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Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar.
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The year 1973 has been designated the Year of the Ox in the Chinese Zodiac.
Events of 1973
January
February
March
April
- April 2 - The LexisNexis computerized legal research service begins.
- April 3 - The first handheld cellular phone call made by Martin Cooper, who conceived the phone, in New York City.
- April 4 - The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
- April 6
- April 7 - Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1973 for Luxembourg.
- April 10 - Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim.
- April 11 - The British House of Commons voted against restoring capital punishment by a margin of 142 votes.
- April 12 - The Labour Party wins control of the Greater London Council.
- April 17
- The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 is officially formed.
- Federal Express officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport. On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, NY, to Miami, Fla.
- April 20 - An Indian Pacific train en route to Perth, derails near Broken Hill, New South Wales. The train destroyed a quarter mile of track when it left the rails.
- April 28 - Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill, are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford on board a coaster carrying five tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
May
- May 1 - An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stopped work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.
- May 3 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.
- May 5
- 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 10 - The Polisario Front,a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Western Sahara, is formed.
- May 14
- May 17 - Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
- May 18 - Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland.
- May 19 - Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes.
- May 22 - Lord Lambton resigns from the British government over a 'call girl' scandal.
Ethernet is invented by Robert Metcalfe.
June
- June 1 - The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
- June 3 - A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
- June 4 - A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
- June 9 - Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
- June 10 - The grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome.Template:NoMention
- June 16 - U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
- June 20 - The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot on left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
- June 22 - W. Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") retires from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- June 23 - A house fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, 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 Peter Dinsdale.
- June 24 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
- June 25
- June 26 - At Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 9 persons are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
- June 28 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- June 30 - Very long total solar eclipse. During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.
July
- July 1 - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.
- July 2 - The United States Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.
- July 5
- The Isle of Man Post begins to issue its own postage stamps.
- The catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane 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.
- July 6 - The Saint Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore was gazetted as a national monument.
- July 10 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- July 11 - Varig Flight 820 disaster near Orly, France - 123 killed.
- July 12 - 1973 National Archives Fire: A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
- July 16 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
- July 17 - King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
- July 20 - France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
- July 21 - The Philippines receives its second Miss Universe title, with Margarita Moran as the winner.
- July 23 - The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia suffers a serious fire.
- July 25 - The Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
- July 28
- July 29 - Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix.
- July 30 - An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.Template:NoMention
- July 31
- Militant protesters led by Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
- A Delta Air Lines Flight 173 DC9-31 aircraft lands short of Boston's Logan Airport 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
September
- September 3 - The British Trade Union Congress expelled 20 members for registering under the Industrial Relations Act 1971.
- September 11 - Chile's democratically-elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende commits suicide during the coup in the presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a U.S.-backed military junta that will govern Chile for the next 16 years.
- September 15 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden dies. His grandson, Carl XVI Gustav, becomes king.
- September 18 - The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
- September 20 - The Battle of the Sexes: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- September 22 - Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as United States Secretary of State.
- September 27 - Soviet space programme: Launch of Soyuz 12, the first manned flight since 1971.
- September 28 - ITT is bombed in New York City by Leftist terrorists protesting the restoration of the Chilean Constitution ordered by the Chilean judicial and legislative branches against the Allende administration.
October
- October 6 - Yom Kippur War: The fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
- October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, pleads no contest to charges of income tax evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on 3 years' probation.
- October 14 - Student Revolt in Bangkok, Thailand
- October 17 - The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
- October 20
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- October 27 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kilogram chondrite type meteorite, strikes Earth in Fremont County, Colorado.Template:NoMention
- October 30 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
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January-February
- January 1 - Danny Lloyd, American actor
- January 6 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 7 - Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
- January 8 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
- January 11
- January 12 - Sakshi Tanwar, Indian Actress
- January 13
- January 14 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
- January 15 - Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player
- January 16 - Josie Davis, American actress
- January 17 - Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player
- January 18 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- January 19
- January 21 - Chris Kilmore, DJ of the American alternative rock band Incubus
- January 29 - Jason Schmidt, baseball player
- January 30 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player
- February 1
- February 2 - Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
- February 3 - Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
- February 4 - Oscar de la Hoya, American boxer
- February 7 - Kate Thornton, British TV presenter
- February 8 - Sonia Deol, British-Asian presenter
- February 9 - Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
- February 11 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician (Burzum)
- February 12 - Tara Strong, Canadian-born voice actress
- February 14 - Steve McNair, American football player
- February 15 - Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
- February 16 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
- February 18 - Claude Makélélé, French footballer
- February 20 - Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
- February 22
- February 24 - Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
- February 26
- February 28 - Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
March-April
- March 1
- March 5 - Ryan Franklin, baseball pitcher
- March 9 - Aaron Boone, baseball player
- March 10 - John LeCompt, American musician
- March 13 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
- March 17 - Caroline Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
- March 19 - Magnus Hedman, Swedish footballer
- March 23 - Jason Kidd, American basketball player
- March 24 - Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
- March 26 - T. R. Knight, American actor
- March 29 - Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
- March 30 - Adam Goldstein, American DJ
- April 1 - Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricket captains
- April 2 - Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
- April 3 - Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
- April 4 - David Blaine, American magician
- April 5 - Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
- April 6 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer
- April 10 - Roberto Carlos, Brazilian football player
- April 11 - Jennifer Esposito, American actress
- April 14 - Adrien Brody, an Academy Award-winning American actor
- April 16 - Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
- April 24 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
- April 25 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish musician (Millencolin)
- April 28 - Melissa Fahn, American actress
- April 30
May-June
- May 1
- May 3 - Michael Reiziger, Dutch footballer
