August 1973

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The following events occurred in August 1973:

August 1, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is inaugurated.

August 2, 1973 (Thursday)

August 3, 1973 (Friday)

August 4, 1973 (Saturday)
  • The Pekan Olahraga Nasional Games open in Djakarta, Indonesia.

August 5, 1973 (Sunday)
  • Black September members open fire in a crowded passenger lounge at Athens airport; 3 people are killed, and 55 injured.

August 6, 1973 (Monday)
  • Stevie Wonder and his friend, John Harris, are injured when their vehicle collides with a truck loaded with logs. For four days Wonder is in a coma caused by severe brain contusion, causing media attention and the preoccupation of relatives, friends and fans.[2]

August 7, 1973 (Tuesday)

August 8, 1973 (Wednesday)

August 9, 1973 (Thursday)
  • Dean Corll's accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, leads police to the bodies of several murder victims.[5][6] Over subsequent days, this results in the discovery of the Houston Mass Murders: at least 28 boys were killed over a three-year period by Corll, Henley and David Owen Brooks.
  • Died: Donald Peers, 65, Welsh popular singer; Nikos Zachariadis, 70, Greek Communist politician

August 10, 1973 (Friday)
  • Bulgaria issues a new decoration, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary Of The People's Anti-Fascist Uprising 1923, to be awarded to all surviving anti-fascist participants in the June and September 1923 Bulgarian uprisings.

August 11, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Soviet TV station Programme One airs the first part of the Soviet television miniseries Seventeen Moments of Spring, which would run until 24 August. With an audience of between fifty and eighty million viewers per episode, it becomes the most successful television show of its time in the USSR.
  • DJ Kool Herc originated the hip hop music genre in New York City.[7]

August 12, 1973 (Sunday)
  • Died: Karl Ziegler, 74, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

August 13, 1973 (Monday)

August 14, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • British cruise liner SS Canberra runs aground off St Thomas, British Virgin Islands, and is refloated the following day.[9]

August 15, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
  • In the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) departs Yankee Station for the last time. She is the last aircraft carrier to operate at the station, where American aircraft carriers had deployed since 1964.

August 16, 1973 (Thursday)
  • The Venda legislative election is won by the Venda Independence People's Party.[10]
  • Died: Selman Waksman, 85, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

August 17, 1973 (Friday)

August 18, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Born: Victoria Coren, English writer, television presenter and poker player, in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of journalist Alan Coren

August 19, 1973 (Sunday)
  • Born: Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, as Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby, in Kristiansand

August 20, 1973 (Monday)

August 21, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • The coroner in the Bloody Sunday inquest accuses the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder" after the jury returns an open verdict.[12]

August 22, 1973 (Wednesday)

August 23, 1973 (Thursday)
  • The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs in Stockholm, the first criminal event in Sweden covered by live television. The perpetrators, Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, persuade their hostages that they are safer with them than if the police intervene; the incident becomes famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.

August 24, 1973 (Friday)
  • The European Athletics Junior Championships opens in Duisburg, Germany.
  • William E. Nelson replaces William E. Colby as Deputy Director of Operations for the Central Intelligence Agency (United States).
  • Born: Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer and most successful Dutch Olympian of all time, in Barendrecht

August 25, 1973 (Saturday)

August 26, 1973 (Sunday)

August 27, 1973 (Monday)

August 28, 1973 (Tuesday)

August 29, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • British submarine Pisces III sinks in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Ireland.[14] The submarine is raised after a multi-agency rescue effort. Both crew survive for 76 hours in the vessel which had sunk in 1,375-foot (419 m) deep water.[15][16]

August 30, 1973 (Thursday)

August 31, 1973 (Friday)

References
  1. BBC On This Day. Accessed 26 December 2012
  2. "Stevie Wonder Biography - Chapter 9". Steviewonder.org.uk. 1973-08-06. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  3. "Kim Dae-jung – Nobel Lecture". The Nobel Foundation. 2000. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  5. The Man With The Candy, ISBN 978-0-7432-1283-0 p. 141
  6. The Victoria Advocate news archives
  7. "Birthplace of Hip Hop". History Detectives. PBS. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
  8. David Hanna, Harvest Of Horror, 1975 p. 160
  9. "Picture Gallery". The Times (58863). London. 17 August 1973. col D-G, p. 5.
  10. Elections in South Africa's Apartheid-Era Homelands "Bantustans" African Elections Database
  11. Apling, Harry (1984). Norfolk Corn Windmills, Volume 1. Norwich: The Norfolk Windmills Trust. pp. 33–36. ISBN 0-9509793-0-9.
  12. "1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army". BBC News. 21 August 1973. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  13. Soaring. 37 (11): 42. November 1973. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. "Race against time to save two trapped in midget submarine". The Times (58876). London. 1 September 1973. col A-E, p. A. (continued on p 2, Col A).
  15. "Regulations on deep-sea work to be considered after near-disaster". The Times (58877). London. 3 September 1973. col E-G, p. 1.
  16. "Champagne flows after rescue from the deep". The Times (58877). London. 3 September 1973. col D-G, p. 2.
  17. "Décret N° 73-293 du 30 août 1973 fixant la composition des membres du Conseil des Ministres de la République Populaire de Congo", Presidency of Congo-Brazzaville, 30 August 1973 (in French).
  18. Africa Research Bulletin: Economic, Financial and Technical Series, volume 10 (1973), page 2,952.
  19. "Russian liner aground off Bermuda". The Times (58876). London. 1 September 1973. col F, p. 4.
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