In Italy, Itavia Airlines Flight 897 crashed, killing 38 of the 42 people aboard. Flying in a heavy fog, the Fokker F28 Fellowship jet was approaching a landing at Turin on a flight from Bologna when it struck the top of a tree and then impacted at a building under construction.[1][2]
New Year's Day was celebrated as a public holiday in the United Kingdom for the first time nationwide, as England and Wales joined in making the first day of the year a paid legal holiday. Scotland had celebrated New Year's Day as a public holiday for years, and the order was applied to all of Britain by an October 8 amendment to existing wage laws.[3][4]
On the seventh annual World Day of Peace, Pope Paul VI gave a sermon at St. Anthony's Church in Rome, saying that peace "deals with life itself, more even than the physical safety of populations, of their honor, of their name, of their history... Will peace last: yes or no?"[16]
Charles E. Bohlen, 69, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1953 to 1957, to the Philippines 1957-1959 and to France, 1962-1968, died of cancer.[28][29]
The maximum speed limit on U.S. highways was lowered to 55 miles per hour (89 km/h), a limit that would remain in effect for the next 13 years, in order to conserve gasoline during the OPEC embargo.[32] The decrease in the speed limit (which had been 70 miles per hour (110 km/h)) was made as U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon signed the National Maximum Speed Law. The result was a 23 percent decrease in fatalities on American highways[33] with 853 fewer deaths in January 1974 compared to January 1973.
The Xinhua News Agency of the People's Republic of China announced the sudden reassignment of eight of the 11 commanders of its military regions, in an apparent attempt to remove them from the power bases and networks that they had built over the years. General Xu Shiyou was moved from the Nanjing region to Guangzhou, while Guangzhou's General Ting Sheng was moved to Nanjing. Chen Hsi-lien was moved from Manchuria to Beijing and replaced by Li Desheng, a Politburo member.[34][35]
The first Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks were mailed under the program in the United States to compensate impoverished persons who had been unable to work because of disability but who did not qualify for Social Security disability. The law authorizing SSI had come into effect on January 1.[37]
The American-owned oil rig Transocean III sank in the North Sea, 100 miles (160 km) east of the Orkney Islands, shortly after midnight on the morning of January 2. All 56 crew members were rescued.[38]
On their 48th day of spaceflight, the Skylab 4 crew held a televised news conference while in Earth orbit, during which astronautWilliam Pogue said that he tried too hard to do a good job in the early phases of the mission, but then "finally came to the realization that I'm a fallible human being". Mission commander Gerald Carr said that he missed drinking cold beer while watching football. Astronaut Edward Gibson said that he was pleased to be contributing to science.[40]
The Navnirman Andolan or "Re-invention Movement" took place in India at Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, as students of an engineering school, who had been up in arms since December 20 against price increases for food at the school, confronted the police who tried to intervene. Some students were arrested.[56] On January 7, the protesters called for an indefinite student strike for Gujarat state's universities and colleges and increased their demands to new campus facilities, better food and the arrest of black market sellers.[57]
On Victoria Street in East Sydney, a 30-man team of workmen used sledgehammers and axes to batter down the doors of 19 houses in the King's Cross section of the city, 13 of which were occupied by squatters who had barricaded themselves inside to protest against a proposed development and then defied a court order of eviction. Police arrested 40 of those who refused to get out of the way.[58][59][60][61]
With the NCAA recognizing the unofficial champion of college football as the team that finished in first place in the Associated Press poll of sportswriters (as well as United Press International's poll of coaches), the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame finished in first place in the AP poll. Notre Dame, which finished 10-0-0 in regular play and defeated 11-0-0 Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, received 33 first place votes and 1,128 points overall to finish at number one, while Ohio State (10-0-1) had 11 first place votes and 1,002 points. The UPI poll, taken before the 1973 bowl games, had declared Alabama the national champion in December.[63]
Bob Dylan and The Band begin their 40 date North American tour with a concert at The Chicago Stadium. It is Mr. Dylan's first formal tour since 1966 and serves to relaunch his career for the remainder of the 70's and the decades to come.
