June 1973

[June 1], 1973 (Friday)

• The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
• A Douglas DC-3 HI-117 of Aerovías Quisqueyanas crashes at Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
• Born: Adam Garcia, Australian actor, in Wahroonga, New South Wales; Heidi Klum, German model and actress, in Bergisch Gladbach

  [June 2], 1973 (Saturday)

• The Semaphore state by-election for the South Australian House of Assembly, caused by the death of Reginald Hurst, is won by the Australian Labor Party, with 71.9% of the vote.
• Born: Carlos Acosta, Cuban ballet dancer, in Havana

  [June 3], 1973 (Sunday)

• 1973 Paris Air Show crash: A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show. The aircraft had been heavily modified compared to the initial prototype, featuring engine nacelles split on either side of the fuselage, landing gear that retracted into the nacelles, and retractable foreplanes. The crash occurred in front of 250,000 people, including designer Alexei Tupolev, towards the end of the show, following a display by the pre-production Concorde aircraft. The aircraft appears to be making a landing approach, with the landing gear out and the "moustache" foreplanes extended, but then engages all four engines and climbs rapidly. Possibly stalling below, the aircraft pitches over and goes into a steep dive. Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive with the engines again at full power, the Tu-144 breaks up in mid-air, destroying 15 houses, and killing all six people on board the Tu-144 and eight more on the ground. Three children are among the dead, and sixty people are severely injured.

  [June 4], 1973 (Monday)

• A United States patent for the Docutel automated teller machine is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
• The U.S. Senate passes the Case–Church Amendment to prohibit intervention in Vietnam if the communist side violates the ceasefire.

  [June 5], 1973 (Tuesday)

• The Soviet satellite Kosmos 562 is successfully launched into low Earth orbit at 11:29:47 GMT, from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome,
• 1973 San Francisco Giants season: Johnnie LeMaster is drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 1st round of the 1973 amateur draft. Jeff Little is drafted by the Giants in the 3rd round of the 1973 Major League Baseball Draft.

  [June 6], 1973 (Wednesday)

• The first Polski Fiat 126p is constructed from Italian parts. The official price is 69,000 Polish złotys with PKO Bank Polski accepting pre-payments on savings books starting 5 February 1973.
• Died: Jimmy Clitheroe, 51, English entertainer, having taken an overdose of sleeping pills on the day of his mother's funeral.

  [June 7], 1973 (Thursday)

• HK-1061 of Aerolíneas TAO was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident on landing at El Dorado Airport, Bogotá.

  [June 8], 1973 (Friday)

• At the end of the 1972–73 Fußball-Bundesliga season, FC Bayern Munich, the defending champions win their fourth title.
• Died: Emmy Göring, 80, German actress and widow of Hermann Göring

  [June 9], 1973 (Saturday)

• Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
• The 1973 Giro d'Italia cycle race is won by Eddy Merckx.
• Died: John Creasey, 64, English crime writer

  [June 10], 1973 (Sunday)

• Born: Faith Evans, American singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional actress and author, in Lakeland, Florida; Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill, British servicewoman, the first to be killed in action for 22 years

  [June 11], 1973 (Monday)

• Cap-des-Rosiers Lighthouse is classified as a National Historic Site of Canada.
• Robert Stopford resigns as Bishop of London.
• Died: Sean Kenny, 43, Irish theatre designer

  [June 12], 1973 (Tuesday)

• 1973 Coleraine bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two carbombs in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, killing six people and injuring 33 others.

  [June 13], 1973 (Wednesday)

• The Soviet Union's Echo-class submarine K-56 collides with the ship Academician Berg and sinks in Peter the Great Gulf with the loss of 27 lives.
• Operation End Sweep: The United States and North Vietnam sign a joint communiqué in Paris which, among other things, requires that the United States resume minesweeping no later than 20 June and complete all minesweeping no later than 13 July.

  [June 14], 1973 (Thursday)

• Christian Calmes of Luxembourg ends his term as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union.

  [June 15], 1973 (Friday)

• A lunar eclipse occurs.
• The US destroyer escort ships USS Cromwell and USS Van Voorhis sold for scrap.

  [June 16], 1973 (Saturday)

• U.S. President Richard Nixon begins a series of talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
• Benjamin Britten's final opera, Death in Venice, receives its première at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh.

  [June 17], 1973 (Sunday)

• The 1973 Swedish Grand Prix motor race is won by Denny Hulme.
• In the final of the 1972–73 Greek Cup football competition, Olympiacos F.C. defeat PAOK F.C. 1-0.
• The submersible Johnson Sea Link becomes entangled on the wreckage of the off Key West, Florida.
• Born: Aurélie Filippetti, French politician and novelist, in Villerupt

  [June 18], 1973 (Monday)

• The First Presbyterian Church and Manse is added to the US National Register of Historic Places.
• Operation End Sweep resumes.
• The Johnson Sea Link submersible is brought to the surface, but two of the four men aboard die of carbon dioxide poisoning.

  [June 19], 1973 (Tuesday)

• The Rocky Horror Show is premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
• Malcolm Williamson's "cassation", The Winter Star, commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain, is premièred at the Holm Cultram Festival, directed by Andrew Seivewright.

  [June 20], 1973 (Wednesday)

• Aeroméxico Flight 229: A McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes into the side of a mountain while on approach to Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport at Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. All 22 passengers and five crew are killed.
• The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.

  [June 21], 1973 (Thursday)

• Two British soldiers are killed by IRA booby-trap bombs: one in an empty building on Lecky Road, Derry, and the other in an empty building in Strabane.
• Born: Zuzana Čaputová, elected president of Slovakia in 2019, in Bratislava; Juliette Lewis, US actress and singer, in Los Angeles

  [June 22], 1973 (Friday)

• W. Mark Felt retires from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  [June 23], 1973 (Saturday)

• Start of the Ethiopian general election, 1973.

  [June 24], 1973 (Sunday)

• Leonid Brezhnev is the first Soviet leader to address the American people on television.

  [June 25], 1973 (Monday)

• Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Erskine Hamilton Childers takes office as the 4th President of Ireland.
• Watergate scandal: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
• The supertanker Conoco Britannia runs aground off Immingham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, and is holed when her anchor pierces the hull. She is refloated the next day.

  [June 26], 1973 (Tuesday)

• At Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 9 persons are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
• The Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology is founded in Bangalore, India.

  [June 27], 1973 (Wednesday)

• 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état: President Juan María Bordaberry closes parliament and imposes direct rule by a junta of military generals.

  [June 28], 1973 (Thursday)

• Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• Nine people involved in a conspiracy at the Santiago Army garrison in Chile are arrested. Government Minister José Tohá releases news of the arrests to the media.

  [June 29], 1973 (Friday)

• El Tanquetazo: Army Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Souper, having learned that he would be relieved of his command for his part in the conspiracy exposed on the previous day, fails in an attempted coup against the government of Socialist President of Chile, Salvador Allende.

  [June 30], 1973 (Saturday)

• A very long total solar eclipse occurs in Africa. During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.
• The 60th Tour de France begins.
• Tropical Storm Wilda forms, marking the start of the 1973 Pacific typhoon season.
• Died: Nancy Mitford, 68, English novelist