Timeline 1973
Return to home
1973 Jan 1, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union)
1973 Jan 2, The United States
admitted the accidental bombing of a Hanoi hospital.
(HN, 1/2/99)
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 million.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_Yankees_season)
1973 Jan 6, “You’re So Vain”
by Carly Simon peaked in the top 10 singles.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1973.htm)
1973 Jan 8, The trial of Watergate
burglars began in Washington, DC. In 2006 Andreas Killen authored “1973
Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties
America.”
(www.watergate.info/chronology/1973.shtml)(SSFC,
4/16/06, p.M3)
1973 Jan 8, Secret peace talks
between the US and North Vietnam resumed near Paris.
(AP, 1/8/98)
1973 Jan 9, All remaining
differences were resolved between Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. President
Thieu, once again threatened by Nixon with a total cut-off of American
aid to South Vietnam, now unwillingly accepts the peace agreement,
which still allows North Vietnamese troops to remain in South Vietnam.
Thieu labels the terms "tantamount to surrender" for South Vietnam.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Jan 10, An empty liquefied
natural gas (LNG) tank in Bloomfield on Staten Island exploded and 40
workers were killed.
(www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrichmo/history.shtml)
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, The Dow Jones
Industrials hit a peak of 1051.70. The market then began a 24 month
decline of 46%.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)
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 (21) was shot a killed by a local patrolman. In 1998
William Loizeaux authored "The Shooting of Rabbit Wells: An American
Tragedy."
(www.amazon.com/Shooting-Rabbit-Wells-American-Tragedy/dp/1559703806)(SFEC,
2/8/98, BR p.5)
1973 Jan 15, Gene Shalit (b.1932)
replaced Joe Garagiola on the Today Show panel.
(www.nndb.com/people/625/000023556/)(http://tinyurl.com/6bzkbm)
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.
(http://tinyurl.com/65npaj)
1973 Jan 16, NBC presented the
440th and final showing of "Bonanza."
(www.tv.com/Bonanza/show/228/summary.html)
1973 Jan 17, The US Public Health
Service linked smoking to fetal and infant risks.
(HN, 1/17/99)
1973 Jan 17, A new Philippine
constitution came into force.
(www.lawphil.net/consti/cons1973.html)
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, claiming the agreement will "end the war and
bring peace with honor."
(AP,
1/23/98)(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Jan 23, Helgafell, an island
of Heimaey, Iceland, erupted for the 1st time in 7,000 yrs.
(www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1702-01=&volpage=var)
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 27, Lt. Col. William B.
Nolde was killed, the last American soldier to die in combat in Vietnam.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Jan 28, A cease-fire
officially went into effect in the Vietnam War. 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."
(AP, 1/28/04)(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(SFEM, 11/10/96,
p.12)(SSFC, 6/3/01, DB p.68)
1973 Jan 29, Emily Howell Warner
(b.1939) became the 1st woman pilot permanently employed by a
commercial airline. Her first flight as co-pilot was on the Frontier
Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter August 1, 1974.
(SSFC, 12/14/03,
p.D2)(http://members.tripod.com/~LAMKINS/Emily_Howell_Warner.txt)
1973 Jan 30, A jury found
Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts.
(www.watergate.info/chronology/1973.shtml)
1973 Jan, Pres. Nixon adopted an
austerity policy as another recession began.
(WSJ, 7/22/98, p.A12)
1973 Feb 2, Crocodile Rock by
Elton John peaked in the top 10 singles.
(http://goodyoldies.com/billboard/1973.htm)
1973 Feb 3, "No, No Nanette"
closed at 46th St. Theater in NYC after 861 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3580)
1973 Feb 5, Juan Corona was
sentenced in Fairfield, Ca., to 25 consecutive life terms for the 25
murders of migrant workers.
(www.trivia-library.com/a/longest-prison-sentences-in-history.htm)
1973 Feb 5, Services were held at
Arlington National Cemetery for Army Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, the
last American soldier killed before the Vietnam cease-fire.
(AP, 2/5/04)
1973 Feb 8, Pres. Nixon appointed
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) ambassador to India.
(SFC, 11/7/98,
p.A2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_India)
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 8, Max Yasgur (53), owner
Woodstock festival farmland, died of a heart attack. In 1969 his dairy
farm was the site of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. He had
offered his land for the festival over the objection of local officials.
(http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/ynames-nf/Yasgur+Max)
1973 Feb 12, Operation Homecoming
began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the
Vietnam conflict took place.
(AP,
2/12/08)(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Feb 13, Musical "El Grande de
Coca-Cola," premiered in NYC. The off-Broadway show closed April 13,
1975
(www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/productions/El_Grande_de_Coca-Cola_8236/)
1973 Feb 14, The US and Hanoi set
up a group to channel reconstruction aid directly to Hanoi. In 1972 the
US 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.
(http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/jmoriello/2008/02/12/This_Week_in_History_Feb)
1973 Feb 15, The US and Cuba
reached an anti-hijacking agreement.
(SFC, 7/9/96,
p.A8)(www.historyofcuba.com/history/time/timetbl4.htm)
1973 Feb 15, The USSR launched
Prognoz 3 at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, to study solar flares.
(www.astronautix.com/craft/prognoz.htm)
1973 Feb 17, President Richard
Nixon named Patrick Gray director of the FBI.
(HN, 2/17/98)
1973 Feb 18, Frank Costello
(b.1891), Italian-born US gangster, died in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Costello)
1973 Feb 19, Joseph Szigeti
(b.1892), Hungarian-born US violinist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Szigeti)
1973 Feb 21, Israeli fighter
planes shot down a Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 over the Sinai
Desert, killing over 100 people.
(AP, 2/21/98)
1973 Feb 22, The United States and
Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices.
(AP, 2/22/99)
1973 Feb 22, Winthrop Rockefeller
(b.1912), two-year term Arkansas Governor (1967-1971), died of cancer.
He was the 4th son of John D. Rockefeller.
(http://archive.rockefeller.edu/bio/winthrop.php)
1973 Feb 22, Elizabeth Bowen
(b.1899), Irish-British novelist and short story writer, died. Her
books included “A Time in Rome” (1959).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen)(WSJ,
6/14/08, p.W10)
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, Claiborne Farm
announced that Triple Crown horse Secretariat had been syndicated for a
then-record $6,080,000, equivalent to 32 shares at $190,000 each.
(http://equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/sports/racing/racing022804/)
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 FBI was called in and a siege lasted
for 69 days with 2 AIM leaders killed. The story is told in the 1996
book "Like A Hurricane, The Indian Movement From Alcatraz to Wounded
Knee" by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior.
(SFC, 6/14/96, p.A19)(AP, 2/27/98)(SFC, 12/30/98,
p.A17)(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.8)
1973 Mar 1, In the Paumanok
Handicap at Aqueduct, NYC, Robyn Smith rode North Star to victory,
becoming the first woman jockey to win a stakes race.
(www.hickoksports.com/calendar/mar01.shtml)
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: US
ambassador Cleo A. Noel (54), deputy George Curtis Moore (47) and
Belgian charge d’affaires Guy Eid (38), in Khartoum, Sudan. Pres. Nixon
refused their demands. The operation was later reported to have been
organized by Yasser Arafat.
(WSJ, 1/10/02,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_diplomatic_assassinations)
1973 Mar 3, In the 15th Grammy
Awards winners included: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” sung by
Roberta Flack.
(www.metrolyrics.com/1973-grammy-awards.html)
1973 Mar 3, "Shelter" closed at
John Golden Theater in NYC after 31 performances.
(www.broadwayworld.com/bwidb/sections/productions/index.php?var=7111)
1973 Mar 3, Japan disclosed its
first defense plan since World War II.
(HN, 3/3/99)
1973 Mar 4, Khalid Duhham
Al-Jawary (b.1947), and possibly others readied cars with bombs in
anticipation of Israeli PM Golda Meir's visit to NYC. The bombs failed
to detonate and were discovered after two cars on Fifth Avenue were
towed. The FBI learned about a third car at JFK and notified police. In
1979 Border police stopped Al-Jawary's car as he and another man tried
to cross into Germany from Austria. In the trunk of the car, police
found 88 pounds of high explosives, electronic timing-delay devices and
detonators hidden in a suitcase. They also unearthed cash and nine
passports inside a portable radio that could be used to monitor
transmissions from ships, airplanes or the police. Germany released
Al-Jawary long before the FBI knew that he had been taken into custody.
In 1991 he was detained in Rome and picked up by the FBI. In 1993 a
jury convict Al-Jawary, just days after the first attack on the World
Trade Center, based on evidence that included his fingerprints on one
of the NYC bombs. In 2009 Al-Jawary was deported to Sudan after
completing only about half his term, including time served prior to his
sentencing and credit for good behavior.
(AP, 1/25/09)(SFC, 2/27/09, p.A5)(WSJ, 3/5/09, p.A6)
1973 Mar 5, During spring training
in Florida, Yankee pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich
announced they had swapped wives.
(www.around-the-horn.com/?p=131)
1973 Mar 5, Paul Kletzki (b.1900),
Polish violinist, composer, conductor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kletzki)
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, Pearl Sydenstricker
Buck (b.1892), author, died. Her books included “The Good Earth”
(1931), for which she won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck)
1973 Mar 7, 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)(http://tinyurl.com/3nxt8d)
1973 Mar 7, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
(1920-1975), 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_general_election%2C_1973)
1973 Mar 7, Dr. Lubos Kohoutek,
Czech astronomer, used a double exposure and discovered the comet
Kohoutek then 370 million miles from earth.
(NG, Aug., 1974,
p.223)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Kohoutek)
1973 Mar 8, In London a bomb
inside a parked car exploded in front of the Old Bailey near Trafalgar
Square. It hurled nearby vehicles into the air, wrecked a pub and
smashed hundreds of windows. Marian Price and her sister Dolores were
among nine people convicted over the bombing, which killed one person
and left almost 200 others injured. Jerry Kelly was convicted of
causing explosions and conspiracy to cause explosions after he planted
four car bombs in London in March 1973.
(AP, 11/17/09)(http://tinyurl.com/yfzl7th)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was shot
at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1973 Mar 12, Argentina held
elections. Pres. Gen’l. Lanusse (1918-1996) called elections and the
Peronists led by Hector Campora (1909-1980) and Vicente Solano Lima
returned to power.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-3/1973-03-12-CBS-8.html)(SFC,
8/27/96, p.A17)(WSJ, 11/14/96, p.A20)
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 14, John McCain, later US
Senator, was released as a POW in Vietnam.
