1973 - What happened in 1973 ?
January 1973
Monday 01:
The Kingdom of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community.
Friday 05:
Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
Monday 08:
Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
Sunday 14:
Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
Tuesday 23:
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
February 1973
Sunday 11:
Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
Monday 12:
Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
Wednesday 21:
Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
Thursday 22:
Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
Tuesday 27:
The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
March 1973
Monday 05:
Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
Wednesday 07:
The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Lubos Kohoutek.
Saturday 24:
Rock band Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon, which will go on to become one of the most influential and commercially successful albums of all-time.
Monday 26:
The soap opera The Young and the Restless debuts on CBS television.
Thursday 29:
Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam.
April 1973
Sunday 01:
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
Wednesday 04:
The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
Thursday 05:
Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France
Friday 06:
Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
Monday 30:
Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
May 1973
Tuesday 08:
A 71-day standoff, between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
Friday 11:
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times dismissed.
Monday 14:
Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
Thursday 17:
Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
Friday 25:
Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells.
June 1973
Sunday 03:
Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which will be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999.
Monday 04:
patent for the ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
Saturday 09:
Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
Monday 25:
Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
Tuesday 26:
On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 persons were killed at an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
July 1973
Monday 02:
James R. Schlesinger is sworn in as the 12th United States Secretary of Defense.
Tuesday 10:
The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth.
Wednesday 25:
Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
Saturday 28:
Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.
Tuesday 31:
A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
August 1973
Friday 03:
R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.
Wednesday 08:
Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped from a Tokyo hotel.
Wednesday 15:
Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends
Thursday 23:
The Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
September 1973
Tuesday 11:
A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende.
Saturday 15:
Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in world record time.
Sunday 23:
Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
Monday 24:
Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
Wednesday 26:
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
October 1973
Saturday 06:
The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War.
Friday 19:
President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
Saturday 20:
The Six Million Dollar Man premieres on ABC.
Sunday 21:
John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
Wednesday 24:
Yom Kippur War ends
November 1973
Thursday 01:
Formation of Karnataka state in India.
Saturday 03:
Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury, on March 29, 1974 becoming the first space probe to reach that planet.
Thursday 08:
The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
Friday 16:
US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
Tuesday 27:
The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
December 1973
Saturday 01:
Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
Monday 03:
Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
Sunday 16:
O.J. Simpson becomes the first player in NFL history to rush for 2000 yards in one season.
Monday 17:
The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
Tuesday 25:
The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze.
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