- May 4 - Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer
- May 7 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
- May 10 - Rüştü Reçber, Turkish football goalkeeper
- May 12 - Forbes March, American actor
- May 14 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer
- May 16 - Jason Acuna, American skateboarder and actor also known as Wee-Man
- May 16 - Tori Spelling, American actress
- May 18 - Kazuhiro Hayashi , Japanese professional wrestle
- May 19 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
- May 21 - Noel Fielding, British comedian
- May 23 - Jacopo Gianninoto, Italian musician
- May 24 - Dermot O'Leary, British TV star
- May 25
- May 30 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
- May 31 - Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player
- June 1
- June 6 - Kat Swift, US Presidential Candidate (Green Party)
- June 8 - Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
- June 9
- Tedy Bruschi, American football player
- Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter
- June 10 - Faith Evans, American singer
- June 12 - Darryl White, Australian footballer
- June 13 - Sam Adams, American football player
- June 14 - Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
- June 15
- June 19 - Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
- June 20 - Chino Moreno, American musician
- June 21 - Juliette Lewis, American actress
- June 22 - Carson Daly, American talk show host
- June 24 - Alexander Beyer, German actor
- June 26
- June 28 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
- June 30 - Chan Ho Park, Korean Major League Baseball player
July-August
- July 3 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
- July 7 - Natsuki Takaya,Japanese manga-ka
- July 9 - Kelly Holcomb, American football player
- July 11 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
- July 14 - Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
- July 15 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
- July 16 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
- July 17
- July 20 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
- July 20 - HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
- July 22 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician and record producer
- July 23
- July 25 - Dani Filth, Israeli- born musician (Cradle of Filth)
- July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, English actress
- July 27 - Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league player
- July 28 - Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 6 - Asia Carrera, American actress
- August 8 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
- August 12 - Richard Reid, English terrorist
- August 12 - Grey DeLisle, American voice actress/American singer
- August 14 - Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
- August 16 - Damian Jackson, baseball player
- August 19 - Lilian Garcia, American singer and ring announcer (WWE)
- August 19 - HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
- August 20 - Todd Helton, American baseball player
- August 21 - Steve McKenna, hockey player
- August 21 - Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion
- August 22 - Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- August 24
- August 28 - Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor
September-October
- September 1 - J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer and new frontman of INXS
- September 4 - Jason David Frank, American actor and martial artist
- September 5 - Rose McGowan, American actress
- September 6 - Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
- September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
- September 9 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
- September 12 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
- September 13 - Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
- September 14 - Nas, American rapper
- September 15 - Julie Cox, English actress
- September 17
- September 18
- September 19 - José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
- September 22 - Craig McRae, Australian footballer
- September 25 - Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, American actress
- September 29 - Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
- October 2 - Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian pop star
- October 3 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- October 4 - Chris Parks, American professional wrestler
- October 5 - Annabelle Chvostek, Canadian singer/songwriter/singer
- October 6 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- October 9 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
- October 10 - Mario López, American actor
- October 11 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, Taiwanese/Japanese actor
- October 13 - Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
- October 19 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
- October 21 - Beverly Turner, British TV and radio presenter
- October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- October 24 - Levi Leipheimer, American professional cyclist
- October 26
- October 28 - MVP, WWE Smackdown! wrestler
- October 29 - Robert Pirès, French football player
- October 30
November-December
- December 2
- December 3 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress
- December 4
- December 7 - Terrell Owens, American football player
- December 8 - Corey Taylor, vocalist for Slipknot and Stone Sour
- December 14
- December 15 - Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
- December 16 - Scott Storch, American hip-hop producer
- December 17 - Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
- December 18 - Darryl Brown, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
- December 25 - Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
- December 27
- December 29 - Theo Epstein, baseball general manager
- December 30 - Jason Behr, American actor
- December 30 - Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete
- December 31 - Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer
Deaths
January-March
- January 19 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
- January 22 - Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States (b. 1908)
- January 23 - Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886)
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
- January 26 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
- January 31 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- February 11 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- February 15 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
- February 16 - Francisco Caamaño, Dominican politician (b. 1932) (executed)
- February 19 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
- February 22 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899)
- February 23 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
- March 3 - Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905)
- March 6 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
- March 14
- March 26
April-June
- April 8 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
- April 16 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
- April 19 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)
- April 21 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
- April 26 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
- April 30 - Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
- May 2 - Alan Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
- May 11 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
- May 14 - Jean Gebser, German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
- May 18 - Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
- June 4 - Arna Bontemps, Harlem Renaissance writer (b. 1902)
- June 18 - Roger Delgado, English actor (b. 1918)
- June 30 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
July - September
- July 2 - Swede Savage, American race car driver (b. 1946)
- July 6 - Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b. 1885)
- July 7 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
- July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- July 20 - Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
- July 20 - Bruce Lee, Chinese American martial artist and actor (b. 1940)
- July 29 - Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b. 1948)
- August 1
- August 6
- August 11 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- August 12
- August 16 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
- August 17
- August 31 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1895)
- September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
- September 11 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
- September 15 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
- September 19 - Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
- September 20 - Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943)
- September 23 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- September 26 - Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1928)
- September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
- September 30 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
October - December
- October 2 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- October 6 - François Cevert. French race car driver (b. 1944)
- October 10 - Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
- October 14 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b.1897)
- October 16 - Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
- October 18 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
- October 17 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
- October 22 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
- November 10 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
- November 11 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- November 27 - Frank Christian, American musician (b. 1887)
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