August 1973

The following events occurred in August 1973:

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August 15, 1973: U.S. combat in Southeast Asia ends as bombing of Cambodia halts at 10:45 a.m.
Bomb craters still were visible in Cambodia more than 40 years later [1]

August 1, 1973 (Wednesday)

August 2, 1973 (Thursday)
  • A flash fire killed 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.[9] The four-level building had 4,000 people inside at the time, where hundreds had been attending a rock concert, when a series of explosions went off and the fires began.[10][11][12]
  • Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States, was notified by a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, George Beall, of a federal investigation, unrelated to the Watergate scandal, for possible violations of bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud arising from receipt of "kickbacks" from persons who benefited from his help. The Washington Post broke revealed on August 7 that Agnew was being accused of federal crimes.[13]
  • The nine-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1973 opened with the prime ministers of 32 British Commonwealth nations, hosted at Ottawa by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.[14] On the first full day of business, the leaders vote, 31 to 0, to seek a total ban on atomic bomb testing. On August 9, the ministers voted unanimously in favor of black majority rule in Rhodesia.[15][16]

August 3, 1973 (Friday)
  • Four residents were killed and 12 injured when the former Grand Central Hotel in New York City collapsed. At the time of its 1870 opening, it was New York City's most elegant lodging and the largest hotel in the U.S., but had deteriorated more than a century later and was a residential apartment building, the University Hotel, at the time of the accident. The eight-story, 400-room building fell shortly after 5:00 in the afternoon. Most of the 308 persons registered as living at the building had escaped after rumbling began and plaster began falling, but 16 failed to heed warnings to get out.[17][18]
  • James Dreymala of Pasadena, Texas, age 13, became the final murder victim of serial killer Dean Corll. Dreymala had left his home on a bicycle and telephoned his parents to tell them that he was "staying at an all night party." His body was found in a boat shed in Houston, along with the bicycle, five days later.[19]
  • Born: Stephen Graham, English character actor known for This Is England and its sequels; in Kirkby, Lancashire

August 4, 1973 (Saturday)

August 5, 1973 (Sunday)
A mockup of the Mars 6 lander
  • The Soviet Union launched the Mars 6 probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft would reach the planet Mars seven months later on March 12, 1974, releasing a lander which would return data for 224 seconds during its descent through the Martian atmosphere before crashing on the surface. Much of the data that was transmitted was unusable.[23]
  • The Black September terrorist group threw a hand grenade into a crowded passenger lounge at the airport in Athens and fired pistols, killing three people and injuring 55.[24]
  • In Iceland, at a farm near Dragháls, in a group of Norse worshipers revived the tradition of the "blót" for the first time since the violent blood sacrifice had been outlawed in the year 1000. The group, the Ásatrúarfélagið held ceremonies in front of a plaster statue of the Norse god Thor.[25][26]
  • Born: Sean Sherk, American mixed martial arts competitor and UFC Lightweight champion 2006 to 2007; in St. Francis, Minnesota
  • Died: Vander Broadway, 74, American female impersonator, high-wire performer and trapeze artist who was billed as "Barbette", took an overdose of painkillers to commit suicide.[27]

August 6, 1973 (Monday)
  • With 10 days left before the halt of U.S. bombing of Cambodia, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber mistakenly bombed a Cambodian Navy base at Neak Luong, killing more than 137 Cambodian servicemen and their families, and wounding 208.[28][29]
  • Skylab 3 astronaut Jack R. Lousma almost doubled the record for a space walk, spending 6 hours and 31 minutes outside of the Skylab space station 270 miles (430 km) above the Earth. Lousma had only expected to spend 3½ hours in deploying a sun shield but encountered difficulties in getting it set up. The previous record had been on June 7 when Charles Conrad Jr. of Skylab 1 and spent 3 hours and 23 minutes outside the space station.[30]
  • The Senate of Pakistan (the Aiwān-e-Bālā), with 45 members, met for the first time after a new constitution changed the unicameral Constituent Assembly to a bicameral parliament. Samia Usman Fatah took the oath of office as the first woman Senator in Pakistan.
  • Musician Stevie Wonder and his friend, John Harris, were injured when their vehicle collided with a truck loaded with logs near Salisbury, North Carolina. Wonder was being driven to Durham, where he was scheduled to perform a concert at the Duke University arena.[31] For four days, Wonder was in a coma caused by severe brain contusion.[32]
  • Born: Vera Farmiga, American TV, stage and film actress; in Clifton, New Jersey
  • Died:
    • Fulgencio Batista, 72, former Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro at the end of 1958.[33]
    • James Beck, 44, British television and film actor and comedian known for the role of Private Walker in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, died suddenly from an attack of pancreatitis after making a public appearance.
    • Wilmoth Houdini (stage name for Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks), 77, Trinidadian-born U.S. calypso singer and recording artist

August 7, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • A plea for help over citizens band radio, by a boy by the name of Larry purporting to be stranded inside an overturned truck with his dead father in New Mexico, sparked a search-and-rescue mission in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[34][35] A massive search would be undertaken for five days before being called off on August 12 with no further calls after that, and the Federal Communications Commission would eventually conclude that the broadcast had been a hoax.[36]
  • Zhores Medvedev, a biologist exiled from the Soviet Union and living in London, had his Soviet citizenship revoked and was ordered to surrender his passport to the Soviet Embassy. The next day, TASS, the Communist government's news agency, said that Medvedev had been "fabricating, sending to the West and spreading slanderous materials discrediting the Soviet state and social system and the Soviet people."[37]
  • Hermine Braunsteiner became the first convicted Nazi war criminal in the U.S. to be extradited to West Germany for trial. She was found after Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal had learned that she was living in New York City as Mrs. Hermine Ryan.[38]
  • Died: José Villalonga, 53, coach and manager of the Spanish soccer football team

August 8, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • Police in Houston, Texas, learned for the first time of the murders committed by serial killer Dean Corll, after Corll's accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, led them to a shallow grave and told them that he had shot and killed Corll. In excavating the spot at a boat storage yard, excavations found the bodies of eight people, including those of three teenagers who had been missing.[39] In the days that followed, more human remains would be found.[40] Henley, 17, and another accomplice, David Owen Brooks, 18, were indicted by a grand jury for murder six days later, on August 14.[41]
Kim Dae-jung campaign poster, 1971

August 9, 1973 (Thursday)
  • Near the Egyptian oasis town of Faiyum, 23 people were killed and 12 injured when the bus they were on fell into a canal after the driver swerved to avoid hitting a donkey.[46]
  • The Soviet Union launched its Mars 7 interplanetary probe, with a goal of landing on the planet Mars. On March 9, 1974, the probe would reach Mars and release the lander, but because of a retrorocket failure, the lander would miss the atmosphere and instead fly past the planet at no closer than 1,300 kilometres (810 mi).[47]
  • The "Nantua Pillar", a 135 feet (41 m) high, 12,000 ton granite boulder that had served as a local landmark and had hung for more than a century over the French town of Nantua in the Ain département, fell from its mountainside location, 65 minutes after 1,500 of the town's 3,500 residents had been evacuated.[48]
  • Europe's first Tandy electronics store (branded in the United States as RadioShack) opened in Belgium in the Antwerp suburb of Aartselaar.
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August 10, 1973 (Friday)
  • The Skylab 3 astronauts were able to capture the most detailed photograph of a solar flare up to that time.[49]
  • The Israeli Air Force intercepted Iraqi Airways Flight 006A shortly after it took off from the airport in Beirut with 74 passengers and a crew of eight, taking the group back home to Baghdad at the end of their vacation. Avoiding a repeat of the shootdown of a Libyan airliner earlier in the year, Israel successfully directed the Iraqi airplane to land at a secret airfield and held the group for eight hours. The Israeli forces had confused the flight with another Caravelle jet, Iraqi Airways Flight 006, which was believed to be bringing Palestinian guerrilla leaders to Lebanon from Vienna.[50] Israel's act of forcing down a civilian airliner outside of its airspace was criticized worldwide, and even the U.S. joined in the UN Security Council resolution on August 15 condemning Israel, marking the first time in five years that the U.S. had sided against its ally.[51]
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  • Died:
    • Jean Hanson, 53, British biophysicist and co-discoverer of the "sliding filament theory" of muscle contraction from her microscopic study of muscle fibers, died of meningococcal septicaemia, an infection of the brain tissue.
    • Shwe U Daung, 83, popular Burmese mystery story author who created the fictional detective U San Shar
    • Lillian Roxon, 41, Australian author and journalist known for the first encyclopedia of rock music, Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, died of an asthma attack

August 11, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Clive Campbell, a Jamaican-born American musician who performed under the stage name DJ Kool Herc, originated the hip hop music genre at a party that he and his younger sister Cindy Campbell had organized, the "Back to School Jam" held at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx in New York City.[52][53]
  • At Minsk, the Soviet Red Army announced that seven former soldiers had been convicted in court-martial proceedings of collaboration with German Nazi invaders of the Byelorussian S.S.R. (now Belarus) during World War II. Four were sentenced to death, and the others were given prison terms ranging from 10 to 15 years.[54]
  • In one of the rare clashes between warships during the "Cod Wars" between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights, the Iceland Coast Guard patrol vessel ICGV Óðinn rammed the Royal Navy frigate HMS Andromeda in the disputed area more than 12 nautical miles (14 mi) from the Icelandic coast.[55]
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August 12, 1973 (Sunday)
  • U.S. Golfer Jack Nicklaus won his 3rd PGA Championship, his 12th major title of the four major championships of golf. Nicklaus had most recently won the Masters Tournament (his 4th) and the U.S. Open (his 3rd) in 1972, and the British Open in (his 2nd) in 1970. Nicklaus finished four strokes ahead of Australia's Bruce Crampton, who had finished second to Nicklaus in 1972 in the Masters and the U.S. Open.[57]
  • Born: Han Jae-suk, South Korean television actor; in Seoul
  • Died:
    • Karl Ziegler, 74, German biochemist and 1963 Nobel Prize laureate for his work in micromolecular chemistry.[58]
    • Larry G. Smith, 31, American race car driver and 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year, was killed in a crash at the Talladega 500 race in Alabama.[59]
    • Dayanand Bandodkar, 62, Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Goa, in office since its annexation in 1963

August 13, 1973 (Monday)

August 14, 1973 (Tuesday)

August 15, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • The American bombing of Cambodia halted at 10:45 in the morning local time (0445 UTC), after a final round of U.S. Air Force bombardment of suspected Khmer Rouge guerrilla enclaves. The halt, originally set for one minute after midnight Washington D.C., officially ended 12 years of American combat in Southeast Asia.[67] During the six and a half months since the Vietnam ceasefire had gone into effect on January 28, the U.S. had dropped 240,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia in 34,410 raids at a cost of $442,800,000.[68] The final mission was flown by two A-7 Corsair jets, whose pilots were Major John Hoskins and Captain Lonnie Ratley. Captain Ratley's plane was the last to land at Korat Air Base in Thailand, but he told reporters that Major Hoskins had dropped the last bombs.[69]
  • The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that, for the first time in more than three years, the balance of payments in the country was positive, as the nation's income was greater than its outflow.[70]
  • U.S. President Richard M. Nixon delivered a nationally-televised address about the Watergate scandal for the first time, calling on the nation to end its "continued backward-looking obsession with Watergate" and to focus on "matters of far greater importance to all of the American people." Nixon said that he had no prior knowledge of the attempt to place listening devices in Democratic Party headquarters and that he had no knowledge of an attempt to cover-up the scandal until March 21, 1973. He said also that he would not turn over his tape recordings of White House conversations because to do so "would set a precedent that would cripple future Presidents by inhibiting conversations between them and those they look to for advice."[71]
  • In the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) departed "Yankee Station", a fixed point at sea located 65 miles (105 km) from the coast of North Vietnam. Constellation was the last aircraft carrier to operate at the point, where American aircraft carriers had gathered since 1966.
  • The ITV television network broadcast the first episode of the British situation comedy Man About the House, about single man Robin Tripp (Richard O'Sullivan) sharing a flat with two single women, Chrissy Paula Wilcox and Jo Sally Thomsett in a building owned by the Ropers (Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy), with Robin pretending to be gay in order to avoid the owners' objections.[72] The format would be adapted for American audiences as Three's Company in 1977.
  • The members of the rock band "Sick Man of Europe" renamed the act "Cheap Trick", after playing a concert in Bettendorf, Iowa the evening before.[73] Bassist Tom Petersson coined the new name after commenting that the British rock band Slade had "used every cheap trick in the book" during a concert that he had attended.[74]
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August 16, 1973 (Thursday)

August 17, 1973 (Friday)

August 18, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Aeroflot Flight A-13 crashed in the Soviet Union shortly after the An-24B turboprop took off from Baku, in the Azerbaijani SSR, to Fort-Shevchenko in the Kazakh SSR, killing 56 of the 64 passengers and crew. The left engine failed as the airplane lifted off, and as the pilot steered to the left in order to attempt an emergency landing, the left wingtip struck a cable at 120 feet (37 m).[83]
Goalkeeper Gordon Banks
  • In soccer football, Gordon Banks, the goalkeeper for the England national football team and for Stoke City F.C., announced his retirement from the sport on the eve of the new season.[84] Described by the press as "the world's greatest goalkeeper",[85] had lost the sight in one eye after a car accident in October.
  • The annual All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio was won by a 14-year-old boy from Boulder, Colorado, who finished the downhill race in his homemade unpowered car and won a $7,500 college scholarship.[86] The victory was taken away two days later for cheating, after race officials found that the user's car had an electromagnet that allowed it to be pulled forward as the track's metal starting plate fell, allowing him a slight head-start against the other competitors.[87]
  • Born: Victoria Coren, English writer, television presenter and poker player, in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of journalist Alan Coren
  • Died: Alice Stevenson, 112, the oldest resident of the United Kingdom ever, up to that time.[88]

August 19, 1973 (Sunday)
  • A three-month ban on the sale of beef went into effect in the South American nation of Uruguay as a measure to boost the country's exports of beef. Sales of beef were still allowed for the military, for hospitals, and for charitable organizations.[89]
  • George Papadopoulos was sworn in as President of Greece after his June 1 overthrow of the monarchy had been confirmed by voters in a referendum.[90]
  • Bruce Lee's final martial arts film before his death, Enter the Dragon, premiered in the United States 30 days after his death on July 20, and would become one of the most profitable movies of all time, with revenues of $400,000,000 after being filmed with a budget of $850,000.
  • Born: Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway; as Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby in Kristiansand
  • Died: Willy Rey (stage name for Wilhelmina Rietveld), 23, Dutch-born Canadian model and Playboy magazine feature in February 1971, died of an overdose of barbiturates.

August 20, 1973 (Monday)
  • In the Kingdom of Laos, former Laotian Army General Thao Ma led 60 officers in an attempt to overthrow the government. Arriving in the capital, Vientiane, he and his group took over the Wattay International Airport and seized several AT-28 fighter bombers and tried, unsuccessfully, to bomb the home and office of Major General Kouprasith Abhay. While General Thao was still in flight, Royal Laotian troops retook the airport and his airplane was shot down as he was attempting to land. He was rescued and survived the crash, but then put into a truck where he was driven to Kouprasith's headquarters, where he was executed by one of Kouprasith's bodyguards.[91] The Laotian government executed 11 other coup participants the next day by firing squad.[92][93]
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Dismissed from China's Politburo, Huang Yongsheng and Li Zuopeng

August 21, 1973 (Tuesday)

August 22, 1973 (Wednesday)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rogers out, Kissinger in
  • The resignation of William P. Rogers as U.S. Secretary of State was announced by President Nixon, who said that he would nominate his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, to the position. Rogers, the only member of Nixon's first Cabinet who was still in office, formally departed on September 4 to return to a private law practice.[100]
  • In Chile the Chamber of Deputies voted overwhelmingly, 81 to 47, to condemn President Salvador Allende for violations of the South American nation's constitution during the attempts to suppress nationwide strikes. While the Deputies had sufficient votes in favor of an impeachment trial, and the Allende's opposition had 30 of the 50 seats in the Chilean Senate, the opposition Senators were still four votes short of the necessary 34 votes necessary for a two-thirds majority to remove Allende from office.[101] The Chilean military would take their own action to remove Allende from office 20 days later.[102]
  • The crash in Colombia of an Avianca DC-3 killed 16 of the 17 people on board, after it crashed into a hillside following its departure from Villavicencio to Yopal.[103]
  • Born: Kristen Wiig, American actress and comedienne known for Saturday Night Live, and film screenwriter known for Bridesmaids; in Canandaigua, New York

August 23, 1973 (Thursday)
The Kreditbanken building
  • The Norrmalmstorg robbery, the first criminal event in Sweden covered by live television, began in Stockholm as Jan-Erik Olsson entered the Kreditbanken bank on Norrmalmstorg Square, displayed a sub-machine gun, and took four employees hostage.[104] After firing three shots and responding policemen, he demanded that the police release convicted robber Clark Olofsson, that the two be provided three million Swedish krona (equivalent at the time to $650,000 U.S.), and that they be provided a car and free passage to a flight out of Sweden, all of which was done. The police balked, however, at allowing the duo to take a hostage with them to the airport. Police would lock the two robbers and four hostages inside the bank's vault as the standoff continued, and would end the incident with a tear gas assault after five days.[105] The incident would become famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome, referring to hostages becoming sympathetic to their captors, in that the four hostages refused to testify against Olsson and Olofsson.
  • A nationwide railway strike was called in Canada by the Associated Railway Unions.[106] Canada's Parliament forced a settlement after nine days to end the strike.[107]
  • An epidemic of cholera began in Italy from polluted seafood, as contaminated mussels caused several cases in Naples. By September 3, the illness had spread to West Germany [108] and had killed 18 people in Italy alone.[109]
  • The Association of Tennis Professionals began publishing its weekly rankings of men's professional tennis players, using a computerized system based points assigned for a player's average finishes in the previous 52 weeks in tournaments (which were, in turn, assigned different values based on prized). The first rankings were done in advance of the U.S. Open, with Ilie Nastase of Romania at the top of a list of 186 players who had been in at least 12-tournaments in a year.[110]

August 24, 1973 (Friday)

August 25, 1973 (Saturday)
  • The receipt of a large number of letter bombs in the mail, all sent from West London, began with the sending to department stores of 4 ounces (110 g) of explosives hidden in ordinary envelopes. According to Scotland Yard, each of the bombs "was hidden inside a BBC music pamphlet", with the explosive charge detonating as soon as the book was opened.[114][115] On August 27, a bomb mailed to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. exploded, causing a secretary to lose her left hand and mangling her right hand.[116] and the British government issued a worldwide alert the next day.[117]
  • The North American Soccer League, the major professional soccer football league in North America, played its championship game, with a new team, the Philadelphia Atoms, defeating the Dallas Tornado, 2 to 0 before a crowd of 18,824 at Texas Stadium. Englishman John Best, playing for Dallas, made the first score, albeit for the other side on an accidental own goal at the 65 minute mark. Bill Straub, a U.S. player for the Atoms, made the other goal with five minutes to play.[118]
  • At the World University Games in Moscow, the U.S. national basketball team avenged the 51-50 loss of the U.S. in the 1972 Summer Olympics by beating the Soviet Union (whose team had six of the 1972 Olympic gold medalists), 75 to 67.[119]
  • A team from Tainan in Taiwan won the Little League World Series after Huang Ching-huy, who had pitched a perfect game at the beginning of the 8-team tournament, threw his third consecutive no-hitter, defeating the U.S. West team from Tucson, Arizona, 12 to 0.[120]

August 26, 1973 (Sunday)

August 27, 1973 (Monday)
  • The ruins of the famous U.S. Navy ironclad gunboat USS Monitor were found more than 110 years after the vessel had sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off of the coast of Cape Hatteras at North Carolina.[123] On March 8, 1862, during the U.S. Civil War, the Monitor had defeated the CSS Virginia, the Confederate Navy's most powerful vessel, and an adaptation of the USS Merrimack, in a battle memorialized as "Monitor vs. Merrimac". Monitor sank in a storm less than 10 months later, on December 21, 1862, with the loss of 16 of its crew.
  • All 42 people aboard and Aerocóndor Colombia turboprop airplane were killed when the Lockheed L-188A Electra airplane crashed into the side of a mountain three minutes after taking off from Bogota on a flight to Cartagena.[124]
  • The Barringer Trophy, awarded for the longest distance soaring flight from any type of launching method other than airplane tow, was regained by its holder, Wallace Scott II, after a flight of 639 miles (1,028 km) from Odessa, Texas, to Kearney, Nebraska, in a Schleicher ASW 12.[125]
  • The 14-team National Hockey League announced that it would expand to 16 and realign from two divisions to four for the 1974-1975 season.[126]

