as more than 100,000 demonstrated against the military government. An estimated 280 students and 20 police and soldiers were killed after five days of protests before Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and his deputy, Field Marshal Praphas Charusathien, resigned along with the military cabinet that evening. Two days later, King Bhumibol Adulyadej appointed Sanya Dharmasakti to head a 14-man cabinet dominated by civilians. Voting was held in Turkey for the 450-seat Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party (CHP) of Bülent Ecevit gained 42 seats to win 185, while the Justice Party of Prime Minister Naim Talu dropped from a 256-seat control to only 149 seats. A fire destroyed 18 city blocks and more than 300 buildings in the small city of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Born: George Floyd, American police brutality victim whose death during an arrest prompted nationwide protests of police conductbrutality; in Fayetteville, North Carolina (killed 2020) Died: Edmund A. Chester, 76, American broadcasting executive and senior vice president of the CBS radio and television networks during the 1940s Egyptian Army General Ahmed Hamdi, 44, military engineer who guided the installation of the pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal, was killed in battle during the Yom Kippur War. Jean Mouroux, 72, French Roman Catholic theologian October 15, 1973 (Monday) The Israeli Army reversed the course of the Yom Kippur War as its tanks and armored divisions retook control of the west bank of the Suez Canal. Within a week the Israelis were within of Cairo and had surrounded and trapped the 20,000 officers and soldiers of the 3rd Egyptian Army. Typhoon Ruth crossed Luzon, Philippines, killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage. The United Nations General Assembly elected five new non-permanent members to the 15-member United Nations Security Council, with the Byelorussian SSR, part of the Soviet Union but a separate UN member, being on the Council with one of the permanent members, the Soviet Union, for a two-year term. The other four new members elected were Cameroon, Costa Rica, Iraq, and Mauritania. October 16, 1973 (Tuesday) Prime Ministers Edward Heath of the United Kingdom and Olafur Johannesson of Iceland met in London and reached an interim agreement to end the Cod War that had arisen between the Icelandic government and British fishing trawlers."Cod War 'could end within a week', Daily Mail (London), October 17, 1973, p. I-1 For the first time, the member nations of the Organization