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| Born : | 02/27/1973 | "Pooh" Clark, rocker (High-5) |
| Born : | 03/--/1973 | Alexandra Quinn, underage porn actress (Space Virgin) |
| Born : | 04/27/1973 | Andr Govan, Culver City Calif, actor (Monster Squad) |
| Born : | 07/15/1973 | Brian Austin Green, N Hollywood Cal, actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210) |
| Born : | 12/13/1973 | Christie Clark, LA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life) |
| Born : | 06/10/1973 | David Friedman, LA Calif, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie) |
| Born : | 01/12/1973 | Greg Morton, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King) |
| Born : | 02/24/1973 | James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys) |
| Born : | 03/20/1973 | Jane March, Edgewater England, actress (The Lover) |
| Born : | 09/08/1973 | Jason Downs, actor |
| Born : | 07/31/1973 | Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer |
| Born : | 01/16/1973 | Josie Davis, LA Calif, actress (Sarah-Charles in Charge) |
| Born : | 06/19/1973 | Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge) |
| Born : | 06/21/1973 | Juliette Lewis, actress (Holly-Family For Joe, I Married Dora) |
| Born : | 11/10/1973 | Khiry Abdulsamad, LA Calif, rocker (Boys-Dial My Heart, Lucky Charm) |
| Born : | 08/02/1973 | Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227) |
| Born : | 05/12/1973 | Mackenzie Astin, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids) |
| Born : | 10/10/1973 | Mario Lopez, San Diego Calif, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell) |
| Born : | 06/23/1973 | Mark Larsen, jockey |
| Born : | 11/12/1973 | Melanie Gaffin, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids) |
| Born : | 07/26/1973 | Mike Burke, NY Yankees pres/CEO of Madison Sq Garden |
| Born : | 12/02/1973 | Monica Seles, Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992) |
| Born : | 06/15/1973 | Neil Patrick Harris, Albuquerque NM, actor (Doogie Howser) |
| Born : | 02/04/1973 | Oscar De La Hoya, Los Angeles Calif, US boxer (Olympic-gold-92) |
| Born : | 10/22/1973 | Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer |
| Born : | 06/11/1973 | Robby Kiger, Encino Calif, actor (Crazy Like a Fox) |
| Born : | 02/02/1973 | Sergio Gonzalez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball) |
| Born : | 05/14/1973 | Shanice [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, rock vocalist (Discovery, Loving You) |
| Born : | 07/29/1973 | Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven) |
| Born : | 11/18/1973 | Steve Christopher Petree, Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See) |
| Born : | 08/01/1973 | Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa-Cosby Show) |
| Born : | 05/29/1973 | Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county Calif, playmate (Oct, 1992) |
| Born : | 05/05/1973 | Tina Yothers, Whittier Calif, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties) |
| Born : | 09/05/1973 | Tina Yothers, actress (Family Ties) |
| Born : | 05/15/1973 | Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210) |
| Born : | 07/29/1973 | Wanya Morris, [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men) |
| Died : | 10/25/1973 | Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathoner (Oly-gold 1960, 64), dies at 46 |
| Died : | 05/02/1973 | Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61 |
| Died : | 11/26/1973 | Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed |
| Died : | 10/24/1973 | Allan "Rocky" Lane, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 11/20/1973 | Allan Sherman, parody songwriter (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), dies |
| Died : | 11/21/1973 | Allan Sherman, singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah) |
| Died : | 01/20/1973 | Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, dies |
| Died : | 03/07/1973 | Andr de Meulemaster, Belgian WW I pilot [Arend van Vlanderen], dies |
| Died : | 09/26/1973 | Anna Magnani, Italians actress (Roma, Citt Aperta), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 09/26/1973 | Anton Schnack, German writer/poet, dies |
| Died : | 10/21/1973 | Arab El Goni, VP/Tsjaads National Meeting, murdered |
| Died : | 06/04/1973 | Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville |
| Died : | 05/23/1973 | Athena Lorde, actress (Judith-One Man's Family), dies at 57 |
| Died : | 08/13/1973 | Ben van Eysselsten, writer (Weather Beaten Stone), dies |
| Died : | 09/20/1973 | Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies |
| Died : | 07/02/1973 | Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies |
| Died : | 08/24/1973 | Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76 |
| Died : | 12/20/1973 | Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies at 36 of heart failure |
| Died : | 07/20/1973 | Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], Chinese/US actor (Enter the Dragon), dies |
| Died : | 11/30/1973 | Bruce Yarnell, LA Calif, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35 |
| Died : | 03/15/1973 | Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82 |
| Died : | 07/03/1973 | Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies |
| Died : | 12/17/1973 | Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Constant Sun), dies |
| Died : | 07/14/1973 | Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car |
| Died : | 03/02/1973 | Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, is assassinated |
| Died : | 08/17/1973 | Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer winning poet, dies at 74 |
| Died : | 11/23/1973 | Constance Talmadge, US comdienne/actress (Her Primitive Lover), dies |
| Died : | 12/01/1973 | David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel dies in Tel Aviv at 87 |
| Died : | 08/09/1973 | Dean Corll, shot; he raped & killed 26 boys |
| Died : | 09/21/1973 | Diana Sands, actress, dies at 39 |
| Died : | 06/27/1973 | Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 |
| Died : | 08/04/1973 | Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 07/23/1973 | Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies |
| Died : | 01/26/1973 | Edward G Robinson, [Emmanuel Goldenberg], actor, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 03/25/1973 | Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93 |
| Died : | 02/22/1973 | Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 72 |
| Died : | 06/30/1973 | Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died |
| Died : | 06/27/1973 | Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 06/23/1973 | Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77 |
| Died : | 02/18/1973 | Franc Costello, US gangster, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 10/18/1973 | Frank Knight, TV announcer (Chronoscope), dies at 79 |
| Died : | 06/21/1973 | Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 03/12/1973 | Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74 |
| Died : | 09/16/1973 | Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 08/06/1973 | Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba, dies |
| Died : | 10/25/1973 | G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies |
| Died : | 10/16/1973 | Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 07/02/1973 | George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 03/26/1973 | George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 09/20/1973 | Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 |
| Died : | 05/11/1973 | Grigor M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies |
| Died : | 05/30/1973 | Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 05/28/1973 | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan), dies |
| Died : | 12/26/1973 | Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74 |
| Died : | 06/01/1973 | Harvey S Firestone Jr, US tire manufacturer, dies at 75 |
| Died : | 02/06/1973 | Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies |
| Died : | 04/26/1973 | Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 12/22/1973 | Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas dies at 72 |
| Died : | 07/11/1973 | Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83 |
| Died : | 01/24/1973 | J Carroll Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 05/10/1973 | Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62 |
| Died : | 07/18/1973 | Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62 |
| Died : | 05/26/1973 | Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81 |
| Died : | 05/18/1973 | Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92 |
| Died : | 10/01/1973 | Joe Devlin, actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 |
| Died : | 01/28/1973 | John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday |
| Died : | 08/31/1973 | John Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 09/02/1973 | John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies |
| Died : | 11/04/1973 | Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Grnen Freunde), dies |
| Died : | 02/05/1973 | L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral |
| Died : | 03/18/1973 | Lauritz L H Melchior, Danish/US baritone tenor, dies |
| Died : | 07/13/1973 | Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67 |
| Died : | 01/29/1973 | Ludwig Stossel, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 |
| Died : | 12/20/1973 | Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain is assassinated |
| Died : | 06/17/1973 | Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 01/22/1973 | Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64 |
| Died : | 03/12/1973 | Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies |
| Died : | 09/12/1973 | Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86 |
| Died : | 02/26/1973 | Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 07/07/1973 | Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78 |
| Died : | 02/09/1973 | Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53 |
| Died : | 12/03/1973 | Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67 |
| Died : | 03/14/1973 | Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 06/04/1973 | Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl & Dennis, dies at 55 |
| Died : | 12/16/1973 | Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies |
| Died : | 03/26/1973 | Noel Coward, actor, dies at 73 |
| Died : | 09/28/1973 | Norma Crane, actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies at 42 |
| Died : | 10/02/1973 | Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies |
| Died : | 10/22/1973 | Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist/conductor, dies |
| Died : | 09/23/1973 | Pablo Neruda, [Neftali R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies |
| Died : | 04/08/1973 | Pablo Picasso, artist, dies near Mougins, France, at 91 |
| Died : | 07/06/1973 | Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 10/02/1973 | Paul Hartman, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 11/23/1973 | Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad) |
