets the road,
died at age 75.
. (DTnet, 6/1/97)
1973 Jun 1, Mary A. Korman (b.1917), Movie Actress, Our Gang,
died.
(DT, 6/19/97)
1973 Jun 5, Doris A. Davis becomes the first African-American
woman to govern a city in a major metropolitan area when she is elected
mayor of Compton, California.
(HN, 6/5/00)
1973 Jun 9, Secretariat became horse racing's first Triple Crown
winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes. He won by 34 lengths
and Twice a Prince came in 2nd.
(AP, 6/9/97)(SFC, 5/13/00, p.D3)
1973 Jun 18, NCAA made urine testing mandatory for participants.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1973 Jun 19, The stage production of "The Rocky Horror Picture
Show" opened in London.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1973 Jun 19, The Case-Church Amendment prevented further U.S.
involvement in Southeast Asia.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1973 Jun 20, Juan Peron returned to Argentina.
(MC, 6/20/02)(SFC, 12/24/96, p.A8)
1973 Jun 21, The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials
found to be obscene according to local standards.
(AP, 6/21/98)
1973 Jun 22, Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific
after a record 28 days in space.
(HN, 6/22/98)
1973 Jun 25, White House Counsel John Dean began testimony before
Senate Watergate Committee and admitted that President Nixon took part
in the Watergate cover-up.
(HN, 6/25/98)(MC, 6/25/02)
1973 Jun 27, Nixon vetoed a Senate ban on Cambodia bombing.
(HN, 6/27/98)
1973 Jun 27, Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the
Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White
House.
(AP, 6/27/97)
1973 Jun 27, Ernest Truex (73), actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys,
Mr. Peepers), died.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1973 Jun, A Soviet supersonic Tupolev 144 explodes in flight at
the Paris Air Show and crashes into a nearby village, killing the six-man
crew and seven people on the ground.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1973 Summer, Pres. Nixon instituted general wage and price controls.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)
1973 Jul 1, "Jesus Christ Superstar" closed at Mark Hellinger
in NYC after 711 performances.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1973 Jul 2, George Macready (73), actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton
Place), died.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1973 Jul 2, Swede Savage died from injuries at Indianapolis 500.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1973 Jul 4, Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premiered
in London.
(Maggio)
1973 Jul 4, E F Helin discovered asteroid #5496.
(Maggio)
1973 Jul 4, CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market,
formed.
(Maggio)
1973 Jul 4, Leonid Stein (~39), Russian chess player, died.
(MC, 7/4/02)
1973 Jul 6, Otto Klemperer (88), German-US conductor, died in
Zurich.
(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A8)(MC, 7/6/02)
1973 Jul 10, The Bahamas became independent after three centuries
of British colonial rule. The 760-mile chain of hundreds of islands is
off the southeast coast of Florida.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HNQ, 12/15/98)
1973 Jul 16, In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on
Presidential Campaign Activities (the Ervin Committee), former presidential
assistant Alexander Butterfield disclosed to lawyer Donald Sanders (d.1999
at 69) that President Richard Nixon had tape recorded all of his conversations
in the White House and Executive Office Building. Butterfield's revelations
led to Nixon's assertion of executive privilege and his refusal to release
the tapes to the Ervin Committee on July 17 or to special prosecutor Archibald
Cox on July 23. Judge John Sirica ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes
on August 29, an order subsequently upheld by U.S. Court of Appeals on
October 12. When a Nixon "compromise" of release of written summaries of
the tapes was turned down by Cox, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot
L. Richardson and deputy attorney general William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox.
Both refused and resigned. Solicitor General Robert Bork complied with
Nixon's order on Saturday, October 20, resulting in the so-called "Saturday
Night Massacre."
(AP, 7/16/97)(HNQ, 10/15/98)(SFC, 9/28/99, p.A26)
1973 Jul 17, In Afghanistan Zahir Shah was on vacation in Europe,
when his government was overthrown in a military coup headed by Daoud Khan
and PDPA (Afghan Communist Party). He was overthrown by a relative in a
palace military coup and a Republic was ushered in. Zahir Shah fled to
Italy.
(SFC, 9/27/96, p.A12)(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)(WA, 1997,p.737)(www.afghan,
5/25/98)(SFC, 9/22/01, p.A7)
1973 Jul 18, Jack Hawkins (62), actor (Ben Hur, Bridge Over River
Kwai), died.
(MC, 7/18/02)
1973 Jul 20, Bruce Lee (32), [Lee Yuen Kam], martial arts expert
and film actor, died 3 weeks before the opening of his new film "Enter
the Dragon." In 2000 Davis Miller authored "The Tao of Bruce Lee, A Martial
Arts Memoir."
(SFEC, 8/13/00, BR p.4)(SFC, 7/21/03, p.D8)
1973 Jul 21, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" reached the top spot on the
"Billboard" pop-singles chart, becoming Jim Croce’s first big hit. He died
in a plane crash two months later.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1973 Jul 21, The Russian Mars 4 Orbiter braking engine malfunctioned
and it failed to go into orbit around Mars.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1973 Jul 21, The Russian Mars 5 Orbiter was launched.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1973 Jul 21, The Russian Mars 6 Orbiter was launched.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1973 Jul 23, Pres Nixon refused to release Watergate tapes of
conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
(MC, 7/23/02)
1973 Jul 23, Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, died (82).
He and several associates bought Eastern Airlines in 1938 and guided it
to become one of the most profitable airlines in the postwar era.
(HNPD, 10/7/98)(MC, 7/23/02)
1973 Jul, Testifying before the Select Committee on Presidential
Campaign Activities (the Ervin Committee), John Ehrlichman, aide to President
Richard Nixon, asserted that the burglary of anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg's
psychiatrist's office was within the constitutional powers of the president.
The televised committee hearings exposed a wide range of activities, including
a secret White House program of harassment and IRS audits of political
enemies, burglaries, wiretaps, forging of State Department documents, a
secret fund to finance spying and sabotage of Democratic Party primary
campaigns and more that culminated in the House vote for impeachment and
the Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.
(HNQ, 10/9/98)
1973 Jul, W. Frank Barton (d.2000 at 83) co-founded Rent-A-Center
with Tom Devlin (25). In its 1st decade annual sales went from $248k to
$45.2 million. In 1987 the company was sold for $584 million.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.C2)
1973 Aug 7, A U.S. plane accidentally bombed a Cambodian village,
killing 400 civilians.
