Football player Kevin Phillips

Events in 1973 and 25-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Kevin Phillips

• Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
• A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. (Jan. 28).
• US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
• Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown (Sept. 11); Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power.
• Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War.

Birthday Kevin Phillips (25-7) in history

• Day 25-7 year 1946: The United States tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.
• Day 25-7 year 1952: Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the United States.
• Day 25-7 year 1956: The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, killing 51 people.
• Day 25-7 year 1978: The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in Lancashire, England.
• Day 25-7 year 1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
• Day 25-7 year 2000: The supersonic airliner Concorde crashed after takeoff outside Paris.