May 1973

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The following events occurred in May 1973:

May 1, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stop work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.[1]
  • John Habgood is consecrated Bishop of Durham.[2]
  • Born: Oliver Neuville, German international soccer player, in Locarno, Switzerland[3]

May 2, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

A Nord 2052 Noratlas of the Portuguese Air Force crashes during a premature attempt to land at Mueda Airport in Mueda, Mozambique; all 11 people on board are killed.[4]

  • Born: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director, in Cologne[5]

May 3, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The Northern Ireland Assembly Act receives royal assent, allowing the UK government to set up a Northern Ireland Assembly and attempt power sharing.[6]

May 4, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • Construction of the Sears Tower in Chicago is completed; it becomes the world's tallest building, at 1,451 feet.[7]

May 5, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. His actual age at the time is disputed.[8]
  • Sunderland achieve a shock 1–0 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup final at Wembley, with Ian Porterfield scoring the only goal of the game. It was the first time that an FA Cup winning team had not contained a single player to be capped at full international level, and the first postwar FA Cup won by a side outside the First Division.[9]
  • Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby.[10]
  • Led Zeppelin play before 56,800 persons at Tampa Stadium on the band's 1973 North American Tour, thus breaking the August 15, 1965, record of 55,600 set by The Beatles at Shea Stadium.
  • Fianna Fáil's Erskine Hamilton Childers sets off on a 28-day presidential campaign tour of Ireland.
  • US athlete Al Feuerbach breaks Randy Matson's seven-year-old world record in the men's shot put by throwing 21.82 meters (71' 7") at the San Jose Invitational at San Jose State College.[11]

May 6, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • Australia wins the 11th Federation Cup women's tennis competition, held at Bad Homburg, West Germany.[12]
  • Died: Sir Ernest MacMillan, 79, Canadian conductor and composer

May 7, 1973 (Monday)[]

May 8, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and American Indian Movement activists who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
  • In a 9–7 losing effort against the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals baseball ace Bob Gibson makes his 242nd consecutive start. It is a new 20th-century record, passing that of Red Ruffing.

May 9, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

  • The 34-floor Borden Building (now the Continental Plaza) in Columbus, Ohio, US, is topped out.[14]
  • The century-old Rackleff Building in Portland, Maine, is added to the US National Register of Historic Places.[15]

May 10, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • The Polisario Front, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Western Sahara, is formed.[16]
  • United Kingdom local elections: The results show an improvement in the performance by the Conservatives since the county council elections earlier in the year. The Liberals enjoy notable success, becoming the largest group on Liverpool council. The Conservatives take control of five metropolitan districts, and also gain one Welsh district, Monmouth.[17]
  • The New York Knicks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, 102–93 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to win the NBA title.

May 11, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • The Greek coaster Pramnos collides with the Italian ship Tony off , Italy, and sinks with the loss of three of her fourteen crew.[18][19]
  • Died: Lex Barker, 54, US actor (heart attack)

May 12, 1973 (Saturday)[]

May 13, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • Bobby Riggs challenges and defeats Margaret Court, the world's #1 women's player, in a nationally televised tennis match set in Ramona, CA northeast of San Diego. Riggs wins 6–2, 6–1,[20] which leads to the huge Battle of the Sexes match against Billie Jean King later in the year on September 20.

May 14, 1973 (Monday)[]

May 15, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • The 1973 Sierra Leonean general election is won by the All People's Congress. The main opposition party, the Sierra Leone People's Party boycott the election because of alleged irregularities,[23] and most APC candidates are elected unopposed.
  • In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, prime minister Edward Heath describes large payments made by Lonrho to Duncan Sandys through the tax haven of the Cayman Islands, at a time when the government was trying to implement a counter-inflation policy, as the "unacceptable face of capitalism"'[24]
  • Died: , former Minister of the Interior of Bolivia, officially as a result of falling downstairs while trying to escape arrest for an attempted coup-d’état against the president Hugo Banzer. In 1967, Selich had led the regiment that captured and executed Ernesto Guevara.[25]

May 16, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

May 17, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
  • Milan police headquarters bombing. During the memorial ceremony for the first anniversary of Luigi Calabresi’s murder, Gianfranco Bertoli, throws a grenade causing a victim and 55 injured (three of them die the following week). The bomber, immediately captured and rescued from lynching, declares himself an individualist anarchist; his target was the Minister of Interior, Mariano Rumor, who at the time of the slaughter had let the place for a few minutes.[28]
  • Born: Josh Homme, American singer and musician, frontman of Queens of the Stone Age, in Joshua Tree, California[29]

May 18, 1973 (Friday)[]

May 19, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • 1973 Victorian state election: Elections are held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council. The result is a majority for incumbent premier Rupert Hamer and his Liberal party.[31]
  • Racehorse Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes.