By a vote of 427 to 374, the Ulster Unionist Council in Northern Ireland voted to reject the Sunningdale Agreement that had been signed between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland to establish a revival of the Northern Ireland Assembly and an advisory Council of Ireland with representatives from both Northern Ireland and the Republic.[17]
American serial killer Ted Bundy attacked his first victim, University of Washington student Karen Sparks, by invading her apartment, then bludgeoning her with a medal rod and assaulting her. Sparks survived the attack but was left permanently disabled.[80]
The sinking of a ferry boat in the Philippines killed 82 people, when the ship capsized in a storm off the coast of Cebu island's Bagacay Point while on its way back from Christmas holidays in Baybay town in Leyte province. The bodies of 37 people were recovered and another 45 were missing.[86]
In response to the oil crisis, at 2 a.m. the United States began a trial period of year-round daylight saving time for the first time since World War II. The change had been enacted by the U.S. Congress and was intended to run through 2 a.m. on April 27, 1975. Clocks which had been set back an hour across the U.S., less than three months earlier, were set ahead an hour.[96][97] The act would later be amended to return to standard time for four months from October 1974 to February 1975.[98][99]
CBS Radio Mystery Theater, hosted by E. G. Marshall, premiered on 218 stations affiliated with the CBS Radio Network, in an attempt to revive radio dramas that had been popular in the U.S. prior to the introduction of television.[103] The show would last for eight seasons until going off the air on February 1, 1982. The first episode, "The Old Ones Are Hard to Kill", starred film and TV star Agnes Moorehead.[104]
Gasoline rationing began in Sweden, with private vehicles limited to only 100 liters (26 U.S. gallons) of gas for the 53 days between January 7 and February 28, as Sweden became the first Western European nation to begin rationing.[113]
Julen Guerrero, Spanish footballer for 14 seasons with Athletic Bilbao and 41 appearances for the Spain national team; in Portugalete, Biscay province[118]
İbrahim Kutluay, Turkish basketball player who was the top scorer in the EuroLague (1999), the Turkish League (1999) and the Greek Cup finals (2001); in Yalova[119]
Marvin Glass, 59, American toy designer, died of complications from a stroke[126]
January 8, 1974 (Tuesday)
In response to increasing demands by protesters for more freedom, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee issued an emergency decree making it illegal "to deny, oppose, misrepresent, or defame" the president's decisions, as well as prohibiting the reporting of news of dissent "through broadcasting, reporting or publishing, or by any other means." The South Korean press immediately ceased reporting on protests. Persons violating the decree were subject to arrest without a warrant and to trial by a military court, punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison.[127][128]
Delegates to a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) made a major change in the rules of amateur athletics, amending the NCAA rules to allow athletes to receive money to play as professionals in one sport and to play at the college level in other sports. The resolution, requiring two-thirds approval, passed by four votes, 258 to 123.[129]
In Colombia, all 32 people aboard a SATENA airlines flight were killed when the Hawker Siddeley HS-748 crashed into Gabinete Mountain shortly after departing Florencia as part of a multistop flight from Bucaramanga to Bogota.[135][136]
The Soviet Writers' Union expelled novelist Lydia Chukovskaya after she had come to the defense of dissident physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, virtually preventing her from having future works published.[137]
Milan striker Luciano Chiarugi and Ajax goalkeeper Heinz Stuy in the first leg of the 1973 European Super Cup
In the first leg of the two-game 1973 European Super Cup series, played at San Siro in Milan, Italy, A.C. Milan defeated Ajax Amsterdam by a score of 1–0. The second leg took place one week later at Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, with the outcome determined by the aggregate of the two scores, with Ajax effectively winning 35 minutes into the match with the second of six goals.[138]
Mrs. Noah Greenberg, president of the board of the New York Pro Musica ensemble, announced that the group would disband at the end of its current season, with its final performance scheduled for May 16.[139]
In the U.S. state of Michigan, state Senator Charles N. Youngblood Jr. resigned after his conviction for conspiracy to bribe a public official over a liquor license for a supermarket chain.[140][141]
Étienne Eyadéma, President of the Togolese Republic in west Africa, announced the nationalization of the nation's phosphate mining industry and of the privately-owned Compagnie Togolaise des Mines du Bénin. Two weeks later, his presidential plane would crash on landing near Sarakawa, an incident that Eyadéma believed was an assassination attempt by saboteurs paid by company shareholders.[152]
The crew of Skylab 4 was granted a day off. Edward Gibson spent most of the day conducting solar observations using the station's coronagraph, while Gerald Carr and William Pogue relaxed.[153]
As part of its Operation Arbor nuclear test series at the Nevada Test Site, the U.S. carried out three simultaneous nuclear explosions at the same site.[154]
Joe Remiro, a co-founder of the Symbionese Liberation Army U.S. terrorist group, was arrested along with Russell Little on suspicion of committing the November 6 murder of Marcus Foster, the superintendent of public schools in Oakland, California. Remiro would be sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder, while Little's conviction would be overturned in 1981.
