Historical Events in June 1973

Jun 1 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold

Jun 1 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die"

Jun 1 Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
Jun 2 "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
Jun 3 "Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances
Jun 3 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed
Jun 3 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic

Jun 3 72nd Men's French Open: Ilie Năstase beats Nikola Pilic (6-3, 6-3, 6-0)

Jun 3 72nd Women's French Open: Margaret Court beats Chris Evert (6-7, 7-6, 6-4)
Jun 4 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain
Jun 7 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
Jun 8 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
Jun 9 105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24, becoming the 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years

Jun 10 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills

Jun 10 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
Jun 11 Libya nationalizes Bunker Hunt concession; Nigeria acquires 35 percent participation in Shell-BP concession
Jun 12 Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440
Jun 12 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
Jun 12 Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry
Jun 13 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
Jun 14 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

Jun 14 US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies

Jun 17 Canadian Open Golf (La Canadienne), Montreal Municipal GC: Jocelyne Bourassa of Canada wins inaugural event in a playoff with Sandra Haynie & Judy Rankin
Jun 17 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA

Jun 18 Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev visits the US and President Nixon

Jun 19 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

Jun 20 Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)

Jun 20 Juan Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years

Jun 20 SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
Jun 20 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured
Jun 22 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
Jun 22 George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World"
Jun 22 Skylab 2's astronauts land
Jun 22 23rd Berlin International Film Festival: "Distant Thunder" wins the Golden Bear
Jun 23 "Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances
Jun 23 "Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances
Jun 23 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
Jun 23 World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific
Jun 24 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
Jun 24 Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
Jun 25 John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee
Jun 25 Russian communist party leader Brezhnev visits France
Jun 25 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
Jun 26 London production of musical "Grease" premieres
Jun 26 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

Jun 27 "Live & Let Die", 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US

Jun 28 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected

Jun 28 New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing
Jun 28 Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place
Jun 30 "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour" TV Variety; debut on ABC
Jun 30 Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
Jun 30 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse