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Date	Event
January 1, 1973	Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
January 7, 1973	In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
January 8, 1973	Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
January 8, 1973	Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
January 11, 1973	Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
January 14, 1973	Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
January 15, 1973	Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
January 20, 1973	Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.
January 22, 1973	The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
January 22, 1973	The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
January 22, 1973	A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
January 22, 1973	In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
January 27, 1973	The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
January 29, 1973	EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.
February 6, 1973	The Ms  7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.
February 21, 1973	Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
February 22, 1973	Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
February 27, 1973	The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
March 1, 1973	Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
March 17, 1973	The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
March 29, 1973	Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
March 29, 1973	Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
April 1, 1973	Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
April 2, 1973	Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
April 3, 1973	Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
April 4, 1973	The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
April 4, 1973	A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
April 6, 1973	Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
April 6, 1973	The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
April 10, 1973	Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
April 19, 1973	The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
April 28, 1973	The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
April 30, 1973	Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
May 4, 1973	The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
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May 8, 1973	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.
May 14, 1973	Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
May 17, 1973	Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
May 18, 1973	Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
May 25, 1973	In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
May 29, 1973	Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
May 31, 1973	The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
May 31, 1973	Indian Airlines Flight 440 crashes near Indira Gandhi International Airport, killing 48.
June 3, 1973	A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
June 9, 1973	In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
June 13, 1973	In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the record of staying together for .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertic
June 20, 1973	Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
June 20, 1973	Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
June 21, 1973	In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
June 23, 1973	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 serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
June 24, 1973	The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
June 27, 1973	The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
June 28, 1973	Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
July 3, 1973	David Bowie retires his stage persona Ziggy Stardust with the surprise announcement that it is "the last show that we'll ever do" on the last day of the Ziggy Stardust Tour.
July 5, 1973	A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
July 5, 1973	Juvénal Habyarimana seizes power over Rwanda in a coup d'état.
July 10, 1973	The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
July 11, 1973	Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
July 12, 1973	A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
July 13, 1973	Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
July 17, 1973	King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.
July 21, 1973	In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
July 22, 1973	Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78.
July 25, 1973	Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
July 28, 1973	Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
July 29, 1973	Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
July 29, 1973	Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
July 31, 1973	A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
August 2, 1973	A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
August 5, 1973	Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
August 8, 1973	Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
August 9, 1973	Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
August 13, 1973	Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing 85.
August 15, 1973	Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.
August 22, 1973	The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
August 23, 1973	A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
August 28, 1973	Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
September 1, 1973	A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.
September 8, 1973	World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.
September 11, 1973	A coup in Chile, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
September 11, 1973	JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.
September 18, 1973	The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
September 20, 1973	Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
September 20, 1973	Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
September 23, 1973	Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
September 24, 1973	Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
September 26, 1973	Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
September 28, 1973	The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
October 6, 1973	Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
October 8, 1973	Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
October 8, 1973	Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
October 10, 1973	U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
October 12, 1973	President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
October 14, 1973	In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
October 16, 1973	Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 17, 1973	OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
October 19, 1973	President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
October 20, 1973	Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.
October 20, 1973	The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
October 21, 1973	Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
October 25, 1973	Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
October 30, 1973	The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
October 31, 1973	Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
November 1, 1973	Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
November 1, 1973	The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
November 3, 1973	Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury.[5] On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
November 4, 1973	The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
November 7, 1973	The United States Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
November 8, 1973	The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
November 14, 1973	In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
November 14, 1973	The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
November 16, 1973	Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
November 16, 1973	U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
November 17, 1973	Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
November 17, 1973	The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
November 24, 1973	A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
November 25, 1973	Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
November 27, 1973	Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).
December 1, 1973	Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
December 3, 1973	Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
December 6, 1973	The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
December 9, 1973	British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
December 15, 1973	John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
December 15, 1973	The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
December 17, 1973	Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
December 18, 1973	Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
December 20, 1973	Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.
December 21, 1973	The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
December 22, 1973	A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Tanger-Boukhalef Airport (now Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport) in Tangier, Morocco, killing 106.
December 24, 1973	District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
December 28, 1973	The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.