Events Date 1973 P 4 | History by KabAstro

Events 601 - 679 of 679

Nixon: "I'm Not a Crook"

Nov 17 US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

Nov 18 Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
Nov 18 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
Nov 19 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
Nov 19 New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years

Rose NL MVP

Nov 21 Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) wins MLB's NL MVP

Nov 21 US President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
Nov 22 Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo disbands
Nov 23 Arab summit conference adopts open and secret resolutions on the use of the oil weapons; embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa
Nov 25 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
Nov 25 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
Nov 25 US cuts maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
Nov 26 Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape
Nov 27 Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year

Good Doctor

Nov 27 Neil Simon's play "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC

Nov 27 US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls

VP Gerald Ford

Nov 27 US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President

Nov 28 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
Nov 28 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year
Nov 30 Firestone Professional Bowling World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
Dec 1 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea

Jack Nicklaus

Dec 1 Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by 1 stroke from Mason Rudolph; becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA Tour career earnings

Dec 2 Capital Centre (USAir Arena) opens in Landover Maryland; NBA's Washington Bullets beat Seattle SuperSonics, 98-96 in opening game; arena demolished 2002
Dec 3 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]

Band on the Run

Dec 5 Apple Records releases Paul McCartney & Wings album "Band on the Run" in US; the commercial and critical pinnacle of his post-Beatle work tops the charts in 7 countries

Dec 5 Chicago Cubs Ron Santo becomes 1st baseball player to invoke 10-5 rule and veto his trade (with the California Angels)
Dec 6 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
Dec 6 Gerald Ford sworn-in as first unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro Agnew who resigned over corruption allegations
Dec 6 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington, D.C. (doesn't happen)
Dec 7 Apple Records releases Paul McCartney & Wings album "Band on the Run" in UK; the commercial and critical pinnacle of his post-Beatle work tops the charts in 7 countries
Dec 7 Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
Dec 8 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)

Năstase's 3rd Consecutive ATP

Dec 8 Romanian tennis star Ilie Năstase wins his 3rd consecutive season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title with a 6–3, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 win over Dutchman Tom Okker in Boston, Massachusetts

Dec 9 Arab oil ministers announce a further production cut of 5 percent for January for non-friendly countries
Dec 9 NFL St. Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
Dec 9 Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland

Sammartino vs. Stasiak

Dec 10 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak, to become WWWF champ for 2nd time

Strongman and Professional Wrestler Bruno Sammartino

Two Tennis No. 1s

Dec 10 For the first time since 1885, tennis has 2 top-ranked male players - Americans Stan Smith and Jimmy Connors [1]

Dec 11 Houston Astro César Cedeño jailed for the death of a 19-year-old woman
Dec 11 NA Soccer League awards LA, San Francisco, Seattle & Vancouver franchises

Trade with Czechoslovakia

Dec 11 West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia

Dec 12 Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
Dec 12 San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
Dec 13 MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
Dec 13 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
Dec 15 American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty
Dec 15 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
Dec 15 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
Dec 15 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
Dec 15 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game

Simpson Rush Record

Dec 16 O.J. Simpson becomes 1st NFL running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a season

NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal O.J. Simpson

Dec 17 Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
Dec 18 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
Dec 18 Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
Dec 19 Grenada adopts constitution

Cronin Refuses Williams

Dec 20 AL president Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees

Dec 20 Dutch Antillean government of Juancho Evertsz forms

Richard Scores 1,000

Dec 20 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point

Dec 21 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict
Dec 22 OPEC Gulf Six decides to raise the posted price of marker crude from $5.12 to $11.65 per barrel effective January 1, 1974
Dec 23 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
Dec 23 French Caravelle airliner crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
Dec 24 District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
Dec 24 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200

"The Sting"

Dec 25 "The Sting" directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, with music inspired by Scott Joplin, premieres in Los Angeles and New York (Best Picture 1974)

Dec 25 1st pictures of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek), taken by NASA astronauts Jerry Carr and William Pogue during a spacewalk from Skylab 4
Dec 25 Arab oil ministers cancel January 5 percent production cut; Saudi Arabian oil minister promises 10 percent OPEC production rise

Johan Cruyff's Second Award

Dec 25 Ballon d'Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins his second award for best European football player ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Dino Zoff and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller

Dec 25 The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze
Dec 25 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
Dec 26 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours

"The Exorcist"

Dec 26 Horror film "The Exorcist" based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, starring Linda Blair, rated X, premieres - 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture

Writer and Filmmaker William Peter Blatty

Dec 26 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
Dec 27 MLB Los Angeles Dodgers announce their home night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
Dec 28 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby