1973

Years: 1970 1971 1972 - 1973 - 1974 1975 1976
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1973 in art 1973 in aviation 1973 in film 1973 in literature 1973 in music 1973 in politics 1973 in sports 1973 in television

Events

January events

January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as 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 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 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 23 - Eruption in Heimaey begins
January 23 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
January 27 - U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts

February events

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 14- Ottawa The Yukon Native Brotherhood presets "Together Today for our Children Tomorrow" a historic document that begins the land claims negotiation in the Yukon
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.

March events

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 - IRA bombs explode in the Whitehall and the Old Bailey.
March 16 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the New London Bridge.
March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam.

April events

April 6 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

May events

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 - According to the non-retroactive copyright laws of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.

June events

June 1 - Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
June 3 - Tupolev 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 25 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse visible in NE South America, the Atlantic, and central Africa. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the last. Observers aboard a Concorde jet were able to stretch totality to about 74 minutes by flying along the path of the moon's umbra.

July events

July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth
July 12 - A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center. 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 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.

August events

August 2 - Flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
August 5 - Black September members open fire at Athens airport - 3 dead, 55 injured.
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.
August 22 - Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Adviser, is named Secretary of State.

September events

September 11 - Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende dies, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a military junta that will govern Chile for the next 17 years.
September 15 - Sweden's king Gustav VI Adolf dies. Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.
September 18 - Chile's national day.
September 20 - Billed as The Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
September 28 - ITT bombed in New York City to protest their involvement with the Coup in Chile.

October events

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 - A worldwide oil shortage, the 1973 energy crisis, followed an Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which gave support to Isra�l.
October 20 - The Saturday Night Massacre
October 20 - Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II
October 26 - Yom Kippur War ends

November events

November 1 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor
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 United States 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 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).

December events

December 1 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia
December - Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
December 3 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
December 15 - Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.
December 20 - Singer, songwriter, Bobby Darin (birthname Robert Casotto)dies of heart complications.
December 30 � Carlos the Jackal fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff � his first action

Undated events

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
US Drug Enforcement Agency founded

Year in topic

1973 in art
1973 in film
- The Sting
- American Graffiti directed by George Lucas, starring Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, and Ron Howard
- The Exorcist
1973 in literature
1973 in music
1973 in sports
1973 in television
- January 6 - Schoolhouse Rock! premieres
- January 14 - Worldwide 1.5 billion people from about 40 countries watch "Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii" many of them live via satellite.
- The Six Million Dollar Man debuts
- Large-screen projection color TVs hit the market

Births

April births

May births

May 1 - Oliver Neuville, soccer player, German national team
May 10 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer
May 16 - Tori Spelling, actress

June births

June 1 - Heidi Klum, German supermodel
June 1 - Derek Lowe, baseball pitcher
June 8 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress (Andromeda)
June 10 - Faith Evans, R&B singer
June 22 - Carson Daly, talk show host, VJ
June 26 - Gretchen Wilson, country music singer
June 28 - Denise Carleton, actress, singer and dancer
June 28 - Adrian Annus, hammer thrower
June 30 - Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher

July births

July 11 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
July 20 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
July 20 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish NHL player
July 23 - Nomar Garciaparra, baseball star
July 23 - Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern
July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, actress

August births

August 1 - Tempestt Bledsoe, actress
August 6 - Asia Carrera, erotic actress
August 8 - Nick A. Davis, writer
August 8 - Scott Stapp, Creed lead singer
August 12 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
August 20 - Todd Helton, baseball player

September births

September 12 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
September 19 - Jos� Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist

October births

October 3 - Neve Campbell, actress
October 10 - Mario L�pez, actor
October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball star, American League MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001
October 29 - Gabrielle Union, actress

November births

November 5 - Johnny Damon, baseball player
November 12 - Martin M. Weiss, Author
November 29 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer

December births

December 2 - Monica Seles, tennis champion
December 7 - Terrell Owens, American football star
December 15 - Surya Bonaly, figure skater
December 28 - Adam Lockett, baseball player
December 30 - Ato Boldon, Trinidad and Tobago athlete

Deaths

January deaths

January 22 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States
January 23 - Kid Ory, musician
January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, actor
January 26 - Edward G. Robinson, actor

February deaths

February 11 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist.
February 15 - Wally Cox, actor

March deaths

March 6 - Pearl S. Buck, novelist
March 10 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, segregationist
March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead
March 14 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
March 26 - Noel Coward, composer, playwright

April deaths

April 8 - Pablo Picasso, Catalan artist
April 21 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia
April 26 - Irene Ryan, actress

May deaths

May 11 - Lex Barker, actor
May 18 - Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives

June deaths

June 18 - Roger Delgado, actor (b. 1918)

July deaths

July 6 - Otto Klemperer, conductor
July 20 - Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and film star

August deaths

August 1 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
August 17 - Jean Barraqu�, composer

September deaths

September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, writer
September 11 - Salvador Allende, Chilean president
September 19 - Gram Parsons, musician
September 23 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet
September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet

October deaths

October 2 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner
October 17 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (b. 1926)
October 22 - Pablo Casals, Catalan virtuoso cellist and conductor

November deaths

November 27 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (b. 1887)

December deaths

December 1 - David Ben-Gurion, former Prime Minister of Israel
December 3 - Emile Christian, jazz musician (b. 1895)
December 20 - Bobby Darin, singer
December 26 - Harold B. Lee, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
Chemistry - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
Medicine - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
Literature - Patrick White
Peace - Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
Economics - Wassily Leontief

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