| Died : | 03/06/1973 | Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 08/11/1973 | Peggy Castle, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman), dies at 46 |
| Died : | 01/31/1973 | Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, dies |
| Died : | 05/08/1973 | Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies |
| Died : | 01/16/1973 | Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 03/10/1973 | Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, is assassinated |
| Died : | 12/06/1973 | Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies |
| Died : | 07/11/1973 | Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Boxes, Longest Day), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 06/19/1973 | Roger Delgado, actor (Adventures of Sir Francis Drake), dies at 53 |
| Died : | 09/11/1973 | Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile, dies |
| Died : | 09/09/1973 | Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 08/16/1973 | Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85 |
| Died : | 03/13/1973 | Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54 |
| Died : | 11/11/1973 | Stringbean, [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58 |
| Died : | 07/02/1973 | Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500 |
| Died : | 04/11/1973 | Ted Decorsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 09/18/1973 | Tho Lefvre, premier Belgium, dies |
| Died : | 05/21/1973 | Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 |
| Died : | 07/07/1973 | Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress, dies at 58 |
| Died : | 02/15/1973 | Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48 |
| Died : | 10/18/1973 | Walt Kelly, US comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 08/01/1973 | Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies |
| Died : | 05/15/1973 | Willem H Rassers, cultural anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95 |
| Died : | 09/21/1973 | William CF Plomer, South African libretto writer (Curlew River), dies |
| Died : | 06/10/1973 | William Inge, US dramatist, dies at 60 |
| Died : | 07/13/1973 | Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies |
| Died : | 02/22/1973 | Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 09/28/1973 | Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies |
| Special : | 09/22/1973 | "A Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
| Special : | 06/15/1973 | "American Graffiti" opens in NYC |
| Special : | 11/02/1973 | "Barbra Striesand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV |
| Special : | 01/28/1973 | "Barnaby Jones" premiers on CBS TV |
| Special : | 06/27/1973 | "Live & Let Die" premiers in US |
| Special : | 07/05/1973 | "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premiers |
| Special : | 11/06/1973 | "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting |
| Special : | 09/15/1973 | "Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV |
| Special : | 12/23/1973 | "Young & Restless" premiers on TV |
| Special : | 02/20/1973 | 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins |
| Special : | 08/10/1973 | 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station |
| Special : | 05/04/1973 | 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
| Special : | 02/12/1973 | 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
| Special : | 07/01/1973 | 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61 |
| Special : | 05/06/1973 | 1st WHA championshiphip, Winnipeg Jets win 4 games to 1 |
| Special : | 09/08/1973 | 1st all Australian women's US Open final, (Court beats Goolagong) |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert |
| Special : | 08/31/1973 | 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) |
| Special : | 12/30/1973 | 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) |
| Special : | 02/11/1973 | 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
| Special : | 10/27/1973 | 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2 |
| Special : | 02/07/1973 | 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| Special : | 12/10/1973 | 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors) |
| Special : | 04/26/1973 | 2 Gentlemen of Verona, musical opens in London |
| Special : | 12/26/1973 | 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours |
| Special : | 09/12/1973 | 2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) |
| Special : | 02/10/1973 | 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| Special : | 09/25/1973 | 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days |
| Special : | 01/21/1973 | 3rd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 33-28 |
| Special : | 01/15/1973 | 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
| Special : | 10/17/1973 | 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins |
| Special : | 02/18/1973 | 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash |
| Special : | 12/23/1973 | 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices |
| Special : | 08/28/1973 | 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 |
| Special : | 09/01/1973 | 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India) |
| Special : | 02/10/1973 | 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| Special : | 07/09/1973 | 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Special : | 05/10/1973 | 9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4 |
