June 1973

Sunday 03:

Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which will be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.

Monday 04:

patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

Saturday 09:

Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.

Sunday 10:

Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

Thursday 21:

In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law.

Monday 25:

Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.

Tuesday 26:

On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.