March 1973

The following events occurred in March 1973:

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March 28, 1973: The last group of U.S. prisoners of war released from North Vietnam depart from Hanoi

March 1, 1973 (Thursday)

March 2, 1973 (Friday)
  • Fourteen construction workers were killed and 34 injured when the center section of the 26-story Skyline Plaza collapsed in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia (outside Washington D.C.), sending concrete and steel down on workers below.[9] Workers had completed 23 of the stories and were working on the 24th floor that suddenly gave way under the weight of a crane that was hauling wet concrete to the top. Six bodies were recovered immediately and 12 other people were missing and feared dead.[10]
  • U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers announced that the U.S. and China had reached an agreement in principle to settle U.S. claims against the People's Republic dating back to 1949 for $200 million worth worth of confiscated property, and the Communists claim for $100 million of frozen Chinese assets in U.S. banks.[11]
  • The popular Hungarian musical Képzelt riport egy amerikai popfesztiválról (An Imaginary Report on an American Rock Festival), with music by Gábor Presser and lyrics by Anna Adamis, premiered at the Comedy Theatre of Budapest and popularized rock music in the Communist-ruled nation, then toured other Communist nations with performances in East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.[12]
  • Died: Joe "Red" Hayes, 46, American fiddle player and songwriter with the Faron Young country music band, died of a heart attack after playing at a concert in Manchester while on the "Road to Nashville" tour of the United Kingdom.[13] Young's band was traveling on a bus to its next stop when, as a British newspaper noted, he "died in a coach while travelling from Manchester to Chatham for a concert."[14]

March 3, 1973 (Saturday)

March 4, 1973 (Sunday)

March 5, 1973 (Monday)

March 6, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • The Office of the U.S. Immigration Department in New York City cancelled John Lennon's visa extension five days after granting it. On March 23, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) told Lennon that he had 60 days (until May 5) to voluntarily leave the United States because of a 1968 conviction in the UK for possession of hashish. Lennon's wife Yoko Ono's application for permanent resident alien status was approved. Lennon had lived in the U.S. since August 13, 1971.[29]
  • Operation End Sweep was resumed after a short suspension prompted by North Vietnamese delays in releasing prisoners-of-war.[30]
  • Spring training and exhibition games opened for the 1973 baseball season in the U.S., with the first test of the American League's new designated hitter rule being done with Larry Hisle of the Minnesota Twins, who hit two home runs in five times at bat. Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees would become the first DH in a major league game on April 6.
  • Born: Joshua Bergasse, American choreographer and dancer; in Farmington Hills, Michigan
  • Died: Pearl S. Buck, 80, U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate[31]

March 7, 1973 (Wednesday)

March 8, 1973 (Thursday)
  • In the 'Border Poll', voters in Northern Ireland elected to remain part of the United Kingdom. Irish nationalists were encouraged to boycott the referendum. Turnout was 58.7%, but less than 1% for Catholics.[35][36]
  • Two car bombs exploded in front of Whitehall and the Old Bailey in London within 10 minutes of each other, injuring as many as 300 people, one fatally, in what one reporter described as "the worst scenes of destruction since the World War II blitz."[37] Police two other parked cars with large bombs and defused both before they were set to go off. The bombs had been placed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in an apparent protest against the Northern Ireland referendum.
  • A fire at the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Australia, killed 15 people.[38] The fire was caused arsonists who threw two 23-litre drums of diesel fuel into the building's foyer and set alight. James Richard Finch, 29, and John Andrew Stuart, 33, were later convicted of the crime.[39]
  • The South Vietnamese government made its second prisoner exchange of POWs with North Vietnam, releasing 499 captured soldiers at the border in Quang Tri province. The South had 6,300 POWs and the North had 1,250.[40]
  • The crash of a U.S. Army C-47 killed the 11 members of The Golden Knights, the Army's parachute demonstration team, as they were practicing from their base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.[41]
  • Born: Alexander Kushaev, Russian film and television producer; in Moscow, Soviet Union
  • Died: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, 27, American musician and founding member of the Grateful Dead, died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage as a consequence of alcoholism.

