July 1973 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 British Library established as the country's national library and legal depository, one of the largest libraries in the world with over 170 million items (previously part of the British Museum) [1]

Jul 1 Tom Bradley becomes the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, the first (and only) African-American to hold that position

Jul 5 General Juvénal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda in a military coup d'état

Jul 5 Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps
Jul 7 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
Jul 7 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
Jul 7 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
Jul 9 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
Jul 10 Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
Jul 10 John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom
Jul 11 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
Jul 12 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
Jul 13 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
Jul 13 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
Jul 16 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
Jul 17 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
Jul 20 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
Jul 20 The US Senate passes the War Powers Act
Jul 21 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
Jul 21 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
Jul 23 Ozark AL Flight 809 knocked out of air by lightning landing in St Louis, killing 38

Jul 23 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation

Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 25 USSR launches Mars 5
Jul 28 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
Jul 28 NASA launches Skylab 3's astronauts (Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma) to the space station for a 59 day stay
Jul 29 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
Jul 31 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later

Jul 7 Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka, born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Jul 8 Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Indian founder and CEO of mobile payments company Paytm, born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Jul 16 Tim Ryan, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), born in Niles, Ohio
Jul 20 Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
Jul 22 Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)

Jul 23 American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton), born in San Francisco, California

Jul 25 Mur Lafferty, American podcaster & writer, born in Durham, North Carolina
Jul 26 Lenka Kotková [Šarounová], Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, born in Dobřichovice, Czechoslovakia

Jul 4 British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (33) weds Camilla Rosemary Shand (26) at Guards Chapel in Birdcage Walk in London, England

Jul 7 German philosopher and sociologist (Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason), dies at 78

Jul 28 Mary Ellen Chase, American educator and author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award), dies at 86
Jul 29 Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)