1973

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Template:Yearbox Template:C20YearInTopic 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday.

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Events

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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 concert 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 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. [1]
January 23 - The eruption of Eldfell on the Icelandic island of Heimaey begins.
January 23 - 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.

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February

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 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.

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March

March 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.Template:NoMention
March 7 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
March 8 - IRA bombs explode in the Whitehall and the Old Bailey.
March 17 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.
March 24 - Pink Floyd released "The Dark Side of the Moon".
March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam.
March 31 - Paramount's Carowinds opens for the first time.

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April

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

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May

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.Template:NoMention

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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 ATM granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
June 9 - Secretariat 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.Template:NoMention
June 20 - Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot on the left-wing peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
June 22 - William 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 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.

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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.Template:NoMention
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.Template:NoMention
July 31 - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly Template:NoMention

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August

August 2 - Flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.Template:NoMention
August 5 - Black September members open fire at Athens airport - 3 dead, 55 injured.Template:NoMention
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.Template:NoMention

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September

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 dies. Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.
September 18 - The two German Republics, the BRD and the DDR, are 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 Secretary of State.
September 28 - ITT was bombed in New York City as a protest of their involvement with the Coup in Chile.

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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, 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.
October 26 - Yom Kippur War ends.
October 27 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.Template:NoMention

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November

November 1: Watergate scandal, acting Attorney General Robert Bork appointed Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.Template:NoMention
November 3 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974 it became the first space probe to reach that planet).
November 7 - The 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, Princess Anne 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 House confirmed him 387 to 35).

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December

December - Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.Template:NoMention
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.
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.Template:NoMention
December 23 - The OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.Template:NoMention
December 30 - Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.Template:NoMention
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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Unknown dates

The National House Building Council was formed in the United Kingdom.
The COSC The Swiss Official Chronometer testing Institute was founded in Switzerland by 5 Watch Cantons & FH, Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry.
Title Queen of Australia created

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Fictional events

December 6 - Susie Salmon murdered, in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.
The central character in the BBC series Life on Mars travelled through time to 1973 from 2006.

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