April 1973 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1973 Japan allows its citizens to own gold.
• 02 Apr 1973 ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean President election
• 03 Apr 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
• 04 Apr 1973 The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
• 05 Apr 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
• 06 Apr 1973 Harbor strike in Gent / Antwerp, Belgium
• 07 Apr 1973 Cleveland Indians sets day-game and opening-game attendance records of 74,420.
• 09 Apr 1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam.
• 10 Apr 1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
• 11 Apr 1973 The British House of Commons voted against restoring capital punishment by a margin of 142 votes.
• 12 Apr 1973 Sudan adopts constitution.
• 14 Apr 1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal.
• 15 Apr 1973 Walt Disney Story opens
• 17 Apr 1973 77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oregon in 2:16:03.
• 19 Apr 1973 Barbra Streisand records Between Yesterday & Tomorrow
• 20 Apr 1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes first commercial satellite in orbit.
• 25 Apr 1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 26 Apr 1973 2 Gentlemen of Verona, musical opens in London
• 27 Apr 1973 Kansas City Royals' Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0.
• 28 Apr 1973 Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill, are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford, on board a coaster carrying 5 tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
• 29 Apr 1973 Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic.
• 30 Apr 1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al

Famous Birthday

• Pharrell Williams

  American producer, actor, and rapper known for his huge hit "Happy" in 2014 and previously for contributing with several artists such as...

• Adrien Brody

  American actor, he won an Oscar in early 2003 for best actor after he turned in a riveting performance in "The Pianist" (2002).

• Guillaume Canet

  Born to Philippe and Marie-Antoinette, "pieds-noirs" bakers coming from Algeria, he is a French actor and director in over 40 films,...

• Akon

  American singer and song writer.

• David Blaine

  American illusionist.

• Sachin Tendulkar

  Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of the modern generation, who popularly holds the title "God of Cricket" among...

• Christian Panucci
• Roselyn Sanchez

  Puerto Rican singer, model and actress.

• Vanessa Demouy

  French model, stage actress, occasionally film actress and singer.

• Jennifer Esposito

  American actress.

• Rachel Maddow

  American radio and television personality, she is the host of cable program, "The Rachel Maddow Show.

• Adam Scott (actor)
• Elisabeth Röhm

  German-American actress.

• Emma Caulfield

  American actress.

• Roberto Carlos Da Silva
• David Belle

  French physical educator.

• Adriane Galisteu
• Jorge Garcia

  American actor.

• Claudia Jordan

  Model.

• Elodie Bouchez

  French actress living in Los Angeles.

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Famous Deaths

• Ursula Jeans

  Simla, India -- Actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon).

• Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso

  Spanish / French Painter (Guernica), dies at 91.

• Pat Henning

  Actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62.

• Manfred Gurlitt

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Josie Sedgwick

  Actress (White Moth), dies of a stroke at 75.

• Nick Stuart

  bandleader, dies of cancer at age 69.

• Alexandre A M Stols

  publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at age 73.

• Otto Eissfeldt German old testament scholar

  dies at age 85.

• Libbe de Wal

  founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at age 72.

• Vaclav Renc

  Czech poet, dramatist and translator (Born 1911).

• Nino Bravo

  Spanish singer (Born 1944).

• Magda Janssens

  Belgian-Dutch stage, film and television actress of Flemish descent.

• Pablo Picasso

  Spanish artist who lived most of his life in France, Picasso is world-renowned as one of the inventors of the Cubist movement.

• Irene Ryan

  actress (Granny - The Beverly Hillbillies), dies at age 71 six weeks after suffering a stroke while performing in the Broadway musical...

• Clas Thunberg

  Finnish speed skater (Born 1893).

• Carlos Menditeguy

  Argentinian race car driver and polo player (d. 1973).

• John Coleman

  Australian rules footballer (Born 1928).

• Olga Grey

  Hungarian-born American silent actress (Born 1896).

• Minna Gombell

  Dies in Santa Monica, California.

• Ted Decorsia

  Actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
2. Vicki Lawrence - The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia
3. Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
4. Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)
5. Gladys Knight and the Pips - Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree
2. Gary Glitter - Hello Hello I'm Back Again
3. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down
4. The Sweet - Hell Raiser
5. Little Jimmy Osmond - Tweedle Dee