March 9, 1973 (Friday)
The lone explosion of Operation End Sweep
Stanley, Criss, Simmons and Frehley in their original makeup, 1974
  • The members of the rock band KISS gave their first performance in the makeup and iconic character designs that would become their trademark. The band had played in face makeup in their debut concert on January 30, but reworked the format for their two-night performance at The Daisy, a bar in Amityville, New York.[43]
  • Born: Danny Green, Australian professional boxer, WBC super-middleweight champion 2003-2005 and WBA light-heavyweight champion 2007–2008; in Perth, Western Australia

March 10, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Sir Richard Sharples, 56, Governor of Bermuda, was assassinated while walking with his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers of the Welsh Guards, and his dog. Both men and the dog were ambushed and shot to death outside of Sharples's residence at Government House in Hamilton.[44] Seven months later, Erskine "Buck" Burrows would confess to the shooting after being arrested; Burrows also admitted to having murdered, on September 9, 1972, Bermuda Police Commissioner George Duckett. Burrows would be hanged on December 2, 1977, after being convicted of multiple murders.[45]
  • Ephraim Katzir, a biophysicist at Harvard University in the U.S., was elected to a five-year term as President of Israel, with the members of the Knesset voting 66 to 41 in his race against Rabbi Ephraim Urbach.[46] Katzir, who was known outside of Israel by his birth name of Ephraim Katchalski, took office on May 24 to succeed Zalman Shazar.
  • Attorney Charles Colson resigned as Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison to return to private practice, after serving as the "hatchet man" for U.S. President Nixon. In 1974, Colson would be indicted and convicted on charges of obstruction of justice in connection with the cover-up of evidence connecting the White House to the Watergate burglary. While awaiting trial, he would become an evangelical Christian.
  • Born: Liu Qiangdong, Chinese internet entrepreneur and billionaire who founded the service JD.com to sell and deliver products to online customers; in Suqian, Jiangsu province
  • Died:

March 11, 1973 (Sunday)

March 12, 1973 (Monday)
  • John T. Downey, the longest-held prisoner of war in United States history, was released after more than 20 years in prison as a humanitarian gesture by the People's Republic of China. Downey crossed over the Sham Chun River bridge from Shenzhen into British Hong Kong.[50] Downey, a pilot for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had been captured in Manchuria on November 29, 1952, along with Richard Fecteau while on a mission to extract a CIA courier. Fecteau had been set free on December 13, 1971. Downey's release came after U.S. President Nixon had publicly admitted that Downey had been a CIA agent, and after a personal request by Nixon to China's Premier Zhou Enlai following a stroke suffered by Downey's mother.[51]
  • U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that he was expanding the protection of executive privilege, the means in which the U.S. president and staff were immune from having to testify or answer questions about White House events while in office, and said that it applied to former staff members as well.[52]
  • The Italian ore freighter Igara sank one day after striking a rock near Merdarik Island after passing through the Sunda Stait in the South China Sea. Although her 38-man crew was all rescued, the ship was a total loss with a value of US$25 million, the largest marine insurance payout up to that time. While part of the stern of the ship stuck out of the water, the bow section went down in the 130 feet (40 m) deep section of sea and has remained there for more than fifty years.[53]
  • In Chachoengsao Province, Thailand, an unidentified soldier threw a grenade into a large crowd at a temple fair, killing one person and injuring 25 when he got upset over music being played.[54]
  • The final episode of U.S. comedy series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, at one-time the most popular show on television but the victim of declining ratings, aired on NBC.
  • Ben Villaflor of the Philippines, the World Boxing Association (WBA) super-featherweight champion, lost to Japanese challenger Kuniaki Shibata in 15 rounds in a bout in Honolulu, Hawaii. In a rematch on October 17, he would win back his title by defeating Shibata.

March 13, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • Voting began for the new President of Turkey, to be chosen by the electors of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. No candidate received the required 2/3rds majority on the first ballot, and more voting took place until a winner could be found. President Cevdet Sunay's term expired on March 28 with no successor being receiving the necessary majority, and a winner was not selected until the 15th ballot on April 6, 1973.
  • Syria adopted a new constitution.[55]
  • The first wreck of Amtrak's new "Auto Train" happened near Hortense, Georgia when a log-carrying truck crashed into the side of the train and derailed 21 of its cars. The truck driver was killed, and 19 of the train passengers injured, overturning most of the vehicles that were being transported as part of the Auto Train service.[56]
  • Born:
  • Died: Melville Cooper, 76, English-born American character actor on film

March 14, 1973 (Wednesday)

March 15, 1973 (Thursday)
  • In a press conference on national television, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon implied that the United States was prepared to resume fighting of the Vietnam War if North Vietnam or the Viet Cong were to violate the ceasefire. Asked about infiltration of men and material by North Vietnam into South Vietnam, Nixon said "Based on my actions over the past four years, they should not lightly disregard such expressions of concern." The reaction of the American public to the possibility of going back to war was so unfavorable that the Case–Church Amendment would be passed overwhelmingly by Congress and signed into law on July 1, requiring Congressional approval in advance of any future military activity in Indochina.
  • At the same conference, President Nixon said that he would not allow the FBI to turn over its files to a Congressional special committee, concerning the FBI investigation of the Watergate burglary. Nixon told reporters, "the practice of the FBI furninshing raw files to full committees must stop with this particular one."[61]
  • U.S. Air Force Captain Philip E. Smith was released from incarceration in the People's Republic of China after almost seven and one half years as a prisoner in Beijing, and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert J. Flynn was set free after more than five and a half years captivity.[62] Captain Smith had flown into Chinese airspace on September 20, 1965, after becoming lost during an escort flight of a bomber over the Gulf of Tonkin in the Vietnam War, while Lieutenant Flynn had been captured after his airplane was shot down in Chinese territory on August 21, 1967. Both Smith and Flynn were allowed to cross the border into British Hong Kong.
  • Two U.S. men in Homestead, Florida were arrested on charges of false imprisonment and conspiracy in a raid on what a Dade County sheriff's deputy described as a slave labor camp. A spokesman said that 27 migrant workers "were working against their will and were being held as slaves", one of them for the past four years, at the Far South Labor Camp, operated by labor contractor Joe L. Brown and guarded by Lafayette Matthew. Ostensibly, the laborers were paid three dollars per week, but Brown would take the money back at the end of the "pay" period for food and shelter.[63]
  • Nebraska became the first U.S. state to rescind its previous ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the United States Constitution. The 31 to 17 vote in Nebraska's one-chamber legislature, the Unicameral, Legislative Resolution Number 9 came less than one year after Nebraska had become the seventh state to ratify the ERA.[64]
  • Died:

March 16, 1973 (Friday)
The current London Bridge[65]
The previous London bridge

March 17, 1973 (Saturday)

March 18, 1973 (Sunday)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Gaffney v. Cummings, setting the current standard in the U.S. for determining fairness in reapportionment and determination of election districts. In a 6 to 3 decision, written by Justice Byron R. White, the court determined that a mean deviation of less than two percent between the number of persons in the largest and smallest districts was acceptable, and that a ruling on the fairness of a majority political party's geographical construction of a district was a political question reserved to determination by the individual states rather than the federal judiciary. White wrote "minor deviations from mathematical equality among state legislative districts are insufficient to make out a prima facie case of invidious discrimination... if for no other reason than that the basic statistical materials which legislatures and courts usually have to work with are the results of the United States census taken at 10-year intervals and published as soon as possible after the beginning of each decade. These figures may be as accurate as such immense undertakings can be, but they are inherently less than absolutely accurate. Those who know about such things recognize this fact."
  • In Argentina, soccer football player Eduardo Maglioni set the record for fastest hat-trick by scoring three goals for Club Atlético Independiente of Avellaneda in 1 minute and 51 seconds, in a match against Gimnasia of La Plata.
  • St John's High School, Dromore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, was bombed by the Ulster Volunteer Force, causing extensive damage.
  • The Estadio 23 de Agosto opened in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.
  • In the U.S., one person was killed and 19 of 167 passengers were injured near East Palestine, Ohio, when the last five cars of Amtrak's westbound Broadway Limited were derailed in a heavy snowstorm. A spokesman said recent heavy rains may have weakened the roadbed beneath the rails.[75]
  • Died:
    • William Benton, 72, American publisher, chairman of the Board of the Encyclopædia Britannica company since 1943, and U.S. Senator for Connecticut, 1949 to 1953
    • Lauritz Melchior, 82, Danish-born opera tenor at the Copenhagen Opera and later at New York's Metropolitan Opera, died following a gall bladder operation.[76]
    • Constantin von Dietze, 81, German agronomist who was one of the few persons to survive being implicated in the 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the 20 July Plot. Von Dietze was awaiting trial when he was liberated from a Berlin prison in 1945.
    • Roland Dorgelès, 87, French novelist
    • Royce Howes, 72, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and novelist

