August 1973 in History

Events in History

Aug 8 US Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign.

Aug 9 USSR launches Mars 7
Aug 10 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
Aug 12 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
Aug 14 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
Aug 15 Black September kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens
Aug 15 David Storey's play "Cromwell" premieres in London
Aug 15 USSR performs nuclear test
Aug 19 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Aug 22 Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
Aug 23 Intelsat communications satellite launched
Aug 24 John Adams & his bass drum become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
Aug 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Aug 25 Zambia adopts constitution
Aug 26 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing
Aug 28 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
Aug 28 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Aug 28 India & Pakistan sign POW accord
Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Aug 31 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony

Aug 3 Chris Murphy, American politician (Senator-D-Connecticut 2013-, Rep-D-Connecticut 2007-13), born in White Plains, New York
Aug 3 Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder (4x Mr. Olympia winner - 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010), born in Sterling, Massachusetts
Aug 5 Sean Sherk, American mixed martial artist
Aug 12 Richard Reid, British terrorist, referred to as the "shoe bomber" - attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his shoe while flying from Paris to Miami in 2001
Aug 12 Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr, Iranian Shia cleric, son of Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr, born in Najaf, Iran
Aug 13 Kamila Shamsie, Pakistani British writer (Home Fire), born in Karachi, Pakistan
Aug 13 Molly Henneberg, American journalist (Fox News Channel)
Aug 19 Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, married to Crown prince Haakon, born in Kristiansand, Norway

Aug 21 Russian-born American computer scientist and businessman (co-founded Google with Larry Page), born in Moscow, Soviet Union

Aug 28 Theaster Gates, American installation artist, born in Chicago, Illinois
Aug 29 Adam Sessler, American TV show host, born in Berkeley, California,
Aug 30 Amy Sherald, American painter (portrait of Michelle Obama), born in Columbus, Georgia
Aug 31 Mary Peltola, American politician (1st Alaskan Native elected to Congress), born in Anchorage, Alaska

Aug 1 German politician (Head Of State, German Democratic Republic), dies at 80

Aug 6 Dictator and President of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59), dies of a heart attack at 72

Aug 8 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author (The Emigrants) and historian, dies at 74
Aug 9 Dean Corll, American serial killer (Houston mass murders), fatally shot by an accomplice at 33

Aug 12 German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), dies at 74

Aug 12 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1949), dies of heart failure at 92
Aug 13 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer and playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75
Aug 16 Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American microbiologist (Nobel 1951-ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the soil microbes that led to the discovery of streptomycin), dies at 85
Aug 17 Conrad Aiken, American poet (Pulitzer), dies at 74