1973 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1973?
- January 23, 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
- February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- March 1, 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- April 10, 1973 – A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
- June 4, 1973 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- June 26, 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- July 13, 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the “Nixon tapes” to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
- July 29, 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
- August 14, 1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- 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”.
- September 26, 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
- October 16, 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- November 1, 1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- 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.
- 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 17, 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook”.
- 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 18, 1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
- December 21, 1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
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