5th » Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record.
8th » A Wounded Knee incident e.g 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
11th » Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to 'The New York Times' dismissed.
17th » Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
25th » HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 called dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
29th » Tom Bradley (American politician) called Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles called Los Angeles, California.
31st » The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
16th » Special Ed, American rapper and actor (Crooklyn Dodgers)
16th » Tori Spelling, American actress, producer, and author
17th » Sasha Alexander, American actress and producer
17th » Steve Barakatt, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
17th » Josh Homme, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Them Crooked Vultures, and Kyuss)