In solidarity with the protest by engineering school students at the University of Ahmedabad in India, university students of the Navnirman Andolan movement called for a bandh,[56] leading to a violent two-day riot in Ahmedabad and Vadodara,[57] and police firing on the crowd.
On the Tunisian island of Djerba, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba and Libya's President Muammar Gaddafi signed the Djerba Declaration, committing Tunisia and Libya to a merger as the Arab Islamic Republic. The two presidents announced the next day, 12 January 1974, that referendums would take place in each country on 18 January 1974, later postponed to 20 March 1974, to vote on the issue.[167][168][169] The scheduled vote was soon cancelled after Tunisia's Foreign Minister Mohammed Masmoudi was fired on January 14.[170]
Investigative reporter Tad Szulc revealed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had spent six months in 1964 and 1965 to finance a plot to assassinate Cuba's premier Fidel Castro and then to invade Cuba. Szulc's article was published five days later in Esquire magazine.[171]
The Ethiopian Revolution began as rank-and-file soldiers of the Negele Borana garrison of the Fourth Brigade of the Ethiopian Ground Forces mutinied over bad food and the lack of drinking water. The mutineers seized Lieutenant General Deresse Dubale, EmperorHaile Selassie's personal envoy, and forced him to eat and drink as they did for a week.[180]
Gasoline rationing began in the Netherlands, as residents were limited to 60 liters (less than 16 U.S. gallons) of gasoline for a month.[181] The Dutch government ended the rationing eight days early, ending on February 4.[182]
Television was introduced in the African nation of Tanzania as TVZ (Television Zanzibar) was inaugurated in a ceremony by Zanzibar's President Aboud Jumbe.[185]
Chris Mackintosh, 70, Scottish all-around athlete who played rugby union for the Scotland national team, as well competing in the long jump finals in the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1938 world championship in the bobsled competition[201]
Lady Patricia Ramsay, 87, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who renounced her royal title of Princess Patricia of Connaught in 1919 in order to marry a commoner[202]
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport (DFW), which would become the second-busiest in the world for passenger service, opened in the U.S. state of Texas for scheduled flights. The first flight to land was a Boeing 727 arriving from Memphis, Tennessee. American Airlines Flight 293 to Los Angeles became DFW's first departure several hours later.[204] Operated by the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, the airport occupies 27 square miles (70 km2) of land in Dallas County and Tarrant County.[205][206]
Heinrich Lipphardt, a German businessman who had been held prisoner in since 1953 by the Communist government of the People's Republic of China, was set free and allowed to cross into British Hong Kong at the Lowu border crossing. Lipphardt, who had operated a business in northern China before the 1949 Chinese Revolution, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for spying.[207]
With the island of Grenada to become independent on February 7, Queen Elizabeth II dismissed the British Governor, Dame Hilda Bynoe, from office at the request of Prime Minister Eric Gairy. Gairy's predecessor, Herbert Blaize, had appointed Dame Hilda.[208]
Dr. Arthur Arndt, 80, Jewish German physician who survived the Holocaust (along with six members of his family) despite being in Berlin during World War II, after being helped to hide in the Nazi German capital.[217] Arndt's wife Lina, who was born July 22, 1886, in Prussia, Germany, died on December 14, 1980.[217] Arthur Arndt's story was profiled in the book Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin, by Barbara Lovenheim (Open Road Integrated Media, 2002).