(HN, 8/7/98)
1973 Aug 8, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies"
reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and
vowed not to resign. He eventually did resign.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1973 Aug 9, The Russian Mars 7 Orbiter and lander failed to go
into orbit around Mars. The lander missed the planet and both went into
solar orbit.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1973 Aug 14, The U.S. "secret" bombing of Cambodia came to a halt,
marking the official end to 12 years of American combat in Indochina.
(AP, 8/14/97)(HN, 8/14/98)
1973 Aug 23, Gen'l. Augusto Pinochet was named commander-in-chief
of the Chilean army by Pres. Salvadore Allende.
(SFC, 3/25/99, p.A3)
1973 Aug 28, Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn
over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1973 Aug 28, Princess Anne became the first member of the British
royal family to visit the Soviet Union when she arrived in Kiev for an
equestrian event.
(RTH, 8/28/99)
1973 Aug 28, More than 520 people died as an earthquake shook
central Mexico.
(AP, 8/28/97)
1973 Aug 29, Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan),
died at 38.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1973 Aug 31, John Ford (78), US film director (Mary of Scotland,
Stagecoach), died.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1973 Aug, In Chile more than a million workers were on strike
demanding that Allende go.
(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)
1973 Sep 1, In Copenhagen, Denmark, the 74-year-old Hafnia
Hotel burned, killing 35.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1973 Sep 2, John R. R. Tolkien, British story writer, died of
ulcer at 81. His work included "The Hobbitt" and the "Lord of the Rings"
trilogy.
(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.B1)(MC, 9/2/01)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby, became the 10th director of the CIA.
(MC, 9/4/01)
1973 Sep 11, Pres. Salvadore Allende of Chile was toppled in a
bloody military coup in Santiago led by 4 commanders: Gen’l Augusto Pinochet,
Admiral Jose Toribio Merino (d.8/31/96), air force Gen’l. Gustavo Leigh
and police director Gen’l. Cesar Mendoza. Allende blew his head off with
an AK 47 given to him by Fidel Castro. The government was taken over by
Gen. Augusto Pinochet and his economic managers dubbed the "Chicago boys,"
for their training at the Univ. of Chicago and belief in free markets.
The first 3 months of fighting claimed 1261 victims.
(WSJ, 12/1/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A23)(WSJ, 10/30/98, p.A19)
1973 Sep 13, Syria and Israel engaged in a dogfight over the Mediterranean
Sea.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1973 Sep 14, Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro
football's blackout.
(MC, 9/14/01)
1973 Sep 20, In their so-called "battle of the sexes," tennis
star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3,
6-3, at the Houston Astrodome.
(AP, 9/20/97)
1973 cSep 20, Charles Horman, a US free-lance journalist, was
killed following arrest by Chilean security forces. In 1999 US intelligence
complicity was reported based on newly declassified material.
(SFC, 10/9/99, p.A14)
1973 Sep 20, Singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash
near Natchitoches, La.; he was 30.
(AP, 9/20/98)
1973 Sep 21, Jackson Pollock's painting "Blue Poles" sold for
$2,000,000.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1973 Sep 21, The U.S. Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be
Secretary of State.
(AP, 9/21/98)
1973 Sep 21, A secret CIA report indicated that severe repression
was planned in Chile and that 300 students were killed in the technical
university when they refused to surrender to the military. The report was
made public in 1999.
(SFC, 7/1/99, p.C3)
1973 Sep 22, "Little Night Music" opened at Majestic Theater on
Broadway.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1973 Sep 22, Henry Kissinger was sworn in as America's 1st Jewish
Secretary of State. First time a naturalized citizen had held this office.
(MC, 9/22/01)
1973 Sep 22, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was dedicated.
It was constructed to accommodate the new jumbo jets.
(Hem., 5/97, p.70)(AP, 9/22/98)
1973 Sep 23, Juan Peron was re-elected president of Argentina
after being overthrown in 1955. His second wife, Isabel, became vice president,
the first woman vice president in Latin American history. She succeeded
him when he died 10 months later.
(AP, 9/23/97)(HN, 9/23/98)(MC, 9/23/01)
1973 Sep 23, Pablo Neruda (b.1904), Chilean Nobel laureate poet,
died of leukemia. One of his last works, "The Book of Questions," was published
in an English translation in 1991. In 2003 Ilan Stavans edited "The Poetry
of Pablo Neruda."
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.2)(WUD, 1994 p.959)(MC, 9/23/01)(SSFC, 8/31/03,
p.M3)
1973 Sep 25, The three-man crew of the U.S. space laboratory Skylab
Two splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in
orbit.
(AP, 9/25/98)
1973 Sep 26, Concorde flew from Washington DC to Paris in 3hr.
33m.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1973 Sep 26, Anna Magnani, Italian actress (Roma, Citt Aperta),
died at 64.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1973 Sep 28, Wystan Hugh Auden (b.Feb 21, 1907), English born
American poet, critic and playwright (Spain, Platonic Blow), died in Austria
after suffering from Touraine-Solente-Gole in which the skin of the forehead,
face, scalp, hands, and feet becomes thick and furrowed. He wrote the libretto
for Benjamin Britten’s first music drama, "Paul Bunyan." In 1999 Edward
Mendelson published "Later Auden," which covered the years 1939-1973.
(HFA, '96, p.22)(AHD, 86)(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-13)(WSJ, 1/8/98,
p.A7)(SFEC, 4/18/99, BR p.3)(MC, 9/28/01)
1973 Fall, Cesar Chavez called an end to the UFW grape strike.
A nationwide boycott of California’s non-union grapes, lettuce and Gallo
wines was stepped up.
(SFEM, 4/13/97, p.8)
1973 Oct 2, Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold
medals, died at 76. [see 1926]
(MC, 10/2/01)
1973 Oct 6, The fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years was fought.
Israel was taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked
on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. The
Yom Kippur War in which Syria tried to regain the Golan Heights with a
massive attack with 1,500 tanks. The assault was repulsed by air power.
(WSJ, 5/6/96, p.A-13)(TL-MB, p.21) (TMC, 1994, p.1973)(AP, 10/6/97)
(HN, 10/6/98)
1973 Oct 10, US Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996), accused
of accepting bribes, pleaded no contest (nolo contendere) to one count
of federal income tax evasion, and resigned his office. Agnew was the first
US Vice President to resign in disgrace and was later convicted and sentenced
to three years probation and fined $10,000. President Richard Nixon named
Gerald Ford as the new VP.
(TMC, 1994, p.1973)(SFC, 9/18/96, p.A7)(AP, 10/10/97)(HN, 10/10/98)(MC,
10/10/01)
1973 Oct 12, President Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald
R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
(AP, 10/12/97)
1973 Oct 12, Juan Peron was again elected president of Argentina.
(MC, 10/12/01)
1973 Oct 12, An Israeli counter offensive began in southern Syria.
(MC, 10/12/01)
1973 Oct 14, Egyptian tanks moved further into Israel.
(MC, 10/14/01)
1973 Oct 15, In Thailand tanks attacked demonstrating students
and 300 were killed.
(MC, 10/15/01)
1973 Oct 16, Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State (1973-77),
and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; however, the
Vietnamese official declined the award.
(AP, 10/16/98)(MC, 5/27/02)
1973 Oct 16, Maynard Jackson was the elected 1st black mayor
of Atlanta.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1973 Oct 16, Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), died
at 64.
(MC, 10/16/01)
1973 Oct 16, Israeli tanks under General Ariel Sharon crossed
the Suez Canal and began to encircle two Egyptian armies.
(HN, 10/16/98)(MC, 10/16/01)
1973 Oct 17, Arab oil-producing nations announced they would begin
cutting back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was
a total embargo that lasted until March 1974 and caused oil prices to quadruple.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(AP, 10/17/97)(WSJ, 7/28/03, p.A8)
1973 Oct 17, In Chile Winston Cabello Bravo (28) and 12 other
political prisoners were shot to death in Copiago. Bravo's body was carved
with a corvo knife. He had been Allende's chief of economic planning in
2 northern regions where copper mines were to be nationalized.
(SFC, 2/3/99, p.A9)
1973 Oct 18, "Raisin" opened at 46th St. Theater NYC for 847 performances.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1973 Oct 18, Congress authorized a bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar
and dollar coin.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1973 Oct 18, Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), died at
60.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1973 Oct 19, President Richard Nixon rejected an Appeals Court
demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
(HN, 10/19/98)
1973 Oct 20, In the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, Pres. Nixon
ordered the dismissal of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney
General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus
refused to fire Cox and resigned. Cox was later dismissed by Solicitor
General Robert Bork.
(AP, 10/20/97)(SFEC, 3/7/99, Z1 p.6)(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A25)
1973 Oct 20, The San Francisco Zebra murders began and lasted
for 179 days. 15 people were killed and 8 wounded by a gang of racial extremists.
four men were convicted in 1976. Police cracked the case in 1974 after
Mayor Alioto personally grilled an informant. Police used a special radio
band, Z for zebra, during their hunt for the killers.
(SFC, 6/21/96, p.E2)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.C6)(SSFC, 10/12/02, p.AD3)
1973 Oct 20, Arab oil-producing nations banned oil exports to
the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
(HN, 10/20/98)
1973 Oct 20, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House.
It was designed by Danish architect Joern Utzon and cost 102 million Australian
dollars, 14 times the original estimate. Utzon left the project in 1966.
In 2000 Utzon was named consulting architect and in 2003 was called back
to redo the interiors.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T4)(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.T12)(WSJ, 10/2/03, p.D10)
1973 Oct 22, Israeli troops reconquered mount Hermon.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1973 Oct 22, The UN Security Council Resolution 338 called for
a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1973 Oct 22, Pablo Casals (96), Spanish cellist, conductor and
composer died in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
(AP, 10/22/98)
1973 Oct 23, President Nixon agreed to turn White House tape recordings
requested by the Watergate special prosecutor over to Judge John J. Sirica.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1973 Oct 23, A U.N. sanctioned cease-fire officially ended the
Yom Kippur war between Israel and Syria.
(HN, 10/23/98)
1973 Oct 24, Heavy fog caused a 65 car collision killing 9 on
the NJ Turnpike.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1973 Oct 24, John Lennon sued the US government to admit FBI
was tapping his phone.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1973 Oct 24, The UN organized a cease fire for the Arab-Israeli
War. Yom Kippur War ended. Israel was 65 miles from Cairo and 26 from Damascus.
[see Oct 22,23]
(TL-MB, p.21)(MC, 10/24/01)
1973 Oct 26, President Nixon released the 1st White House tapes
on Watergate scandal.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1973 Oct 26, Israeli forces reached Suez and trapped the Egyptian
army.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1973 Oct, Tony and Maureen Wheeler produced the first Lonely
Planet travel book from a kitchen table. By 2002 it had 600 titles in print.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T2)(TW, 6/19/02)
1976 Oct, John Dean, White House counsel, pleaded guilty to one
count of conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate scandal and served
3 months in jail.
(SFC, 2/26/99, p.A4)
1973 Oct, A group of military officers toured several cities by
helicopter in northern Chile in a "caravan of death" and had 72 dissidents
dragged from jail and executed. Five high ranking officers, including Gen'l.
Sergio Arellano, were indicted for these executions in 1999.
(SFC, 6/9/99, p.C2)(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A19)(SFC, 4/28/00, p.D4)
1973 Oct, In Turkey the National Salvation won 11.8% of votes
in general elections, winning 48 seats in 450-member Parliament. Party
joined three successive coalition governments from 1974-1977, Erbakan served
as deputy PM.
(AP, 11/4/02)
1973 Nov 1, In the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre, Acting
Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate
special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1973 Nov 3, Good Morning America premiered on ABC (David Hartman
& Nancy Dussault).
(MC, 11/3/01)
1973 Nov 6, Abraham D. Beame (d.2001 at 94) was elected as the
New York city’s 104th and 1st Jewish mayor. He served until 1978.
(SFC, 2/12/01, p.A26)(MC, 11/6/01)
1973 Nov 6, Coleman Young became the first African American mayor
of Detroit, Mich.
(HN, 11/6/98)
1973 Nov 6, The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) assassinated
Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and wounded Robert Blackburn,
his assistant. The SLA warned against a proposed student ID program. Russell
Little and Joseph Remiro were arrested following a shootout in Jan, 1974.
Little’s eventual conviction was reversed in 1979 due to errant jury instructions.
Remiro was sentenced to life in prison.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A13)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A20)(SFC,
11/14/02, p.A17)
1973 Nov 7, Congress overrode President Nixon's veto of the War
Powers Act, which limited a chief executive's power to wage war without
congressional approval. The act allowed Congress to bring troops home within
60 days unless deployment was approved or war was declared.
(AP, 11/7/98)(USAT, 3/24/99, p.5A)
1973 Nov 8, Nevada approved pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1973 Nov 10, In China Henry Kissinger briefed Chou Enlai in the
Great Hall of the People about the Soviets and said that it was in the
interests of the US to prevent a Soviet nuclear attack on China.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A18)
1973 Nov 11, Israel and Egypt signed a cease-fire.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1973 Nov 11, The Soviet Union was kicked out of World Cup soccer
for refusing to play Chile.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1973 Nov 13, Bruno Maderna (53), Italian composer and conductor
(Satyricon), died.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1973 Nov 14, In China Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai agreed to
provide China with satellite intelligence on Soviet military buildup "in
a manner so that no one feels we are allies."
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A18)
1973 Nov 14, Britain's Princess Anne married Capt. Mark Phillips
in Westminster Abbey. However, they divorced in 1992, and Anne re-married.
(AP, 11/14/97)
1973 Nov 15, Egypt and Israel exchanged prisoners of war.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1973 Nov 16, President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure
into law.
(AP, 11/1697)
1973 Nov 16, Skylab 3 carrying a crew of three astronauts, was
launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission.
(HFA, '96, p.18)(AP, 11/1697)
1973 Nov 17, President Nixon told an Associated Press managing
editors meeting in Orlando, Fla., that "people have got to know whether
or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
(AP, 11/17/97)
1973 Nov 17, Greek regime attacked students with tanks and 100s
were killed. The left-wing November 17 terror group took this date for
their name and engaged in over 23 killings through 2002.
(MC, 11/17/01)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A9)
1973 Nov 18, Greek regime called an emergency crisis due to mass
protests.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1973 Nov 19, New York stock market took its sharpest drop in 19
years.
(HN, 11/19/98)
1973 Nov 20, Allan Sherman (48), parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey
& Sheila), died.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1973 Nov 21, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed
the existence of an 18 1/2- minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings
related to Watergate.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1973 Nov 22, Britain announced a plan for moderate Protestants
and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.
(HN, 11/22/98)
1973 Nov 23, Sessue Hayakawa (83), actor (Tokyo Joe, Bridge Over
the River Kwai), died of cerebral thrombosis.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1973 Nov 25, The 55 mph speed limit was imposed.
(HFA, '96, p.42)
1973 Nov 25, Greek President George Papadopoulos was ousted in
a bloodless military coup led by police chief Brigadier Dimitris Ioannides.
Gen'l. Faidon Gizikis was named president. Adamantios Androutsopoulis (d.2000
at 81) was named premier. The dictatorship ended in 1974.
(AP, 11/25/97)(SFC, 6/28/99, p.A19)(SFC, 11/15/00, p.B6)
1973 Nov 25, 3 Palestinians hijacked a KLM B747 above Iraq to
Dubai.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1973 Nov 25, Laurence Harvey (45), actor (Of Human Bondage),
died of cancer.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1973 Nov 26, President Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods,
told a federal court that she'd accidentally caused part of the 18 1/2-minute
gap in a key Watergate tape.
(AP, 11/26/97)
1973 Nov 26, Albert DiSalvo (also DeSalvo), Boston strangler,
was stabbed to death in prison. DeSalvo, the self-admitted Boston strangler,
had been tried and convicted on unrelated assaults. 13 women were killed
in Boston between 1962-1964. DNA evidence was sought in 1999. Susan Kelly
wrote a book in 1995 on the Boston Strangler.
(SFC, 7/10/99, p.A3)(MC, 11/26/01)
1973 Nov 27, Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1973 Nov 27, The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford
as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.
(AP, 11/27/97)
1973 Dec 1, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, died
in Tel Aviv at age 87.
(AP, 12/1/97)
1973 Dec 2, Monica Seles, tennis star (US Open 1992), was born
in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
(MC, 12/2/01)
1973 Dec 3, Pioneer 10 passed Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer
planet).
(MC, 12/3/01)
1973 Dec 5, Paul McCartney released "Band on the Run" album.
(MC, 12/5/01)
1973 Dec 6, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in
as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew, vice president to
President Richard M. Nixon, resigned from his office and pleaded no contest
to one charge of income tax invasion in return for the dropping of all
other charges. Agnew, the only US Vice President to resign in disgrace,
was fined $10,000 and given three year's probation.
(AP, 12/6/97)(MC, 12/6/01)
1973 Dec 13, Britain cut the work week to three days to save energy
supply.
(HN, 12/13/98)
1973 Dec 13, Claude Vorilhon began the Rael movement in France.
While commuting to his job as a sportswriter, he decided to drive past
the office and stop at a nearby volcano in Auvergne. During his stop, Rael
saw the flashing red light of a space ship, which opened its hatch to reveal
a green alien with longish dark hair. Once aboard the spaceship, Rael has
said he was entertained by voluptuous female robots and learned that the
first human beings were created by aliens called Elohim, who cloned themselves.
(Reuters, 12/28/02)
1973 Dec 21, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR leaders
met in Geneva.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1973 Dec 23, 6 Persian Gulf nations doubled their oil prices.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1973 Dec 25, Skylab astronauts took a seven hour walk in space
and photographed the comet Kohoutek.
(HN, 12/25/98)
1973 Dec 26, "The Exorcist," starring Linda Blair, premiered with
an X rating.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1973 Dec 28, Pres. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species
Act. The first list of endangered species contained Gray whales. The Gray
whale was removed from the list in 1994 when the population climbed back
to about 22,000.
(PacDis, Fall/’96, p.24)(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A6)(SFC, 12/28/98, p.A1)
1973 Dec 28, Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago"
in Paris. It was an expose of the Soviet prison system.
(AP, 12/28/97)(WSJ, 12/11/98, p.W15)
1973 Antonio Berni, an Argentine artist, made his mixed media
piece "La Gallina Ciega," (The Blind hen). In 1997 it sold for $607,500.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A9)
1973 Salvadore Dali painted "Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain."
(WSJ, 1/26/00, p.A20)
1973 Ernest Becker authored "The Denial of Death." It reflected
a cultural belief that the denial of death in the US was a pathology responsible
for Western woes from materialism to militarism.
(SSFC, 12/8/02, p.M2)
1973 Raoul Berger (d.2000 at 99), constitutional scholar, authored
"Impeachment," which helped undermine Nixon’s claims for executive privilege.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A25)
1973 Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) won the National Book Award for:
"The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971."
(SFEC, 4/6/97, p.A11)
1973 Erica Jong published her novel "Fear of Flying."
(WSJ, 8/31/98, p.A17)
1973 Primo Levi (1920-1987) authored "The Periodic Table," a memoir
that incorporated many of his experiences at the Auschwitz concentration
camp.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.M1)
1973 Burton Malkiel of Princeton Univ. wrote his influential book:
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street." Here he explained the "efficient market
theory." "A blindfolded monkey throwing darts… could select a portfolio…
as well as… experts."
(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.C1)(WSJ, 4/18/02, p.C1)
1973 James Michener published "A Michener Miscellany."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A12)
1973 Iris Murdoch published her novel "The Black Prince."
(SFC, 2/9/99, p.A20)
1973 Mildred R. Newman (d.2001) and her husband, Dr. Bernard Berkowitz,
authored "How to Be Your Best Friend."
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A22)
1973 Jean Pasqualini (Bao Ruowang) wrote "Prisoner of Mao" with
journalist Rudolph Chelminski. He told of his 7 years in China as a political
prisoner in a labor camp.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A19)
1973 Dilys Powell, film critic for the London Times, authored
"The Villa Ariadne," a history and travel memoir of Crete. It was published
in the US in 2002.
(WSJ, 2/8/02, p.W9)
1973 Thomas Pynchon published his 760-page novel "Gravity’s Rainbow."
(SFEC, 4/27/97, BR p.1)(SFEC, 8/6/00, DB p.39)
1973 Carl Sagan authored "The Cosmic Connection."
(SFEM, 8/22/99, p.13)
1973 Martin Seymour-Smith (d.1998) published "Guide to Modern
World Literature." It was revised and expanded in 1986 as the Macmillan
Guide. He produced over 40 books that included biographies of Thomas Hardy,
Rudyard Kipling and Robert Graves.
(SFEC, 7/20/98, p.A21)
1973 Kevin Starr wrote the first volume of his California State
history: "Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915." The 5th volume
"The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s" was published in 1997.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, BR. p.4)(WSJ, 11/26/97, p.CA4)
1973 George C. Spunt (1923-1996) wrote "When Nature Speaks," a
biography of Forrest C. Shaklee, Sr., founder of the Shaklee Corp. Spunt
also wrote "Memoirs & Menus: Confessions of a Culinary Snob" (1967),
his partial autobiography "A Place in Time" (1968), and "The Step by Step
Chinese Cookbook" (1973).
(SFC, 8/26/96, p.C2)
1973 Daniel Steel published her first novel. By 1998 she had written
70 books.
(SFC, 2/26/98, p.E4)
1973 Andrew Tobias, financial guru, published "The Best Little
Boy in the World" under the pseudonym John Reid. It was a look inside the
gay world.
(SFEC, 10/25/98, Par p.2)
1973 Kurt Vonnegut published his novel "Breakfast of Champions."
(SFEC, 10/18/98, DB p.54)
1973 John Guere’s fantasia "Marco Polo Sings a Solo" was first
directed by Mel Shapiro. It was about a nuclear family on an iceberg off
of Norway in 1999 confronted by a collapsing planet.
(WSJ, 9/30/98, p.A16)
1973 Robert Stigwood produced the musical "Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat."
(WSJ, 8/24/99, p.A1)
1973 Twyla Tharp created her dance piece "Deuce Coupe."
(WSJ, 10/17/96, p.A20)
1973 PBS began its series "An American Family" featuring Pat and
Bill Loud and their 5 children in Santa Barbara, Ca.
(SFC, 1/6/03, p.D1)
1973 The TV "Frugal Gourmet" show began in Tacoma, Wa., with minister
Jeff Smith and then went national on PBS.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.E1)
1973 The TV "Schoolhouse Rock" cartoons began to set educational
messages to catchy music. The animated series ran to 1985.
(SFC, 12/23/00, p.A25)
1973 The TV series "All in the Family" began and ran through 1975.
[see 1971]
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Par p.26)
1973 The TV series "Streets of San Francisco" premiered.
(SFC, 6/3/97, p.B1)
1973 The British TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs," was imported
the US as part of PBS’ Masterpiece Theater.
(SFC, 12/1/01, p.A19)
1973 Eugene Ormandy ended his direction of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
(WSJ, 2/11/99, p.A24)
1973 Nino Rota composed his "Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano."
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.W10)
1973 Conrad Susa composed the opera "Transformations" based on
the 1971 book by Anne Sexton.
(WSJ, 7/2/97, p.A12)
1973 Pink Floyd released their album "Dark Side of the Moon."
It spent a record 591 weeks on the Billboard charts.
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.E1)
1973 The rock group The Who performed the Peter Townshend rock
opera "Quadrophenia" and released the album.
(WSJ, 7/12/96, p.A9)
1973 The tune "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" won the Grammy
best pop instrumental category.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)
1973 David Bowie, rock singer, had a hit with "Life on Mars."
(SFC, 8/9/96, p.D8)
1973 Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show had a hit with their song
"The Cover of the Rolling stone."
(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.12)
1973 Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote the song "Candle
in the Wind" as an ode to Marilyn Monroe on the album "Goodbye Yellow Brick
Road." The song was adopted by Elton John in 1997 for the funeral of Princess
Diana.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.E1)
1973 Maria Muldaur had a hit with her song "Midnight at the Oasis."
(SFEC, 2/8/98, DB p.7)
1973 The Stealers Wheel had a hit with "Stuck in the Middle With
You."
(SFC, 7/7/97, p.E3)
1973 Bill Graham produced a rock festival in Watkins Glen that
featured the Allman Brothers, the Band, and the Grateful Dead. The concert
drew 650,000 people, the single largest paying crowd in concert history.
(SFC,12/13/97, p.A15)
1973 The Kronos Quartet was founded in Seattle by violinist David
Harrington. The original group included, Harrington, violist Hank Dutt,
violinist John Sherba, and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud.
(SFC, 1/22/03, p.D1)
1973 Musica Antiqua Köln was founded by violinist Reinhard
Goebel.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A14)
1973 The US Marine Band turned co-ed.
(WSJ, 1/17/97, p.A11)
1973 William Jefferson Clinton graduated from law school at Yale.
(WSJ, 2/23/99, p.A1)
1973 The twin towers of the World Trade Center were completed
and became the tallest buildings in the world. [see 1970] In 2000 Aric
Darton authored "Divided We Stand," the story behind the building of the
Trade Center; Angus Kress Gillespie authored "Twin Towers," a cultural
history that also covered the engineering challenges overcome by architect
Minoru Yamasaki.
(HT, 5/97, p.28)(WSJ, 1/18/00, p.A24)
1973 The American Psychiatric Assoc. removed homosexual from its
list of disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A28)
1973 Larry Flynt launched his sex magazine "Hustler."
(SFC, 2/21/96, p.D9)
1973 The Whitbread Book awards were established for residents
of Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.E3)
1973 Microbiologist Christopher Hills (1927-1997) founded the
University of the Trees in Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County, an alternative
education and resource center. He also authored some 30 books.
(SFC, 2/10/97, p.A20)
1973 Roy Carson and Ed Dietz founded the Extra Miler Club. Members
sought to visit all of the 3,145 counties of the US. Carson reached his
goal in 1985 but did not have records of proof for the Guinness Book of
Records, so he started over.
(SFEC, 2/22/98, p.T10)
1973 Franklin Cary Salisbury (d.1997 at 86), lawyer and entrepreneur,
formed the National Foundation for Cancer Research with Albert Szent-Györgyi.
It was formerly known as the Bethesda National Foundation of Massachusetts.
(SFC, 3/31/97, p.C2)
1973 The Organization of Chinese Americans was founded.
(SFC, 6/27/96, p.A18)
1973 Ed de la Cruz founded the Pacific American Coalition, the
first national effort to obtain social services and funding for the US
Asian community.
(SFC, 9/16/96, p.A15)
1973 Amnesty Int’l. held its first worldwide conference to abolish
torture. Dr. Leonard Sagan (d.1997 at 69) was the medical reporter at the
conference. Dr. Sagan wrote the book "The Health of Nations: True Causes
of Sickness and Well-Being."
(SFC,12/12/97, p.B12)
1973 The Alaskan 1,159 mile Iditarod dog-sled race was first run
in commemoration of the 1925 dog-sled relay for diphtheria vaccine to Nome..
(Nat. Hist., 3/96, p.34,41)(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D3)
1973 The first Whitbread Round the World Race for yachts was held.
(WSJ, 9/19/97, p.A20)
1973 The first annual Cycle to the Clouds race was held on the
Mt. Washington Toll Rd. in New Hampshire.
(WSJ, 9/4/96, p.A12)
1973 Konrad Lorenz (d.1989), Austrian zoologist, won the Nobel
Prize.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1973 The US and Cuba reached an anti-hijacking agreement.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A8)
1973 Pres. Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev of Russia signed the Bioweapons
Treaty. Months after the signing the Soviet Union created Biopreparat,
an ultra secret biological weapons program that involved laboratories at
a minimum of 47 sites across Russia.
(SFEC, 8/10/97, p.A3)
1973 Pres. Nixon invited Thomas Pappas, a Greek-American businessman,
to the oval office to thank him for money that was used to buy the silence
of the Watergate burglars.
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A3)
1973 Pres. Nixon appointed Daniel Patrick Moynihan ambassador
to India.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A2)
1973 Abba Eban, Israeli foreign minister helped persuade the U.S.
administration of Pres. Richard Nixon to carry out an emergency airlift
of weapons and supplies.
(AP, 11/17/02)
1973 During the OPEC oil embargo oil prices were increased fourfold.
Japan experienced its first oil crises with the Middle East war. The US
experienced a gasoline shortage.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)(WSJ, 6/19/96,
Adv. Supl)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R49)
1973 William Simon (d.2000 at 72) left Wall Street as a bond trader
to serve under Pres. Nixon as Deputy Sec. of the Treasury. He served as
Sec. of the Treasury under Nixon and Ford. From 1977-1980 he served as
treasurer of the US Olympic Committee.
(SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A26)
1973 The providence Journal in Rhode Island revealed that President
Nixon paid less than $1000 in federal taxes for the years 1970 and 1971.
He claimed a $570,000 tax deduction for donating his vice-presidential
papers to the government.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-8)
1973 Ruth Lewis Farkas (1907-1996), was appointed ambassador to
Luxembourg by Pres. Nixon after she and her husband, founder of Alexander’s
department stores, contributed $300,000 to Nixon’s re-election campaign.
(SFC, 10/22/96, p.A18)
1973 The Watergate scandal grew.
(TMC, 1994, p.1973)
1973 Coleman Young was elected the first black mayor of Detroit.
He served 5 consecutive terms and chose not to seek re-election in 1993.
During WW II he served with the Tuskegee Airmen and after the war founded
the National Negro Labor Council. One of his major accomplishments was
the integration of the Detroit police force.
(SFEC,11/30/97, p.C10)
1973 The US Army established its all-volunteer service.
(WSJ, 6/20/97, p.A1)
1973 US military drug problems peaked and an estimated 34 percent
of American soldiers in Vietnam had commonly used heroin.
(HNQ, 12/9/02)
1973 The US Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed. Prof. Kenneth
Norris (d.1998 at 74) helped write the legislation in 1972.
(PacDis, Fall/’96, p.3)(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A22)
1973 The federal Rehabilitation Act with Section 504 was passed
concerning nondiscrimination and affirmative action.
(GEG, 6/97, p.4)
1973 The US Supreme Court ordered the complete desegregation of
the Denver school system.
