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.
- March 24, 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
- April 30, 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
- May 14, 1973 – Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
- July 10, 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- July 13, 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
- July 31, 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
- August 2, 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- October 8, 1973 – Greek military junta of 1967–1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
- October 10, 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
- 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 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
- October 24, 1973 – Yom Kippur War ends
- November 1, 1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- November 7, 1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- November 14, 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- November 17, 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
- 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 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
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