Salvador Novo, 69, Mexican author and television presenter, official chronicler of Mexico City[218]
Joseph Dippolito, 59, underboss of the Los Angeles crime family within the American Mafia; Dippolito was stricken with a heart attack two days earlier at his daughter's wedding.[228]
January 15, 1974 (Tuesday)
A panel of technical experts testified that the 18½-minute gap in the tape recording of President Nixon's conversation with H. R. Haldeman on June 20, 1972, was made by someone pushing the record-erase button at least five times and as many as nine times. White House attorney James D. St. Clair objected to all questions about whether the erasure was deliberate.[229][230]
The first of the 10 "BTK Murders" took place in the U.S. city of Wichita, Kansas, as a security alarm installer, Dennis Rader, strangled a family of four people, two of them children.[231] Rader would kill three more victims in the 1970s, then resume the murders in 1985, and would taunt the Wichita police before finally being arrested in 2005.[232]
The Malari incident took place in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, as thousands of students protested against a state visit by Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.[233] The riot then turned into an attack on Chinese Indonesians in the suburb of Glodok. Indonesian security forces intervened, and at least 11 people were killed, 137 injured, and 700 arrested. The mob burned 144 buildings in and around Jakarta.
Comet Kohoutek, discovered from Earth on March 18, 1973, and predicted to be even brighter than Halley's Comet, made its closest approach to Earth, coming no closer than 0.8 astronomical units or 74,000,000 miles (119,000,000 km), and being barely visible to the naked eye.[237]
A Japanese company, Sato Foods Industries Co., Ltd., received U.S. patent No. 3,786,159 for a process for manufacturing alcohol powder.[238]
The three astronauts on the third crewed U.S. space mission to Skylab[239] set a new world record for time spent in space, breaking the mark of 59 days, 11 hours set by the previous crew on its mission from July 28 to September 25, 1973.[240] Launched on November 16, 1973, the new Skylab astronauts reached 60 days in space later in the day, and would complete 84 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes in space upon their return on February 8.
The U.S. TV sitcom Happy Days debuted on ABC.[242] After switching in 1975 to being filmed in front of a live audience, Happy Days would reach number one in the Nielsen ratings in the United States. Critic reaction was mixed, with Jay Sharbutt of the Associated Press writing, "It is a half-hour comedy series. It is set in the 1950s. It is awful," but adding that it "does a pretty fair job of recapturing the atmosphere of the era,"[243] and Kay Gardella of New York's Daily News commenting that as a midseason replacement, "some of the new arrivals are worse than the shows that were dropped."[244]
The murders of Barbara McCulkin and her daughters Vicki and Leanne took place in Australia when the three disappeared from their home in Highgate Hill, Queensland.[250] Their bodies would never be located. Garry Dubois and Vincent O'Dempsey would be found guilty of their kidnapping and murder more than 40 years after the crime was committed, in 2016 for Dubois and 2017 for Dempsey.[251]
In the second leg of the 1973 European Super Cup, played at Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, AFC Ajax defeated A.C. Milan by a score of 6–0, winning the Cup 6–1 on aggregate.[138]
All 18 crew of the British cargo transport MV Prosperity were killed after the craft's engine failed and the vessel was driven onto the La Conchée Reef near Guernsey and sank. Only 16 bodies were recovered.[255][256]
Tatiana Issa, Emmy Award winning Brazilian director and producer, 3-time Emmy Award winner; in São Paulo
Àngel Llàcer, Spanish Catalonian stage actor and singer, winner of three Butaca Awards for El Somni de Mozart (1998), Mein Kampf (1999) and The Full Monty (2001); in Barcelona[260]
