1973

Year 1973 () was a (link will display full calendar) of the 1973.

The year 1973 has been designated the  in the.

January

 * - The, the and  enter the , which later became the.


 * - sells the  for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by.
 * - does a  in  for over a billion people live worldwide.
 * - The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 in Super Bowl VII to complete the NFL's only Perfect Season.
 * - : Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President  announces the suspension of offensive action in.
 * - becomes  of the.
 * - Eleven councillors in, , , were ordered to pay £6,985 for not enforcing the Housing Finance Act.
 * - U.S. President is inaugurated for his second term.
 * - nationalist  is assassinated.
 * - The is founded in.
 * - Former  dies in.
 * - : The overturns state bans on abortion.
 * - defeats  for the heavyweight world  championship.
 * - A  flight from  crashes in, ; 176 are killed.
 * - on the ic island of  erupts.
 * - U.S. President announces that a peace accord has been reached in.
 * - English actor is convicted of assaulting his wife.
 * - U.S. involvement in the ends with the signing of the.
 * - and  cancelled their options to buy 13  airliners.

February

 * - : Construction on the begins.
 * - : The first release of American prisoners of war from takes place.
 * - becomes the first  to post distance in  on signs. (See: ).
 * - The was devalued by 10%.
 * - The ruled that the  could publish articles on  and Distillers Company, despite ongoing legal actions by parents (the decision was overturned in July by the ).
 * -  is shot down by i  over the, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Only 5 (1 crew member and 4 passengers) of 113 survive.
 * - : Following President 's to, the  and the  agree to establish liaison offices.
 * - 's government publishes a Green Paper on prices and incomes policy.
 * - The occupies.
 * - Polling day in the general election.

March

 * -, who had resigned from the on leaving the , was re-elected as a 'Democratic Labour' candidate.
 * - win the  final at, beating  1-0 in the final.
 * - is discovered.
 * - In the 'Border Poll', voters in endorse remaining in the . Irish nationalists largely boycotted the referendum.
 * - bombs explode in  and the  in.
 * - Sir, Governor of , was assassinated in Government House.
 * - Queen opens the modern.
 * - Many of the few remaining soldiers begin to leave . One reunion of a former POW reuniting with his family is immortalized in the -winning photograph .
 * - 's, one of rock's landmark albums, is released.
 * - government White Paper on  proposes re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council.
 * - in Great Britain.
 * - government announces that the  could be finished by 1980, costing £366m.
 * - (United States): In a letter to,  burglar  admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case.  He names  as 'overall boss' of the operation.
 * - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.
 * - opens.

April

 * - The computerized legal research service begins.
 * - The first handheld cellular phone call made by Martin Cooper, who conceived the phone, in New York City.
 * - The officially opens in  with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
 * -  is launched on a mission to study the.
 * - of the  becomes the first  in.
 * - Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins for.
 * - Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement.  The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister, a Sunni Muslim.
 * - The voted against restoring  by a margin of 142 votes.
 * - The wins control of the.
 * - The counter-terrorist force  is officially formed.
 * - officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from . On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, NY, to Miami, Fla.
 * - An train en route to Perth, derails near . The train destroyed a quarter mile of track when it left the rails.
 * - Six Irishmen, including, are arrested by the off  on board a coaster carrying five tons of weapons destined for the.

May

 * - An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the stopped work in support of a  "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.
 * - The in  is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.
 * - becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of.
 * - defeats  in the  final.
 * - wins the.
 * - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the who were occupying the  at, ends with the surrender of the militants.
 * - The ,a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Western Sahara, is formed.
 * - , the ' first, is launched.
 * May 14 - The votes to abolish  in.
 * - : Televised hearings begin in the.
 * - :, , announces that  s will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round.
 * - wins the.
 * - resigned from the British government over a '' scandal.
 * - is invented by.
 * -, and  in Britain, resigned over a separate prostitution scandal.
 * - ' is launched on a mission to repair the ' space station.
 * - By virtue of the non-retroactivity of Soviet copyright laws, all works published before this date are . This applies worldwide.

June

 * - The military junta abolishes the  and proclaims a.
 * - A crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
 * - A for the  is granted to, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
 * - wins the, becoming the first  winner since 1948.
 * - The grandson of is kidnapped in.
 * - U.S. President begins several talks with Soviet leader.
 * - The occurs in, .   Snipers shoot on left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
 * - ("Deep Throat") retires from the.
 * - A house fire in, , which kills a 6-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next 7 years by arsonist.
 * - Soviet leader addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
 * - is elected the fourth.
 * - : Former counsel  begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
 * - At, 9 persons are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
 * - Elections are held for the, which will lead to power-sharing between and  in  for the first time.
 * - Very long total . During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.

