August 1973 calendar

August 1973
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1973.
The US president was Richard Nixon (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Edward Heath (Conservative), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1973: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1973?

Events

01 Aug 1973 H J Witteveen appointed as Director of IMF
02 Aug 1973 George Brett gets his 1st hit
03 Aug 1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, United Kingdom).
05 Aug 1973 Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55
06 Aug 1973 Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn inducted into Hall of Fame
08 Aug 1973 VP Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are damned lies from government contracts in Maryland. He vowed not to resign
09 Aug 1973 Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell quit Wings
10 Aug 1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station
12 Aug 1973 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury - Cleveland
14 Aug 1973 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
15 Aug 1973 Black September group kills three, wounds 55 in Athens, Greece.
17 Aug 1973 Willie Mays hits 660th and last HR
18 Aug 1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
19 Aug 1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
22 Aug 1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws
23 Aug 1973 The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.
24 Aug 1973 John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
25 Aug 1973 Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
26 Aug 1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
28 Aug 1973 Monster Mash goes gold
30 Aug 1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
31 Aug 1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan

Famous Birthday

Dave Chappelle
American actor and Comedian.
Kristen Wiig
American comedian.
Vera Farmiga
American actress.
Romane Bohringer
French actress, film director, screenwriter and costume designer.
Michael Ealy
American actor.
Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google.
Filippo Inzaghi
Italian footballer and manager.
Marco Materazzi
Italian footballer and manager.
Winnipeg (Canada)
Lisa Ling
American journalist and TV personality, Ling was one of the co-hosts of "The View" a popular daytime TV talk show featuring Barbara Walters,...
Carolyn Murphy
American model and actress.
Kevin McKidd
Scottish actor.
Laurent Lafitte
Carmine Giovinazzo
American actor and singer.
Scott Stapp
American singer (Creed).
Mette-Marit Crown Princess of Norway
Brittany Andrews
American pornographic actress.
Jeannette Bougrab
French lawyer and politician, her father was a Berberian Muslim Algerian (also called "Harki").
Laurent Sciarra
French basketball player, who began his professional career in 1990 with Hyères-Toulon Var Basket and moved to Paris Basket Racing in 1993,...
Nikolai Valuev
Russian boxer and actor.
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Famous Deaths

Dean Corll
Shot, he raped and killed 26 boys.
Fulgencio Batista
Cuban military man who served as the dictator of his country from 1940-1944.
Jean-Pierre Melville
French filmmaker.
Michael Dunn
Shattuck, Oklahoma -- Actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools).
Charlie Daniels
American musician, songwriter, guitarist, violinist and vocalist.
Charlie Daniels
American musician, songwriter, guitarist, violinist and vocalist.
Douglas Kennedy
Actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies at 57.
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Italian composer (Born 1882).
Walter Ulbricht in Berlin
Germany; chancellor (1960-1973).
Richard Marshall
U.
Jean Barraque
French composer (Born 1928).
Dean Corll
American homicide; a mass murderer of the 1970s whose shocking case blasted its way into the public consciousness.
Paul Williams
American singer (The Temptations) (Born 1939).
Karl Ziegler
German chemist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 for discovery of polyethylene plastics.
Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg
Actress (It Vijgeblaadje / It Hippie), dies at 84.
Memphis Minnie
American singer-songwriter (d. 1973).
Conrad Aiken
Pulitzer winning poet, dies at age 74.
Jack Gregory
Former Australian cricketer (Born 1895).
Vilhelm Moberg
Swedish historian journalist author and playwright (d. 1973).
John Ford
American film director.
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