March 19, 1973 (Monday)
  • The Japanese entertainment conglomerate Konami was incorporated as Konami Industry Company. Its name was drawn from the first syllables of the surnames of its three founders, Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, and Tatsuo Miyasako.[77]
  • Amnesty International issued its first "Urgent Action" bulletin, a regular notice sent to members to alert them of arrests of political prisoners whose nations' governments sanctioned torture. The first Urgent Action notice came after the arrest of Professor Luiz Basilio Rossi by the Brazilian military.
  • All 58 people on an Air Vietnam flight from Saigon to Buon Me Thuot were killed when the South Vietnamese DC-4 exploded while on its approach to a landing.[78][79]
  • Died:

March 20, 1973 (Tuesday)
  • The late Roberto Clemente was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame less than six months after his last game, as the 424 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted to waive the customary five-year waiting period in consideration of Clemente's death in an airplane crash on December 31, 1972. Clemente received 393 of the 420 votes for induction.[80]
  • At a closed-door meeting of the Soviet Communist Party's Politburo, the de facto rulers of the U.S.S.R. voted to not enforce the "diploma tax that had been implemented in August to charge significantly higher exit fees for Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel, based on the cost of the education paid for by the state. A study was presented to the Politburo and showed that less than 15 percent of the 25,000 adults applying for an exit visa had a college education, and that most of the Soviet Union's educated people preferred to remain at home, a finding that surprised most Politburo members. Party leader Leonid Brezhnev proposed eliminating the tax, based on a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate by Henry Jackson. Ultimately, the Politburo agreed with the KGB Director Yuri Andropov that, rather than appearing to bow to American pressure, the Soviets should simply keep the diploma tax on the books and decline to enforce it. The details of the meeting would become public decades later with the declassification of secret Kremlin records.[81] On March 29, the Soviets "allowed about 70 Jews formerly subjected to the tax to leave without paying."[82]
  • The Republic of Iraq and the Kingdom of Kuwait fought a battle near al-Samirah, a border outpost in Kuwait across from the Iraqi town of Safwan, 18 days after Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, had returned from discussions with Iraq's Deputy President Saddam Hussein. Two Kuwaiti policemen were killed, and the two nations prepared to go to war until both sides agreed to pull back their forces.[83]
  • The Eider Barrage was opened, protecting the mouth of the river Eider near Tönning on West Germany's North Sea coast from storm surges.
  • A British government White Paper on Northern Ireland proposed the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council[84] which would lead to the unsuccessful Sunningdale Agreement of December 9.

March 21, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • Pieces of Moon rock samples from the Apollo 17 mission were sent by U.S. President Nixon to all 50 of the United States and to all the nations of the world, displayed on wooden plaques. In each case, a letter accompanied the presentation of samples from the last crewed mission to the Moon with a letter that said, in part, "In the deepest sense our exploration of the moon was truly an international effort. It is for this reason that, on behalf of the people of the United States I present this flag, which was carried to the moon, to the State, and its fragment of the moon obtained during the final lunar mission of the Apollo program. If people of many nations can act together to achieve the dreams of humanity in space, then surely we can act together to accomplish humanity's dream of peace here on earth."[85]
  • U.S. President Nixon and White House Counsel John Dean had a private conversation that was recorded, in which Dean warned of what he called "a cancer on the presidency" because the Watergate burglars had been paid money in return for their silence. Dean pointed out that he, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell had all been "involved in that" and that burglar E. Howard Hunt was demanding more money. Nixon replied, "Don't you have to handle Hunt's financial situation damn soon? You've got to keep the cap on the bottle..." the first suggestion of an obstruction of justice ordered by the president. Nixon would claim five months later that he had been unaware of an attempt at a cover-up before that day, saying in an August 15 speech that "It was not until March 21 of this year that I received new information from the White House counsel that led me to conclude that the reports I had been getting for over nine months were not true."[86]
  • The Lofthouse Colliery disaster killed seven miners in Great Britain. .[87]
  • Iran nationalized all oil installations within its borders, forcing British, American, French and Dutch oil companies to hand over control with compensation set by the Iranians.[88]
  • Two Mirage fighter jets of the Libyan Air Force intercepted and fired upon a U.S. Air Force C-130 spy plane that was flying in the Gulf of Sidra. The C-130 was not damaged and escaped, and the U.S. Air Force said that it did not come closer than 75 miles (121 km) from the Libyan coast.[89][90]
  • Two bodies of two teenagers were found in "a wooded area near an abandoned lumber camp" in Gainesville, Florida[91] after they had become the first of at least 22 young women who were victims of serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano. Janine Ligotino and Ann Arceneaux had been stabbed to death.[92] Over the next seven years, Stano would kidnap and murder victims in the U.S. state of Florida until his arrest on March 25, 1980. Stano would be executed in 1998.[93]
  • Born:
  • Died: Bruce Elliott, American science fiction writer and stage magician, 58, from injuries sustained four months earlier when he was struck by a taxi.

March 22, 1973 (Thursday)

March 23, 1973 (Friday)

March 24, 1973 (Saturday)

March 25, 1973 (Sunday)

March 26, 1973 (Monday)
  • Women were admitted into the London Stock Exchange for the first time.[105]
  • The UCLA Bruins won the NCAA basketball championship with an 87 to 66 score against Memphis State University in St. Louis. Bill Walton of the Bruins scored 44 points by hitting all but one of his shooting attempts, and setting a new record. The victory was UCLA's 75th in a row in regular season and playoff play, and gave Coach John Wooden his ninth title in 10 years.[106]
  • The long-running daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless premiered on the CBS television network in the U.S., described as involving "the intertwining fortunes of two families in a small city in upper Mid-America, Genoa City". A critic observed the show as "a complicated mix of traditional soaper fare ('I'm not a child anymore— I'm a woman!') and clever innovations (simultaneous development of several characters' lives, and unprecedented use of popular and even classical music) that could make the series a classic of its kind."[107]
Dick Clark on The $10,000 Pyramid

March 27, 1973 (Tuesday)

March 28, 1973 (Wednesday)
  • The final stage of repatriation of 591 American prisoners of war in the Vietnam War with the final 148 being prepared for liberation. A group of 81 departed from Hanoi on C-141 Starlifter hospital jets to Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Ernest C. Brace, a civilian who had been the longest held POW, was among those freed, after almost eight years of captivity since his capture on May 21, 1965.[115][116]
  • Prime Minister of France Pierre Messmer and his 22-member cabinet gave their resignations to President Georges Pompidou in order to make way for a new cabinet to carry out social reforms. President Pompidou accepted the resignations but asked Messmer to stay on as prime minister.[117]
  • Residents of the Bulgarian village of Kornitsa, most of them Muslims of Turkish descent, fought against members of the Bulgarian Army and a militia who had come to enforce a new government policy of forcing Muslims to abandon their traditions and to change their names to Bulgarian equivalents. Residents of the villages of Lazhnitsa and Breznitsa attempted to march to Kornitsa, and all three villages were placed under martial law.
  • The original 7-year term of president of Turkey Cevdet Sunay expired with no successor having been elected. Turkish political leaders agreed to extend Sunay's term for as much as two years or until a successor could be picked. The lower house of parliament voted down the proposal despite a warning from the Turkish military commander to approve the extension or face a takeover of the government.[118] The deadlock in parliament ended when Fahri Korutürk was picked on April 6 on the 15th ballot.
  • The Danish Maritime Safety Administration was established.
  • Born: Eddie Fatu, American professional wrestler best known by the ring name "Umaga" in World Wrestling Entertainment (died from a heart attack in 2009).
  • Died:

