July 1973

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The following events occurred in July 1973:

July 1, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.
  • The British Library is established.[1]

July 2, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • The United States Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.
  • After having published issues on Saturday since its inception in 1925, The New Yorker magazine publishes its first Monday issue, which has since been its practice.
  • Match Game '73, the first and most successful revival of the NBC game show, debuts on CBS. Gene Rayburn, like the NBC version, was the host.
  • Died: Betty Grable, 56 American actress (lung cancer)[2]

July 3, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

July 4, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

  • Don Powell, the drummer of British pop group Slade, is critically injured in a car crash in Wolverhampton; his 20-year-old girlfriend is killed. Powell recovered after surgery, and was able to join the band ten weeks later in New York, to record "Merry Xmas Everybody".

July 5, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The Isle of Man Post begins to issue its own postage stamps.
  • A catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in Kingman, Arizona, US, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.[citation needed]
  • The 5th International Mathematical Olympiad opens in Moscow.

July 6, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore is gazetted as a national monument.
  • The James Bond film Live and Let Die is released in British cinemas, with the spy played by 45-year-old The Saint star Roger Moore.[5]
  • Died: Joe E. Brown, 81, American comic actor; Otto Klemperer, 88, German conductor and composer

July 7, 1973 (Saturday)[]

July 8, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • During the 1973 Campionato Italiano Juniores at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy, three racing motorcyclists, Renzo Colombini (aged 30), Renato Galtrucco (aged 36) and Carlo Chionio (aged 26), are killed.
  • Born: Daniel Lipšic, Slovak politician, in Bratislava
  • Died: Wilfred Rhodes, 95, English cricketer[7]

July 9, 1973 (Monday)[]

July 10, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

July 11, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

  • A fire breaks out in a lavatory aboard Varig Flight 820, a Boeing 707-345C. Smoke fills the cabin, and many passengers have died of smoke inhalation by the time the plane crashes during an attempt to make an emergency landing in a field in Orly commune in France. The fire, smoke, and crash kill 123 of the 135 people on board; among the dead are the president of the Senate of Brazil, Filinto Müller, and the Olympic sailor Jörg Bruder. The 12 survivors include 11 crew members, among them the captain; he will die in the disappearance of a Varig cargo plane in 1979.

July 12, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The British cruise liner SS Canberra runs aground off Grenada, West Indies. After three days, she is re-floated and returned to service.[9] During the re-floating process, a towline snaps and smashes through the on-board laundry, hitting crew member Rozario Gomes in the face; he is killed.
  • 1973 National Archives Fire: A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Died: Lon Chaney, Jr., 67, American actor

July 13, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • President of Argentina Héctor José Cámpora resigns to allow the return to power of Juan Perón.
  • Queen is the debut studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on Friday July 13, 1973 by EMI Records in the UK and by Elektra Records in the US.
  • Died: Willy Fritsch, 72, German actor

July 14, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • The 1973 British Grand Prix is won by Peter Revson, after eleven drivers are forced to retire because of an accident in the first lap when Jody Scheckter's car spins out of fourth place and into the center of the track coming out of Woodcote (the final corner), causing many other cars to collide and crash. The race is stopped at the end of the second lap and restarted over the original distance. Andrea de Adamich subsequently retired from the sport as a result of the injuries he received in the first lap accident.

July 15, 1973 (Sunday)[]

July 16, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

July 17, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
  • Chimanbhai Patel replaces Ghanshyambhai C. Oza as Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.

July 18, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

July 19, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The Panamanian supply vessel Nordic Service collides with the Finnish ship Finn Trader and sinks off Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom, with the loss of two of her twelve crew.[11][12]

July 20, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
  • A member of the Japanese Red Army and four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack Japan Air Lines Flight 404, a Boeing 747-246B with 140 other people on board, shortly after it takes off from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands for a flight to Anchorage, Alaska, en route a final destination of Tokyo International Airport, Tokyo, Japan. One of the PFLP members is killed when her hand grenade explodes during the hijacking, also injuring the airliner's chief purser. The surviving hijackers force the plane to fly to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; after a long stay there, they force it to fly to Damascus, Syria, and Benghazi, Libya, where they release the passengers and crew 89 hours after the hijacking began and blow up the airliner.
  • Born: HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, in Oslo
  • Died: Bruce Lee, 32, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (probable allergic reaction to painkillers)

July 21, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • Lillehammer affair: Israeli Mossad agents assassinate a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, in Lillehammer. Bouchiki had been mistaken for Ali Hassan Salameh, one of the leaders of Black September, the Palestinian group responsible for the 1972's Munich Olympics massacre, who had been given shelter in Norway. Six Mossad agents are arrested by the Norwegian authorities and the incident becomes known as the "Lillehammer affair".
  • The Philippines wins its second Miss Universe title, with Margarita Moran as the winner.

July 22, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • The Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-321B Clipper Winged Racer, operating as Flight 816, crashes into the Pacific Ocean 30 seconds after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, killing 78 of the 79 people on board.[13]
  • Born: Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter, in Rhinebeck, New York[14]

July 23, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • Ozark Air Lines Flight 809, a Fairchild Hiller FH-227, encounters windshear in a thunderstorm and crashes at Normandy, Missouri, while on approach to land at St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, killing 38 of the 44 people on board.[15]
  • The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia, suffers a serious fire.
  • President Richard Nixon refuses to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate committee or the special prosecutor.

July 24, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

July 25, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

July 26, 1973 (Thursday)[]

July 27, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • Charles, Prince of Wales, son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, becomes a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.[19]
  • Died: Mimi Wong, 34, and her husband Sim Wor Kum, 40, Singaporean conviced murderers. Wong is the first female death row inmate to have been executed since Singapore's independence. Both were sentenced to death by the High Court for the 1970 murder of Ayako Watanabe.[20]

July 28, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, a massive rock festival featuring the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band, takes place at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York, United States attracting over 600,000 music fans, a record audience for the time.[21]
  • Skylab 3 (Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, Alan Bean) is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard Skylab.[22]

July 29, 1973 (Sunday)[]

July 30, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • £20 million compensation is paid to victims of Thalidomide following an 11-year court case.[24]
  • The strangled body of 20-year-old Ronnie Wiebe, is discarded beside an onramp to the 405 Freeway, two days after the young man had disappeared. Welt marks on Wiebe's wrists and ankles suggest that he had been bound and suspended from a device before his murder.[25] Wiebe is later identified as one of the victims of serial killer Randy Steven Kraft, the so-called "Freeway Killer".

July 31, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • Militant Unionist protesters led by Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.[26]
  • Markham Colliery disaster: eighteen coal miners are killed at the coal mine near Staveley, Derbyshire, UK, when the brake mechanism on their cage fails.
  • A Delta Air Lines Flight 723 DC9-31 aircraft lands short of Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3,000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed, 1 of the passengers dying several months after the accident.

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  9. ^ "British cruise liner aground again". The Times (58862). London. 16 August 1973. col A, p. 1.
  10. ^ Saros series 148
  11. ^ "Search goes on for seamen". The Times (58838). London. 19 July 1973. col G, p. 2.
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