1973 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1973?
- January 7, 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson’s Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- January 14, 1973 – Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
- March 29, 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- April 1, 1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
- 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 10, 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- July 29, 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
- August 8, 1973 – Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
- September 18, 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
- September 28, 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- October 6, 1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
- October 17, 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
- October 23, 1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
- October 30, 1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
- November 14, 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- 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 21, 1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
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