1973

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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January 1 – United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union.
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 22 – George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier for the heavyweight world boxing championship.
January 23 – Eruption in Heimaey begins.
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. See Paris Peace Accords.
April 3 – The World Trade Center opens in New York City.
September 11 – Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile, in a coup, in which President Salvador Allende dies.
September 15 – Ascension to the throne of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
The rock group KISS form in New York City.
Homosexuality is no longer considered a mental disorder.
Japans first video game, Elepong is produced

Births

January 8 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
January 22 – Rogério Ceni, brazilian football player
February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian Aborigine athlete
March 22 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
April 6 – Donnie Edwards, former American football linebacker, philanthropist, television personality, actor, and executive producer
April 8 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor
April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler
May 24 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
June 10 – Faith Evans, American singer
June 26 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer
July 15 – John Dolmayan, Armenian-American drummer (System of a Down)
July 23 – Monica Lewinsky, White House member of staff under Bill Clinton
July 30 – Markus Näslund, Swedish hockey player
August 7 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand disc jockey and television presenter
September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
September 18 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African businessman
October 22 – Ichiro Suzuki, Professional baseball player for the Seattle Mariners
October 28 – Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler
October 30 – Adam Copeland, Canadian professional wrestler
October 31 – Beverly Lynne, American actress
November 6 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
November 17 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer
November 30 – Kate Fischer, Australian actress and model
December 3 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress

Deaths

January

Lyndon Johnson

January 20 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924)
January 22 – Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)

February

J. Hans D. Jensen

February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (b. 1907)

March

April

Pablo Picasso

April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
April 21 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
April 25 – Frank Jack Fletcher, US Navy admiral during World War II (b. 1885)
April 25 – Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)

May

P. Ramlee

May 6 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor (b. 1893)
May 29 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor and singer (b. 1929)

June

July

Betty Grable

Veronica Lake

July 2 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
July 7 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
July 7 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
June 13 – Viriato Clemente da Cruz, Angolan poet and politician (b. 1928)
July 20 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
July 25 – Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)

August

Walter Ulbricht

Fulgencio Batista

August 1 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
August 4 – Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (b. 1904)
August 6 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
August 12 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881)
August 12 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898)
August 31 – John Ford, American movie director (b. 1894)

September

September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer (b. 1892)
September 11 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
September 15 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer (b. 1932)
September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
September 29 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet (b. 1907)

October

Paavo Nurmi

Abebe Bikila

October 2 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (b. 1897)
October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932)
October 25 - Robert Scholl, German politician (b. 1891)
October 25 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)

November

December

David Ben-Gurion

December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
December 20 – Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
December 25 – İsmet İnönü, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)

Movies released

Hit songs

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Roberta Flack
"Radar Love" – Golden Earring
"Smoke on the Water" – Deep Purple
"You're So Vain" – Carly Simon
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" – Jim Croce
"Crocodile Rock" – Elton John
"Delta Dawn" – Helen Reddy
"D'yer Mak'er" – Led Zeppelin
"Frankenstein" – The Edgar Winter Group
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" – Elton John
"Half Breed" – Cher
"Higher Ground" – Stevie Wonder
"Keep On Truckin' " – Eddie Kendricks
"Kodachrome" – Paul Simon
"Let's Get It On" – Marvin Gaye
"Live and Let Die" – Paul McCartney and Wings
"Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" – ABBA
"Loves Me Like a Rock" – Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
"Me and Mrs. Jones" – Billy Paul
"Midnight Train to Georgia" – Gladys Knight
"Morning After"- Maureen McGovern
"My Love" – Paul McCartney and Wings
"The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" – Vicki Lawrence
"Over the Hills and Far Away" – Led Zeppelin
"Photograph" – Ringo Starr
"Ramblin' Man" – Allman Brothers Band
"Ring Ring" – ABBA
"Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" – Elton John
"Superstition" – Stevie Wonder
"Take Me to the Mardi Gras" – Paul Simon
"The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando & Dawn
"Top of the World" – Carpenters
"Touch Me in the Morning" – Diana Ross
"Why Me" – Kris Kristofferson
"Will It Go Around in Circles" – Billy Preston

1973 Media

Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), Chicago.
Flag of the Caribbean Community
La Moneda Palace being bombed amidst heavy fighting between government forces and the Chilean Military who was staging a coup, on September 11th.
October 20: Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II
October 30: The Bosphorus Bridge is opened by Turkish President Fahri Korutürk
Mariner 10 space probe, on U.S. Stamps, Space Exploration History, Issue of 1975
Sean Paul performs at B96 Summerbash on June 16, 2012. Toyota Park, Bridgeview, IL, USA. Photo y Adam Bielawski
Hande Yener, Harbiye Cemil Topuzlu Açıkhava Tiyatrosu'nda sahnede. Üzerinde, binlerce taş kullanılarak Hakan Akkaya tarafından hazırlanan kıyafeti var.
Steven Ogg during Walker Stalker Con at Maimarkthalle, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 2018-03-17, Photo: Sven Mandel

1973 by topic
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Archaeology Architecture Art Literature Poetry Music Science
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