(SSFC, 2/12/06, Par p.12)
1973 Mar 17, Queen Elizabeth II
opened the new London Bridge.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge)
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 21, Dean told Nixon:
"There is a cancer growing on the Presidency."
(http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/amia-l/2000/01/msg00043.html)
1973 Mar 23, US performed a
nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Toggle)
1973 Mar 23, After a 5½
year run, soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ended.
(www.tv.com/love-is-a-many-splendored-thing/show/3273/summary.html)
1973 Mar 23, Yoko Ono was granted
permanent residence in US. John Lennon was given a final order to leave
the US within 60 days, while Yoko was allowed to remain indefinitely.
(http://specialsections.absoluteelsewhere.net/LennonLoreLegacy/nutopia.html)
1973 Mar 25, Edward Steichen
(b.1879), pioneer US photographer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Steichen)
1973 Mar 26, The US soap opera
"The Young and the Restless" premiered.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0069658/)
1973 Mar 26, Ten newly elected
lady members entered the London Stock Exchange on the first working day
since their election took place. The decision to break a time-honored
tradition and introduce equality was announced on 1 February and ended
years of campaigning by women in the financial sector.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/26/newsid_2531000/2531145.stm)
1973 Mar 26, Noel Coward (b.1899),
English gay playwright, died. He was called "The Master" and his work
included "The Vortex," "Hay Fever," "Private Lives," "Brief Encounter"
and "Blithe Spirit." In 1970 he was given knighthood. "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 2007 Barry Day edited “The Letters of Noel Coward.”
(WSJ, 8/15/96, p.A10)(SFEC, 8/25/96, BR p.9)(WSJ,
11/10/07, p.W8)
1973 Mar 27, 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)(www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10910.htm)
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 28, The Irish Navy caught
Joe Cahill (1920-2004) as he tried to smuggle 5 tons of Russian-made
explosives, guns and ammunition from Libya.
(SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)(http://tinyurl.com/5lfwh2)
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 US ambassador to South Vietnam. He was succeeded by Graham
A. Martin.
(AP, 3/30/97)(HN, 3/30/98)
1973 Apr 1, Captain Robert White,
the last known American POW in Vietnam, was released.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Apr 2, CBS radio began on
hour news 24 hours a day.
(http://tinyurl.com/5hvvw4)
1973 Apr 3, In NYC Martin Cooper,
a general manager for Motorola, called rival AT&T making the first
cell phone call using a cell phone the size of a brick.
(SFC, 4/4/08, p.C1)
1973 Apr 5, Pioneer 11, built to
be a backup if Pioneer 10 failed, was launched from Kennedy Space
Center in Florida, on an Atlas-Centaur rocket, on a trajectory similar
to Pioneer 10. After Pioneer 10 completed the first ever successful
encounter with Jupiter, Pioneer 11 was re-targeted, even while it was
flying outward, for an eventual encounter with Saturn after its visit
to Jupiter in December, 1973.
(http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/ThePioneers.html)
1973 Apr 6, Yankee Ron Blomberg
(b.1948) became the 1st designated hitter. He walked.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Blomberg)
1973 Apr 8, Pablo Picasso
(b.1881), Spanish artist, 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 Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and
Douglas Cooper." Picasso’s estate owed so much in death duties that
many of his works fell into government hands. In 2007 John Richardson
authored “A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932.”
(AP, 4/8/97)(SFEC, 1/30/00, BR p.6)(SSFC, 5/20/01,
p.T8)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.99)
1973 Apr 12, Viet Nam and France
officially established diplomatic relations.
(www.mofa.gov.vn/en/nr040807104143/nr040807105001/ns050606140016)
1973 Apr 13, Henry Darger
(b.1892), "outsider artist" and janitor, died in Chicago. He had spent
as many as 40 years working on a 15,000 page novel titled "The Story of
the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal,
of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave
Rebellion. He illustrated the work with some 300 watercolors that were
lifted and recomposed from popular sources. In 2002 John MacGregor
authored a 720-page study of Darger. In 2003 Jessica Wu premiered her
documentary film on Darger, “In the Realms of the Unreal,” at Sundance.
(SFC, 9/20/97,
p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger)(SFC, 1/15/02,
p.A14)(SFC, 12/18/04, p.E1)
1973 Apr 16, Istvan Kertesz
(b.1929), Hungarian-born German conductor, drowned. Kertész was
the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to
1968,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Kert%C3%A9sz)
1973 Apr 21, The song "Tie a
Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
reached the top of the charts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_100_number-one_hits_of_1973_%28USA%29)
1973 Apr 21, Merian C. Cooper
b.1893), film producer, died in San Diego, Ca. His films included “King
Kong” (1933). In 2005 Mark Cotta Vaz authored “Living Dangerously: The
Adventures of Merian C. Cooper.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0178260/)(WSJ, 8/12/05, p.W4)
1973 Apr 26, "Two Gentlemen of
Verona," musical opened in London.
(www.nodanw.com/shows_t/two_gentlemen.htm)
1973 Apr 26, The Chicago Board
Options Exchange (CBOE) was founded.
(www.cboe.com/AboutCBOE/ShowDocument.aspx?DIR=ACNews&FILE=20050426.doc)
1973 Apr 27, Acting FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he had handed over
bureau files on the Watergate burglary to the Nixon White House.
(AP, 4/27/08)
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. Nixon announced that he would nominate Elliot
Richardson as US attorney general to oversee the Watergate
investigation.
(AP, 4/30/97)(HN, 4/30/98)(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A25)
1973 May 3, Chicago's Sears Tower,
the world's tallest building (443 m), topped out. Sears soon moved its
headquarters to the Sears Tower. The building was designed by Bruce
Graham (d.2010 at 84) of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 2009 the
name of the structure was changed to Willis Tower as Willis Group
Holdings, a London-based insurance broker, consolidated its area
offices in the building.
(WSJ, 11/18/04, p.B1)(SFC, 3/9/10,
p.C4)(http://tinyurl.com/dhd3y6)
1973 May 4, The 1st TV network
female nudity appeared in Bruce Jay Smith's Steambath (PBS) with
Valerie Perrine.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0167415/trivia)
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 and Anthony Russo (1936-2008) for their role in the
Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who
cited government misconduct.
(AP, 5/11/97)(SFC, 8/12/08, p.B5)
1973 May 12, In Australia the
northeast town of Nimbin was on the verge of closing when a group of
university students held the Aquarius hippy festival in a nearby
paddock. Many hippies put down roots and build an alternate culture. By
2007 Nimbin's marijuana smoking reputation had become global with
busloads of young foreign tourists.
(Reuters,
4/19/07)(www.milesago.com/Festivals/aquarius73.htm)
1973 May 13, Tennis hustler
Bobby Riggs (1918-1995) beat Margaret Smith Court (b.1942) in a
Mother's Day match in California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Court)
1973 May 14, Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In last aired on NBC-TV.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_&_Martin's_Laugh-In)
1973 May 14, US Supreme court
approved equal rights to females in military.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=411&invol=677)
1973 May 14, The United States
launched the 85-ton Skylab 1, its first manned space station with crew
Kerwin, Conrad and Weitz.
(AP,
5/14/97)(www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/craft/skylab.htm)
1973 May 15, Robert MacNeil and
Jim Lehrer teamed up on NPACT’s coverage of the Senate Watergate
hearings. In 1975 the MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premiered on PBS.
(www.current.org/history/timeline/timeline-1970s.shtml)
1973 May 17, The US Senate began
its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal and the role of Pres.
Nixon.
(HN, 5/17/98)(AH, 10/04, p.16)(AP, 5/17/08)
1973 May 18, Russian party leader
Brezhnev visited West Germany.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-5/1973-05-18-CBS-12.html)
1973 May 18, Jeannette Rankin
(b.1880) of Montana, the 1st US Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), died in
California.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin)
1973 May 20, "The Two Gentlemen of
Verona" closed at St. James Theater in NYC after 613 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Gentlemen_of_Verona)
1973 May 20, In the 25th Emmy
Awards the winners included The Waltons, All in the Family & Mary
Tyler Moore.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Emmy_Awards/1973)
1973 May 22, President Nixon made
a 4,000-word defense of his own actions in the Watergate scandal.
(www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/060373-1.htm)
1973 May 22, Robert Metcalf
(b.1946), at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), circulated a
memo about his Ethernet ideas to PARC colleagues. He later fixed this
day as the birthdate of Ethernet. Metcalf had combined packet switching
from the Arpanet and single wire broadcasting to lay the foundations
for computer networks. Bob Metcalf described ethernet for the 1st time
in a patent memo.
(Econ, 12/12/09, TQ p.23)(SFC, 10/25/00, p.A16)
1973 May 22, In Greece a coup was
planned, but it was put off due to fears and hesitation. The Junta got
wind of the conspiracy, many arrests were made and people were
tortured. The destroyer HNS Velos followed the original alternative
plan in case of failure and sailed to Italy.
(SFC, 6/28/99,
p.A19)(www.greeceindex.com/history-mythology/Greek-Junta.html)
1973 May 25, George Harrison
released "Give Me Love" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Me_Love_(Give_Me_Peace_on_Earth))
1973 May 25, Argentine Peronist
Hector Campora (1909-1980) was installed as president.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Jos%C3%A9_C%C3%A1mpora)
1973 May 26, Jacques Lipchitz
(b.1891), Lithuanian-born, French-US cubist sculptor, died on Capri and
was buried in Jerusalem.
(www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-370321.html)
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)(http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A01251)
1973 May 28, Hans
Schmidt-Isserstedt (b.1900), German composer and conductor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Schmidt-Isserstedt)
1973 May 29, Tom Bradley
(1917-1998) 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.
(http://tinyurl.com/5959o4)
1973 May 29, Eric Applewhite
(b.1896), entertainer, died in Miami. He portrayed the inspector in the
film "Dial M for Murder.
(http://tinyurl.com/5phzym)(http://tinyurl.com/5q59jo)
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)(http://tinyurl.com/56scod)
1973 May, CIA director James R.
Schlesinger (b.1929), in response to the unfolding Watergate scandal,
ordered employees to report activities which might be construed to be
outside the legislative charter of the agency.
(AH, 10/07, p.16)
1973 Jun 1, Paul McCartney &
Wings released "Live & Let Die"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(song))
1973 Jun 1, Harvey Jr. Firestone
(b.1898), American chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., died in
Akron, Ohio.
.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_S._Firestone,_Jr.)
1973 Jun 1, Mary A. Kornman
(b.1915), leading child actress in “Our Gang” (1922-1926) died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kornman)
1973 Jun 3, A Soviet supersonic
Tupelov 144, nicknamed Concordski, exploded in flight at the Paris Air
Show and crashed into a nearby village, killing the six-man crew and
seven people on the ground. The plane beat the French and English
through the sound barrier.
(SFEC, 10/10/99, p.T4)(AP,
7/27/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144)
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 7, Pres. Nixon nominated
Clarence M. Kelley (1911-1997), chief of police in Kansas City, to
succeed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI. Kelley retired in 1978
when Pres. Carter selected William Webster to serve as the director.
(SFC, 8/6/97,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_M._Kelley)
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 9, John Creasey (b.1908),
British mystery writer, died. He authored at least 600 mystery novels
under 28 pseudonyms. His novel Gideon’s Day was turned into the film
“Gideon of Scotland Yard” (1959).
(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.W8)(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/creasey.htm)
1973 Jun 9, Erich von Manstein
(b.1887), one of Hitler’s WW II field marshals, died in Bavaria. In
1958 he authored his autobiography “Lost Victories.”
(WSJ, 10/7/06,
p.P12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein)
1973 Jun 13, Jonas Aistis
(b.1904), Lithuanian born poet, died in Washington, DC.
(www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/11135/Jonas-Aistis)
1973 Jun 18, The NCAA made urine
testing mandatory for participants.
(http://tinyurl.com/588wkr)
1973 Jun 19, Pres. Nixon met with
Russia’s leader Leonid Brezhnev at the White House.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev)
1973 Jun 19, The US Congress
passed the Case-Church Amendment which forbade any further US military
involvement in Southeast Asia, effective August 15, 1973. The
veto-proof vote was 278-124 in the House and 64-26 in the Senate. The
Amendment paved the way for North Vietnam to wage yet another invasion
of the South, this time without fear of US bombing.
(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Jun 19, The stage production
of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opened in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show)
1973 Jun 20, Juan Peron
(1895-1974) returned to Argentina.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Peron)(SFC,
12/24/96, p.A8)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court,
in Miller v. California, ruled that states may ban materials found to
be obscene according to local standards.
(AP, 6/21/08)
1973 Jun 21, The US Supreme Court,
in Keyes v. School District No. 1, ordered the complete desegregation
of the Denver school system.
(SFC, 5/18/99,
p.A21)(http://law.jrank.org/pages/13362/Keyes-v-School-District-No-1.html)
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.
(http://www.watergate.info/chronology/1973.shtml)(HN, 6/25/98)
1973 Jun 26, Former White House
counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an
"enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
(AP, 6/26/07)
1973 Jun 26, Ernest Truex
(b.1889), American stage, film and TV actor, died.
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874139/bio)
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, In Uruguay Juan Maria
Bordaberry (b.1928) dissolved Congress and banned political parties at
the behest of military leaders.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Mar%C3%ADa_Bordaberry)
1973 Jul 1, The rock opera "Jesus
Christ Superstar" closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater on Broadway. It
closed July 1, 1973 after 711 performances.
(www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/1012b-almanac.htm)
1973 Jul 1, The US Army began its
All-Volunteer Force (AVF). Gen. Walter T. Kerwin Jr. (1917-2008) was
the architect of the program.
(www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030701-11.html)(SSFC,
7/20/08, p.B6)
1973 Jul 1, Maryland declared that
only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in the state.
(SFC, 9/19/07, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/5ygqvd)
1973 Jul 2, CIA director James R.
Schlesinger (b.1929), nominated on May 10 by Pres. Nixon, became the
12th US Sec. of Defense.
(www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/schlesinger.htm)
1973 Jul 2, George Macready
(b.1899), American film and TV actor, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Macready)
1973 Jul 2, Swede Savage (b.1946),
American race car driver, died 33 days after suffering injuries at the
Indianapolis 500.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage)
1973 Jul 4, Alan Ayckbourne's
"Absurd Person Singular," premiered in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurd_Person_Singular)
1973 Jul 4, Eleanor F. Helin,
American astronomer, discovered asteroid #5496.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids/5401%E2%80%935500)
1973 Jul 4, The Treaty of
Chaguaramas was signed in Trinidad and established the Caribbean
Community CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market.
(www.axses.com/encyc/caricom/nt/faqs.cfm)
1973 Jul 4, Leonid Stein (b.1934),
Soviet Grandmaster chess player from the Ukraine, died of a heart
attack.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Stein)
1973 Jul 6, Otto Klemperer
(b.1885), German-born conductor and composer, died in Zurich. He had
taken United States citizenship in 1937 and Israeli citizenship in 1970.
(WSJ, 8/20/96,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer)
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 10, Italian Red Brigades
kidnapped and held hostage Jean Paul Getty III (b.1956), nephew of
Gordon Getty. Only after his ear was chopped off and sent to a Rome
paper did his father J. Paul, agree to lend money for a ransom. Getty
senior negotiated a deal and got his grandson back for about $2
million. Paul III was permanently affected by the trauma, and became a
drug addict.
(SFC, 1/8/95,
p.7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty)
1973 Jul 12, Lon Chaney Jr.
(1906), film actor born as Creighton Tull Chaney, died in San Clemente,
Ca. of a heart attack. As requested, his body was donated to USC for
research with hope of helping others.
(www.lonchaney.com/lc5/jr/jrpages/lcjrbiok.html)
1973 Jul 13, In Chile a strike
began that lasted until the September 11 coup. More than a million
workers were on strike demanding that Allende go. American CIA funding
was involved.
(WSJ, 10/30/98,
p.A19)(http://foia.state.gov/reports/churchreport.asp)
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, Zahir Shah
(1914-2007) was on vacation in Europe, when his government was
overthrown in a military coup headed by his relative Daoud Khan and
PDPA (Afghan Communist Party). Zahir Shah fled to Italy where he lived
until his return in 2002. Daoud Khan abolished the monarchy and
declared himself President of the Republic of Afghanistan.
(www.afghan-web.com/history/)(SFC, 9/22/01,
p.A7)(AP, 7/23/07)
1973 Jul 18, Jack Hawkins
(b.1910), English actor, died in London. His films included “Ben Hur”
and “Bridge Over River Kwai.” His autobiography, “Anything For a Quiet
Life,” was published after his death.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hawkins)
1973 Jul 20, Bruce Lee (b.1940),
[Lee Yuen Kam], American-born martial arts expert and film actor, died
in Hong Kong 3 weeks before the opening of his new film "Enter the
Dragon." He was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong. 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee)
1973 Jul 20, Robert Smithson
(b.1938), minimalist land artist, died in a plane crash in Texas while
surveying a site for his Amarillo Ramp project. His work included the
“Spiral Jetty” (1970) on Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
(WSJ, 10/29/05,
p.P16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson)
1973 Jul 20, 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)(www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=1771)
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 on
September 20.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad,_Bad_Leroy_Brown)
1973 Jul 21, Israeli intelligence
mistakenly assassinated Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan living in
Lillehammer, Norway, as part of its retribution for the Sep 5, 1972,
terrorist attack in Munich. He was mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh
(d.1979).
(WSJ, 12/21/05,
p.D10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Bouchiki)
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)(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-047A)
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 24, John Ehrlichman, aide
to President Richard Nixon, appeared before the Senate Watergate
Committee. Testifying before the Select Committee on Presidential
Campaign Activities (the Ervin Committee), Ehrlichman 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)(www.watergate.info/chronology/1973.shtml)
1973 Jul 25, Russia launched its
Mars 5 Orbiter.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-049A)
1973 Jul 26, Peter Shaffer's
"Equus," premiered in London.
(www.bookrags.com/criticism/peter-shaffer-1926_2/)
1973 Jul 27, Eddie Rickenbacker
(b.1890), American WW I fighter pilot, died in Zurich. 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)(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=324)
1973 Jul 28, Bill Graham produced
a rock festival in Watkins Glen, NY, that featured the Allman Brothers,
the Band, and the Grateful Dead. The concert drew some 650,000 people,
the single largest paying crowd in concert history.
(www.superseventies.com/watkinsglen.html)(SFC,12/13/97, p.A15)
1973 Jul 28, Astronauts Alan Bean,
Owen Garriott & Jack Lousma) launched to continue maintenance at
Skylab 3.
(www.astronautix.com/flights/skylab3.htm)
1973 Jul 29, A Greek plebiscite
was held by the ruling dictatorial regime under Georgios Papadopoulos
and resulted in the abolition of monarchy and the establishment of a
Republic.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_plebiscite,_1973)
1973 Jul, W. Frank Barton
(1917-2000) of Kansas 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.
(http://amarillo.com/stories/100200/tex_centerdies.shtml)(SFC, 10/3/00,
p.C2)
1973 Aug 2, A flash fire killed 51
at the Summerland leisure center on the Isle of Man, UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerland_disaster)
1973 Aug 5, Russia launched its
Mars 6 Orbiter.
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1973-052A)
1973 Aug 6, Fulgencio Batista y
Zaldivar (b.1901), former dictator Cuba (1940-58), died in Spain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista)
1973 Aug 7, A US plane
accidentally bombed a Cambodian village, killing 400 civilians.
(HN,
8/7/98)(www.massviolence.org/+-Cambodia-+?id_rubrique=6&artpage=11-18)
1973 Aug 7, Pat Halley
(1950-2007), a Detroit reporter for the Fifth Estate, tossed a pie in
the face of the teenage "Lord of the Universe" at a formal session of
Common Council in protest of the Guru's claim of divinity. A week later
Halley was savagely beaten and almost killed by two devotees of the
Guru Maharaj Ji (15). Halley was released from Detroit General Hospital
on Aug. 21 in good condition after undergoing surgery to repair a
caved-in portion of his skull.
