The September 19, 1973 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 261 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 52 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, September 19, 2025, 45 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, September 19, 2026, in 319 days. You have lived for 19,038 days, or about 456,912 hours, or about 27,414,749 minutes, or about 1,644,884,940 seconds.
Date: 20 September 1973
Newspaper Deliverers Union pres C Levy repts on Sept 20 that union has reached tentative accord with NY Times, NY Post and NY Daily News; repts that automation issue at plant of Daily News in Long Island City, Queens, has been settled satisfactorily
Date: 20 September 1973
Special to The New York Times
USIA Dir J Keogh on Sept 19 meets with high Soviet officials in Moscow to urge that Moscow ease restrictions on Amer correspondents based in USSR; meets with Deputy Foreign Mon I N Zimyanin, State Com on Radio and TV chmn S G Lapin, Pravda chief M V Zimyanin and Tass deputy chief A A Vishnevsky; talks on press restrictions follow private efforts by Amer Embassy to obtain right for Amer newsmen to recieve multiple entry and exist visas
Date: 20 September 1973
NLRB on Sept 19 investigates unfair labor practice charges against Teamsters as strike against St Louis Post-Dispatch enters its 5th wk
Date: 20 September 1973
By JOHN M. CREWDSONSpecial to The New York Times
Nixon Adm reptdly ordered FBI official W C Sullivan to follow syndicated columnist J Kraft to Paris in '69 and to arrange with French Govt to keep him under electronic and physical surveillance because of Adm's concern about Kraft's contacts with reprs of the N Vietnamese Govt and the Vietcong; Kraft por
Date: 19 September 1973
By DAVID A. ANDELMANSpecial to The New York Times
David ANDELMANSpecial
Amer Samoa Gov J M Haydon, who is on trial for charges of manipulation of pol elections under Hatch Act, testifies on Sept 18 in Pago Pago that he made numerous telephone calls on behalf of candidacy of Washington Gov D J Evans during visit to Seattle last Oct
Date: 20 September 1973
By DAVID A. ANDELMANSpecial to The New York Times
David ANDELMANSpecial
testimony in trial of J M Haydon, Gov of American Samoa, on charges of violating Hatch Act ends on Sept 19 while pol controversy and intrigue continue to surround proceedings and Amer Samoan Govt; prosecution charged that Haydon had 'put himself above the law' and defense described him as 'imperfect man doing difficult job'; Judge J J McCarthy closed proceedings, indicating that ruling on whether Haydon should be dismissed might not come for as much as 3 to 4 mos; controversy continues over sudden dismissal of territory's Asst Atty Gen J Kingzett by his Superior, Atty Gen D C Williams; Kingzett had filed criminal charges on Sept 17 against Haydon charging him with violations of civil rights laws for interfering with freedom of speech and press--prohibiting local TV reporter from interviewing witness; Williams ordered that these charges be withdrawn and Kingzett dismissed without benefit of hearing; Govt sources rept that requests for full inquiry will be filed with Justice Dept in light of fact that Williams has been serving as Gov's defense counsel
Date: 20 September 1973
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUMSpecial to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUMSpecial
Ex-White House aide C W Colson refuses on Sept 19 to answer questions put to him by Sen Watergate com, claiming his const right against self-incrimination; D I Shapiro, Colson's atty and law partner, tells com that Colson will not answer questions now because he is 'target' of Fed grand jury investigation and might be indicted; com Vice Chmn Baker says Colson indicated that he would be 'not only willing but eager' to testify if he ceased being 'target' for indictment; purpose of closed meeting is to determine whether Colson would testify freely; Colson asks com to grant him immunity but com votes unanimously not to do so; charges made against Colson by J W Dean 3d noted; Colson, in int with com staff members last summer, reptdly said he played no role whatsoever in planning Watergate burglary or in covering it up afterward; Colson illus
Date: 20 September 1973
ed commends Chilean junta for ending censorship of foreign news dispatches and re-opening country to foreign newsmen; urges it to allow them to ascertain truth about widespread repts of brutality inflicted on large number of foreigners arrested after coup; urges junta to make public fate or whereabouts of prominent Socialist and Communist leaders and to state that it will not engage in any totalitarian-type purge; says there is no reason to believe that mil leaders did not act with reluctance and only when they genuinely feared that country was heading for civil war; urges policy of moderation and reconciliation
Date: 19 September 1973
By BERNARD GWERTZMANSpecial to The New York Times
US HR Ways and Means Com postpones for another wk US Sec of State-designate H A Kissinger's scheduled Sept 18 appearance before com to defend Nixon Adm's efforts to extend improved tariff terms to USSR without linking them to unrestricted emigration by Soviet Jews
Date: 19 September 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Sen B Goldwater on Sept 18 lectures press on its need to give sources, particularly concerning its reptg on Watergate affair and on investigation into Vice Pres Agnew's affairs, Magazine Publishers Assn symposium, Carnegie Hall, NYC