July 1973

July 1, 1973 (Sunday)

July 2, 1973 (Monday)

  • The United States Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.
  • After having published issues on Saturday since its inception in 1925, The New Yorker magazine publishes its first Monday issue, which has since been its practice.
  • Match Game '73, the first and most successful revival of the NBC game show, debuts on CBS. Gene Rayburn, like the NBC version, was the host.
  • Died: Betty Grable, 56 American actress (lung cancer)[2]

July 3, 1973 (Tuesday)

July 4, 1973 (Wednesday)

  • Don Powell, the drummer of British pop group Slade, is critically injured in a car crash in Wolverhampton; his 20-year-old girlfriend is killed. Powell recovered after surgery, and was able to join the band ten weeks later in New York, to record "Merry Xmas Everybody".

July 5, 1973 (Thursday)

July 6, 1973 (Friday)

July 7, 1973 (Saturday)

July 8, 1973 (Sunday)

  • During the 1973 Campionato Italiano Juniores at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy, three racing motorcyclists, Renzo Colombini (aged 30), Renato Galtrucco (aged 36) and Carlo Chionio (aged 26), are killed.
  • Born: Daniel Lipšic, Slovak politician, in Bratislava
  • Died: Wilfred Rhodes, 95, English cricketer[7]

July 9, 1973 (Monday)

July 10, 1973 (Tuesday)

July 11, 1973 (Wednesday)

July 12, 1973 (Thursday)

July 13, 1973 (Friday)

July 14, 1973 (Saturday)

  • The 1973 British Grand Prix is won by Peter Revson, after eleven drivers are forced to retire because of an accident in the first lap when Jody Scheckter's car spins out of fourth place and into the center of the track coming out of Woodcote (the final corner), causing many other cars to collide and crash. The race is stopped at the end of the second lap and restarted over the original distance. Andrea de Adamich subsequently retired from the sport as a result of the injuries he received in the first lap accident.

July 15, 1973 (Sunday)

July 16, 1973 (Monday)

July 17, 1973 (Tuesday)

July 18, 1973 (Wednesday)

July 19, 1973 (Thursday)

  • The Panamanian supply vessel Nordic Service collides with the Finnish ship Finn Trader and sinks off Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom, with the loss of two of her twelve crew.[11][12]

July 20, 1973 (Friday)

July 21, 1973 (Saturday)

July 22, 1973 (Sunday)

July 23, 1973 (Monday)

July 24, 1973 (Tuesday)

July 25, 1973 (Wednesday)

July 26, 1973 (Thursday)

July 27, 1973 (Friday)

July 28, 1973 (Saturday)

July 29, 1973 (Sunday)

July 30, 1973 (Monday)

  • £20 million compensation is paid to victims of Thalidomide following an 11-year court case.[17]
  • The strangled body of 20-year-old Ronnie Wiebe, is discarded beside an onramp to the 405 Freeway, two days after the young man had disappeared. Welt marks on Wiebe's wrists and ankles suggest that he had been bound and suspended from a device before his murder.[18] Wiebe is later identified as one of the victims of serial killer Randy Steven Kraft, the so-called "Freeway Killer".

July 31, 1973 (Tuesday)

References

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  2. Jan Onofrio (1 January 2001). Missouri Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-403-09598-8.
  3. Kerry Thomas; Janet Chan (29 November 2013). Handbook of Research on Creativity. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-85793-981-4.
  4. Richard S. Warren; Richard Warren; Andrew Davis (1 January 2002). Begins with the Oboe: A History of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. University of Toronto Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8020-3588-2.
  5. http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/movies/lald.php3 Archived 16 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Cowen, Michael, and Liisa Laakso. Multi-Party Elections in Africa. New York: Palgrave, 2001. pp. 62-63
  7. David Kynaston (18 April 2011). WG's Birthday Party. A&C Black. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4088-1749-0.
  8. "1973: Bahamas' sun sets on British Empire". BBC News. 9 July 1973. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  9. "British cruise liner aground again". The Times (58862). London. 16 August 1973. col A, p. 1.
  10. Saros series 148
  11. "Search goes on for seamen". The Times (58838). London. 19 July 1973. col G, p. 2.
  12. "Nordic Service (+1973)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  13. Total Baseball, 5th ed., 1997, Viking Press, Thorn, John et al. ed, p. 253
  14. 1973 All-Star Game, baseball-almanac.com; accessed 27 September 2008
  15. "No. 45770". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 September 1972. p. 10570.
  16. grandprix.com David Purley Profile
  17. "1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims". BBC News. 30 July 1973. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
  18. TruTV p. 4
  19. "1973: Chaotic meeting of Belfast Assembly". BBC News. 31 July 1973. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.
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