| Special : | 05/02/1973 | A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2014 Vasilevskis |
| Special : | 10/21/1973 | A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series |
| Special : | 07/31/1973 | ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets |
| Special : | 09/13/1973 | ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
| Special : | 12/20/1973 | AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees |
| Special : | 11/06/1973 | Abe Beame eleceted 1st jewish mayor on NYC |
| Special : | 03/23/1973 | After a 5« year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends |
| Special : | 10/27/1973 | Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
| Special : | 12/28/1973 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag" |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels |
| Special : | 02/27/1973 | American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
| Special : | 01/11/1973 | American League adopts designated hitter rule |
| Special : | 08/05/1973 | Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0 |
| Special : | 12/01/1973 | Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea |
| Special : | 11/05/1973 | BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
| Special : | 04/10/1973 | BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 |
| Special : | 07/10/1973 | Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution |
| Special : | 05/26/1973 | Bahrain adopts it's constitution |
| Special : | 12/06/1973 | Bahrain's constitution goes into effect |
| Special : | 09/22/1973 | Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland) |
| Special : | 09/29/1973 | Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit) |
| Special : | 04/19/1973 | Barbra Striesand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow" |
| Special : | 05/26/1973 | Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1 |
| Special : | 02/18/1973 | Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000m in record 7:39.2 |
| Special : | 02/06/1973 | Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm |
| Special : | 06/30/1973 | Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) |
| Special : | 09/20/1973 | Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match |
| Special : | 09/02/1973 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
| Special : | 09/08/1973 | Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
| Special : | 08/15/1973 | Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens |
| Special : | 11/25/1973 | Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos |
| Special : | 07/13/1973 | Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0 |
| Special : | 10/27/1973 | Borngen & Kirsch discovers asteroids #2424 Tautenburg & #3245 Jensch |
| Special : | 11/14/1973 | Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips |
| Special : | 01/01/1973 | Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market |
| Special : | 01/07/1973 | British Darts Organisation founded in North London |
| Special : | 09/16/1973 | Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13 |
| Special : | 09/19/1973 | C J Van Houten discovers asteroids #3290 Azabu & #3548 |
| Special : | 03/06/1973 | C Kowal discovers asteroid #1981 Midas |
| Special : | 07/04/1973 | CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms |
| Special : | 04/02/1973 | CBS radio begins on hour news 24 hours a day |
| Special : | 07/15/1973 | Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
| Special : | 05/15/1973 | Calif Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0 |
| Special : | 04/20/1973 | Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
| Special : | 10/20/1973 | Canadian actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Marcy Lafferty |
| Special : | 09/19/1973 | Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden |
| Special : | 05/26/1973 | Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) |
| Special : | 05/28/1973 | Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) |
| Special : | 02/21/1973 | Chicago Black Hawks, NHL record 262nd game without being shut-out |
| Special : | 05/03/1973 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out |
| Special : | 09/11/1973 | Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup |
| Special : | 10/25/1973 | Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
| Special : | 11/06/1973 | Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
| Special : | 03/07/1973 | Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory |
| Special : | 09/26/1973 | Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m |
| Special : | 10/18/1973 | Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin |
| Special : | 09/13/1973 | Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
| Special : | 12/05/1973 | Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade |
| Special : | 03/29/1973 | Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP |
| Special : | 03/19/1973 | Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency" |
| Special : | 02/27/1973 | Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox |
| Special : | 07/16/1973 | During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes |
| Special : | 08/27/1973 | E F Helin discovers asteroid #2048 Dwornik |
| Special : | 11/29/1973 | E F Helin discovers asteroid #2083 Smither |
| Special : | 09/26/1973 | E F Helin discovers asteroids #2128 Wetherill & #2143 Jimarnold |
| Special : | 04/02/1973 | Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal |
| Special : | 03/30/1973 | Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam |
| Special : | 10/28/1973 | Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) |
| Special : | 10/09/1973 | Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years |
| Special : | 10/28/1973 | F Borngen & K Kirsch discovers asteroid #3338 Richter |
| Special : | 10/27/1973 | F Borngen discovers asteroid #3540 Protesilaos |
| Special : | 12/24/1973 | Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 |
| Special : | 11/09/1973 | Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) |
| Special : | 08/03/1973 | Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK) |
| Special : | 03/31/1973 | Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots |
| Special : | 05/09/1973 | For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game |
| Special : | 09/23/1973 | Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
| Special : | 03/21/1973 | Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| Special : | 02/15/1973 | Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
| Special : | 02/05/1973 | Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War |
| Special : | 01/10/1973 | Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| Special : | 01/15/1973 | Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel |
| Special : | 08/02/1973 | George Brett gets his 1st hit |
| Special : | 01/22/1973 | George Foreman KOs Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title |
| Special : | 09/01/1973 | George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in 1st to retain heavyweight title |
| Special : | 07/25/1973 | George Harrison pays 1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album |
| Special : | 05/25/1973 | George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK |
| Special : | 06/22/1973 | George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" |
| Special : | 01/03/1973 | George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million |
| Special : | 12/06/1973 | Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9) |
| Special : | 02/23/1973 | Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London |
| Special : | 05/14/1973 | Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
| Special : | 12/15/1973 | Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
| Special : | 11/03/1973 | Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) |
| Special : | 01/14/1973 | Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif |
| Special : | 07/29/1973 | Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy |
| Special : | 12/19/1973 | Grenada adopts constitution |
| Special : | 09/24/1973 | Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea) declares independence from Portugal |
| Special : | 10/21/1973 | H L Giclas discovers asteroid #3695 |
| Special : | 07/21/1973 | Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs |
| Special : | 09/08/1973 | Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709) |
| Special : | 08/18/1973 | Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record |
| Special : | 10/24/1973 | Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike |
| Special : | 01/23/1973 | Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs |
| Special : | 01/28/1973 | Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont |
| Special : | 08/09/1973 | Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings |
| Special : | 12/11/1973 | Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman |
| Special : | 04/02/1973 | ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean pres election |
| Special : | 05/12/1973 | Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels in 6th ABA championship, 4 games to 3 |
| Special : | 09/14/1973 | Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
| Special : | 05/08/1973 | Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender |
| Special : | 02/27/1973 | Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
| Special : | 09/29/1973 | Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents |
| Special : | 08/23/1973 | Intelsat communications satellite launched |
| Special : | 02/04/1973 | Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game |
| Special : | 01/18/1973 | Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak |
| Special : | 07/05/1973 | Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps |
| Special : | 09/14/1973 | Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
| Special : | 12/21/1973 | Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva |
| Special : | 02/22/1973 | Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan coml airliner (106 die) |
| Special : | 03/13/1973 | J Gibson discovers asteroid #1943 Anteros |
| Special : | 09/21/1973 | J Gibson discovers asteroid #2035 Stearns |
| Special : | 12/01/1973 | Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year |
| Special : | 09/21/1973 | Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000 |
| Special : | 02/02/1973 | James R Schlesinger becomes director of CIA (until July) |
| Special : | 01/27/1973 | Janet Lynn wins her 5th consecutive natl figure skating championship |
| Special : | 04/01/1973 | Japan allows its citizens to own gold |
| Special : | 03/27/1973 | Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession |
| Special : | 12/04/1973 | John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy |
| Special : | 06/25/1973 | John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
| Special : | 11/16/1973 | John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
