December 1973

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The following events occurred in December 1973:

December 1, 1973 (Saturday)

December 2, 1973 (Sunday)

  • Born: Monica Seles, tennis player, in Novi Sad, Serbia (then Yugoslavia)

December 3, 1973 (Monday)

December 4, 1973 (Tuesday)

December 5, 1973 (Wednesday)

December 6, 1973 (Thursday)

December 7, 1973 (Friday)

  • Canada sells its first CANDU Reactor to South Korea
  • Born: Damien Rice, singer-songwriter, in Kildare, Ireland.

December 8, 1973 (Saturday)

December 9, 1973 (Sunday)

December 10, 1973 (Monday)

December 11, 1973 (Tuesday)

December 12, 1973 (Wednesday)

December 13, 1973 (Thursday)

December 14, 1973 (Friday)

  • Born: Thuy Trang, Vietnamese actress, in Saigon (died 2001)

December 15, 1973 (Saturday)

December 16, 1973 (Sunday)

December 17, 1973 (Monday)

  • Palestinian terrorists attack the terminal building at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, with automatic firearms and grenades, killing two people. They then throw grenades through the open doors of the Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-321B Clipper Celestial, operating as Flight 110 with 177 people on board, which is preparing to taxi for departure; 30 people aboard the plane die and 20 are injured. Five other gunmen storm a Lufthansa Boeing 737, bringing aboard 10 hostages and also taking hostage the crew of four.
  • Born: Rian Johnson, American filmmaker, in Silver Spring, Maryland; Paula Radcliffe, English athlete, in Davenham, Cheshire

December 18, 1973 (Tuesday)

  • After 16 hours on the ground, during which time they murder one hostage and injure another, Palestinian terrorists who attacked Rome airport the previous day dump the injured hostage and the body of the murdered one off the Lufthansa plane and order it to fly to Athens, Greece; the plane spends another 16 hours on the ground in Athens before proceeding to a landing at Damascus, Syria. Finally, the 737 flies to Kuwait, where the five hijackers release the 12 remaining hostages and are allowed to leave the plane. Over a year later, the hijackers are eventually placed in the custody of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which has promised to put them on trial for carrying out an "unauthorized operation"; their subsequent fate is unknown.
  • Islamic Development Bank created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective 12 August 1974).

December 19, 1973 (Wednesday)

  • The Oriental Monarch, a Liberian-registered cargo ship, founders 150 nautical miles (280 km) off Victoria, British Columbia, with the loss of all 40 crew.[9]

December 20, 1973 (Thursday)

  • Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the terrorist organization ETA.
  • Thirteen Harness racing drivers are arrested for allegedly conspiring to fix Superfecta races at Roosevelt and Yonkers Raceways in New York.[10]
  • Died: Bobby Darin, 37, American singer

December 21, 1973 (Friday)

  • The Geneva Conference opens under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary General, in an attempt to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
  • Died: James Stirratt Topping Kennedy, GC, 42, security guard for British Rail Engineering Limited, killed while trying to prevent a payroll robbery

December 22, 1973 (Saturday)

December 23, 1973 (Sunday)

  • OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.
  • The Argentine aircraft Aero Boero 260AG makes its first flight.

December 24, 1973 (Monday)

December 25, 1973 (Tuesday)

  • The US bulk carrier Elwood Mead runs aground on her maiden voyage, off Guernsey in the Channel Islands. She remains aground for 61 days until refloated on 24 February 1974.[11]
  • Died: İsmet İnönü, 89, Turkish Army General, former Prime Minister and President of Turkey; Gabriel Voisin, 93, French aviation pioneer

December 26, 1973 (Wednesday)

December 27, 1973 (Thursday)

  • 21-year-old British student Lucy Partington, a cousin of novelist Martin Amis,[12] is abducted by serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. She becomes one of their victims soon afterwards, but her fate is not discovered until her remains are found in 1994.

December 28, 1973 (Friday)

December 29, 1973 (Saturday)

  • Died: Cécile Cerf, 57, French Resistance fighter and humanitarian worker

December 30, 1973 (Sunday)

  • Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff. Despite being shot in the face at point blank range, Sieff survived his injuries.[13]

December 31, 1973 (Monday)

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gollark: Time to make a potatOS website!
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  2. Elections in Zambia African Elections Database
  3. British Economics and Trade Union politics 1973-1974 | The National Archives
  4. "1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed". BBC News. 1973-12-09. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
  5. United States-Department of State. Documents on Germany 1944-1985. Washington: Department of State, [s.d.], pp. 1256-1258.
  6. San Diego files antitrust conspiracy suit
  7. Wade, Mark. "DS-P1-I". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  8. Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. A History. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications.
  9. "Hunt for lost ship's crew". The Times (58970). London. 21 December 1973. col A-B, p. 6.
  10. 13 harness drivers arrested for superfecta conspiracies
  11. "Ship aground for 61 days is refloated". The Times (59023). London. 25 February 1974. col E, p. 2.
  12. Amis, Martin (2000). Experience. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-099285-82-3.
  13. Valentine Low (12 February 2008). "House where Carlos the Jackal first struck faces the bulldozer". Evening Standard. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
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