May 1973

The following events occurred in May 1973:

Born: Dermot O'Leary, British-Irish television presenter, in Colchester, Essex, England Died: U.S. Congressman William O. Mills, 48, committed suicide with a shotgun wound to his chest, after being implicated in the Watergate scandal. Mills, of Maryland, had failed to report that he had received $25,000 from President Nixon's re-election committee. His death came the day after the Washington Post had reported the contribution, and four days after the Washington Star-News had broken the story. Before killing himself at his farm home in Easton, Maryland, Mills called a local radio station and played a recording denying that he had done anything improper.