July 1973 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 performances
• 02 Jul 1973 James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th Director of CIA
• 03 Jul 1973 General Walters, serves as acting Director of CIA
• 04 Jul 1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms
• 05 Jul 1973 Live & Let Die, James Bond film premieres
• 06 Jul 1973 St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore is gazetted as a national monument.
• 07 Jul 1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert
• 08 Jul 1973 Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker
• 09 Jul 1973 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 10 Jul 1973 Bahamas declares Independence from the UK and adopts constitution
• 11 Jul 1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
• 12 Jul 1973 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
• 13 Jul 1973 Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
• 14 Jul 1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
• 15 Jul 1973 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
• 16 Jul 1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes.
• 17 Jul 1973 Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
• 19 Jul 1973 Willie Mays named to National League all star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial).
• 20 Jul 1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
• 21 Jul 1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
• 23 Jul 1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
• 24 Jul 1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
• 25 Jul 1973 USSR launches Mars 5
• 26 Jul 1973 Peter Shaffers Equus, premieres in London
• 27 Jul 1973 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3
• 29 Jul 1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York Hilton
• 30 Jul 1973 Texas Rangers' Jim Bibby no-hits Oakland Athletics, 6-0.
• 31 Jul 1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

Famous Birthday

• Kate Beckinsale

  British actress.

• Monica Lewinsky

  American government employee, an intern in the White House when she had an affair with the President of the U.S.

• Brian Austin Green
• Christian Vieri

  Italian footballer.

• Patrick Wilson (actor)
• Stephen Dorff

  American actor and producer.

• Haakon Crown Prince of Norway
• Alley Baggett
• Omar Epps

  American actor.

• Rufus Wainwright

  American singer, songwriter and actor, and a member of a noted family.

• Ali Landry

  American model and actress.

• Gackt (musician)
• Róisín Murphy

  Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Moloko).

• Kathleen Robertson

  Canadian actress and producer.

• Nathalie Maleux
• Ana Cristina de Oliveira
• Troy Garity

  American noted family, the son of actress Jane Fonda and her husband, politician Tom Hayden.

• Dani Filth

  British singer (Cradle of Filth).

• Francis Healy

  English-born Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis).

• Schelim Hannan
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Famous Deaths

• Bruce Lee

  Chinese-American actor and martial arts expert who portrayed heroism and grace in movies featuring his martial arts.

• Betty Grable

  American singer, dancer and actress, the most famous "pin-up girl" of WW II.

• Robert Ryan

  American bullfighter.

• Robert Smithson

  American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art.

• Willy Fritsch

  German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.

• Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman]

  Actress (Ramrod), dies at 58.

• Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov

  Russian Composer (Zavod), dies at 72.

• Martian Negrea

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf

  Author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91.

• Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov

  Russian Cosmonaut, dies at 33.

• Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam]

  Actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32.

• Russell Hardie

  Dies after long illness at 69.

• Marius-Francois Gaillard

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Mary Frasca

  Singer / actress, dies in New York City.

• Mike Burke

  President (New York Yankees) / director (Madison Square Garden).

• Royal Butler

  Actor, dies at 80.

• Erich Katz

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Guy Middleton

  Actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65.

• Otto Klemperer in Znrich

  Switzerland (born in Breslau, Germany); conductor (operas of Hamburg, Barmen, Strassburg, Cologne Wiesbaden, Berlin, Los Angeles, Budapest).

• Swede Savage

  dies from injuries at Indianapolis 500.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
2. Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
3. Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Paul McCartney - My Love
5. Paul Simon - Kodachrome

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Peters & Lee - Welcome Home
2. Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)
3. Slade - Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me
4. David Bowie - Life On Mars
5. Mungo Jerry - Alright Alright Alright