July

 * - The United States is founded.
 * - The passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating  federally.
 * - The begins to issue its own s.
 * - The catastrophic (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in, following a fire that broke out as  was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.  This explosion has become a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
 * - in  was gazetted as a.
 * - The gain full independence within the.
 * - disaster near,  - 123 killed.
 * - : A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the in St. Louis, Missouri.
 * - : Former aide  informs the  Watergate Committee that President  had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
 * - King of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin  while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
 * - resumes nuclear bomb tests in, over the protests of  and.
 * - Actor and martial artist dies of brain swelling in Queen Elizabeth Hospital,.
 * - The Philippines receives its second title, with  as the winner.
 * - The Building in,  suffers a serious fire.
 * - The  space probe is launched.
 * - The, a massive rock festival featuring , and , attracts over 600,000 music fans.
 * - ' is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard '.
 * - racing driver  dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the.
 * - An 11-year legal action for the victims of ends.
 * - Militant protesters of disrupt the first sitting of the.
 * - A  aircraft lands short of Boston's  runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m) short.   All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed, 1 of the passengers dying several months after the accident.

August

 * - A flash fire kills 51 at the amusement centre at.
 * - members open fire at the  airport; 3 are killed, 55 injured.
 * - n politician is kidnapped in  by the.
 * - : 27 boys are killed by 3 men.
 * - The U.S. bombing of ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
 * - The occurs, famous for the origin of the term.

September

 * - The  expelled 20 members for registering under the.
 * - 's democratically-elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President   during the coup in the presidential palace, and General  heads a -backed  that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.
 * - dies. His grandson,, becomes king.
 * - The two German Republics, the (West Germany) and the  (East Germany), are admitted to the.
 * - : defeats  in a televised tennis match, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, at the  in,.
 * -, , starts his term as.
 * - :  Launch of, the first manned flight since 1971.
 * - is bombed in  by Leftist terrorists protesting the restoration of the Chilean Constitution ordered by the Chilean judicial and legislative branches against the Allende administration.

October

 * - : The fourth and largest -i conflict begins, as ian and n forces attack i forces in the and  on.
 * - resigns as Vice President of the  and then, in federal court in, pleads no contest to charges of  evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of . He is fined $10,000 and put on 3 years' probation.
 * - The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the.
 * - The : U.S. President orders Attorney General  to dismiss  Special Prosecutor .   Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General .   Solicitor General, third in line at the , then fires Cox.   The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
 * - The is opened by  after 14 years of construction work.
 * - The ends.
 * - recognize the independence of.
 * - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 chondrite type, strikes Earth in.
 * - The in,  is completed, connecting the continents of  and  over the  for the first time in history.
 * - The in,  is completed, connecting the continents of  and  over the  for the first time in history.

November

 * : : Acting Attorney General appoints  as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
 * - -  JFK divert BOS crashed.
 * - : launches  toward  (on,  it becomes the first  to reach that planet).
 * - The overrides President 's veto of the, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
 * - and  sign a -sponsored cease-fire accord.
 * - In the, marries a commoner, Captain , in  (they divorce in 1992).
 * - : launches   from  on an 84-day mission.
 * - U.S. President signs the  into law, authorizing the construction of the.
 * - : In, U.S. President tells 400  managing editors "I am not a crook."
 * - A student uprising occurs against the military in,.
 * - U.S. President 's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the tape recordings related to.
 * - dictator  is ousted in a military  led by Lieutenant General.
 * - The votes 92-3 to confirm  as.
 * - More than 100 people perish in a department store fire in.

December

 * December - breaks diplomatic contacts with.
 * -  gains self government from.
 * - :  sends back the first close-up images of.
 * - The votes 387-35 to confirm  as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.
 * - : The removes  from its.
 * - of the  became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.
 * - doubles the price of.
 * - The is passed.
 * - Terrorist fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.
 * - In the, due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure - the comes into force.

Undated

 * The was formed in the.
 * The The Swiss Official  testing Institute was founded in  by five   &.
 * Title is created.
 * Confirming the descriptions of for  in  Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119 AD, a large  trade ship of c.  AD was dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of  that had 12 bulkhead compartment rooms in its.

Fictional

 * - Susie Salmon murdered, in 's .
 * , the central character in the series  travelled through time from  to.
 * Director Cameron Crowe's film is set in.

January-February

 * -, American actor
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, Finnish singer
 * -, Jamaican singer
 * -, Polish actress
 * -, Indian cricketer
 * -, Russian hockey player
 * -, actress
 * -, Italian race car driver
 * -, Czech football player
 * -, American actress
 * -, Mexican football player
 * -, British musician ( and )
 * -, Finnish Cellist
 * -, French actress (d. )
 * -, Norwegian footballer
 * -, DJ of the American alternative rock band
 * -, British Mountaineer, First Welsh Man to climb highest Mountain in
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American basketball player


 * -, experimental , comic artist and musician
 * -, American wrestler
 * -, Estonian discus thrower
 * -, Mexican journalist
 * -, American boxer
 * -, TV presenter
 * -, presenter
 * -, Soviet gymnast
 * -, Norwegian musician
 * -, American football player
 * -, American swimmer
 * -, Australian athlete
 * -, French footballer
 * -, Australian actress
 * -, Georgian football player
 * -, Brazilian guitarist
 * -, Bulgarian gymnast
 * -, Canadian baseball player
 * -, American football player
 * -, Norwegian footballer
 * -, American swimmer
 * -, Canadian hockey player

March-April

 * -, Canadian musician
 * -, American basketball player
 * -, American director and screenwriter
 * -, American actress
 * -, baseball pitcher
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American musician
 * -, Dutch footballer
 * -, Irish musician
 * -, Swedish footballer
 * -, American basketball player
 * -, Polish footballer
 * -, American actor
 * -, Dutch footballer
 * -, American DJ


 * -, Puerto Rican actress
 * -, Canadian actor
 * -, American magician
 * -, American musician and producer
 * -, Japanese actress and singer
 * -, Brazilian football player
 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer, songwriter and musician
 * -, an -winning
 * -, Japanese singer
 * -, Indian cricketer
 * -, Swedish musician
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer
 * -, American singer

May-June

 * -, German footballer
 * -, Irish rugby player
 * -, Dutch footballer
 * -, Argentine footballer
 * -, Italian professional road racing cyclist
 * -, Turkish football goalkeeper
 * -, American actor
 * -, Canadian singer
 * -, American skateboarder and actor also known as Wee-Man
 * -, American actress
 * -, American musician
 * -, Canadian composer/producer/pianist/singer
 * -, japanese professional wrestle
 * -, Scottish race car driver
 * -, British comedian
 * -, Italian musician
 * -, British TV star
 * -, American comedian
 * -, American glass artist
 * -, British comedian
 * -, Belgian tennis player


 * -, Belgian swimmer
 * -, German model
 * -, baseball player
 * -, US Presidential Candidate
 * -, Canadian actress
 * -, American football player
 * -, British comedian and radio and television presenter
 * -, American singer
 * -, Australian footballer
 * -, American football player
 * -, Serbian singer
 * -, American actor
 * -, American actor
 * -, Japanese singer
 * -, American musician
 * -, American actress
 * -, American talk show host
 * -, German actor
 * -, American singer
 * -, Polish actor
 * -, Hungarian athlete
 * -, Korean player

July-August

 * -, British actress
 * -, American football player
 * -, Greek athlete
 * -, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
 * -, Lebanese-born drummer
 * -, Italian professional road racing cyclist
 * -, American football player
 * -, American comedian
 * -, Swedish hockey player
 * -, Australian musician and record producer
 * -, American baseball player
 * -, British singer
 * -, White House intern
 * -, Israeli- born musician
 * -, English actress
 * -, Australian rugby league player
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player


 * -, American actress
 * -, American actor
 * -, American actress
 * -, American actress
 * -, American singer
 * -, English terrorist
 * -, American voice actress/American singer
 * -, Australian swimmer
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American singer and ring announcer
 * -, American baseball player
 * -, hockey player
 * -, Russian heavyweight boxing champion
 * -, American singer
 * -, Dutch swimmer
 * -, American actor
 * -, American actor, comedian
 * -, American musician
 * -, Canadian voice actor
 * -, Canadian voice actor

September-October

 * -, Canadian singer and new frontman of
 * -, American actor and martial artist
 * -, American actress
 * -, Italian footballer
 * -, American actress
 * -, Japanese baseball player
 * -, British athlete
 * -, Italian footballer
 * -, American rapper
 * -, English actress
 * -, American singer
 * -, Hong Kong actress
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, South African entrepreneur
 * -, famous Japanese singer, part of
 * -, Portuguese cyclist
 * -, Australian footballer
 * -, American actress
 * -, American ice hockey player


 * -, American rapper (d. )
 * -, Canadian actress
 * -, American professional wrestler
 * -, Canadian singer/songwriter/singer
 * -, Welsh actor
 * -, American guitarist
 * -, American actor
 * -, /Japanese actor
 * -, Japanese actress
 * -, American fighter
 * -, Canadian ice hockey player
 * -, British TV and radio presenter
 * -, Japanese baseball player
 * -, American professional cyclist
 * -, American animator and voice actor
 * - japanese professinal wrestle
 * -, French football player
 * -, Colombian newsreader
 * -, Canadian professional wrestler, two time Champ

November-December

 * -, Indian actress
 * -, American rapper
 * -, baseball player
 * -, American singer
 * -, English singer
 * -, musician touring member with Green Day
 * -, American author
 * -, American football player
 * -, American voice actor
 * -, American actor
 * -, American guitarist
 * -, American professional wrestler
 * -, Welsh footballer
 * -, South African screenwriter and songwriter
 * -, Canadian professional wrestler
 * -, Canadian professional wrestler


 * -, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
 * -, German professional road bicycle racer
 * -, American actress
 * -, American supermodel and talk show host
 * -, Australian player
 * -, American football player
 * -, vocalist for and
 * -, Vietnamese-born actress (d. )
 * -, Canadian footballer
 * -, French figure skater
 * -, American hip-hop producer
 * -, British athlete
 * -, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
 * -, English singer
 * -, American professional wrestler
 * -, British painter
 * -, openly gay
 * -, Dutch composer
 * -, baseball general manager
 * -, American actor
 * -, West Indian athlete
 * -, Russian dancer

Unknown date

 * , American musician
 * , hip-hop artist

January-March

 * -, Northern Irish actor (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, Norwegian economist, laureate (b. )
 * -, German physicist, laureate (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, Hungarian violinist (b. )
 * -, American physician, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, Soviet-Russian writer (b. )
 * -, American writer, laureate (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, Colombian composer (b. )
 * -, American cartoonist (b. )
 * -, English composer and playwright (b. )
 * -, American baseball player (b. )

April-June

 * -, Spanish artist (b. )
 * -, Hungarian conductor (b. )
 * -, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. )
 * -, thirteenth (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. )
 * -, American actor and comedian (b. )
 * -, American actor (b. )
 * -, German author, linguist, and poet (b. )
 * -, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. )
 * -, Harlem Renaissance writer (b. )
 * -, English actor (b. )

July - September

 * -, American race car driver (b. )
 * -, German-born conductor (b. )
 * -, American actress (b. )
 * -, English cricketer (b. )
 * -, American artist (b. )
 * -, Chinese American martial artist and actor (b. )
 * -, British race car driver (b. )
 * -, Italian composer (b. )
 * -, East German Statesman (b. )
 * -, British actor (b. )
 * -, Cuban dictator (b. )
 * -, German chemist, laureate (b. )
 * -, Swiss physiologist, laureate (b. )
 * -, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the (b. )
 * -, American writer (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, American singer (The ) (b. )
 * -, American film director (b. )
 * -, British writer (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * - King (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, American songwriter (b. )
 * -, Chilean poet, laureate (b. )
 * -, American race car driver (b. )
 * -, English poet (b. )
 * -, Inuit photographer and author (b. )

October - December

 * -, Finnish runner (b. )
 * - . French race car driver (b. )
 * -, Austrian economist (b. )
 * -, American broadcaster and journalist (b.)
 * -, American jazz drummer (b. )
 * -, American magazine publisher (b. )
 * -, Austrian writer (b. )
 * -, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. )


 * -, American banjo player (b. )
 * -, Finnish chemist, laureate (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )


 * -, (b. )
 * -, American musician (b. )
 * -, American singer (b. )
 * -, first minister of (assassinated) (b. )
 * -, French aviation pioneer (b. )
 * -, Turkish general, prime minister, and president (b. )
 * -, president of (b. )

Unknown dates

 * , German psychiatrist (b. )