(SFC, 5/18/99, p.A21)
1973 Montana initiated a ban on homosexual sex.
(SFC, 7/3/97, p.A3)
1973 Supporters of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded
Knee. The FBI was called in and a siege lasted for 69 days with 2 AIM leaders
killed.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)
1973 Abbie Hoffman, "cultural revolutionary," was busted for smuggling
and dealing cocaine. He went underground for 7 years and became the environmental
activist Barry Freed.
(SFC, 12/29/96, BR p.5)
1973 Timothy Leary (d.1996) was captured in Afghanistan and returned
to jail in California. He was pardoned by Gov. Brown in 1976.
(SFC, 2/9/02, p.A22)
1973 Inflation and the energy crises hit the US. The country moved
to a floating exchange rate.
(TMC, 1994, p.1973)(WSJ, 8/15/96, p.A12)
1973 Oil was discovered off the coast of Louisiana at the underwater
site called Eugene Island 330. By 1989 production slowed to 4,000 barrels
from a peak of 15,000 and then suddenly increased and in 1999 produced
13,000 barrels a day. Geologists were unable to account for the source
of the oil.
(WSJ, 4/16/99, p.A1)
1973 Becton Dickinson Corp. built the first fluorescent activated
cell sorter (FACS) instrument from the pioneering work of Prof. Leonard
Herzenberg of Stanford Univ. It was capable of sorting, staining, and counting
cells at speeds of 1,000 cells per sec.
(HBDM, Feb-Mar/95)
1973 Stanley Cohen, Stanford geneticist, and Herbert Boyer of
UCSF co-discovered the basic process of gene-splicing. The discovery was
patented by Stanford and UCSF and resulted in 25 year earnings of more
than $200 million. The technique was discovered in 1974.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(SFC, 3/15/99, p.B1)
1973 The Transamazonica Highway (a.k.a. the Highway of Tears)
was completed. It stretched over 5,000 km. along the southern edge of the
Amazonian plain from the interior town of Rio Branco eastward to Estreito.
(CNT, Nov., 1994, p.20)
1973 Dr. Lubos Kohoutek used a double exposure and discovered
the comet Kohoutek then 370 million miles from earth.
(NG, Aug., 1974, K.F. Weaver p.223)
1973 Carl Sontheimer (d.1998 at 83) introduced his redesigned
Cuisinart at a show in Chicago. The glorified blender had been a product
of the French restaurant supply giant Robot-Coupe since c1963.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)
1973 Spencer Silver of 3M Corp. invented a sticky substance that
was first used by colleague Arthur Fry on paper edges (post-it) to mark
songs in his choir book.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)
1973 Jeff Schell (1935-2003), Belgian microbiologist, succeeded
in altering the genetic structure of the Agro bacterium. He deleted the
genes that governed tumor production.
(SFC, 5/3/03, p.A20)
1973 Researchers Robert Kahn, of the Pentagon’s Advanced Research
Project Agency, and Vinton Cerf, of Stanford Univ., developed a standard
for incompatible networks to send messages and files to one another. It
was a new language called TCP/IP, and it included a way to route data packages
among different kinds of networks. This allowed the Internet to be born.
(WSJ,11/14/94, p.R28)
1973 Dr. Edward Ahrens Jr. was elected to the National Academy
of Sciences. Dr. Ahrens led work from the 1950s that identified the opposite
effects of saturated and unsaturated fats on blood cholesterol.
(SFC, 12/19/00, p.B5)
1973 The gastric brooding frog (Rheobatracchus silus) was discovered
in southeastern Queensland. The female frog swallows her eggs which then
develop in her stomach and come up fully formed from her mouth.
(PacDisc, Spring ‘96, p.8)
1973 The class of 1973 was Princeton’s first coeducational class
and included Lisa Halaby, who became the Queen Noor of Jordan.
(WSJ, 6/5/98, p.W13)
1973 The Endangers Species Act was passed in the US.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.181)
1973 The US government passed the Clean Air Act. It banned the
use of lead in gasoline, but phased the law in over a 22-year period. [see
1992]
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1973 The National Park Service welcomed the first visitors to
Alcatraz.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W39)
1973 The first piece of land to be declared critical habitat was
the Antioch sand dunes at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers in the delta region of central California. Case studies of the are
by Bruce Pavlik indicated that "plants will face reproductive bottlenecks
if the reserves they are nestled in become too small to sustain their animal
mutualists, creatures long associated with particular plants which provide
them their food and shelter."
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.27)
1973 Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. 14,300 elephants were
in the park. By 1980 only 1,400 were left.
(NG, May 1985, R. Caputo, p.627)
1973 David Pelzer (12) was rescued from horrifying family abuse
that included starvation and physical beating. In 1998 his 2 books, based
on his childhood in Daly City, Ca., made the NY Times best-seller list:
"A Child Called It" and "A Lost Boy." His father was a SF fireman and his
mother was a homemaker with 4 other sons who were spared the abuse.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.C1)
1973 Henry Darger, "outsider artist" and janitor, died. He created
art to illustrate his unpublished novel "The Story of the Vivian Girls,
in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angellinian
War Storm." In 2002 John MacGregor authored a 720-page study of Darger.
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A14)
1973 Bobby Darin (37), singer, died.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, Par p.2)
1973 John Ford, film director, died. In 1999 Scott Eyman authored
"Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford." In 2001 Joseph McBride
authored "Searching for John Ford."
(SFEC, 11/14/99, BR p.3)(WSJ, 11/26/99, p.W8)(SSFC, 7/1/01, DB
p.59)
1973 Henry Green (aka Henry Yorke), writer, died. His 1st novel
was "Blindness" and his last novel was published in 1952. In 2001 Jeremy
Treglown authored "Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green."
(SSFC, 3/25/01, BR p.5)
1973 B.S. Johnson, English novelist, committed suicide.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.M1)
1973 Fritz Kredel (b.1900), German-born artist, died. He emigrated
to the US in 1938 and did work in the medieval style of Albrecht Durer.