March 29, 1973 (Thursday)
  • The last American combat troops departed from South Vietnam, with U.S. Army General Frederick C. Weyand and South Vietnam's General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the general staff, presiding over the farewell ceremony with a review of departing U.S. soldiers at the Tan Son Nhut Air Base. General Weyand said "Our mission has been accomplished," and General Cao told the departing troops, "We are going to do everything we can to see that your great sacrifices were not in vain."[121]
  • The last group of United States POWs from the military left Vietnam, with 67 being turned over to U.S. authorities.[122] The 589th and last prisoner to board the final airplane out was U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Alfred H. Agnew.[123] On April 1, Captain Robert Thomas White of the U.S. Army and two civilians would be set free.[116]
  • U.S. President Nixon, under his authority in the "Phase III" economic controls granted to him by law, set a maximum for prices that can be charged by wholesalers and retailers for beef, pork and lamb, in response to threats of a boycott by housewives against the purchase of meat. The order took effect upon being issued at 3:00 in the afternoon Washington time.[124]
  • Joe Cahill, sought by Ireland and the UK as the leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist group, was arrested by the Irish Navy when he arrived in the port of Waterford, aboard the Claudia, a ship from Libya loaded with five tons of weapons.[125]
  • Sicilian mafioso Leonardo Vitale turned himself in at a police station in Palermo to become an informant, and gave prosecutors enough information to indict 28 defendants, most of whom would be acquitted of charges. Vitale would be shot to death in a drive-by shooting in 1984.
  • The Emmy Award-winning TV drama Pueblo based on the 1968 capture of the USS Pueblo and its crew, was telecast by the ABC network in the U.S., with Hal Holbrook starring as Captain Lloyd M. Bucher.
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Buron Fitts, 78, American politician who had served as Lieutenant Governor of California, as well as a prosecutor who survived a 1937 assassination attempt, committed suicide.[126]
    • Lump, 16, Spanish dog who was constant companion to artist Pablo Picasso and sometimes depicted in Picasso's work, died 10 days before Picasso's April 8 passing.

March 30, 1973 (Friday)

March 31, 1973 (Saturday)
  • Red Rum won the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree, near Liverpool, UK defeating co-favourite Crisp on the run-in, having trailed by 15 lengths at the final fence.[128]
  • Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and future heavyweight champ Ken Norton fought the first of three bouts against each other, with Ali sustaining a broken jaw in the second round and continuing to go the distance for the full 15 rounds. Norton won in a split decision by the judges, giving Ali only his second loss in his professional boxing career up to that time.[129]
  • Seven people were killed in an explosion at a restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 19 injured, after the blast caused two buildings to collapse.[130] All of the dead were in a three-story building that housed Clara and Al's Cafe at 1535 Elm Street.[131]
  • An F4 tornado struck Abbeville, South Carolina and killed seven people.
  • A woman in the U.S. city of Cincinnati, Ohio, gave birth to two babies who were not twins, though they had the same biological parents. The unidentified woman had a rare condition of "two uteri, two mouths to the womb and two cervices", only the second time in recorded medical history that such an event had occurred.[132]
  • Died: C. A. Lejeune (Caroline Alice Lejeune), 76, British film critic for The Observer of London as one of the first major female critics.

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  124. "Nixon Puts Celing on Retail and Wholesale Meat Prices", Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1973, p.I-1
  125. "Irish Navy Seizes 5 Tons of Arms", Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1973, p.I-2
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