June 1973 in History

Events in History

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

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

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 20 Juan Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years

Jun 22 Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
Jun 22 Skylab 2's astronauts land on return voyage from US space station - 1st to safely return to earth
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 25 John Dean begins testifying before Senate Watergate Committee
Jun 25 Russian communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits France
Jun 25 Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
Jun 26 On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
Jun 27 John Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
Jun 27 Uruguayan president Juan Maria Bordaberry dissolves parliament and heads a coup d'état - beginning of the civic-military dictatorship
Jun 28 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
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 Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
Jun 30 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse

Jun 2 Kevin Feige, American producer, President of Marvel Studios (2007-), born in Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 6 Kat Swift, American politician (Green Party)
Jun 12 Darryl White, Australian rules footballer (Brisbane Bears), born in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Jun 21 Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakian politician and activist, President of Slovakia (2019-), born in Bratislava., Czechoslovakia

Jun 30 Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21)

Jun 4 American poet and novelist who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, dies of a heart attack at 72

Jun 4 Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, American ultra-light hiking pioneer and 1st woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone, dies of an apparent heart attack at 85
Jun 4 Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55
Jun 7 Christine Lavant, Austrian poet and writer (Das Kind), dies at 57
Jun 8 Christine Bakker-van Bosse, Dutch feminist and pacifist, dies at 88
Jun 8 Gerald F. Bogan, U.S. Navy aviator and vice admiral who served in World War I & II, dies at 78
Jun 9 Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
Jun 10 William M. Inge, American playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60

Jun 17 Brazilian modernist artist, dies at 86

Jun 18 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer (1st major Dutch radio broadcaster AVRO), dies at 84
Jun 27 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
Jun 30 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a Cold Climate), one of the Mitford sisters, dies of cancer at 68
Jun 30 Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian Bishop and Catholic Martyr, dies under Soviet imprisonment at 70