August 28, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • A 7.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 539 people after striking the Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla.[127] Hardest hit were the city of Orizaba in Veracruz, where a 12-story-tall apartment building collapsed and killed over 100 people, and the town of Ciudad Serdán in Puebla.[128]
  • The Delhi Agreement between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was signed by the foreign ministers of the three adjacent nations in India in order to provide for the voluntary repatriation of persons held in each nation who wished to return home, including former Bengali East Pakistan (which became Bangladesh) bureaucrats and officers who had been interned in West Pakistan (which remained as Pakistan), as well as people in Urdu language speakers in Bangladesh who wished to relocate to Pakistan, and several thousand Pakistan prisoners of war incarcerated in India.[129][130]
  • American commercial diver Paul J. Havlena died of a pneumothorax from a pulmonary barotrauma while in saturation and conducting a bell dive from the pipe laying and derrick barge L.B. Meaders to perform non-routine maintenance on a pipeline in the North Sea.[131] Havlena's death was caused by a malfunction in his breathing equipment, resulting in a pressure imbalance in his diving helmet.[132]
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August 29, 1973 (Wednesday)

August 30, 1973 (Thursday)
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New Chinese Politburo members Wang Hongwen and Hua Guofeng

August 31, 1973 (Friday)

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  51. "Israel Censured by U.N. for Air Action— Council Ballot Unanimous as U.S. Supports Measure", by Don Shannon, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1973, p. I-1
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  56. "Actress Peggie Castle Dies at 45", Milwaukee Journal, August 12, 1973. p. 1
  57. "Alone at the Top: Nicklaus Wins PGA for Record", Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1973, p. III-1
  58. "Nobel winner dies", Honolulu Advertiser, August 13, 1973, p. 2
  59. "Brooks Scores Surprise Win; Driver Killed", Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1973, p. III-4
  60. "All 85 Aboard Die in Crash of Spanish Jet— Plane Filled With Vacationers Hits Tree, Explodes Near Fogbound Airport", Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1973, p. I-4
  61. "Freeze Ends Tonight; Inflation Surge Seen", Los Angeles Times, August 12, 1973, p. I-5
  62. "Central Chile Blacked Out in Power Sabotage", Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1973, p. I-4
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  67. "Longest Air War Ends in Indochina— U.S. Bombing Halt Leaves Lon Nol Regime to Fight Insurgents Alone", Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1973, p. I-1
  68. "7.4 Million Tons of Bombs Dropped in 9 Years— Pentagon", Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1973, p. I-1
  69. "Pilots Win a Footnote in History", Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1973, p. I-5
  70. "U.S. Has Surplus in Dollar Inflow— First Since 1969", Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1973, p. I-1
  71. "Let Courts Decide Watergate, Help Me in Mandate— Nixon", by Ronald J. Ostrow, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1973, p. I-1
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  75. "Tipsy Arab Gunman Hijacks Jet to Israel in 'Brotherhood' Act", Los Angeles Times, August 17, 1973, p. I-1
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  84. "Gordon Banks quits first class soccer", Liverpool Echo, August 18, 1973, p. 19
  85. "Bordon Banks Quits After Eye Injury", Los Angeles Times, August 19, 1973, p.III-8
  86. "Victory 'Shocks' Soapbox Champ", AP report in Vincennes (IN) Sun-Commercial, August 19, 1973, p.17
  87. "Nothing Sacred! Soapbox Derby Winner Cheats; Disqualified", AP report in St. Joseph (MI) Herald-Press, August 21, 1973, p.1
  88. "Oldest Briton Dies at Age 112, 39 Days", Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1973, p. I-4 (While UK native Betsy Baker had died in 1955 at age 113, 65 days, she had emigrated to Nebraska in the U.S. before her death.)
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  90. "Papadopoulos Acts to Restore Liberties as Greek President", Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1973, p. I-2
  91. "Laotian Forces Pursue Last of Coup Rebels— Negotiations With Pathet Lao in Question; Vientiane Reports Rightist Leader Dead", Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1973, p. I-12
  92. "Laos Squad Executes 11 Rebels in Coup Attempt— Ex-Air Force Colonel, 10 Others Shot", Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1973, p. I-5
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  94. "Mexico Floods May Leave Over 200 Dead", Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1973, p.I-7
  95. "7-Foot High Wall of Water Drowns 300 In Irapuato", UPI report in Napa (CA) Register, August 23, 1973, p. 3A ("The disaster struck this central Mexico city of 180,000 persons Monday...")
  96. "Ziegler Gets Shove From Boss", AP report in Pensacola (FL) News, August 21, 1973, p. 2A
  97. "Nixon shoves Press Secretary Ron Ziegler", YouTube.com
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  100. "Nixon Replies on Watergate; Kissinger to Succeed Rogers", Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1973, p. I-1
  101. "Legislators: Allende Overstepping the Law", AP report in Miami Herald, August 23, 1973, p. 8-B
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  105. "Gas Routs Gunmen in Swedish Bank; All Four Hostages Safe", Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1973, p. I-1
  106. "National Rail Strike Called in Canada", Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1973, p. I-2
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  108. "Cholera That Killed 14 in Italy Invades Sardinia, Germany", Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1973, p.I-1
  109. "Cholera Death Toll in Italy Reaches 18", Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1973, p.I-1
  110. "The Rankings That Changed Tennis (Part I)", ATPTour.com, August 23, 2018
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  115. "Paperback letter bombs most lethal yet, say police". The Guardian. London. August 22, 1973. p. 6.
  116. "Letter Bomb Explosion Rocks British Embassy in Washington— Woman Secretary Loses Hand as Envelope Blows Up; RAF Plane Flew It From Britain, Where It Was Mailed". Los Angeles Times. August 28, 1973. p. I-1.
  117. "Britain Calls Biggest Postwar Bomb Alert— Embassies Abroad Told to Be on Emergency Lookout". Los Angeles Times. August 28, 1973. p. I-1.
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  119. "U.S. Defeats Russia for Basketball Title". Los Angeles Times. August 25, 1973. p. I-1.
  120. "Taiwan Wins Little League Title on 3rd Straight No-Hitter". Los Angeles Times. August 28, 1973. p. III-2.
  121. "50 hurt in bomb blast in Ulster", by Patrick Carville, Chicago Tribune, August 27, 1973
  122. "Feminists Start Hall of Fame", Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1973, p. I-5
  123. "Monitor 150th Anniversary - Discovery of the Monitor".
  124. "Colombia Airline Crash Kills 40; 4 From U.S.", Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1973, p. I-10
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  126. "NHL Realigns Teams Into Four Divisions", Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1973, p. III-2
  127. "Mexico Quake Toll May Exceed 575— Thousands Hurt and Homeless in Central States", by Francis B. Kent, Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1973, p. I-1
  128. "12-Story Apartment Collapses in Temblor; 100 Occupants Perish", Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1973, p. I-1
  129. "India, Pakistan Sign Pact to Free POWs— Main Bar to Bangladesh War Settlement Removed", Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1973, p. I-1
  130. "The Indo-Pakistani Agreement of August 28, 1973", by Howard S. Levie, American Journal of International Law (January 1974) pp. 95-97
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  134. "Regulations on deep-sea work to be considered after near-disaster". The Times. No. 58877. London. 3 September 1973. col E-G, p. 1.
  135. "Champagne flows after rescue from the deep". The Times. No. 58877. London. 3 September 1973. col D-G, p. 2.
  136. "AF Cargo Jet Crashes in Spain; 24 Perish— Plane Was Carrying Wives and Children of Servicemen; Only One Person Survives", Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1973, p. I-7
  137. "Wang Boosted to 3rd Behind Mao and Chou", Los Angeles Times, August 31, 1973, p. I-9
  138. "Michael Dunn, 3½-foot actor, dies in London", Baltimore Sun, August 31, 1973, p. 9
  139. "Rights Leader Target of New Soviet Attack", Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1973, p. I-19
  140. "Director John Ford, Winner of Six Academy Awards, Dies", by Robert Rawitch, Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1973, p. I-1
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