Glostrup, near Copenhagen Died: James Kennedy GC, 42, Scottish security guard for British Rail Engineering Limited, was killed while trying to prevent a payroll robbery December 22, 1973 (Saturday) All 106 people aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight were killed when the Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle was preparing to land at Tangier in Morocco on a flight from Paris in France. The aircraft crashed into the side of Mount Mellaline, near the town of Tetouan, at an altitude of . U.S. President Nixon signed the Menominee Restoration Act into law, returning federally recognized sovereignty to the Menominee Indian Tribe of the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and reversing the Menominee Termination Act of 1954. Born: Nikolai Arkadievich Dudin, Soviet Russian serial killer of 13 people in the small town of Furmanov between 1987 and 2002; in Died: Dewey Brown, 74, the first African-American member of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA). Brown was a member from 1928 until 1934, when the PGA amended its bylaws to limit itself to white members only. The "Caucasian only" clause stood until 1961; Brown was readmitted to the PGA in 1965. December 23, 1973 (Sunday) The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that its member nations would more than double the price asked for crude oil, effective January 1. In U.S. dollars, the posted price went from $5.11 per barrel to $11.65 on New Year's Day of 1974. At the start of 1973, the price had been $2.59 per barrel. Gérald Fauteux, Chief Justice of Canada since 1970, retired from the Canadian Supreme Court, on which he had served for 24 years. Died: Gerard Kuiper, 68, Dutch astronomer for whom the Kuiper belt of dwarf planets, located beyond the planet Neptune, would later be named Irna Phillips, 72, American scriptwriter who pioneered the daytime soap opera on radio, then later on television December 24, 1973 (Monday) In the U.S., the District of Columbia (including the nation's capital, Washington, D.C.), was granted limited self-government including the right to elect a mayor and a 13-member city council, as U.S. President Nixon signed the District of Columbia Home Rule Act into law. For more than 100 years, the administration of the district services had been carried out by a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Congress still retained the right to veto the budget for the District. At least 143 passengers and crew died when