| Special : | 10/24/1973 | John Lennon sues US govt to admit FBI is tapping his phone |
| Special : | 06/27/1973 | John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list" |
| Special : | 06/17/1973 | Johnny Miller wins US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 08/14/1973 | Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts |
| Special : | 01/23/1973 | Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims |
| Special : | 02/05/1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| Special : | 02/25/1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders |
| Special : | 01/30/1973 | Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all count |
| Special : | 04/27/1973 | KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
| Special : | 05/03/1973 | KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit |
| Special : | 03/31/1973 | Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision |
| Special : | 10/16/1973 | Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
| Special : | 05/10/1973 | Knicks beat Lakers, 102-93, for NBA championship, 4 games to 1 |
| Special : | 09/26/1973 | L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2755 Avicenna |
| Special : | 02/28/1973 | L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #3407 & #3627 |
| Special : | 02/27/1973 | L Kohoutek discovers asteroids 1999 Hirayama, 2407, 2472, 2541 & 2901 |
| Special : | 03/27/1973 | L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2562 |
| Special : | 09/25/1973 | L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3157 |
| Special : | 12/27/1973 | LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8 |
| Special : | 09/23/1973 | Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered |
| Special : | 03/29/1973 | Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| Special : | 08/17/1973 | Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
| Special : | 10/01/1973 | Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager |
| Special : | 06/16/1973 | Leonid I Brezhnev visit US |
| Special : | 01/21/1973 | Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" |
| Special : | 06/26/1973 | London production of "Grease" premiers |
| Special : | 05/04/1973 | Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 |
| Special : | 07/05/1973 | Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda |
| Special : | 10/20/1973 | Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz" |
| Special : | 11/03/1973 | Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury |
| Special : | 06/24/1973 | Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" |
| Special : | 10/16/1973 | Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta |
| Special : | 09/30/1973 | Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| Special : | 12/30/1973 | Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game |
| Special : | 09/07/1973 | Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Assn's 4th commissioner |
| Special : | 12/30/1973 | Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game |
| Special : | 05/10/1973 | Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 12/20/1973 | Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| Special : | 03/10/1973 | Morocco adopts constitution |
| Special : | 09/10/1973 | Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
| Special : | 08/01/1973 | Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
| Special : | 12/11/1973 | NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises |
| Special : | 06/10/1973 | NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
| Special : | 01/16/1973 | NBC presents 440th & final showing of Bonanza |
| Special : | 06/18/1973 | NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants |
| Special : | 04/05/1973 | NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19) |
| Special : | 11/07/1973 | NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league |
| Special : | 07/24/1973 | NL beats AL 7-1 in 44th All Star Game (Royals Stadium, KC) |
| Special : | 09/19/1973 | NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC |
| Special : | 12/06/1973 | NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) |
| Special : | 09/10/1973 | NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis |
| Special : | 07/08/1973 | NY Mets are 12« games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
| Special : | 09/21/1973 | NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12« games |
| Special : | 09/21/1973 | Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000 |
| Special : | 07/02/1973 | Nation Black Network begins operation on radio |
| Special : | 11/08/1973 | Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai |
| Special : | 11/04/1973 | New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills |
| Special : | 01/17/1973 | New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life |
| Special : | 10/23/1973 | Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica |
| Special : | 04/30/1973 | Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al |
| Special : | 10/12/1973 | Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP |
| Special : | 10/16/1973 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Henry A Kissinger & Le Duc Tho |
| Special : | 09/27/1973 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 383rd batter of year |
| Special : | 12/16/1973 | O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season |
| Special : | 10/20/1973 | OPEC oil embargo begins |
| Special : | 11/13/1973 | Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
| Special : | 06/30/1973 | Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse |
| Special : | 09/15/1973 | Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing |
| Special : | 07/23/1973 | Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die |
| Special : | 09/28/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroid #1860 Barbarossa |
| Special : | 12/19/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroid #1937 Locarno |
| Special : | 11/19/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroid #1961 Dufour |
| Special : | 02/06/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroid #2033 Basilea |
| Special : | 09/02/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroids #1935 Lucerna & #2005 Hencke |
| Special : | 11/24/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroids #1936 Lugano, #1962 Dunant & #2038 Bistro |
| Special : | 03/05/1973 | P Wild discovers asteroids #2001 Einstein & #2034 Bernoulli |
| Special : | 04/10/1973 | Pakistan suspends constitution |
| Special : | 03/08/1973 | Paul & Linda McCartney are fined 100 for growing cannabis |
| Special : | 06/01/1973 | Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die" |
| Special : | 12/05/1973 | Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album |
| Special : | 04/30/1973 | Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love" |
| Special : | 06/19/1973 | Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 |
| Special : | 07/14/1973 | Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers |
| Special : | 02/11/1973 | Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
| Special : | 06/23/1973 | Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched |
| Special : | 05/04/1973 | Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings |
| Special : | 12/05/1973 | Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter |
| Special : | 12/03/1973 | Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) |
| Special : | 04/05/1973 | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
| Special : | 04/06/1973 | Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn |
| Special : | 09/19/1973 | Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on air |
| Special : | 08/19/1973 | Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years |
| Special : | 12/15/1973 | Pirates of Caribbean opens |
| Special : | 01/15/1973 | Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
| Special : | 01/23/1973 | Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reach to end the Vietnam War |
| Special : | 11/16/1973 | Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline |
| Special : | 09/14/1973 | Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
| Special : | 01/15/1973 | Pres Nixon suspensends all US offensive action in N Vietnam |
| Special : | 05/07/1973 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) |
| Special : | 07/23/1973 | Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman |
| Special : | 07/15/1973 | Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide |
| Special : | 02/04/1973 | Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled |
| Special : | 05/27/1973 | Rick Wohlhuter uns record 880 yards in 1:44.6 |
| Special : | 10/19/1973 | Ringo releases "Photograph" |
| Special : | 11/09/1973 | Ringo releases "Ringo" album |
| Special : | 04/06/1973 | Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his # |
| Special : | 03/20/1973 | Roberto Clemente elected to hall of fame, 11 weeks after his death |
| Special : | 03/01/1973 | Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
| Special : | 01/28/1973 | Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" |
| Special : | 05/05/1973 | Ron Turcotte on Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby (1:59.4, record) |
| Special : | 03/24/1973 | SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
| Special : | 05/01/1973 | SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 |
| Special : | 12/12/1973 | San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) |
| Special : | 12/15/1973 | Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
| Special : | 01/08/1973 | Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris |
| Special : | 06/09/1973 | Secretariat wins 105th Belmont Stakes (2:24) & Triple Crown |
| Special : | 05/19/1973 | Secretariat wins 98th Preakness (1:55), 2nd leg in Triple Crown |
| Special : | 09/15/1973 | Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¬ miles |
| Special : | 10/22/1973 | Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War |
| Special : | 05/17/1973 | Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| Special : | 11/27/1973 | Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP |
| Special : | 07/07/1973 | Shoelace Park in the Bronx named |
| Special : | 05/25/1973 | Skylab 2 (US) launched |
| Special : | 06/22/1973 | Skylab 2's astronauts land |
| Special : | 07/28/1973 | Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched |
| Special : | 11/16/1973 | Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit |
| Special : | 05/14/1973 | Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
| Special : | 03/26/1973 | Soap "Young & Restless" premiers |
| Special : | 09/29/1973 | Soyuz 12 returns to Earth |
| Special : | 12/18/1973 | Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days |
| Special : | 12/26/1973 | Soyuz 13 returns to Earth |
| Special : | 09/24/1973 | St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals |
| Special : | 03/17/1973 | St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commerating Bloody Sunday |
| Special : | 04/19/1973 | Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president |
| Special : | 05/17/1973 | Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| Special : | 04/12/1973 | Sudan adopts constitution |
| Special : | 07/24/1973 | Sue Berning wins US golf open for 3rd time |
| Special : | 07/22/1973 | Sue Berning wins her 3rd US Golf Open championship |
| Special : | 01/14/1973 | Super Bowl VII-Miami Dolphins-14, Washington Redskins-7 |
| Special : | 04/12/1973 | Swaziland suspends constitution |
| Special : | 03/13/1973 | Syria adopts constitution |
| Special : | 09/20/1973 | T Gehrels discovers asteroid #1921 Pala |
| Special : | 09/29/1973 | T Gehrels discovers asteroid #2049 Grietje |
| Special : | 09/19/1973 | T Gehrels discovers asteroid #2643 |
| Special : | 08/29/1973 | T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2002 Euler |
| Special : | 08/28/1973 | T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2171 Kiev |
| Special : | 03/28/1973 | T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3071 Nesterov |
| Special : | 01/14/1973 | Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV |
| Special : | 12/15/1973 | Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
| Special : | 10/13/1973 | Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" |
| Special : | 07/30/1973 | Texas Ranger Jim Bibby no-hits Oakland A's, 6-0 |
| Special : | 10/30/1973 | Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
| Special : | 12/25/1973 | Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles) |
| Special : | 01/11/1973 | Trial of the Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC |
| Special : | 02/26/1973 | Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m |
| Special : | 03/26/1973 | UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title |
| Special : | 01/27/1973 | UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) |
| Special : | 10/23/1973 | UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
| Special : | 01/27/1973 | US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft |
| Special : | 12/15/1973 | US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill |
| Special : | 01/22/1973 | US Supreme Court leagalizes some abortions |
| Special : | 05/14/1973 | US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military |
| Special : | 08/14/1973 | US bombs Cambodia |
| Special : | 05/25/1973 | US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz |
| Special : | 01/07/1973 | US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize |
| Special : | 03/29/1973 | US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution |
| Special : | 01/22/1973 | US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord |
| Special : | 01/08/1973 | USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing |
| Special : | 07/21/1973 | USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
| Special : | 07/25/1973 | USSR launches Mars 5 |
| Special : | 08/05/1973 | USSR launches Mars 6 |
| Special : | 08/09/1973 | USSR launches Mars 7 |
| Special : | 02/15/1973 | USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
| Special : | 01/16/1973 | USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of the Moon |
| Special : | 06/25/1973 | Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
| Special : | 06/27/1973 | Uruguay suspends constitution |
| Special : | 10/10/1973 | VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns |
| Special : | 04/--/1973 | WNJB TV channel 58 in New Brunswick, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 01/07/1973 | WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 04/15/1973 | Walt Disney Story opens |
| Special : | 07/27/1973 | Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
| Special : | 10/09/1973 | Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors |
| Special : | 09/20/1973 | Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season |
| Special : | 07/19/1973 | Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) |
| Special : | 09/25/1973 | Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium |
| Special : | 07/15/1973 | Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs |
| Special : | 09/26/1973 | Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors |
| Special : | 12/07/1973 | Wings release "Band on the Run" |
| Special : | 10/26/1973 | Wings release "Helen Wheels" |
| Special : | 05/04/1973 | Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK |
| Special : | 04/30/1973 | Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments |
| Special : | 12/13/1973 | World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) |
| Special : | 02/10/1973 | World's largest storage tank explodes (Staten Island NY), crushing 40 |
| Special : | 10/23/1973 | Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president |
| Special : | 04/06/1973 | Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks |
| Special : | 03/05/1973 | Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives |
| Special : | 09/30/1973 | Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5 |
| Special : | 06/12/1973 | Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
| Special : | 03/23/1973 | Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US |
| Special : | 10/06/1973 | Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel |
| Special : | 10/24/1973 | Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
| Special : | 08/25/1973 | Zambia adopts constitution |
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