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1973
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 - 1973 - 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Events
- January 1 - United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union
- January 3 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
- January 15 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
- January 17 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines
- January 22 - Supreme Court of the United States rules on Roe v. Wade
- January 17 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
- January 23 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
- January 27 - U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts
- February 11 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place
- February 12 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs.
- February 21 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Arab Airlines jet killing 100.
- February 22 - Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
- February 27 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- March 7 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered
- March 29 - The last United States soldiers leave Vietnam
- April 6 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft
- May 8 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
- May 14 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- May 17 - Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
- June 1 - Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
- June 9 - Secretariat wins the "Belmont Stakes" becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
- June 25 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
- June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse visible in NE South America, the Atlantic, and central Africa. During the entire Second Millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality. This was the last. Observers aboard a Concorde jet were able to stretch totality to about 74 minutes by flying along the path of the moon's umbra.
- July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the British Commonwealth
- July 16 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating the scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- July 25 - Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
- September 11 - Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende dies, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a military junta that will govern Chile for the next 17 years.
- September 15 - Swedens king Gustav VI Adolf dies. Carl XVI Gustav becomes king.
- September 20 - Billed as The Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.
- September 28 - ITT bombed in New York City to protest their involvement with the Coup in Chile.
- October 6 - Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur.
- October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
- October 17 - A worldwide oil shortage, the 1973 energy crisis, followed an Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which gave support to Israël.
- October 20 - The Saturday Night Massacre
- October 20 - Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II
- November 1 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
- November 3 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974 it became the first space probe to reach that planet).
- November 7 - The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord
- November 14 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorced in 1992).
- November 16 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
- November 16 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
- November 17 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- November 25 - Greek Dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
- November 27 - The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
- December 1 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
- December - Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
- December 3 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
Year in topic
Births
- January 8 - Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
- January 11 - Rahul Dravid, cricketer, India
- February 4 - Oscar De La Hoya, boxing champion
- February 16 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
- February 21 - João Carlos Donário, Portuguese Motorcycling champion
- February 26 - Jenny Thompson, U.S. Olympic swimmer
- February 26 - Marshall Faulk, American football star
- February 28 - Eric Lindros, ice hockey star
- March 23 - Jason Kidd, American basketball star
- April 4 - David Blaine, illusionist
- April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
- May 1 - Oliver Neuville, soccer player, German national team
- May 10 - Dario Franchitti, automobile racer
- May 16 - Tori Spelling, actress
- June 22 - Carson Daly, talk show host, VJ.
- July 20 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
- July 20 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish NHL star
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, actress
- August 8 - Scott Stapp, Creed frontman
- August 12 - Richard Reid, Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
- October 3 - Neve Campbell, actress
- October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball star, American League MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001
- December 2 - Monica Seles, tennis champion
Deaths
- January 22 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States
- January 23 - Kid Ory, musician
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, actor
- January 26 - Edward G. Robinson, actor
- February 11 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist.
- February 15 - Wally Cox, actor
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck, writer
- March 10 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, segregationist
- March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan of the Grateful Dead
- March 14 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie)
- March 26 - Noel Coward, composer, playwright
- April 8 - Pablo Picasso, outstanding artist of the 20th century
- April 26 - Irene Ryan, actress
- May 11 - Lex Barker, actor
- May 18 - Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
- July 6 - Otto Klemperer, conductor
- July 20 - Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and film star.
- August 17 - Jean Barraqué, composer
- September 11 - Salvador Allende, Chilean president
- September 19 - Gram Parsons, musician
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet.
- September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet.
- October 2 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner.
- October 22 - Pau Casals, Catalan virtuoso cellist and conductor
- December 1 - David Ben-Gurion, former Prime Minister of Israel
- December 20 - Bobby Darin, singer
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