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- Jan 1 Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th, 8th and 9th members of the European Common Market
- Jan 1 West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)
- Jan 2 Japanese boxer Masao Ohba retains his WBA flyweight title with a 12th-round knockout of Chartchai Chionoi of Thailand in Tokyo; Ohba dies three weeks later in a car accident
NY Yankees Bought
Jan 3 A 12-man syndicate led by Michael Burke and George Steinbrenner III buys MLB's New York Yankees from CBS for US$10 million
"Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J."
Jan 5 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J."
- Jan 5 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
- Jan 5 Netherlands recognizes German DR
- Jan 6 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
- Jan 7 American poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
- Jan 7 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
- Jan 7 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again
- Jan 7 Mark Essex's mass shooting comes to an end after he is shot by police more than 200 times on the roof of New Orlean's Holiday Inn hotel. He killed nine people, including five policeman.
- Jan 7 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
Music History
Jan 8 Elvis Presley files for divorce from Priscilla Presley on his 38th birthday
Chappell's Best Test Bowling
Jan 8 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG
- Jan 8 Judge Sirica begins the trial of the Watergate burglars in Washington, D.C.
- Jan 8 Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris
- Jan 8 USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
- Jan 9 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
- Jan 10 First Biennial exhibition of American contemporary art in its current format opens at the Whitney Museum - now one of the world's leading art shows [1]
- Jan 10 For the first time graduates studying from home with 'the Open University' receive their degrees
- Jan 10 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
- Jan 11 American League adopts designated hitter rule
- Jan 11 Famous Australian cricket victory at the SCG - Pakistan chasing 158 is all out for 106
- Jan 13 Lasse Daniel Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)
"Aloha from Hawaii"
Jan 14 "Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite", an Elvis Presley concert broadcast live to Asia and Oceana, and on delay to Europe and US, becomes the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer
- Jan 14 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry, Northern Ireland by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army
- Jan 14 Dancer Roy Castle is measured at 1,440 taps/min on BBC TV
- Jan 14 Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drug possession charges at his Marin County, California home
- Jan 14 Super Bowl VII, LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA: Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7; MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
- Jan 15 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
- Jan 15 Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
Paul VI Meets Golda Meir
Jan 15 Pope Paul VI holds an audience with Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir at the Vatican
US Offensive Action Suspended
Jan 15 US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
- Jan 16 NBC presents 440th & final showing of western series "Bonanza"
- Jan 16 Scientists at Corning Glass granted U.S. patent #3,711,262 for optical fiber (invented August 1970) - beginning a telecommunications revolution [1]
- Jan 16 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
- Jan 17 City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi
- Jan 17 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
- Jan 18 Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
Cleese's Last Monty Python Episode
Jan 18 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV
- Jan 18 Orlando Cepeda is 1st player signed as MLB Designated Hitter by Boston Red Sox sign
- Jan 20 A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no group claimed responsibility)
- Jan 20 Richard Nixon's second inauguration as President of the United States takes place in Washington, D.C.
- Jan 21 Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
Foreman vs. Frazier
Jan 22 George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 rounds to win WBC & WBA heavyweight boxing titles in Kingston, Jamaica; Frazier knocked down 3 times in both 1st & 2nd rounds
Roe vs. Wade
Jan 22 In a landmark decision the US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions (Roe v. Wade), authoring the majority opinion Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have "roots in the English common-law tradition"
- Jan 22 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
- Jan 23 Boeing 707, operated by Alia Royal Jordanian and chartered by Nigeria Airways crashes while trying to land at Kano International Airport in Nigeria, killing 176 Muslim pilgrims and crew
- Jan 23 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
Shah Announces Oil Agreement End
Jan 23 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi announces that the 1954 operating agreement between a consortium of oil companies and Iran will not be renewed when it expires in 1979
America’s Agony Is Over: Vietnam War Ends
Jan 23 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War
- Jan 26 Belgium government of Leburton forms
- Jan 27 Paris Peace Accords signed by US Secretary of State William P. Rogers, (North) Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Nguyen Duy Trinh, Republic of South Vietnam Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Republic of Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Trần Văn Lắm, ending America's then longest war and it's military draft.
- Jan 27 UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
- Jan 28 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
- Jan 28 In the run up to the first anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland
- Jan 28 Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jan 28 NHL Detroit Red Wings Henry Boucha scores 6 seconds into game in 4-2 win over Canadiens at The Forum in Montreal, Quebec
- Jan 28 Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
- Jan 29 International agreement to pay for and conserve 9th century Borobudur Temple in Indonesia, world's largest Buddhist temple (completed 1982). Beginnings of the World Heritage Convention. [1]
- Jan 30 1973 NFL Draft: John Matuszak from University of Tampa first pick by Houston Oilers
- Jan 30 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping
- Jan 30 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
- Feb 1 Outfielder Monte Irvin is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues; fourth inductee through the committee
"The Midnight Special"
Feb 2 "The Midnight Special" late night rock music show debuts on NBC-TV; performers include Ike and Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Don Mclean, the Byrds, and George Carlin
- Feb 2 Richard Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA; succeeded by James R Schlesinger (until July)
Hadlee's Test Debut
Feb 2 Test debut of champion New Zealand cricket all-rounder Sir Richard Hadlee; drawn 1st Test v Pakistan, Wellington
- Feb 3 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's single "The Cover of the 'Rolling Stone'", written by Shel Silverstein, enters the top 40 and peaks at #6
- Feb 4 An International inspection team is sent to Vietnam to observe progress on the Paris truce agreement
- Feb 4 British Army snipers shoot dead a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and three civilians at the junction in Belfast during the 'Troubles' in N Ireland
- Feb 4 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" by Dik Browne debuts
- Feb 4 Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
- Feb 4 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)
- Feb 4 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
- Feb 5 Funeral held for US Army Lt. Col. William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
- Feb 5 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
- Feb 6 40,000 civil servants demonstrate at Binnenhof in The Hague, Netherlands, against higher pension contribution
Rich at Top of the Plaza
Feb 6 American jazz drummer Buddy Rich plays influential performance at the Top of the Plaza in Richmond, New York, later televised by PBS
- Feb 6 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton, Alberta
- Feb 7 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
Raw Power
Feb 7 Iggy Pop and The Stooges release their influential 3rd album "Raw Power"
- Feb 7 North Ireland's United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike, loyalist paramilitaries forcibly try to stop people going to work
- Feb 7 US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
- Feb 8 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches" premieres in NYC
- Feb 8 Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for Pakistan's 4th wicket v NZ
- Feb 8 Senate names seven members to investigate Watergate scandal
Paul Williams on The Tonight Show
Feb 9 American singer-songwriter and actor Paul Williams sings the torch song "Here's That Rainy Day" in full Planet of the Apes make-up and costume on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show"
- Feb 9 Pragati Legislature Party elects Patnaik as leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India
- Feb 10 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
- Feb 10 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
- Feb 10 Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad scores 201 runs in a match against New Zealand
- Feb 11 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ
Sports History
Feb 11 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
Ali vs. Bugner
Feb 14 Muhammad Ali beats British heavyweight boxing champion Joe Bugner by unanimous points decision in 12 rounds at Las Vegas Convention Centre
- Feb 15 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
- Feb 15 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
Sports History
Feb 16 West Indies v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Garfield Sobers
- Feb 17 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
Meeting of Interest
Feb 17 US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger meets Chinese leader Mao Zedong, where the latter jokingly offers to send 10 million Chinese women to the United States
Daytona 500
Feb 18 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac
- Feb 18 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
- Feb 18 Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3,000m indoor record 7:39.2
- Feb 19 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
- Feb 20 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
- Feb 21 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
- Feb 21 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
- Feb 22 "Turkish Delight" Holland's most successful film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer is released
- Feb 22 US and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington, D.C.
- Feb 23 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
- Feb 25 Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Women's Allround World Champion at Strömsund, Sweden her second consecutive title and third in 4 years
- Feb 25 Mexican serial killer Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders in California
A Little Night Music
Feb 25 Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music" premieres at Shubert Theatre, later transferring to the Majestic, NYC; runs for 601 performances, winning 6 Tony Awards, ( Drama Desk Awards, and a Grammy
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
- Feb 27 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
- Feb 27 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3 year $750,000 contract
- Feb 28 Iraq and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization
- Feb 28 Suriname government of Jules Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
Dark Side of the Moon
Mar 1 Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release Pink Floyd's 8th studio album "Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on Billboard Top 200 Album charts for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide
- Mar 1 Robyn Smith rides North Sea to victory in the Paumanok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in NYC to become the first American female jockey to win a stakes race
- Mar 2 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
- Mar 4 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
- Mar 5 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
- Mar 6 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
- Mar 7 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
Election of Interest
Mar 7 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh
Event of Interest
Mar 8 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest and US longest, opens 60km west of Denver, Colorado
Music History
Mar 8 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
- Mar 8 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London. Ten members of PIRA are later arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.
- Mar 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 10 Morocco adopts constitution
- Mar 12 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In last airs on NBC-TV
- Mar 13 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
- Mar 13 Syria adopts constitution
Event of Interest
Mar 14 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp
- Mar 14 Liam Cosgrave (52) appointed President of Ireland
- Mar 16 OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value
British History
Mar 17 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
- Mar 17 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and a consortium of Western firms led by British Petroleum agree to the formal nationalization of Iran's oil industry in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil
- Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
- Mar 20 NBC TV premiere of pilot episode of "Police Story", based on Los Angeles Police Dept. Joseph Wambaugh's writings
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mar 20 Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash
- Mar 21 First Met Gala held with a theme - honoring designer Balenciaga, in New York
Sports History
Mar 21 Montreal Canadiens' left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
- Mar 21 White House Counsel John Dean tells US President Richard Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
- Mar 22 Joffrey Ballet revives Diaghilev's "Parade" at The City Center, NYC
- Mar 23 After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends
- Mar 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 24 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
- Mar 24 San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes the NFL expands to 30 teams
- Mar 25 27th Tony Awards: "That Championship Season" (play) and "A Little Night Music" (musical) win
- Mar 25 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52, Immaculata 1st undefeated team in New York
- Mar 26 Susan Shaw is first woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
- Mar 26 TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS
Academy Awards
Mar 27 45th Academy Awards: "The Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win; Brando declines the Oscar for Best Actor to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film, in a speech by activist Sacheen Littlefeather [1]
- Mar 27 Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
Music History
Mar 27 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and found in possession of LSD
Sports History
Mar 29 Boston Celtic Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP
- Mar 29 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
- Mar 30 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
Sports History
Mar 31 American tennis star Billie Jean King ends Australian Margaret Court's 57-match winning streak 6-7, 7-6, 6-3 in semi finals of the WTA event in Indianapolis, IN
- Mar 31 Muhammad Ali suffers a broken jaw in a shock split-points decision loss to Ken Norton over 12 rounds in San Diego; Ali wins rematch in another controversial split decision
- Mar 31 Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals from an astounding 60 shots in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over New York Islanders
NBA Record
Apr 1 Boston Celtics captain John Havlicek scores career high 54 points in 134-109 rout of Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of 1st round Eastern Conference playoffs; hits NBA playoff record 24-of-36 field-goal attempts
Sports History
Apr 1 Despite a final round, 5-3 loss to Montreal, Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito wins his third consecutive NHL scoring title with 130 points from 55 goals and 75 assists in the 78-game season
- Apr 1 Japan allows its citizens to own gold
Music History
Apr 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
- Apr 1 OPEC increases price of petroleum by 5.7 percent
- Apr 2 CBS radio begins on the hour news, 24 hours a day
- Apr 2 ITT admits to asking CIA to influence Chilean presidential election
- Apr 2 Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- Apr 3 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
- Apr 4 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.
- Apr 5 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
- Apr 5 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
- Apr 6 America launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter & Saturn
- Apr 6 Dock strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
- Apr 6 Federal court rules in favor of the Smothers Brothers in breach of contract lawsuit against CBS-TV, awarding them $776,300 USD
- Apr 6 Indian troops invade Sikkim
- Apr 6 Roberto Clemente Day, Pittsburgh Pirates retire his #21
- Apr 6 Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks
- Apr 7 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
- Apr 7 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
- Apr 8 Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus
Paper Moon
Apr 9 "Paper Moon" film starring Ryan O'Neal and his daughter, Tatum O'Neal, directed by Peter Bogdanovich premieres in Hollywood, California; Tatum O'Neal becomes youngest (age 10) Academy Award winner (Supporting Actress)
- Apr 9 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
- Apr 9 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
- Apr 10 BEA flight to Basel Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
- Apr 10 Kansas City Royals open their new park, Royals Stadium with 12-1 rout of the Texas Rangers; attendance 39,476
- Apr 10 Pakistan suspends constitution
- Apr 12 France recognizes North Vietnam
- Apr 12 Sudan adopts constitution
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