1973 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1973?
- February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- April 2, 1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- May 24, 1973 – Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
- 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 11, 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- July 17, 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- July 21, 1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
- August 8, 1973 – Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
- August 14, 1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- September 11, 1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
- September 23, 1973 – 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.
- October 19, 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
- October 20, 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
- October 27, 1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 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. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
- November 8, 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
- December 21, 1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
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