1973 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1973?
- 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.
- 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.
- March 1, 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- March 17, 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
- April 2, 1973 – The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
- 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 8, 1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
- June 20, 1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
- July 11, 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
- September 20, 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- 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 6, 1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
- October 8, 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir’s armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
- October 16, 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- October 17, 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
- November 4, 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
- November 14, 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
- December 28, 1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
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