WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1973
Find out what all happened July to August 1973

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

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

Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. (16. July 1973)

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

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

In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. (21. 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 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". (23. August 1973)

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

King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. (17. July 1973)

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

John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. (10. July 1973)

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

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

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

Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. (11. July 1973)