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1973

January 1
  • Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark become 7th-9th members of European Common Market. [1] [37]
  • West African Economic Community forms (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta). [1]
January 5
  • Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel. [1]
  • Netherlands recognizes German Democratic Republic. [1]
January 7
  • British Darts Organization founded in North London. [1]
  • US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize. [1]
January 8
  • Secret peace talks between US and North Vietnam resume near Paris, France. [1]
  • USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing. [1] [5]
January 15
  • Pope Paul VI has an audience with Israeli Golda Meir at Vatican. [1]
  • US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam. [1]
January 16
  • USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon. [1]
January 17
  • City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi, Vietnam. [1]
  • New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life. [1]
January 22
  • The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that women, as part of their constitutional right to privacy, can terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters. [1] [129] [162.24]
  • US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord. [1]
January 23
  • Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for first time in 7,000 years. [1]

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  • Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Muslim pilgrims. [1]
  • US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War. [1]
January 26
  • Belgium government of Leburton forms. [1]
January 27
  • William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-North Vietnam treaty. [1]
January 30
  • Near the coast of Michoacan, Mexico, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 52 people killed, 390 were injured, 22,000 made homeless. A volcano 80 kilometers north of Colima begins eruption. [53]
February 3
  • US President Richard Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law. [1]
February 4
  • Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled. [1]
February 5
  • Funeral for Lieutenant Colonel William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War. [1]
February 10
  • 83-metre-wide gas tank on Staten Island, New York, explodes, crushing 40. [1]
February 12
  • First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines. [1]
  • Ohio becomes the first US state to post distances on signs in System International (Metric) units. [5]
February 13
  • US dollar devalued by 10 percent. [1]
February 15
  • USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km). [1]
February 22
  • Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108. [1]
  • US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington DC. [1]
February 23
  • Gold goes up US$10 overnight to record US$95 an ounce in London, England. [1]
February 25
  • Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders. [1]
February 27
  • American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in South Dakota. [1]
  • Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius. [1]
February 28
  • In New Jersey, USA, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurs. [53]
  • Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders. [1]
March 2
  • "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum. [1]
  • Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated. [1]
March 7
  • Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory. [1]
  • Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh. [1]
March 8
  • Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens. [1]
March 10
  • Morocco adopts constitution. [1]
  • Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated. [1]
March 13
  • Syria adopts constitution. [1]
March 14
  • Liam Cosgrave is appointed president of Ireland. [1]
March 15
  • In San Juan Capistrano, California, USA a building is hit by a falling meteorite. [521]
March 17
  • Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge. [1]
  • In Luzon, Philippine Islands, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 78 buildings destroyed in Lopez and Calauag. [53]
March 20
  • In the Kerguelen-Gausberg Rise of the Antarctic plate, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurs. [53]
March 25
  • Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test versus England. [1]
March 29
  • The last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. [1] [129]
March 30
  • The United Arab Emirates is admitted to the Universal Postal Union. [994.937] [1135]
  • Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam. [1]
April 1
  • Japan allows its citizens to own gold. [1]
  • John Lennon and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence (April Fool's Joke). [1]
April 2
  • International Telephone And Telegraph pleads guilty to asking US Central Intelligence Agency to affect Chilean presidential election. [1]
April 3
  • The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City. [5]
April 6
  • Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium. [1]
  • Troops of India invade Sikkim. [1]
  • US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn. [1]
April 9
  • Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam. [1]
April 10
  • BEA Vanguard Turboprop flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes into wooded hillside during landing, killing 107 of 143. [1]
  • Pakistan suspends constitution. [1]
April 12
  • France recognizes North Vietnam. [1]
  • Sudan adopts constitution. [1]
  • Swaziland suspends constitution. [1]
April 19
  • USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
April 20
  • Canadian ANIK A2 becomes first commercial satellite in orbit. [1]
April 27
  • Country music theme park Opryland opens in Nashville, Tennessee. [457]
May 3
  • Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 metres), tops out. [1]
May 4
  • Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the Pope. [1]
May 5
  • Largest paid crowd ever assembled in US to see a single musical act: 56,800 fans pay US$309,000 to see Led Zeppelin at Tampa Stadium, Florida. [457]
May 7
  • Pulitzer Prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter). [1]
May 10
  • Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania. [1]
May 11
  • Dutch Government of Uyl forms. [1]
May 14
  • Open market price of gold breaks US$100 per ounce for the first time. [1] [789.60]
  • Skylab launched, the first Space Station. [1]
May 17
  • US performs three nuclear tests at Rifle, Colorado. [1]
May 18
  • Russian party leader Brezhnev visits Federal Republic of Germany. [1]
May 22
  • US President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up. [1]
  • At Xerox PARC, Bob Metcalfe invents the Ethernet computer connectivity system, describing in a memo how the technology would work. The name "Ethernet" refers to medium-independent transmission of data packets, and is based on a discredited physical theory of an existing "ether" in space allowing transmission of light rays from the sun to the Earth. [4]
May 25
  • Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president. [1]
  • US launches first Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz. [1]
May 26
  • Bahrain adopts its constitution. [1]
May 29
  • Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds. (Davis will start Arista records.) [1]
June 7
  • German Chancellor Willy Brandt the visits Israel. He is the first German chancellor to visit Israel while in office as chancellor. [37]
June 17
  • In Japan, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs, centered in the northern coastal area of Hokkaido. Regional tsumani up to 3 metres. Twenty-six fishing boats battered or sunk, water supply temporarily disrupted, over 30,000 people evacuated, 250 tons of salmon on the docks washed away. The total damage estimated at $5 million. [53]
June 22
  • Netherlands' highest court officially bans fluoridation of water. [861.194]
  • Skylab 2's astronauts land. [1]
June 30
  • Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse. [1]
(month unknown)
  • Japanese geologists find another 12 fragments of meteorites near the Yamato Mountains in the Antarctic. [523.55]

End of 1973 January-June. Next: 1973 July.

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