March 1973

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The following events occurred in March 1973:

March 1, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • British MP Dick Taverne, having resigned from the Parliament on leaving the Labour Party, is re-elected as a 'Democratic Labour' candidate.
  • Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, is released in the US. It is released in the UK on March 24.
  • Admiral Sourendra Nath Kohli becomes Chief of the Naval Staff (India).

March 2, 1973 (Friday)[]

March 3, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • At the 15th Grammy Awards, Record of the Year is won by Joel Dorn (producer) & Roberta Flack for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" performed by Roberta Flack, and Album of the Year by Phil Spector (producer), George Harrison (producer & artist), Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr & Klaus Voormann for The Concert for Bangla Desh
  • Two IRA bombs explode in London, killing one person and injuring 250 others. Ten people are arrested hours later at Heathrow Airport, on suspicion of being involved in the bombings.
  • Tottenham Hotspur wins the UK Football League Cup final at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0.
  • The Indian state of Orissa is brought under President's rule, ending the term of office of Nandini Satpathy.
  • Died: Louis Prosper Gros, 79, French flying ace; Nikolai Nikitin, 65, Soviet structural designer and construction engineer
  • Born: , Celebrated Atlanta Intellectual Property attorney.

March 4, 1973 (Sunday)[]

March 5, 1973 (Monday)[]

March 6, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • The New York Office of the US Immigration Department cancels John Lennon's visa extension five days after granting it.
  • Operation End Sweep resumes after a short suspension in response to North Vietnamese delays in releasing prisoners-of-war.[3]
  • Died: Pearl S. Buck, 80, US novelist and Nobel Laureate

March 7, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

March 8, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • In the 'Border Poll', voters in Northern Ireland vote to remain part of the United Kingdom. Irish nationalists are encouraged to boycott the referendum. Turnout is 58.7%, but less than 1% for Catholics.[4]
  • Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in London.
  • Whiskey Au Go Go fire: A nightclub fire in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia, results in 15 deaths.[5] The fire is caused by two 23-litre drums of diesel fuel being thrown into the building's foyer and set alight. James Richard Finch, 29, and John Andrew Stuart, 33, were later convicted of the crime.

March 9, 1973 (Friday)[]

A naval mine explodes in North Vietnam's Haiphong Harbor on 9 March 1973 during Operation End Sweep, photographed by the automatic mine locator camera aboard an American CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopter. It is believed to be the only explosion of a mine during End Sweep.
  • Operation End Sweep: A mine explodes during the minesweeping exercise carried out by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps to remove naval mines from Haiphong harbor and other coastal and inland waterways in North Vietnam; it is the only mine to explode during the whole operation.

March 10, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • In Northern Ireland, an armed robbery is carried out by members of the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of Northern Irish loyalist extremists.[6]
  • Died: Sir Richard Sharples, 56, Governor of Bermuda, assassinated[7]

March 11, 1973 (Sunday)[]

March 12, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • In Chachoengsao Province, Thailand, an anonymous soldier kills one person and injures 25 when he throws a grenade into a crowd at a temple fair.[8]

March 13, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

March 14, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

March 15, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The 29th National Assembly of Quebec begins its fourth and final session.

March 16, 1973 (Friday)[]

March 17, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the new London Bridge.
  • Many of the few remaining United States soldiers begin to leave Vietnam. One reunion of a former POW with his family is immortalized in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy.
  • Born: Caroline Corr, Irish musician and drummer of The Corrs, in Dundalk, County Louth

March 18, 1973 (Sunday)[]

March 19, 1973 (Monday)[]

March 20, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • The Eider Barrage is opened, protecting the mouth of the river Eider near Tönning on Germany's North Sea coast from storm surges.
  • A British government White Paper on Northern Ireland proposes the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council.

March 21, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

March 22, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • A hurricane in the Atlantic causes havoc with shipping:
    • The bulk carrier "MV Norse Variant", which had set out from Newport News, Virginia, US, the previous day, with a cargo of coal for Glasgow, founders; only one of the 31 crew survives.
    • The cargo ship founders with the loss of all 32 crew.[12]
  • In the Sound of Gunna, between Tiree and Coll, off the coast of Scotland, the ferry Loch Seaforth runs aground on Sleit Rock. All on board take to the lifeboats. Loch Seaforth is later refloated but declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.
  • The state of Washington ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment.[9]
  • General Suharto is re-elected unopposed as President of Indonesia.[9]
  • Born: Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter, in Wolverhampton; Péter Oszkó, Hungarian politician, in Budapest
  • Died: Binkie Beaumont, 64, British theatre manager and producer; Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician, 79

March 23, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • Watergate scandal (United States): In a letter to Judge John Sirica, Watergate burglar James W. McCord Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case. He names former Attorney General John Mitchell as 'overall boss' of the operation.

March 24, 1973 (Saturday)[]

March 25, 1973 (Sunday)[]

March 26, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • Women are admitted into the London Stock Exchange for the first time.[13]
  • The long-running serial The Young and the Restless premieres on CBS television in the United States.
  • The $10,000 Pyramid also premiered on CBS
  • Born: Larry Page, US computer scientist and entrepreneur, in Lansing, Michigan
  • Died: Noël Coward, 73, English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

March 27, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

March 28, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

March 29, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.

March 30, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • Born: Adam Goldstein (DJ AM), American DJ, record producer and musician, in Philadelphia, PA (died 2009)

March 31, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • Red Rum wins the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, near Liverpool, UK, defeating co-favourite Crisp on the run-in, having trailed by 15 lengths at the final fence.[14] Red Rum went on to win the Grand National on a further two occasions; his record remains unequalled in the history of the race.

References[]

  1. ^ ARLINGTON FIRE JOURNAL ARLINGTON COUNTY FIRE DEPT.: February 2005
  2. ^ Zumbrun, Ronald A. (2004). "Life, Liberty, and Property Rights", in Bringing Justice to the People: The Story of the Freedom-Based Public Interest Law Movement (Lee Edwards, ed.). Washington, DC: Heritage Books, ISBN 0-9743665-2-8, p.41.
  3. ^ "U.S. Mining and Mine Clearance in North Vietnam" by Edward J. Marolda, Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Department of the Navy Archived 2012-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "1973: Northern Ireland votes for union". BBC News. 9 March 1973. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  5. ^ Australian Nightclub Fire Kills 15. The Bryan Times: 8 March 1973, p.3.
  6. ^ The Cassel Report (2006), p.110
  7. ^ *Bernews: Details of assassination of Sir Richard, and subsequent conviction
  8. ^ New Straits Times, 13 March 1973. Retrieved 14 October 2012
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Chronology 1973". The World Book Year Book 1974. Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. 1974. p. 9. ISBN 0-7166-0474-4. LCCN 62-4818.
  10. ^ United Press International, "Amtrak Special Derailed During Ohio Snowstorm", Playground Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Monday, 19 March 1973, page 2.
  11. ^ "The Lofthouse Colliery Disaster". BBC. January 2003. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  12. ^ "M/S Anita" (in Norwegian). Lillesand Sjomannsforening. Archived from the original on 23 February 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  13. ^ "1973: Stock Exchange admits women". BBC News. 26 March 1973. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  14. ^ [1][bare URL]
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