History of 1973

During the year of 1973 the following events have happened in our world's history.

January 01, 1973 - Britain Ireland & Denmark join Common Market
January 03, 1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
January 08, 1973 - USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing
January 15, 1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
January 16, 1973 - USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon
January 18, 1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak 20 game road winless streak
January 22, 1973 - Supreme Court approves abortions
January 27, 1973 - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft
February 04, 1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
February 04, 1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
February 07, 1973 - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
February 10, 1973 - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
March 07, 1973 - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
March 29, 1973 - US troops leave Vietnam - 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
March 30, 1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
March 31, 1973 - Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders - on 60 shots
May 04, 1973 - 1st TV network female nudity - Steambath (PBS) - Valerie Perrine
May 08, 1973 - Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered
May 10, 1973 - 9th Mayor's Trophy Game - Mets beat Yanks 8-4
May 14, 1973 - US launches space station Skylab 1
May 17, 1973 - Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings
May 25, 1973 - US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin - Conrad - Weitz
June 09, 1973 - Secretariat wins Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown
June 12, 1973 - Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
June 19, 1973 - Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000
June 22, 1973 - Skylab 2's astronauts land
June 23, 1973 - Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
June 25, 1973 - John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee
June 25, 1973 - Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
June 27, 1973 - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's `enemies list'
July 01, 1973 - Caribbean Day
July 07, 1973 - Veronica Lake dies at 58
July 10, 1973 - Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
July 13, 1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs beating KC 5-0
July 25, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
July 25, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
July 28, 1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
August 01, 1973 - Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park
August 05, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 6
August 09, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 7
August 10, 1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
August 14, 1973 - US bombs Cambodia
August 23, 1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
August 26, 1973 - Women's Equality Day
August 28, 1973 - More than 520 die as a strong earthquake shook central Mexico
September 02, 1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
September 08, 1973 - Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
September 11, 1973 - Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
September 20, 1973 - Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
September 21, 1973 - Diana Sands dies at 39
September 23, 1973 - Largest known prime 2 ^ 132 049 - 1 is discovered
September 25, 1973 - 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
September 26, 1973 - Anna Magnani dies at age 64
September 27, 1973 - Soyuz 12 launched
September 29, 1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
September 30, 1973 - Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
October 06, 1973 - Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
October 10, 1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
October 10, 1973 - Vice-Pres. Agnew resigns after conviction for income-tax evasion.
October 12, 1973 - Gerald Ford named as Spiro Agnew's successor to vice presidency
October 16, 1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
October 17, 1973 - The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March 1974.
October 20, 1973 - Sat Night Massacre Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork. AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
October 22, 1973 - Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
October 23, 1973 - President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings
October 24, 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends - Israel 65 miles from Cairo 26 from Damascus
October 27, 1973 - 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2
October 28, 1973 - Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record).
November 03, 1973 - Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics 1st mission to Mercury
November 05, 1973 - BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
November 08, 1973 - Walt Disney's "Robin Hood" is released
November 14, 1973 - Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Capt Mark Phillips
November 16, 1973 - Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit
November 17, 1973 - Pres Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their pres is a crook. Well I'm not a crook."
November 25, 1973 - Greek Pres George Papadopoulos ousted in a bloodless military coup
November 26, 1973 - Nixon's personal sec Rose Mary Woods told a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
November 27, 1973 - Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP
December 03, 1973 - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
December 05, 1973 - Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
December 06, 1973 - Gerald Ford becomes 1st unelected VP
December 15, 1973 - Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
December 15, 1973 - Pirates of Caribbean opens
December 18, 1973 - Soyuz 13 launched into earth orbit for 8 days
December 21, 1973 - Israel Egypt Syria Jordan US & USSR meet in Geneva
December 23, 1973 - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
December 26, 1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth