December 1973 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1973 Jack Nicklaus becomes first golfer to earn $2 million in a year.
• 02 Dec 1973 Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington DC opens
• 03 Dec 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
• 04 Dec 1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
• 05 Dec 1973 Paul McCartney releases Band on the Run album
• 06 Dec 1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected US Vice-President, succeeds Spiro T Agnew.
• 07 Dec 1973 Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
• 08 Dec 1973 Seesaw closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
• 09 Dec 1973 Pajama Game opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
• 11 Dec 1973 NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises
• 12 Dec 1973 Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 and $10 silver coins).
• 13 Dec 1973 MPLA / FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
• 15 Dec 1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
• 16 Dec 1973 US kidnap victem Paul Getty III freed
• 17 Dec 1973 Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
• 18 Dec 1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days.
• 19 Dec 1973 Molly closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
• 20 Dec 1973 Montreal Canadiens' Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point.
• 21 Dec 1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 23 Dec 1973 Young and the Restless premieres on TV
• 24 Dec 1973 In New Mexico, USA, a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurs.
• 25 Dec 1973 The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
• 26 Dec 1973 Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres
• 27 Dec 1973 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
• 28 Dec 1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes Gulag Archipelag
• 30 Dec 1973 1st picture of a comet from space
• 31 Dec 1973 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23.

Famous Birthday

• Tyra Banks

  Former supermodel, an American television personality, former talk show host, producer, author, actress, singer and business woman.

• Holly Marie Combs

  American actress.

• Tabatha Cash

  French porn actress.

• Corey Taylor

  American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour).

• Michaël Youn

  French actor, singer, comedian, and TV and radio personality.

• Damien Rice

  Irish musician.

• Monica Seles

  Yugoslavian (now Serbian) tennis star who won the U.S.

• Stephenie Meyer

  Young Adult Author.

• Mos Def

  American rapper and actor.

• Surya Bonaly

  Surya Bonaly is a French-American former figure skater.

• Jason Behr

  American actor.

• Cynthia Sardou
• Seth Meyers

  American actor.

• Nadia Farès
• Shalom Harlow

  Canadian model and actress.

• Mikelangelo Loconte

  Italian singer-songwriter producer and actor.

• Fabien Pelous

  French international rugby player.

• Jan Ullrich

  German cyclist, he won the Tour de France in 1997.

• Luisa Ranieri

  Italian actress.

• Anita Caprioli
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Famous Deaths

• Bobby Darin

  American actor, singer and recording artist, best remembered for his song "Mack The Knife" that held the No.

• Luis Carrero Blanco

  Prime Minister of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA.

• Justus Hermann Wetzel

  Composer, dies at 94.

• Yitzhak Edel

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Patrick Hadley

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Giulio Cesare Brero

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Steven Geray

  Actor (French Line), dies at 69.

• Ismet Inonu

  Turkish statesman (Born 1884).

• Harold B Lee

  11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1899).

• Robert A Watson-Watt in England physicist (radar)

  dies at age 81.

• Charles G Abbot

  US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at age 101.

• Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Wolf V Vishniac

  American microbiologist (Born 1922).

• Allama Rasheed Turabi

  Pakistani orator and philosopher (Born 1908).

• Charles Atlas

  Italian-American physical culturist called "the world's most perfectly developed man.

• David Ben-Gurion

  Israeli politician, one of the founders of the country and the first Prime Minister in 1973.

• William Haines

  American actor, a leading man of silent films.

• Robert Watson-Watt

  Scottish inventor and electronic engineer who developed the radio locator (the British equivalent of the American radar) , considered to be...

• Emile Christian

  American trombonist and composer (d. 1973).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Carpenters - Top Of The World
2. Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl
3. Jim Croce - Time In A Bottle
4. Ringo Starr - Photograph
5. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love
2. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
3. The New Seekers - You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
4. Alvin Stardust - My Coo-Ca-Choo
5. Marie Osmond - Paper Roses