Led by Álvaro Fayad, guerrillas from the M-19 (Movimiento 19 de Abril) terrorist group in Colombia stole the battle sword that had been worn by Colombian hero Simon Bolivar in the 19th century, after invading the historic Quinta de Bolívar in Bogota. Fayad left behind a note that said ""Bolívar, tu espada vuelve a la lucha." ("Bolivar, your sword returns to the battlefield.")[267] The sword would be held for almost 17 years before its return by M-19 leader Antonio Navarro Wolff as part of the group's peace negotiations with the government.[268]
Marco Antonio Barrera, Mexican boxer who held the world super bantamweight champion (WBO, 1995-1996 and 1998-2000), world featherweight champ (IBO 2001-2003), and world super featherweight champ (WBC 2004-2007); in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico[270][271]
Poland's news agency PAP announced that authorities had extinguished a coal mine fire that had been burning since 1933 in Silesia at the Polska Coal Company.[276]
Glenis Carruthers, a student teacher, was strangled to death on Clifton Down in Bristol, England, after leaving her 21st birthday party. As of 2010[update] the case remained unsolved.[277]
French President Georges Pompidou floated the French franc for six months, abandoning intervention in money markets to maintain the franc's value. The change took effect when trading opened on Monday, January 20.[291][292]
In the U.S. state of New Jersey, Essex County College set a collegiate record by scoring over 200 points in a basketball game, while its opponent, nearby Englewood Cliffs College, set a record by losing by 143 points. The final score was Essex County 210, Englewood Cliffs 67.[299][300] Englewood Cliffs would close after its final graduation on June 7, 1974.
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Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor and impressionist; in Chicago, Illinois[301]
For the first time in the history of English professional soccer football, a match in the English Football League was played on a Sunday. With a start moved to 11:30 in the morning to come before two other matches scheduled in the afternoon, Millwall defeated visiting Fulham, 1 to 0, in the League's Second Division.[311] Striker Brian Clark of Millwall became the first English professional footballer to score a goal on a Sunday "when he drove the ball into the Fulham net at 11:34 a.m."[312][313]
Guerrillas of Argentina's People's Revolutionary Army, led by Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, completed their attack on the army base headquarters of the 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Azul in the Buenos Aires province.[314]Mario Roberto Santucho organized the attack, in which base commander, Colonel Camilo Arturo Gay, and his wife Hilda Irma Casaux were killed, and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Ibarzábal was taken hostage. Ibarzábal would be executed 10 months later.[315] Later in the day, President of ArgentinaJuan Perón made a nationally televised speech in which he vowed "to annihilate as soon as possible this criminal terrorism".[316]
An F-16 Fighting Falcon in 2003
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon made an unplanned first flight after sustaining damage to its right horizontal stabilizer during high-speed ground tests at Edwards Air Force Base, California. While taxiing at 130 miles per hour (210 km/h), pilot Phil Oestricher nearly lost control of the aircraft when it entered a series of roll oscillations. Oestricher elected, "in the interest of safety and preventing further damage," to take the craft airborne to avoid crashing and remained in flight for six minutes.[317] Oestricher would pilot the F-16's official first flight on February 2.[318][319][320]
In Pakistan, the fiery collision of a bus and an oil truck in Karachi burned 24 people to death and injured 50 others, as well as setting off a blaze that destroyed 42 shops and apartments.[321]
The Dutch oil tanker Kopionella rescued 23 South Vietnamese sailors who had survived the sinking of the warship Nhat Tao during the battle of the Paracel Islands. On the same day, Chinese troops took 47 Vietnamese soldiers and a U.S. advisor as prisoners of war, though the group would be released later.
Rescuers in Turkey saved 680 train passengers who had been stranded for almost two days by large snowdrifts that had immobilized the train cars in subzero weather. The train had departed Erzincan en route to Istanbul when it encountered a snowstorm near the village of Tekevler. During the night, temperatures had dropped to as low as −22 °F (−30 °C). Using flamethrowers to melt the snow, rescuers were able to get through after 44 hours and transport the passengers to aid stations at Elazig for medical treatment.[335]
The United Kingdom ended its embargo against delivering weapons to the Middle East. Arms deliveries had been suspended immediately after the Yom Kippur War broke out on October 6. Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home informed the House of Commons that deliveries would be carried out, including "the supply of small arms and helicopters to Egypt and some naval equipment and spare tank parts for Israel."[337]
President Suharto of Indonesia issued Decree No. 25/74, banning the import of foreign-made automobiles, and encouraging the sale of Indonesian-made pickup trucks and minibuses by exempting those vehicles from the luxury goods tax.[353]
The first annual "National March for Life" rally took place in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion nationwide. The rally was organized by activist Nellie Gray, who coined the term "pro-life".[354] Police estimated the crowd to be more than 6,000 protestors.[355]
Nike, Inc. was granted a U.S. trademark number 72414177 for its iconic logo, "The Swoosh", after having applied on January 31, 1972.[357] Nike had first used the mark on its shoes on June 18, 1971.[358]
Eight French Army soldiers were killed and three others seriously injured when the unit of 16 men took an unauthorized shortcut on a march through a 400-yard (370 m) long railway tunnel and was struck by a train. The group had lost its way during night maneuvers near Château-Thierry in France's département of Aisne.[367]
Due to waning public interest in space exploration, the major American television networks announced that there would be no live coverage of the Skylab 4splashdown the following month. This would be the first time since 1966 that the return of a crewed NASA spacecraft would not be broadcast live.[153]
An F-4C jet fighter crashed on the Gila Bend Gunnery Range in Gila Bend, Arizona, killing U.S. Air Force Maj. Jerry D. Whitlock and USAF Second Lieut. Jerry W. Smith.[370]
Cyclone Wanda crossed into Australia's state of Queensland, Australia, bringing heavy rains and flooding of Brisbane, 16 deaths, 300 injuries and nearly AUD$980 million in damage.[383]
Four members of the Irish Republican Army hijacked a helicopter and used it to drop two milk churns packed with explosives onto Strabane Police Station in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. One milk churn landed in a garden and failed to explode; the other landed in the River Mourne.[386][387]
The Soviet Union successfully tested its first multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) missile, the UR-100N, referred to by the Western alliance NATO as the SS-19 Stiletto intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The first launch, and another one the next day, were fired from a site deep with the USSR and traveled to a test range 4,500 miles (7,200 km) away, about 850 miles (1,370 km) north of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Department of Defense disclosed the existence of the Soviet missile, which rivaled the older LGM-30G Minuteman III missile deployed by the U.S. since 1970.[403]
Simultaneous strikes began in 44 towns in the Gujarat state in India in conjunction with the Navnirman Andolan movement. Clashes with police took place in 33 cities. The riots caused by the rise in food prices would spread from Gujarat to Maharashtra, and then to Bihar in March.[56][57] The Indian Army was called in to restore order[56] on January 28 after rioting had killed 42 people in Ahmedabad.[404]
U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Herbert filed a $44 million libel suit against CBS for portraying him as a liar in connection with his allegations about a military cover-up of Vietnam War atrocities.[409]
William Fawcett (stage name for William Fawcett Thompson), 79, American character actor[417]
Nora Holt, 89, American music critic, composer, singer and pianist, first African American to receive a master's degree in music in the United States[418]
James Pope-Hennessy, 57, British biographer and historian, was beaten and stabbed to death in his West London apartment, in a midday attack by three men. Pope-Hennessy, known for "his disclosure of intimate royal secrets" in 1959 from the diary of Queen Mary, had been working on a biography of Noël Coward at the time of his murder.[419][420] One of the killers said that the motive for the home invasion had been to search for a $150,000 advance that had been given to Pope-Hennessy for the Coward biography.[421]
The Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case, widely considered a miscarriage of justice, began when an 18-year-old laborer, Guðmundur Einarsson, disappeared while walking home on a snowy night from a dance hall in Hafnarfjörður in Iceland.[424]
The cargo shipMV Captayannis ran aground on a sandbar in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, after strong winds caused it to drag its anchor and drift into the anchor chains of the BP tanker British Light. All crew members were rescued. The ship would sink the following morning; its wreck remains in place in the River Clyde.[432]
Three days before the second anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre of 13 civilians by British troops, 4,000 people participated in a peaceful protest march, organized by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The march through Derry in Northern Ireland followed the route of the 1972 march.[433]
The United States observed National MIA Awareness Day, proclaimed by President Nixon to mark the first anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords and to acknowledge Americans who had become missing in action in the Vietnam War.[434]
Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete, winter of eight Winter Olympics gold medals (including four in 2002) and 20 gold medals in world championships between 1998 and 2016; in Drammen[438][439]
Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer with 153 matches for the national team; in Mattumagala (near Wattala)[440]
The siege by the Israeli Army of the city of Suez, in Egypt, ended at noon local time. Israeli troops withdrew, clearing the way for the 20,000 troops of the Egyptian 3rd Army to return home.[450] The Egyptian troops had been trapped since October behind enemy lines on the east bank of the Suez Canal after having retaken part of the Sinai peninsula early in the Yom Kippur War.
Indonesia's President Suharto took complete control of the Asian nation's internal security agency, ASPRI, dismissing the four Indonesian Army generals who operated the agency.[451]
Bolivia's President Hugo Banzer placed the South American nation under a state of siege after a group of 12,000 peasants, some of whom were armed, had blocked roads near Cochabamba between the heavily populated cities of the north and the farmlands of the south and the east. The peasants had been protesting the doubling of the costs of basic staple foods. The rebellion was suppressed two days later and the nation's highways were reopened.[453]
A bus crash near the Peruvian town of Jauja drowned 35 people after the vehicle collided with another vehicle and fell into the Mantaro River. Only six people of the 41 on board survived.[454]
An aircraft flying to Owatonna, Minnesota, for an inspection of law enforcement facilities crashed, killing all four on board. The Chief of Police of Thief River Falls was killed, along with two city council members and the pilot.[457]
U.S. President Richard Nixon delivered the State of the Union Address to the 93rd United States Congress.[475] Referring to what he described as "the so-called Watergate affair", Nixon said, "I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough." Near the end of the speech, Nixon stated: "I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States."[476] Nixon would resign the presidency on August 9 after a tape recording showed that he had ordered a cover-up of the investigation of the Watergate scandal.
Olivia Colman, English film and TV actress, Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner for Best Actress for The Favourite, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown; in Norwich, Norfolk[396]
The South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong announced that they would resume prisoner of war exchanges on February 8, after a suspension of seven months.[486]
In Newtownabbey, County Antrim, a suburb north of Belfast, two armed robbers entered a workmen's hut and seized the week's wages of the 13 laborers inside. They then ordered the Protestants present to kneel on the floor. After two or three men did so, the gunmen opened fire on the other people in the hut, killing two Catholics (37-year-old Terence McCafferty and 29-year-old James McCloskey) and wounding three other men, including a Protestant.[489][490] The gunmen were members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters.[490]
General Motors announced record profits of $2.4 billion for 1973.[492]Delta Air Lines announced that its net profits for 1973 were $74.9 million, the highest earned to that date by an air carrier from ordinary operations in one calendar year.[493]
A 34-year-old woman in Littleton, Colorado committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, but inadvertently killed her husband and three of her children, along with a resident of neighboring apartment. Betty Foster had started her car in the closed garage of her condominium building and a forced-air heating system sucked the fumes into two apartments.[494]
Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player known as El Veterano, catcher for the gold medal winning Cuba national team in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Baseball World Cup competitions; in Caibarién, Villa Clara Province[496]
Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelfisz), 94, Polish-born American film producer, co-founder of Goldwyn Pictures, which later merged with two other companies to form MGM Studios[498]
Emil Väre, 88, Finnish wrestler, gold medalist in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympic games in lightweight wrestling, and in the 1911 World Wrestling Championships[501]
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