(www.ex-premie.org/pages/fifthestate4.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/2w98lt)
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 8, In Texas Elmer Wayne
Henley (17) called police in the Houston suburb of Pasadena to report a
shooting. The high school dropout said he had killed Dean Corll after
the 33-year-old electric company employee threatened to rape and kill
Henley and two other teenagers who had gone to party at Corll's modest
bungalow. By night's end 8 corpses were recovered from makeshift graves
inside the corrugated metal shed in southwest Houston. The next day 9
more were discovered. Another 10 bodies were found on remote High
Island beach, 80 miles east of Houston, and in a wooded area near Lake
Sam Rayburn in East Texas. 27 dead Some as young as 13, none older than
21, were all victims of one killer, Dean Corll, and his two teenage
accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. The boys had
seemed to vanish over the previous three years. In July, 1974, Henley
was convicted in six of the murders and sentenced to six life terms in
prison.
(AP, 6/8/08)
1973 Aug 8, Secret agents of the
Korean Central Intelligence Agency kidnapped Kim Dae-jung from a Tokyo
hotel, just days before he was to launch a coalition of Japan-based
South Korean organizations to work for their country's democratization.
Conservative politician Kim Jong Pil (b.1926), the father of the secret
police agency, led the kidnapping and near assassination of politician
Kim Dae Jung (b.1925). In 2007 a fact-finding panel of the National
Intelligence Service said it cannot rule out the possibility that
former President Park Chung-hee may have directly ordered the
kidnapping of Kim, then his main political rival.
(AP, 10/24/07)(SFC,12/15/97,
p.B1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-pil)
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 13, Pres. Nixon
instituted general wage and price controls. Phase IV controls went into
effect for the general economy and lasted until Economic Stabilization
Program (ESP) expired on April 30, 1974.
(WSJ, 11/4/96,
p.C1)(www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/432.html)
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 17, Conrad Aiken
(b.1889), American Pulitzer winning poet and novelist, died.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caiken.htm)
1973 Aug 18, Gene Krupa
(1909-1973), drummer, played for the final time with Benny Goodman
Quartet.
(www.drummerman.net/)
1973 Aug 19, In Santa Cruz, Ca.,
Herbert Mullin (b.1947) was declared guilty of first-degree murder in
the cases of Jim Gianera and Kathy Francis, because they were
premeditated, while for the other eight murders he was found guilty of
second-degree murder because they were more impulsive. His story was
later told by Donald T. Lunde and Jefferson Morgan in “The Die Song: A
Journey in the Mind of a Mass Murderer.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Mullin)
1973 Aug 21, Teamster's Union and
AFL-CIO's United Farm Workers' union came to a settlement with regard
to organizing grape growers in California. In response 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)(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-8/1973-08-21-ABC-16.html)
1973 Aug 22, Henry Kissinger
(b.1923), German-born American bureaucrat, succeeded William Rogers as
Secretary of State under Pres. Nixon. He continued in office until 1977.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)
1973 Aug 22, Chile’s Chamber of
Deputies issued its “Declaration of the Breakdown of Chile’s
Democracy.” It accused Pres. Allende of violating laws.
(www.pensionreform.org/icpr/eys/declaration.html)
1973 Aug 23, The Intelsat 4 F-7
communications satellite was launched at Cape Canaveral.
(www.astronautix.com/craft/intlsat4.htm)
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 23, A bank
robbery-turned-hostage standoff began in Stockholm, Sweden; by the time
the crisis ended, the four hostages had come to empathize with their
captors, an occurrence that came to be known as "Stockholm Syndrome."
(AP, 8/23/07)
1973 Aug 25, France
performed a nuclear test at Muruora Island.
(www.atomicforum.org/france/1973.html)
1973 Aug 25, Zambia adopted
a constitution.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Zambia)
1973 Aug 26, The Univ. of Texas at
Arlington became the 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing.
(www.celebratetoday.com/celebrate.html)(http://tinyurl.com/696e4t)
1973 Aug 28, Abbie Hoffman
(1936-1989), "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)(www.bookrags.com/biography/abbie-hoffman/)
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.
(www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_August_28.php)
1973 Aug 28, More than 600 people
died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
(AP, 8/28/08)
1973 Aug 29, Judge John Sirica
ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon
refused and appealed the order.
(www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-history-nixon.htm)
1973 Aug 29, Michael Dunn
(b.1934), American dwarf actor, died in London.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0242692/)
1973 Aug 31, John Ford (b.1894),
US film director, died. He directed some 140 films including “Mary of
Scotland” (1936) and “Stagecoach” (1939).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford)
1973 Sep 1, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, the 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burned, killing 35.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=44yFsCt3z7Q)
1973 Sep 2, John R. R. Tolkien,
British story writer, died of ulcer at 81. His work included "The
Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. In 2007 his son
Christopher Tolkien edited “The Children of Hurin,” compiled from notes
and material left by his father.
(WSJ, 7/15/96, p.B1)(Econ, 4/21/07, p.94)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby
(1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1973 Sep 8, The first Whitbread
Round the World Race for yachts began at Portsmouth, England.
(WSJ, 9/19/97,
p.A20)(www.solarnavigator.net/history/whitbread_round_the_world_race.htm)
1973 Sep 10, A second version of
the TV game show “Concentration” was syndicated, with Jack Narz as
host. It ran through September 8, 1978.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_(game_show))
1973 Sep 10, Muhammad Ali defeated
Ken Norton in a heavyweight boxing match and avenged a loss to Norton
the previous March.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali)
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 Guzman (d.1999 at 79) 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. The air
force bombarded the presidential palace to put down resistance by
Allende and a small group of followers.
(WSJ, 12/1/95, p.A-10)(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A23)(WSJ,
10/30/98, p.A19)(SFC, 9/30/99, p.A31)
1973 Sep 13, Israel shot down 12
Syrian aircraft to1 Israeli loss when IAF jets were attacked during a
reconnaissance mission over Syrian territory.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/intel73.html)
1973 Sep 14, Pres Nixon signed
into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout.
(www.profootballhof.com)
1973 Sep 15, Victor Jara (b.1932),
one of the best-known members of Latin America's "New Song" folk
movement, died. He had been arrested after the Chilean military coup
that overthrew Allende and taken to a soccer stadium used as a
detention camp. Court papers indicate Jara was tortured, his hands
smashed with rifle butts, and then was shot to death. In 2008 a court
charged retired Col. Mario Manriquez in the case, saying he was
"responsible" for the death. In 2009 Jara’s body was exhumed for a
proper autopsy. Army draftee, Jose Paredes, later described the murder
and named the officers he said were responsible. Paredes told
interrogators that a lieutenant known as "El Loco," the Crazy One, held
Jara against a dressing room wall and played Russian roulette until a
bullet blasted through the singer's skull.
(AP,
5/15/08)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Jara)(AP, 11/26/09)
1973 Sep 17, Charles Horman, a US
free-lance journalist, was arrested by Chilean security forces. His
body was found months later. In 1999 US intelligence complicity was
reported based on newly declassified material. Horman and Frank Teruggi
worked for a newsletter that reprinted articles and clippings from
American newspapers critical of US policy. Teruggi was also killed. The
1982 film "Missing" was based on their story. In 2003 retired security
officer Rafael Gonzalez (64) became the 1st person formally charged for
the murder.
(SFC, 10/9/99, p.A14)(SFEC, 2/13/00, p.A19)(AP,
12/11/03)
1973 Sep 18, Sondheim’s "A Little
Night Music" moved to the Majestic Theater on Broadway.
(www.sondheimguide.com/night.html)
1973 Sep 18, Australia abolished
the death penalty.
(SFC, 1/9/02, p.A8)(http://tinyurl.com/6bbah5)
1973 Sep 19, Gram Parsons (26),
rock band leader, died from a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn, Ca.
His bands included the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers with the
young singer Emmylou Harris. Phil Kaufman hijacked Parson’s body and
burned it in Joshua Tree. 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. In 2006 the
film documentary “Fallen Angel” was produced.
(WSJ, 7/18/97, p.A13)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.E1)(WSJ,
9/20/99, p.A26)(SFC, 6/9/06, p.E5)
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. In
2005 Selena Roberts authored “A Necessary Spectacle,” an account of the
match.
(AP, 9/20/97)(SSFC, 8/14/05, p.F2)
1973 Sep 20, Jim Croce (b.1943),
American singer-songwriter, died in an airplane crash near
Natchitoches, La., just as he was beginning to capitalize on his
success. Maury Muehleisen and four others also died as their plane
crashed into a tree while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce)(AP, 9/20/98)
1973 Sep 21, The painting "Blue
Poles" by Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) sold for $2,000,000 to the
Australian National Gallery.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_Australia)
1973 Sep 21, The US Senate
confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State under Pres. Nixon.
(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, Henry Kissinger
(b.1923), German-born American bureaucrat, was sworn in as America's
1st Jewish Secretary of State, the 1st time a naturalized citizen held
this office. In 2009 Alistair Horne authored “Kissinger: 1973, The
Crucial Year.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger)(Econ,
7/11/09, p.85)
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 22, In Chile Michael
Woodward (42), a suspended priest, died. He had been taken into custody
by security forces in the port city of Valparaiso on Sep. 16, 1973.
Woodward was allegedly tortured with other detainees on at least two
navy ships used as detention centers. In 2008 retired admirals Sergio
Barros, Guillermo Aldoney and Adolfo Walbaum and retired navy captains
Sergio Barra and Ricardo Riesgo were indicted for the kidnapping and
torture of Woodward and other members of leftist groups.
(AP, 4/18/08)
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)
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." In 2004 Matilda Urrutia’s “My Life With Pablo Neruda” was
translated into English.
(SFEC, 6/25/00, BR p.2)(WUD, 1994 p.959)(SSFC,
8/31/03, p.M3)(SSFC, 10/31/04, p.M4)
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, The US federal
Rehabilitation Act with Section 504 was passed concerning
nondiscrimination and affirmative action. It took effect in May 1977.
(www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov/Documents/ycr/REHABACT.HTM)
1973 Sep 26, Concorde flew from
Washington DC to Paris in 3hr. 33m.
(www.concordesst.com/02.html)
1973 Sep 26, Anna Magnani
(b.1908), Academy Award winning Italian actress, died in Rome.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Magnani)
1973 Sep 29, 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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden)(WSJ,
1/8/98, p.A7)(SFEC, 4/18/99, BR p.3)
1973 Sep, In San Francisco several
hundred singles took part in the “first national singles convention”
held at the jack Tar Hotel.
(SFC, 10/31/09, p.C4)
1973 Sep, Gen. Jaafar Nimeiri,
Sudan’s military ruler, introduced Islamic Sharia law.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/350170.stm)
1973 Oct 1, An East German border
order to border guards from the Ministry for State Security, or Stasi,
said: “Do not hesitate with the use of a firearm, including when the
border breakouts involve women and children, which the traitors have
already frequently taken advantage of." The order was made public in
2007.
(AP, 8/11/07)
1973 Oct 2, Paavo "Flying Finn"
Nurmi (b.1897), Finnish runner, died. He won a total of 9 Olympic gold
medals and 3 silver medals between 1920 and 1928.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi)
1973 Oct 3, The Providence Journal
in Rhode Island ran a story by journalist Jack White (1942-2005) that
revealed Pres. Nixon and his wife paid just $793 in income taxes in
1970 and $878 in 1971 and received tax refunds totaling over $131,000.
Nixon claimed a $570,000 tax deduction for donating his
vice-presidential papers to the government. Nixon later agreed to pay
$476,000 in back taxes.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-8)(SFC, 10/13/05, p.B7)
1973 Oct 3, Sierra Leone’s
President Stevens engineered the creation of the Mano River Union, an
economic federation of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Guinea joined in 1980.
(http://tinyurl.com/58uymq)
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 6, In Chile Andres
Pereira was arrested, assassinated and thrown into the sea. He was
considered disappeared until his death was confirmed in a 2001
government report.
(SFC, 1/9/01, p.A15)
1973 Oct 9, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
(b.1915), pioneering gospel singer and recording artist, died. She
became the first great recording star of Gospel music in the late 1930s
and also became known as the "original soul sister" of recorded music.
In 2007 Gayle F. Wald authored “Shout, Sister, Shout: The Untold story
of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe)(AH, 10/07, p.68)
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)
1973 Oct 12, The ballet
“Remembrances” by Robert Joffrey (1930-1988) premiered in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/3nxhm3)
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
inaugurated as president of Argentina.
(http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-10/12/Columns/In%20History.htm)
1973 Oct 14, US Air Force
"Operation Nickel Grass" began resupply missions to Israel for a full
month, until November 14.
(www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_ykwar_course.php)
1973 Oct 14, In Thailand thousands
demonstrated against the military dictatorship and some 77 people were
killed.
(www.prachatai.com/english/news.php?id=531)
1973 Oct 14, In Turkey the CHP
replaced the AP as the most popular party, although it did not achieve
a parliamentary majority. The CHP and MSP formed a coalition government
under Bulent Ecevit. The National Salvation won 11.8% of votes in
general elections, winning 48 seats in the 450-member Parliament.
(http://tinyurl.com/4hkxfc)(AP, 11/4/02)
1973 Oct 15, Russell E. Train, the
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, announced final
transportation control measures to lower air pollution levels in
several of the nation's largest cities. The action marked a final step
in developing the transportation controls required under the Clean Air
Act of 1972, although several urban plans were yet to be finalized.
(www.epa.gov/history/topics/caa70/10.htm)
1973 Oct 15 Israeli tanks under
General Ariel Sharon crossed the Suez Canal and began to encircle two
Egyptian armies.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War)
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)(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html)
1973 Oct 16, Maynard Jackson
(1938-2003) was the elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta.
(www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/jackson-jr-maynard-1938-2003)
1973 Oct 16, Gene Krupa (b.1909),
US jazz and big band drummer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Krupa)
1973 Oct 16,
In Norway the Christian Democrat government of Lars Korvald
(1916-2006) resigned as the socialists won a majority in parliamentary
elections.
(AP, 7/4/06)
1973 Oct 16, OPEC, the Arab
oil-producing nations, announced they would begin cutting back on oil
exports to Western nations and Japan. The next day, the five Arab
members of the OPEC committee were joined in Kuwait by the oil
ministers of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, and Syria. The result was
a total embargo that lasted until March 1974 and caused oil prices to
quadruple. 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) (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv.
Supl)(www.harvardir.org/articles/1659/)(AP, 10/17/97)(WSJ, 7/28/03,
p.A8)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R49)
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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin_(musical))
1973 Oct 18, Congress authorized a
bicentennial quarter, half-dollar and dollar coin.
(http://tinyurl.com/6q449j)
1973 Oct 18, Walt Kelly (b.1913),
US comic strip artist, died. He was notable for his comic strip Pogo
featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp
in Georgia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly)
1973 Oct 18, Leo Strauss (b.1899),
German-born political theorist, died. Strauss, who arrived in the US in
1937, contended that Western civilization draws strength from the
unresolved contest between reason and revelation. His books included
“Liberalism: Ancient and Modern,” a collection of essays, “Natural
Right and History,” “Persecution and the Art of Writing,” and “Thoughts
on Machiavelli.”
(WSJ, 9/15/07,
p.W10)(www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Leo_Strauss)
1973 Oct 19, President Richard
Nixon rejected an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
(HN, 10/19/98)
1973 Oct 19, Peter Townshend and
The Who, an English rock group, released the rock opera album
"Quadrophenia."
(WSJ, 7/12/96, p.A9)
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 built on Bennelong Point. 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)(Econ, 7/15/06, p.83)
1973 Oct 22, Israeli troops
reconquered Mount Hermon from Syria. The UN Security Council Resolution
338 called for a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War. The UN Security
Council issued Resolution 338 calling for a ceasefire and the start of
negotiations aimed at implementation of Resolution 242.
(http://tinyurl.com/5m3oom)(http://tinyurl.com/4s8kua)
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, In the Yom Kippur War
Syria announced it had accepted a UN sanctioned cease-fire, and the
Iraqi government ordered its forces home.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War)
1973 Oct 24, On the NJ Turnpike
heavy fog caused collisions killing 11 people.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-10/1973-10-24-ABC-14.html)
1973 Oct 24, John Lennon sued the
US government to admit FBI was tapping his phone.
(http://tinyurl.com/4xox8x)
1973 Oct 24, The UNSC passed
Resolution 339, serving as a renewed call for all parties to adhere to
the cease fire terms established in Resolution 338. Organized fighting
on all fronts ended by October 26.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War)
1973 Oct 25, Pres. Nixon put U.S.
troops on high alert for just under a week to show the Soviet Union
that America would not allow it to send forces to aid Arab states
fighting Israel.
(AP, 1/1/04)
1973 Oct 26, President Nixon
released the 1st White House tapes on Watergate scandal.
(http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2000/10/msg00210.html)
1973 Oct, Tony and Maureen
Wheeler produced the first Lonely Planet travel book, "Across Asia on
the Cheep," from a kitchen table in Australia. By 2002 it had 600
titles in print.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.T2)(SSFC, 1/18/04, p.C3)
1973 Oct, The US National Park
Service welcomed the first visitors to Alcatraz Island.
(www.alcatrazcruises.com/website/history-national-park.aspx)
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. In 2004 Gen. Gonzalo
Santelices, head of the Santiago army garrison, resigned amid
accusations that he was involved in the “Caravan of death.” Santelices
acknowledged that as a young lieutenant he followed orders and
transferred 14 prisoners from a jail in northern Chile to a desert area
where they were executed by firing squad. In 2008 retired Gen. Sergio
Arellano was sentenced to six years in prison for the killing of five
dissidents in the helicopter tour.
(SFC, 6/9/99, p.C2)(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A19)(SFC,
4/28/00, p.D4)(AP, 2/4/08)(AP, 10/16/08)
1973 Oct, In Israel 4 conservative
parties, Gahal, Free Centre, State Party, and the Eretz Yisrael
movement formed Likud. Menachim Begin became its first leader. Ariel
Sharon helped found the Likud Party. He quit the party in 2005 in order
to head a new centrist party called Kadima (Forward).
(Econ, 11/26/05,
p.57)(http://i-cias.com/e.o/likud.htm)
1973 Oct, Thailand’s King Bhumibol
Adulyadej sheltered pro-democracy demonstrators from the military
dictators they were seeking to overthrow. The generals who were in
power saw it was time to exit. A student-led uprising ousted 3 military
figures who had ruled Thailand for much of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Thanom Kittikachorn (d.2004) was ousted in a popular uprising. The
military ruler of Thailand had helped the US during the Vietnam War.
(AP, 12/19/05) (AP, 6/17/04)(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A12)
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 1, In India the state of
Mysore was renamed Karnataka.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka)
1973 Nov 6, Coleman Young
(1918-1997) was elected the first African American mayor of Detroit,
Mich. 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)(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_23_98/ai_67185237)
1973 Nov 6, Abraham D. Beame
(1906-2001) was elected as the New York city’s 104th and 1st Jewish
mayor. He served until 1978.
(SFC, 2/12/01,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Beame)
1973 Nov 6, The Symbionese
Liberation Army (SLA) assassinated Marcus Foster, the 1st black
superintendent of the Oakland school district, 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 Feb
28, 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, Partly in response to
the Vietnam debacle, the US Congress passed the War Powers Resolution
requiring the President to obtain the support of Congress within 90
days of sending American troops abroad. 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)(www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1969.html)
1973 Nov 10, In China Henry
Kissinger (b.1923) briefed Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) 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.
(www.amichai.com/war/process/73talks.html)
1973 Nov 11, The Soviet Union was
kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2481)
1973 Nov 13, Brian Stanley Johnson
(b.1933), British avant-garde novelist, died by suicide. In 2005
Jonathan Coe authored “Like a Fiery Elephant: The story of B.S.
Johnson.”
(SFC, 7/7/05,
p.E1)(www.geocities.com/SoHo/9145/johnson.htm
1973 Nov 13, Bruno Maderna (53),
Italian composer and conductor (Satyricon), died in Germany.
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Maderna-Bruno.htm)
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 15-1973 Nov 22, Egypt and
Israel exchanged prisoners of war.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/pows.html)
1973 Nov 16, President Nixon
signed the Trans Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law. Oil
companies formed a consortium that gave British Petroleum 50.1% control
of the pipeline.
(www.alyeska-pipe.com/Pipelinefacts/Chronology.html)(AH, 10/04, p.43)
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.
(SFC, 7/5/02,
p.A9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Polytechnic_Uprising)
1973 Nov 18, The Greek regime
called an emergency crisis due to mass protests.
(www.athensinfoguide.com/history/t9-97-7polytechnic.htm)
1973 Nov 19, Saudi Arabia, Libya
and other Arab states proclaimed a total ban on oil exports to the
United States. Gasoline prices quadrupled from twenty-five cents per
gallon to over one dollar. The New York stock market took its sharpest
drop in 19 years.
(HN,
11/19/98)(www.bullnotbull.com/archive/market-01222006.html)
1973 Nov 20, Allan Sherman
(b.1924), American musician, parodist and producer, died. He was the
creator and original producer of the popular “I've Got a Secret” from
1952 to 1958.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sherman)
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
(b.1889), Japanese film and TV actor, died in Tokyo of cerebral
thrombosis. His films included “Tokyo Joe” and “Bridge Over the
River Kwai.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa)
1973 Nov 25, Pres. Nixon called
for a ban on Sunday gasoline sales.
(http://dotlibrary.dot.gov/Historian/chronology.htm)
1973 Nov 25, Albert 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)(www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1108915/)
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, Three Palestinians
hijacked a KLM B747 enroute to New Delhi to Abu Dhabi.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/incidents.html)
1973 Nov 25, Laurence Harvey
(b.1928), film actor, died in London of cancer. He was an Academy
Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and
American films.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Harvey)
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 27, Neil Simon's "Good
Doctor," premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Doctor_(play))
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 Nov 28, Arab League summit in
Algiers recognized Palestine.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/arabsum73.html)
1973 Nov 30, John Dean (b.1938),
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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dean)
1973 Dec 1, David Ben-Gurion (87),
Israel's first prime minister (1948-1953 and 1955-1963), died in Tel
Aviv.
(AP,
12/1/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion)
1973 Dec 2, Monica Seles, tennis
star (US Open 1992), was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Seles)
1973 Dec 3, Pioneer 10 passed
Jupiter in the 1st fly-by of an outer planet.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10)
1973 Dec 5, Paul McCartney
released his "Band on the Run" album.
(www.amazon.com/Band-Run-Paul-McCartney-Wings/dp/B000002UCL)
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
evasion 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)(SFC, 12/27/06, p.A11)
1973 Dec 7, Paul McCartney and
Wings released the album "Band on the Run."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_on_the_Run)
1973 Dec 8, In Chile soldiers shot
Argentine primary school teacher Bernardo Lejderman and Maria Avalos, a
Mexican citizen, in front of their 2-year-old child. In 2007 a retired
general and two former sergeants were fined and sentenced to 10 years
in prison for killing the leftist couple, and were ordered to pay
$600,000 to Ernesto Lejderman, the son of the slain couple.
(AP,
12/19/07)(www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/chile/chile_1993_pt3_ch1_a2_e.html)
1973 Dec 10, Amnesty Int’l. held
its first worldwide conference to abolish torture. Dr. Leonard Sagan
(d.1997 at 69) was the medical reporter at the Paris conference. Dr.
Sagan wrote the book "The Health of Nations: True Causes of Sickness
and Well-Being" (1987). Amnesty International had launched its first
worldwide campaign for the abolition of torture in 1972.
(http://tinyurl.com/4epdxk)(SFC,12/12/97,
p.B12)(www.amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/history)
1973 Dec 10, In Italy the
personnel chief of Fiat was kidnapped and held for 8 days.
(WSJ, 12/13/07, p.A18)
1973 Dec 10, North Korea and India
established diplomatic ties.
(AFP, 2/7/06)(http://tinyurl.com/4vzdbf)
1973 Dec 13, Britain cut the work
week to three days to save energy supply.
(HN, 12/13/98)
1973 Dec 13, Claude Vorilhon,
former French race car driver, 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,
Vorilhon 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, he said he was entertained by voluptuous female robots and
learned that the first human beings were created by aliens called
Elohim, who cloned themselves. Vorilhon said that he was instructed to
take the name Rael and spread the news that humans were placed on Earth
by extraterrestrials who had engineered our DNA. In 1997 Rael founded
Clonaid, a company dedicated to cloning people. In 2001 the Raelian
movement numbered about 55,000 members world-wide.
(WSJ, 8/24/01, p.W14)(Reuters, 12/28/02)
1973 Dec 20, Bobby Darin (b.1936),
singer, died during open heart surgery in LA.
(www.history-of-rock.com/bobby_darin.htm)
1973 Dec 20, ETA killed PM Adm.
Luis Carrero Blanco with a bomb in Madrid.
(AP, 3/22/06)
1973 Dec 21, Israel, Egypt, Syria,
Jordan, US and USSR leaders met in Geneva. The Geneva Conference of
1973 was an attempt to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli
conflict as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 338 which was
passed after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conference_(1973))
1973 Dec 24, The US Congress
passed the Home rule Act, which allowed residents of Washington DC to
elect a mayor. Walter Washington was elected in 1974.
(WSJ, 10/28/03, p.A1)(Econ, 9/16/06,
p.41)(www.abfa.com/ogc/hrtall.htm)
1973 Dec 24, The MGM Grand in Las
Vegas opened to the public.
(www.vegas4visitors.com/museum/mgmgrand.htm)
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.
(http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800062915/info)
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 Dec 30, 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)(http://tinyurl.com/59cvcn)
1973 Antonio Berni (1905-1981),
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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Berni)
1973 Salvador Dali (1904-1989),
Spanish artist, painted "Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain."
(WSJ, 1/26/00,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD)
1973 Ernest Becker (1924-1974),
cultural anthropologist, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Becker)
1973 Raoul Berger (1901-2000),
constitutional scholar, authored "Impeachment," which helped undermine
Nixon’s claims for executive privilege.
(SFC, 9/27/00, p.A25)
1973 Timothy Crouse authored “The
Boys on the Bus,” an account of the press pack covering the 1972
presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon and George McGovern.
(WSJ, 12/1/07,
p.W10)(www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a3133.asp)
1973 Mary Daly (1928-2009), Boston
College professor and feminist theologian, authored “Beyond God the
Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation.”
(SSFC, 1/10/10, p.C10)
1973 Dr. Collin H. Dong (d.1998 at
94) and Jane Banks authored "The Arthritic’s Cookbook."
(SFC, 4/1/98, p.C2)
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 Shaun Herron (1912-1989),
Ireland-born author, authored “The Whore-Mother,” a novel about the
Troubles in Northern Ireland.
(WSJ, 10/28/06,
p.P12)(www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/herron_s.shtml)
1973 Dr. Mary C. Raugust Howell
(1932-1998) contributed to the women’s medical guide: "Our Bodies,
Ourselves." The book arose out of a 35-cent, 136-page booklet called
Women and Their Bodies, published in 1970 by the New England Free
Press, and written by 12 Boston feminist activists.
(SFC, 2/6/98,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Bodies,_Ourselves)
1973 Erica Jong (b.1942), American
author, published her novel "Fear of Flying."
(WSJ, 8/31/98,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Jong)
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 (b.1932) 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 (1907-1997),
American author, published "A Michener Miscellany."
(SFC,10/17/97,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Michener)
1973 Richard and Christina Milner
authored “Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps.” The book was
the product of an anthropological study regarding both the lifestyles
and subculture of San Francisco Bay Area pimps and their prostitutes.
(www.amazon.com/Black-players-Secret-World-pimps/dp/0316574112)
1973 Iris Murdoch (1919-1999),
Irish-born author, published her novel "The Black Prince."
(SFC, 2/9/99,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch)
1973 Mildred R. Newman (1920-2001)
and her husband, Dr. Bernard Berkowitz, authored "How to Be Your Best
Friend."
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/4e22d9)
1973 Jean Pasqualini (1926-1997)
authored "Prisoner of Mao" with journalist Rudolph Chelminski. He told
of his 7 years in China as a political prisoner in a labor camp. He was
born in Beijing to a Corsican father and Chinese mother, Mr. Pasqualini
was educated in French and British schools in Tianjin and Shanghai. His
Chinese name was Bao Ruowang.
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A19)(http://tinyurl.com/4oc5vw)
1973 Dilys Powell (1901-1995),
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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilys_Powell)
1973 Thomas Pynchon (b.1937),
American author, published his 760-page novel "Gravity’s Rainbow."
(SFEC, 8/6/00, DB
p.39)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon)
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 Gene Sharp (b.1928), Boston
based scholar, authored his 902-page “Politics of Nonviolent Action.”
Following a 1992 trip to Burma (Myanmar) he authored “From Dictatorship
to Democracy,” a 90-page work that offered a list of 198 methods of
nonviolent action. His writings impacted political action in numerous
dictatorial regimes.
(WSJ, 9/13/08, p.A10)
1973 Dr. June Singer (d.2004)
authored "Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology."
(SFC, 2/6/04, p.A25)
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 Hassan Turabi, Sudanese
scholar, authored "Women in Islam and Muslim Society."
(www.soundvision.com/Info/women/turabi.asp)
1973 Kurt Vonnegut published his
novel "Breakfast of Champions."
(SFEC, 10/18/98, DB p.54)
1973 John Weaver (d.2002) authored
"Los Angeles: El Pueblo Grande."
(SFC, 12/7/02, p.A25)
1973 Alan Ayckbourn (b.1939),
English playwright, created his 3-part play “The Norman Conquests.”
(WSJ, 1/4/07,
p.W7)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Norman_Conquests)
1973 The fantasia "Marco Polo
Sings a Solo," by American playwright John Guare (b.1938), 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Guare)
1973 Robert Stigwood (b.1934),
Australian-born impresario, produced "Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat," a musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber. It had been
first performed in 1968 at the Old Assembly Hall, Colet Court,
Hammersmith, England.
(WSJ, 8/24/99,
p.A1)(www.andrewlloydwebber.com/theatre/joseph.php)
1973 Twyla Tharp (b.1941) created
her dance piece "Deuce Coupe."
(WSJ, 10/17/96,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyla_Tharp)
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 “Viva Alegre,” a bilingual
and bicultural TV show for children, premiered on PBS. It was produced
by Claudio Guzman (1928-2008).
(SFC, 7/18/08, p.B8)
1973 The TV "Frugal Gourmet" show
began in Tacoma, Wa., with minister Jeff Smith (1939-2004) and then
went national on PBS.
(SFC, 7/30/01,
p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Smith_(TV_personality))
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 (1899-1985)
ended his direction of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
(WSJ, 2/11/99,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Ormandy)
1973 Nino Rota (1911-1979),
Italian composer, composed his "Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano."
(WSJ, 3/5/99,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Rota)
1973 Conrad Susa (b.1935),
American composer, 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 tune "Also Sprach
Zarathustra (2001)" won the Grammy best pop instrumental category.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)
1973 David Bowie (b.1947), English
rock singer, had a hit with "Life on Mars."
(SFC, 8/9/96,
p.D8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie)
1973 Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
completed his "Concerto for Organ and Percussion."
(http://peermusicclassical.com/composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=harrisonessay)
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 (b.1947), English
singer and pianist, 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)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John)
1973 The Grateful Dead hit gold
with their album “The Adventures of Panama Red.”
(SFC, 1/13/05, p.B6)
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 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 The Pointer Sisters of
Oakland, Ca., released their first album. June Pointer died in 2006 at
age 52.
(SFC, 4/13/06, p.B7)
1973 The US Marine Band turned
co-ed.
(WSJ, 1/17/97, p.A11)
1973 The twin towers of the World
Trade Center were completed and became the tallest buildings in the
world. The World Trade Center was completed at a cost of $350 million.
The twin 110-story towers housed 55,000 employees working for 350
firms. 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)(SFC, 9/12/01,
p.A6)
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 Mary Rowe, ombudsman at MIT,
coined the term “microinequities” to identify subtle putdowns, snubs,
dismissive gestures and sarcastic tones that can snub motivation.
(WSJ, 12/7/04, p.B1)
1973 The Financial Accounting
Standards Board (FASB) was founded as a private, not-for-profit
organization, whose primary purpose is to develop generally accepted
accounting principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public's
interest.
(WSJ, 1/14/08,
p.R2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Accounting_Standards_Board)
1973 Herbert Leibowitz, Manhattan
literary critic and college professor, founded Parnassus, a poetry
journal. In 2007 he planned his last issue.
(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.D12)
1973 Larry Flynt launched his sex
magazine "Hustler."
(SFC, 2/21/96, p.D9)
1973 Christopher Hills
(1926-1997), English-born microbiologist, founded the University of the
Trees in Boulder Creek in Santa Cruz County, Ca., an alternative
education and resource center. He also authored some 30 books.
(SFC, 2/10/97,
p.A20)(www.answers.com/topic/university-of-the-trees)
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 A white supremacist group was
founded and became active in 22 states. The group followed "The White
Man's Bible," which preached "racial holy war" (rahowa). In 2004
Matthew Hale (32), head of Chicago-based Hale's World Church of the
Creator, was found guilty of trying to have a federal judge killed.
(SFC, 4/27/04, p.A4)
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 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 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 (1903-1989),
Austrian zoologist, won the Nobel Prize.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz)
1973 Leo Esaki (b.1925), [Esaki
Reona], Japanese-born physicist, won the Nobel Prize.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Esaki)
1973 Patrick White (1912-1990),
British-born Australian, won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(AP,
10/8/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_White)
1973 Abba Eban (1915-2002),
Israeli foreign minister, helped persuade the US administration of
Pres. Richard Nixon to carry out an emergency airlift of weapons and
supplies.
(AP,
11/17/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Eban)
1973 US military drug problems
peaked this year. An estimated 34 percent of American soldiers in
Vietnam had commonly used heroin.
(HNQ, 12/9/02)
1973 Montana initiated a ban on
homosexual sex. In 1997 this was ruled unconstitutional.
(SFC, 7/3/97,
p.A3)(www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?id=3977)
1973 Marvin Zindler (1922-2007),
TV reporter, pressed Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe to close the Chicken
Ranch brothel. His crusade eventually led to the Broadway show and
film: “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
(SFC, 7/30/07, p.B8)
1973 Bananas, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to supporting families in northern Alameda
County, Ca., was founded.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.E1)
1973 BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
opened a station in downtown Walnut Creek, Ca.
(SFC, 7/17/06, p.B5)
1973 The Glen Park BART station
opened at 2901 Diamond St. in San Francisco. It was designed by Ernest
Born with Corlett and Spackman in a style called “Big-boned Brutalism.”
(SFC, 5/26/00, Wb p.8)(SSFC, 10/4/09, p.C2)
1973 In SF the revolving bar
opened atop the new Embarcadero Hyatt Regency Hotel.
(SFC, 3/28/01, Food p.5)
1973 Poet Jack Hirschman arrived
in SF from Los Angeles.
(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A15)
1973 Michel Tilson Thomas and Edo
de Waart made their conducting debuts with the SF Symphony.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.46)
1973 Jose Carreras made his SF
Opera debut in "La Boheme."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.46)
1973 Michael Smuin became the
associate artistic director of the SF Ballet with Lew Christensen. They
collaborated on a new "Cinderella."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.46)
1973 The SF Blues Festival began.
(SFEC, 3/2/97, DB p.45)
1973 Mel’s Diner at Mission and
South Van Ness was used in the George Lucas film "American Graffiti"
set in c1962.
(SFC, 5/19/96,Mag, p.27)
1973 Jazz saxophonist Joe
Henderson moved to San Francisco.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, DB p.32)
1973 In SF Freedom West Homes, the
largest private-development of low to moderate income housing, was
begun under Rev. J. Austell Hall. It covered the 4 blocks between
Gough, Laguna, Fulton and Golden Gate Ave.
(SFEC, 6/14/98, p.B3)
1973 In SF the owners of the
Martin Luther King-Marcus Garvey Square housing complex failed to pay
their bills and the complex was taken over by HUD.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A11)
1973 In SF the Jewish Vocational
Service was founded to assist recent college graduates of the Jewish
community who could not find jobs. it was soon expanded into a
nonsectarian employment service.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A9)
1973 Ed Callan (d.2009 at 88), San
Francisco stockbroker, formed Callan Associates, a
performance-measurement firm for pension funds.
(SFC, 4/2/09, p.B6)
1973 The SF pub Liverpool Lil’s
began operating at 2942 Lyon St.
(SFCM, 9/2/01, p.5)
1973 Solar Light Books began
business in SF.
(SFEC, 12/13/98, Z1 p.5)
1973 In SF the Washington Square
Bar & Grill, aka "The Washbag," opened in North Beach under Sam
Deitch (d.2002 at 73) and Ed Moose. Deitch and Moose sold the operation
in 1990. It closed for new ownership in 2000. Rose Evangelisti (d.1998
at 90) retired from the Pistola Saloon on Powell St. and the place
became the Washington Square Bar and Grill.
(SFC, 9/15/98, p.A22)(SFC, 3/18/00, p.A17)(SFC,
2/5/02, p.A19)
1973 The Haas-Lilienthal family
donated their Haas-Lilienthal House at 2007 Franklin St. to the
Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.D5)(SFC, 10/16/07, p.D9)
1973 The Albion Brewery was
declared a SF historical landmark.
(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A19)
1973 SF Mayor Alioto appointed
George Chinn to the Board of Supervisors. He was the first Asian
American to serve on the board.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A13)
1973 Alfred J. Nelder (d.2002 at
87), former SF police chief, was elected to the Board of Supervisors
and served 2 terms.
(SFC, 1/4/02, p.A26)
1973 Santa Clara County, Ca.,
bought 2,455 acres of the New Almaden mine land and named it the
Almaden Quicksilver Equestrian Park.
(SSFC, 12/22/02, p.A26)
1973 In SF the Pacific Coast Stock
Exchange was renamed the Pacific Stock Exchange.
(SFC, 7/24/98, p.B1)
1973 In SF a group of black police
officers filed a discrimination suit against the city to establish a
truly integrated police force.
(SFC, 10/10/97, p.A17)
1973 The National Park Service
began conducting tours at Alcatraz.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W39)(SFC, 10/18/02, p.E2)
1973 Dorothy Turner Everett
(1932-2007) started a barbecue business in Oakland, Ca., that grew to
become the Everett & Jones chain of barbecue restaurants.
(SFC, 10/12/07, p.B11)
1973 The Good Guys, a retail store
home entertainment products, was founded in Alameda, Ca. In 2003 the
chain of 71 stores in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington was
sold to CompUSA. In 2005 CompUSA announced the closure of Good Guy
stores in California and Hawaii due to waning demand.
(SFC, 10/6/05, p.C1)
1973 In SF Walter Shorenstein sold
his Int’l. Hotel property to the Four Seas Investment Corp., owned by
Supacit Mahaguna, a Bangkok liquor baron, for $850,000.
(SFC, 6/8/01, WBa p.6)
1973 American President Lines
moved from SF to the port of Oakland. The line became a subsidiary of
Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines in 1997.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.B1)
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 In Marin County, California,
Sylvia Siegel (1918-2007) founded “Toward Utility Rate Normalization”
(TURN), a consumer group to battle utility prices increases.
(SFC, 8/21/07, p.B5)
1973 Count Robert Jean de Vogue,
French chairman of Moet-Hennessey, purchased 350 acres in Yountville
for his new winery that debuted as Domaine Chandon in 1977.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, Z1 p.16)
1973 Dun-Rite, a Fresno, Ca.,
maker of a pop-up timer for roasting turkeys, was sold to 3M Co. of St.
Paul, Minn. In 1982 3M sued the Volk Enterprises, another Fresno maker
of pop-up timers developed by Tony Volk. A few years later a settlement
was negotiated. In 1991 Volk acquired 3M’s pop-up business.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A1)
1973 Albert S. Samuels died. He
owned the SF jewelry store at 856 Market St. where a 20-foot-tall clock
had marked time since 1943, except for 1967-1970 when BART was under
construction. The clock had marked his original store since 1915. The
clock stopped working around 1990 and in 2000 was restored.
(SFC, 11/18/00, p.A1)
1973 Ralph Stackpole, SF sculptor,
died.
(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2)
1973 Oregon set rules limiting
urban sprawl.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.35)
1973 Crystal Lee Sutton
(1940-2009) was fired for her pro-union activities at a J.P. Stevens
textile plant in North Carolina. The 1979 film “Norma Rae” was based on
her story. In 1974 the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile workers Union
won the right to represent 3,000 employees at seven Roanoke Rapids
plants in North Carolina.
(SFC, 9/15/09, p.C4)
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 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 The market for traded
uncertainty came into being with the publication of a paper by Myron
Scholes (b.1941) and Fischer Black (1938-1995). Black and Scholes
published the paper “The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities”
in The Journal of Political Economy. This famous work included the
Black-Scholes equation.
(Econ, 7/24/04,
p.67)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Black)
1973 Reginald Harold Jones
(d.2003) took over as the 7th head of General Electric, based in
Fairfield, Conn., succeeding Fred Borch (1967-1972). Jones was followed
by John Welch Jr. (1981-2001).
(SFC, 1/2/04, p.A18)
1973 Dorothy Turner Everett
(1932-2007) started a barbecue business in Oakland, Ca., that grew to
become the Everett & Jones chain of barbecue restaurants.
(SFC, 10/12/07, p.B11)
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. They spliced the DNA of one bacteria into another and
cultivated a new organism. The discovery was patented by Stanford and
UCSF and resulted in 25 year earnings of more than $200 million.
Recombinant DNA technology soon led to Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMOs) in food products.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/24/04, p.W6)
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 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 The first Magnetic Resonance
Image was published and the first study performed on a human took place
on July 3, 1977. Lawrence E. Crooks and Jerome Singer, professors at UC
in SF and Berkeley, invented Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
technology along with about 20 other univ. employees.
(SFC, 12/2/97,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Resonance_Imaging)
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 Dr. Akira Endo of Japan
discovered the 1st anticholesterol statin from a mold that grows on
oranges. By 2006 the statin market reached $25 billion a year.
(WSJ, 1/9/06, p.A1)
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 William Jefferson Clinton
graduated from law school at Yale.
(WSJ, 2/23/99, p.A1)
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 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 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 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 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 Abu Dhabi and other oil
producers had a massive surge in revenue following an oil-price surge.
(WSJ, 10/21/05, p.A10)
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 In Australia the government
eliminated its White Australia Policy, an immigration policy which
favored applicants from certain countries.
(SFC, 5/9/97,
p.E3)(www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/hotwords/hottext.php?id=78)
1973 The Univ. of Art and
Industrial Design in Linz was founded was established.
(StuAus, April '95, p.83)
1973 A new constitution
established a Bahrain national assembly.
(SFC, 12/25/00, p.B2)
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)
1973 The Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) was founded in Brussels.
After September 11, 2001, it was used by the US to track terrorist
financing.
(WSJ, 6/23/06,
p.A1)(www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=1243)
1973 Bolivia’s 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 The Arab oil embargo doubled
Brazil’s import bill with a year.
(Econ, 11/14/09, SR p.5)
1973 The Whitbread Book awards
were established for residents of Britain and the Republic of Ireland.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.E3)
1973 A British law said the
yardstick for judging business behavior was the “public interest.”
(Econ, 2/17/07, p.78)
1973 Lord Lambton (1922-2006),
British undersecretary of defense for the Royal Air Force, resigned
after he was photographed smoking marijuana in bed with two prostitutes.
(AP, 1/2/07)
1973 Hans Gruneberg (1907-1982),
British geneticist, began paying attention to a bundle of nerve cells
in mammalian noses that came to be called the Gruneberg ganglion. In
2009 Swiss scientists said research had shown that the bundle in mice
was used to detect alarm pheromones in other mice.
(SSFC, 3/8/09, Par
p.12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gr%C3%BCneberg)
1973 British Honduras legally
changed its name to Belize.
(SFC, 11/2/00, p.A12)
1973 In 2006 Chile’s
government-owned La Nacion newspaper reported that at least 22
dissidents, who disappeared under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet, were killed at the secretive German commune-like Dignity
Colony and their bodies later burned with chemicals. 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.
(AP, 7/23/06)(SFC, 6/27/97, p.A14)
1973 Chile’s secret police took
over a mansion in Santiago that had served as the Spanish Embassy in
the 1950s. In 2006 the mansion reopened as the Salvador Allende
Solidarity Museum.
(SSFC, 2/26/06, p.F8)
1973 Chilean navy officers
allegedly 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 Juan Bosch resigned from the
Dominican Revolutionary Party, founded by exiles in Cuba, and formed
the moderate Dominican Liberation Party.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D6)
1973 In Ethiopia the Oromo
Liberation Front (OLF) was formed to seek greater autonomy for Oromia
region.
(AFP, 11/10/06)
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 A Frenchman invented a
standard Eurobarometer poll to show how various member countries agreed
and disagreed. The first poll was published in 1974.
(Econ, 2/23/08,
p.72)(http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/standard_en.htm)
1973 Antoine Riboud (1918-2002)
merged his glassware company BSN with the dairy business Gervais
Danone, creating Danone, the biggest food group in France. The group
stopped making glass in 1981.
(http://tinyurl.com/7zxts)(Econ, 11/19/05, p.70)
1973 German film director Rainer
Werner Fassbinder made "Martha," based on a story by American writer
Cornell Woolrich.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.E3)
1973 Musica Antiqua Köln was
founded by violinist Reinhard Goebel.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.A14)
1973 Germany shut the door to new
guest workers, who were mostly Turks, which encouraged migrants to
import their families.
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.32)
1973 India began Project Tiger and
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)(http://projecttiger.nic.in/introduction.htm)
1973 Iraq launched a biological
weapons program.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A18)
1973 Italian tire maker Pirelli
introduced steel-belted radial tires.
(Econ, 2/27/10, TQ p.5)
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 Kikkoman became the first
Japanese food company to open a factory in America.
(Econ, 4/11/09, p.68)
1973 In Kenya the Undugu Society
was founded to help needy children. In 2006 children on the streets of
Nairobi numbered in the tens of thousands.
(AP, 7/1/06)
1973 Montana Wines introduced
grapevines to the Marlborough region of New Zealand pushing out the
garlic that had been the area’s hallmark crop.
(SFC, 4/11/08, p.F4)
1973 The Dutch government built
the Van Gogh Museum.
(Econ, 1/21/06, p.81)
1973 North Korea made a filmed
version of the 8-act opera "The Flower Girl" and showed it across China.
(WSJ, 2/23/99, p.A20)
1973 Kim Jong il, son of North
Korean leader Kim Il Sung, authored “On the Subject of the Cinema.” A
collection of his reviews, titled “The Art of Cinema,” was published in
2001.
(http://slate.msn.com/id/2073123/)
1973 Kashmir Singh (b.1941) was
arrested for espionage in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. His cover
story was that he was a trader in electronic goods traveling on
business. During his trial in the 1970s, Singh had repeatedly denied he
was an agent for Indian military intelligence. Following his release in
2008 he admitted that he had been a spy.
(AP, 3/8/08)
1973 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
(1937-2004), Palestinian co-founder of Hamas, founded Al-Mujamma
Al-Islami (the Islamic Association), an Islamic charity group.
(SFC, 4/25/02,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yassin)
1973 Paraguay’s Pres. Stroessner
led a $20 billion joint venture with Brazil to build Itaipu, at this
time the world’s largest hydroelectric dam.
(SFC, 8/17/06, p.A10)
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 Fossils of 190 million year
old dinosaur embryos were unearthed in South Africa. They belonged to a
plant-eating group called prosauropods named Massospondylus (bulky
vertebrae) first discovered in 1854.
(SFC, 7/29/05, p.A2)
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 Chung Ju-yung (1915-2001),
North Korea-born founder of Hyundai (1947), founded Hyundai Heavy
Industries, a South Korean ship builder. It grew to become the world’s
largest ship builder.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ju-yung)
1973 Canadian Judy Feld Carr
established a network to help Syrian Jews, barred from traveling, to
leave the country clandestinely. Over the next 28 years she helped over
3,000 Jews leave Syria.
(SSFC, 6/28/09, p.A8)
1973 In Swaziland political
parties were banned and a state of emergency was declared.
(Econ, 2/18/06, p.48)
1973 Syria acquired chemical
weapons from Egypt just before war with Israel.
(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.A11)
1973 In Uganda some 14,300
elephants were in the Murchison Falls National Park at this time. By
1980 only 1,400 were left.
(NG, May 1985, p.627)
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 The Vietnam War (1959-1973)
resulted in the death of 58,153 (58,167) Americans, 1.1 [1.2] million
North Vietnamese and Southern resistance fighters (Viet cong), and 2
million civilians. In 2002 the book "War Torn: Stories of War From the
Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam" was published. The reporters
included Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edie Lederer,
Ann Moriano, Anne Merrick, Laura Palmer, Kate Webb, and Tracy Wood.
(WSJ, 11/30/95, p.A-23)(SFEM, 11/10/96, p.12)(SFC,
10/3/97, p.B14)(SSFC, 9/1/02, p.M3)
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)
1973-1974 Britain experienced a secondary-banking
crises after too much lending to property developers helped cause
London’s worst year of the 20th century.
(Econ, 10/13/07, p.83)
1973-1974 Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905-1974)
served as the 4th president of Ireland.
(SFC, 4/9/96,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Hamilton_Childers)
1973-1974 In Pakistan sporadic fighting between the
Baluchi insurgency and the army started in 1973. The largest
confrontation took place in September 1974 when around 15,000 Balochs
fought the Pakistani Army and the Air Force.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baloch_Insurgency_and_Rahimuddin's_Stabilization)
1973-1975 Alan Davidson served as the British
ambassador to Laos.
(WSJ, 11/12/99, p.W13)
1973-1979 Some 15,000 Balochi men, women and children
were killed by the Pakistan army and the Frontier Corps.
(www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050124/nation.htm)
1973-1980 Gen’l. Augusto Pinochet led a 17-year
dictatorship. He enacted a constitution that reserves 4 Senate seats
for former military commanders and the national police. Under his rule
the Chilean military Operation Condor was begun where Chilean exiles in
Bolivia and other countries were sought for return to Chile for
execution. Some 3,000 people were killed or disappeared during
Pinochet’s rule. In 2004 John Dinges authored "The Condor Years: How
Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents."
(SFC,12/12/97, p.B6)(SFEC, 11/29/98, p.A26)(SSFC,
2/14/04, p.M6)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.52)
1973-1985 In Uruguay a dictatorship during this
period resulted in least 26 victims officially missing, according
to an armed forces report released in 2005. In 2009 Uruguay's ruling
party planned to pay $17.4 million in reparations to victims of state
oppression during this period.
(AP, 8/13/09)
1973-1989 In north Dublin, Ireland, Ray Burke, a
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)
1973-1990 Chile’s National Information Center was the
secret police agency under Gen. Pinochet. It was headed by Gen. Hugo
Salas.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.A13)
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
during this period by left over American bombs.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A19)
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