May 20, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • Britain's Royal Navy send three frigates to protect British fishing vessels from Icelandic ships in the Cod War dispute.[32]
  • In Monza, during the Nations motorcycle Grand Prix, in a frightful accident Renzo Pasolini and the former world champion Jarno Saarinen die; other 14 runners are injured.[33]
  • In the last day of the Serie A 1972-73 Juventus beats Roma for 1-2 and gets its fifteenth scudetto, while Milan, after having dominated the whole tournament, is surprisingly defeated 5-2 by Hellas Verona and loses in extremis the star (the tenth scudetto).[34]

May 21, 1973 (Monday)[]

  • Opening of the Rantau Panjang – Sungai Golok Bridge on the Malaysia-Thailand border in Kelantan.[citation needed]
  • Mahendra Mohan Choudhry replaces D. C. Pavate as Governor of the Punjab.[35]
  • For the first time in Italy, a child is kidnapped for extortion purposes. In Bergamo, Mriko Panattoni, 8 years old, son of a caterer, is abducted in front of the school; two weeks later, he’s freed in exchange of a 300 million liras ransom.[36]  
  • At the Cannes festival, the screening of La grande bouffe, by Marco Ferreri, an apologue about consumerism willingly provocative and extreme, arouses scandal and is violently contested by the public. Director and actors have to be escorted by the police to the hotel.[37]
  • Born: Noel Fielding, British comedian, actor, and television presenter, in Westminster, London[38]
  • Diede: Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian writer, 79.
  • Ivan Konev, Soviet General, 73.

May 22, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • Lord Lambton resigns from the British government over a 'call girl' scandal.[39]
  • Watergate scandal: the White House spokesperson Ronald Ziegler reads a Richard Nixon’s statement. The president admits to have ordered wiretaps and to have created the White House Plumbers, but denies any involvement in the Watergate effraction.[40]

May 23, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

May 24, 1973 (Thursday)[]

May 25, 1973 (Friday)[]

  • Skylab 2 (Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab space station.[43]
  • Héctor José Cámpora is inaugurated as democratic president of the Argentine Republic ending the 1966 to 1973 Revolución Argentina military dictatorship.[44]
  • Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells becomes the first release on Richard Branson's newly launched Virgin label.
  • Born: Demetri Martin, American comedian, director, and actor, in New York City

May 26, 1973 (Saturday)[]

  • The BBC's long-running, highly rated magazine show That's Life!, introduced by Esther Rantzen, is broadcast for the first time.[45]

May 27, 1973 (Sunday)[]

  • By virtue of the non-retroactivity of Soviet copyright laws, all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.Confirmation needed

May 28, 1973 (Monday)[]

May 29, 1973 (Tuesday)[]

  • Princess Anne, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, announces her engagement to Olympic equestrian champion Lt. Mark Phillips.[46]

May 30, 1973 (Wednesday)[]

May 31, 1973 (Thursday)[]

  • Indian Airlines Flight 440 crashes on approach to Palam Airport, killing 48 of the 65 passengers and crew on board. The dead include India's Minister of Iron and Steel Mines, Mohan Kumaramangalam.[48]
  • Morning rains threaten to wash out the Indianapolis 500 motor race out for the third day in a row. The race is finally started at 2:10 p.m. Some estimates put the day's attendance as low as 35,000.[49] On the 59th lap, Swede Savage loses control and the race is halted at 3:05 p.m., while track crews rush to his aid. The race is eventually won by Gordon Johncock, one of Savage's Patrick Racing/STP teammates; Johncock leaves shortly afterwards to visit Savage in hospital.[50] Savage would die of complications less than five weeks later.

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