What Happened on July 4, 1973

• CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms

• Gackt [Gakuto Oshiro], Japanese rock singer-songwriter and actor, born in Okinawa, Japan
• Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver, born in Roskilde, Denmark
• Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats), born in Kamloops, Canada
• Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver, born in Tokyo, Japan
• Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer, born in St. Louis, Missouri

• British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (33) weds future Queen consort Camilla Rosemary Shand (26) at Guards Chapel in Birdcage Walk in London, England; divorce in 1995

• Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39

Holidays: Independence Day (United States)

• #1 Song: Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston
• #1 Song: Skweeze Me Pleeze Me - Slade