David Ben-Gurion died on 1 December 1973 in Ramat Gan, aged 87. An Israeli statesman, Ben-Gurion was born David Grün in Płońsk in what was then the Russian Empire, and emigrated to Ottoman-ruled Palestine in 1906. He became a leader of the Zionist labour movement, headed the Jewish Agency and, on 14 May 1948, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. He served as its first prime minister and defence minister, built the Israel Defense Forces, and oversaw the absorption of large numbers of immigrants. His government agreed to reparations from West Germany and joined Britain and France in the 1956 Suez campaign. He retired in 1963 to a kibbutz in the Negev desert, Sde Boker, where he died in 1973.
Before and after
- 1 November 1973Birth of Aishwarya Rai
- 3 November 1973Launch of Mariner 10
- from 14 November 1973 to 17 November 1973Athens Polytechnic uprising
- 29 November 1973Birth of Ryan Giggs
- 1 December 1973Death of David Ben-Gurion
- 3 December 1973Pioneer 10 flies past Jupiter
- 1974Origins of Berlin Marathon
- 1974Introduction of ngultrum
- 1974Creation of CP/M
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