WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1973
Find out what all happened June to August 1973

A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89. (31. July 1973)

A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. (2. August 1973)

A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. (23. June 1973)

Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. (15. August 1973)

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. (28. July 1973)

The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect. (14. August 1973)

The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'etat, commencing 17 years of military rule. (22. August 1973)

A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. (12. July 1973)

Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. (8. August 1973)

Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. (29. July 1973)

National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. (10. July 1973)

During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tyre failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. (29. July 1973)

A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters. (5. July 1973)

Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in. (13. July 1973)

Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. (25. July 1973)

In horseracing, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown. (9. June 1973)

In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law. (21. June 1973)

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship. (27. June 1973)

Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. (20. June 1973)

The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. (10. July 1973)