Editing 1973 (section)

===July===
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* [[July 3]] – [[Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (CSCE).
* [[July 5]] – The catastrophic [[BLEVE]] (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in [[Kingman, Arizona]], United States, following a fire that broke out as [[propane]] was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion becomes a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
* [[July 10]] – The [[Bahamas]] gains full independence within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* [[July 11]] – [[Varig Flight 820]] crashes near [[Orly]], France; 123 people are killed.
* [[July 16]] – [[Watergate scandal]]: Former [[White House]] aide [[Alexander Butterfield]] informs the [[United States Senate]] Watergate Committee that President [[Richard Nixon]] had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
* [[July 17]] – King [[Mohammed Zahir Shah]] of Afghanistan is [[1973 Afghan coup d'état|deposed]] by his cousin [[Mohammed Daoud Khan]] while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
* [[July 20]] – France resumes nuclear bomb tests in [[Mururoa Atoll]], over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
* [[July 21]] – [[Lillehammer affair]]: Agents of [[Mossad]], the Israeli secret intelligence agency, shoot and kill a Moroccan waiter in [[Lillehammer]], Norway, mistakenly believing him to be a senior member of the Palestinian [[Black September Organization]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Victor Ostrovsky |title=By Way of Deception |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_ighepRCs0C |year=1991 |publisher=General Publishing Company, Limited |isbn=978-0-7736-7316-8 |page=206}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – The [[Avianca]] Building in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]], suffers a serious fire, in which four people are killed.<ref>{{cite book |author=National Fire Protection Association |title=Fires in High-rise Buildings: Reprints from Fire Journal and Fire Technology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0lkFAAAAMAAJ |year=1974 |publisher=National Fire Protection Association |page=14}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] ''[[Mars 5]]'' space probe is launched.
* [[July 28]] – [[Skylab 3]] ([[Owen Garriott]], [[Jack Lousma]], [[Alan Bean]]) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard [[Skylab]].
* [[July 31]] – A [[Delta Air Lines]] [[DC-9]] aircraft flying as [[Delta Air Lines Flight 173]] lands short of [[Logan Airport]] runway at Boston, United States, in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed; one of the passengers died several months after the accident.