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August 1, 1973 (Wednesday) Sheriff T. J. Flournoy reluctantly led deputies in closing "Edna's Fashionable Ranch Boardinghouse", in La Grange, Texas, United States. The house of prostitution had operated since 1844, before the Republic of Texas was admitted as a U.S. state. Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe had informed Flournoy that, if the county ...
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1973 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
20 August. The 1973 Laotian coup was a final attempt to stave off a communist coalition government of the Kingdom of Laos. Exiled General Thao Ma returned from Thailand on 20 August 1973 to take over Wattay International Airport outside the capital of Vientiane.
Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake. (1973) Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1. (1974) Singles from Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake. "Raised on Rock". Released: August 20, 1973[1] Raised on Rock / For Ol' Times Sake[2] is the nineteenth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released in 1973.
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1973. The longest running number one single of 1973 is "Killing Me Softly With His Song" by Roberta Flack which stayed at the top spot for five non-consecutive weeks. That year, 14 acts earned their first number one, such as Carly Simon, Elton John, The O'Jays, Vicki Lawrence, The Edgar ...
Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1973. This is a list of singles that have appeared in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1973. There were a total of 105 singles that were in the Top 10 (97 of those peaked in 1973, four had peaked in late 1972, and four would peak in early 1974). Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Carpenters, Paul McCartney and ...
The film was released in the United States on August 11, 1973 [1] to sleeper hit reception. [37] The film had cost only $1.27 million (equivalent to $9.3 million in 2023) [4] to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million (equivalent to $377 million in 2023).
August 8 – Dean Corll, serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and torturer (born 1939) August 16 – Veda Ann Borg, actress (born 1915) August 17 – Paul Williams, singer (The Temptations) (born 1939) August 30 – Michael Dunn, a.k.a. Gary Neil Miller, dwarf actor and singer (born 1934) August 31 – John Ford, film director and producer (born 1894)