Death of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, the San Francisco-born Chinese American martial artist and actor who reshaped global perceptions of Asian Americans in film, died July 20, 1973, in Hong Kong at age 32.
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July 20
Geneva Conference on Indochinese Refugees
With boat-people arrivals peaking near 56,000 a month, a UN conference in Geneva won pledges to more than double Western resettlement; the US led in accepting hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees.