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1973

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{{yearbox| in?= | cp=19th century| c=20th century | cf=21st century | yp1=1970 | yp2=1971 | yp3=1972 | year=1973 | ya1=1974 | ya2=1975 | ya3=1976 | dp3=1940s | dp2=1950s | dp1=1960s | d=1970s | dn1=1980s | dn2=1990s | dn3=2000s | }} 1973' ('MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar).

Events

January

- January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Community, which later became the European Union.

- January 3 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.

- January 14 - Elvis Presley does a Aloha from Hawaii in Aloha from Hawaii in Hawaii for over a billion people live worldwide.

- January 15 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.

- January 17 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.

- January 21 - The Communist League (Denmark)|Communist League is founded in Denmark.

- January 22 - Supreme Court of the United States rules on Roe v. Wade.

- January 22 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.

- January 22 - Alia Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria - 176 dead. [http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1973/1973-1.htm]

- January 23 - The eruption of Eldfell on the Icelandic island of Heimaey begins.

- January 23 - President of the United States|President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.

- January 25 - Derren Nesbitt convicted of assaulting Anne Aubrey

- January 27 - U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. See Paris Peace Accords.

February-March

- February 11 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

- February 12 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs. (See: Metric system in the United States)

- February 21 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Arab Airlines jet killing 100.

- February 22 - Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's Nixon visit to China 1972|visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.

- February 27 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

- March 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.

- March 7 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.

- March 8 - Irish Republican Army bombs explode in the Irish Republican Army bombs explode in the Whitehall_and_the Old Bailey.

- March 17 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.

- March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam.

- March 31 - Paramount's Carowinds opens for the first time.

April-May

- April 2 - Launch of LexisNexis computerized legal research service.

- April 4 - World Trade Center officially opens in New York with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

- April 6 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

- April 10 - Israeli commando raid on Beirut, in which three leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement were assassinated. The army's inaction brought the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim leader from Beirut.

- April 17 -German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 formed officially

- May 5 - Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

- May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.

- May 10 - Polisario formed.

- May 14 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

- May 17 - Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.

- May 27 - By the virtue of non-retroactiveness of the copyright laws of the USSR, all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.

June

- June 1 - Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.

- June 3 - Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show - 15 dead.

- June 4 - patent for the automated teller machine granted to automated teller machine granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

- June 9 - Secretariat (racehorse) wins the Secretariat (racehorse) wins the Belmont_Stakes becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.

- June 10 - Grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome.

- June 20 - 1973 Ezeiza massacre in 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos_Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot on the left-wing peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.

- June 22 - W. Mark Felt retires from the W. Mark Felt retires from the FBI.

- June 23 - a fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Bruce George Peter Lee|Peter Dinsdale.

- June 25 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.

- June 26 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

- June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse. During the entire 2nd millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.

July

- July 1 - United States Drug Enforcement Administration founded.

- July 2 - Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.

- July 5 - Isle of Man begins to issue its own postage stamps.

- July 5 - Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide.

- July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

- July 12 - A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The disaster comes to be known as the 1973 National Archives Fire.

- July 16 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating the scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

- July 20 - France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll over protestations of Australia and New Zealand.

- July 25 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.

- July 28 - Watkins Glen Summer Jam, a massive rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band attracts over 600,000 music fans.

- July 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.

- July 31 - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly

August-September

- August 2 - Flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.

- August 5 - Black September (group)|Black September members open fire at Athens airport - 3 dead, 55 injured.

- August 8 - 1973 Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung

- August 13 - The film of Jesus Christ Superstar is released.

- August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.

- September 11 - Chile's democratically-elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende dies, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a military junta that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.

- September 15 - Sweden's king Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden|Gustav VI Adolf dies. Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden|Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.

- September 18 - The two German Republics, the BRD and the DDR, are United Nations member states|admitted to the United Nations.

- September 20 - Billed as The Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

- September 20 - American folk singer Jim Croce dies in a plane crash.

- September 22 - Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State.

- September 28 - ITT was bombed in New York City as a protest of their involvement with the Coup in Chile.

October

- October 6 - Yom Kippur War - Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur.

- October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.

- October 17 - Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which gave support to Israel, triggerring the 1973 energy crisis.

- October 20 - The Saturday Night Massacre.

- October 20 - Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II.

- October 26 - Yom Kippur War ends.

- October 27 - &

65279;The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.

November

- November 1: Watergate scandal, acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

- November 3 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (planet) (on Mercury (planet) (on March_29, 1974 it became the first space probe to reach that planet).

- November 7 - The Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.

- November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.

- November 14 - In the United Kingdom, Anne, Princess Royal marries a commoner, Captain Anne, Princess Royal marries a commoner, Captain Mark_Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).

- November 16 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

- November 16 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

- November 17 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

- November 17 - Student uprising against the military regime in Athens, Greece.

- November 21 - President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Bushardt, revealed the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

- November 25 - Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.

- November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the United States House of Representatives|House confirmed him 387 to 35).

December

- December - Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.

- December 1 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.

- December 3 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter (planet).

- December 6 - The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.

- December 15 - Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.

- December 23 - The OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.

- December 30 - Terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez|Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.

- December 31 - In the UK, as a result of high coal and oil prices, the Three-Day Week officially comes into force.

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