(WSJ, 11/7/00, p.A24)
1973 Margaret Mead, anthropologist, died. Her work included the
classic "Coming of Age in Samoa." She held the belief that culture was
more important than biology.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, BR p.7)
1973 Gram Parsons (26), rock band leader, died from a drug overdose
at the Joshua Tree Inn. His bands included the Byrds and the Flying Burrito
Brothers with the young singer Emmylou Harris. In 1991 Ben Fong-Torres
published "Hickory Wind," a biography of Parsons. In 1999 the album "Return
of the Grievous Angel - A Tribute to Fram Parson" was released.
(WSJ, 7/18/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.E1)(WSJ, 9/20/99, p.A26)
1973 Ben Webster, tenor saxophone player, died in Amsterdam. A
documentary by Johan van der Keuken was made earlier called: "Big Ben:
Ben Webster in Europe."
(WSJ, 3/2019/98, p.W6)
1973 From Argentina Colonel Cabanillas returned to Italy to oversea
the exhumation of the body of Eva Peron and its return to Buenos Aires.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15)
1973 The Sidney Opera House, designed by Danish architect Joern
Utzon, opened. It cost 102 million Australian dollars, 14 times the original
estimate. Utzon left the project in 1966 and never saw the finished work.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T4)(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.T12)
1973 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, founded Al-Mujamma
Al-Islami (the Islamic Association), an Islamic charity group.
(SFC, 4/25/02, p.A1)
1973 In Australia the government eliminated its White Australia
Policy.
(SFC, 5/9/97, p.E3)
1973 In Bangladesh the Shanti Bahini (Peace Force) guerillas,
mostly members of the Chakma tribe, took up arms after Bangladesh rejected
their demands for autonomy over 5,500 sq.-mile region bordering India and
Burma. They also demanded the removal of more than 300,000 settlers from
their tribal homeland.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A14)
c1973 In Bolivia Pres. Hugo Banzer met with Chilean military authorities.
The Chilean military Operation Condor sought Chilean exiles in Bolivia
and other countries for return to Chile for execution.
(SFEC, 11/29/98, p.A26)
1973 British millionaire Edward Sieff, whose family owns Marks
and Spencers stores in London, was wounded. The attack was attributed to
Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2)
1973 In Chile it was later alleged that the leaders of the Dignity
Colony under Paul Schaefer engaged in sexual abuse and cult-like activity
and helped the Chilean secret police operate a concentration camp after
the military coup.
(SFC, 6/27/97, p.A14)
1973 It was alleged that Chilean navy officers used the tall ship
Esmeralda as a hideaway for interrogation and torture.
(SFC,10/23/97, p.A24)
1973 The Czech government revoked the performance license of The
Plastic People of the Universe band.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, DB p.35)
1973 Denmark instituted a procedure of chemical castration for
sex offenders.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A12)
1973 The European Union (EU) admitted Britain, Ireland and Denmark
even though they made chocolate containing a small percentage of vegetable
fat.
(WSJ, 12/4/97, p.A22)
1973 French wines were re-ranked according to taste, rather than
price, and Mouton Rothschild was elevated to the first rank.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.T4)
1973 In Greece there was an army crackdown on anti-junta student
protesters and at least 37 people were killed.
(SFC,11/13/97, p.A12)
1973 India established a network of tiger reserves. Under Indira
Gandhi 9 national parks were set aside to protect tigers. 14 more were
later added.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A16)(NG, 12/97, p.13)
1973 Iraq launched a biological weapons program.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A18)
1973 Ireland joined the European Community.
(Compuserve, Online Encyclopedia)
1973 Italian Red Brigades kidnapped and held hostage Jean Paul
Getty III, nephew of Gordon Getty. Only after his ear was chopped off and
sent to a Rome paper did his father J. Paul, lend the $1 million ransom.
(SFC, 1/8/95, p.7)
1973 The Japanese Red Army and Lebanese guerrillas hijacked a
Japan Airlines plane over the Netherlands. The passengers and crew were
released in Libya where the hijackers blew up the plane.
(SFC, 11/9/00, p.C2)
1973 In South Korea the government imported live bullfrogs as
a meat supplement. The frogs thrived but did not catch on with diners.
In 1997 a bullfrog eradication program was established.
(WSJ, 9/10/97, p.A14)
1973 Peru outlawed the export of rain forest birds.
(NG, Jan. 94, p.124)
1973 In Poland scientists gathered to celebrate the 500th anniversary
of Copernicus. Cambridge physicist Brandon Carter gave a lecture and coined
the phrase "anthropomorphic principle" to describe to describe the idea
of an intelligent guide at work in the evolution of humans. This is one
item used by Patrick Glynn in his 1997 book: "God: The Evidence" to support
the idea of god with scientific evidence.
(WSJ, 12/23/97, p.A12)
1973 In Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana, a Tutsi, led a military coup
that ousted Kayibanda as president.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A19)
1973 Syria acquired chemical weapons from Egypt just before war
with Israel.
(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.A11)
1973 In Uruguay armed forces overthrew the democratic government
and established a brutal dictatorship.
(SFC, 8/17/00, p.A18)
1973 In Vietnam many of the Nung joined the South Vietnamese army
after American ground forces were withdrawn.
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.A10)
1973-1974 A market collapse was experienced on Wall Street. Warren Buffet
used the market weakness to purchase stocks at attractive values.
(WSJ, 8/18/95, p.C-1)
1973-1978 Clarence M. Kelley (d.1997 at 85), chief of police in Kansas
City, succeeded J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI as a nominee of
Pres. Nixon. He retired in 1978 when pres. Carter selected William Webster
to serve as the director.
(SFC, 8/6/97, p.A14)
1973-1980 In Chile Gen’l. Augusto Pinochet led a dictatorship. He enacted
a constitution that reserved 4 Senate seats for former military commanders
and the national police.
(SFC,12/12/97, p.B6)
1973-1989 Ray Burke, north Dublin, Ireland, Fianna Fail lawmaker, was
accused in 2002 of corruption and taking some $300,000 in payments from
property developers during this period.
(SSFC, 9/29/02, p.F6)
1973-1996 In Brazil the Pastoral Land Commission, a Catholic supported
human rights group, said that there have been 575 murders of rural workers
over this time in the Para state and only three trials. One defendant received
a suspended sentence and the other 2 escaped from jail.
(SFC, 6/26/96, p.A8)
1973-1997 Some 11,000 Laotians were killed or wounded by left over American
bombs.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A19)