Kingdom about the ongoing Yom Kippur War. Since President Nixon was intoxicated, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and administration assistant Brent Scowcroft decided that the Prime Minister could either speak with Kissinger or wait. Baseball's defending national champions, the Oakland A's won the fifth game of the best-3-of-5 American League Championship Series, with a 3 to 0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles, and proceeded to the World Series against the New York Mets. Despite good weather and the importance of the game, the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum was only slightly more than half full, with 24,265 people filling the nearly 48,000 seats. The Pascagoula Abduction, one of the more famous claims of a human encounter with extraterrestrial beings, began as two men told police that they had been taken aboard a spaceship by three "crab-clawed beings with wrinkled skin and pointed ears." Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported to authorities in Jackson County, Mississippi, that they had been fishing on a pier on the Pascagoula River when the incident occurred."UFO Story Stands Up in Lie Test", Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1973, p. I-23 A National Christmas Tree was placed in Washington D.C. for the 101st time, and began a tradition of using living trees that had been transplanted, after 100 years of using trees that had been cut down. The Colorado blue spruce had fallen off of a flatbed truck while being transported from Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, although it continued to be used for Christmas in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Born: Steven Pressley, Scottish soccer football centre-back and Scottish national team member; in Elgin, Moray October 12, 1973 (Friday) The first husband and wife team to be elected president and vice president of a nation took office as Juan Peron and Isabel Peron were sworn into office. In response to the October 10 shipment of replacement weapons to Egypt and Syria, U.S. President Nixon authorized Operation Nickel Grass, an airlift of replacement weapons to Israel and on October 19, fifty A-4 aircraft were flown to Israel by the U.S. Navy's Patrol Squadron 92. The Arab nations would respond with a cut in their exports of oil to the United States. U.S. Representative Gerald R. Ford, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, was nominated by U.S. President Nixon to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President of the United States. According to the Washington Post, Nixon's first choice, former U.S.