What Happened In August 1973 In History

Historical Events for August, 1973

• 2nd » A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland disaster e.g Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• 8th » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is Kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung known as kidnapped.
• 14th » The Constitution of Pakistan named Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
• 15th » Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
• 23rd » A Norrmalmstorg robbery or bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".

Famous Birthdays on August in 1973

• 1st » Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player and coach
• 1st » Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
• 1st » Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
• 1st » Eduardo Noriega (Spanish actor) called Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
• 1st » Kris Holden-Ried, Canadian actor
• 1st » Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
• 2nd » Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer, created 'Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan'
• 2nd » Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer
• 2nd » Miguel Mendonca, Zimbabwean journalist and author
• 3rd » Jay Cutler (bodybuilder) named Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder
• 3rd » Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
• 3rd » Michael Ealy, American actor
• 3rd » Stephen Graham (actor) named Stephen Graham, English actor
• 4th » Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral (band) called Amaral)
• 4th » Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
• 4th » Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
• 4th » Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
• 5th » Sanwar Hossain, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 5th » Justin Marshall, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 5th » Sean Sherk, American mixed martial artist
• 6th » Vera Farmiga, American actress
• 6th » Monica Goodling, American lawyer
• 6th » Max Kellerman, American sportscaster and radio host
• 6th » Donna Lewis, Welsh singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 6th » Karenna Gore Schiff, American lawyer, journalist, and author
• 6th » Iain Morris, English screenwriter and producer
• 7th » Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (Korol i Shut) (d. 2013)
• 7th » Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
• 7th » Zane Lowe, New Zealand radio and television host
• 7th » Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
• 8th » Shane Lee, Australian cricketer and guitarist (Six & Out)
• 8th » Senta Moses, American actress
• 8th » Gert Olesk, Estonian footballer and manager
• 8th » Scott Stapp, American singer-songwriter and producer (Creed (band) known as Creed)
• 9th » Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
• 9th » Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor and director
• 9th » Gene Luen Yang, American author and illustrator
• 9th » Håvard Solbakken, Norwegian cross country skier
• 10th » Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
• 10th » Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
• 11th » Nigel Harman, English actor
• 11th » Carolyn Murphy, American model and actress
• 12th » Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi politician
• 12th » Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
• 12th » Jonathan Coachman, American basketball player, wrestler, and sportscaster
• 12th » Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player
• 12th » Richard Reid, English terrorist, attempted the 2001 shoe bomb plot
• 13th » Brittany Andrews, American porn actress, director, and producer
• 13th » Molly Henneberg, American journalist
• 13th » Eric Medlen, American race car driver (d. 2007)
• 14th » Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
• 14th » Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer, voice actor, and composer, created 'Guilty Gear'
• 14th » Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
• 14th » Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
• 15th » Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Indian actor
• 15th » Atom Willard, American drummer (The Offspring, Rocket from the Crypt, Danko Jones, and The Special Goodness)
• 16th » Damian Jackson, American baseball player
• 18th » Paulo Schroeber, Brazilian guitarist (Almah (band) named Almah, Astafix, and Hammer 67) (d. 2014)
• 18th » Carmen Serano, American actress
• 19th » Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
• 19th » Clayton Counts, American DJ and composer (Bull of Heaven)
• 19th » Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
• 19th » Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
• 20th » Alban Bushi, Albanian footballer
• 20th » Alexandre Finazzi, Brazilian footballer
• 20th » Scott Goodman, Australian swimmer
• 20th » Todd Helton, American baseball player
• 20th » Cameron Mather, New Zealand rugby player
• 20th » José Paniagua, Dominican baseball player
• 20th » Donn Swaby, American actor
• 21st » Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
• 21st » Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 21st » Nikolai Valuev, Russian boxer
• 22nd » Sornram Teppitak, Thai actor
• 22nd » Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 22nd » Beenie Man, Jamaican rapper and producer
• 22nd » Kristen Wiig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 22nd » Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 23rd » Casey Blake, American baseball player
• 23rd » Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
• 24th » Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 24th » Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
• 24th » Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
• 24th » Grey DeLisle, American voice actress and singer
• 24th » Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and singer
• 25th » Fatih Akın, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 26th » Richard Evatt, English boxer (d. 2012)
• 27th » Jazz (wrestler) e.g Jazz, American wrestler
• 27th » Cory Bowles, Canadian actor, singer, and choreographer
• 27th » Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
• 27th » Dietmar Hamann, German footballer and manager
• 27th » Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 27th » Johan Norberg, Swedish historian and author
• 28th » Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
• 28th » Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor
• 29th » Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist (Anathema (band) known as Anathema)
• 29th » Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
• 29th » Adam Sessler, American television host and producer
• 31st » Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Famous Deaths for August 1973

• 1st » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1st » Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
• 2nd » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 3rd » Richard Marshall (general) e.g Richard Marshall, American general (b. 1895)
• 6th » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th List of Presidents of Cuba known as President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 6th » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1897)
• 7th » Jack Gregory (cricketer) named Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 8th » Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
• 8th » Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 12th » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 12th » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 14th » Fred Gipson, American author (b. 1908)
• 16th » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 17th » Conrad Aiken, American author and poet (b. 1889)
• 17th » Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
• 17th » Paul Williams (The Temptations) named Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
• 22nd » Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
• 25th » Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
• 31st » John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)

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