Historical Events In 1973

Nov 21 Allan Sherman singer, dies at 48 (Goodbye Muddah, Goodbye Faddah)

Nov 08 Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai

Nov 16 President Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline

Nov 16 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit

Nov 03 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman &Nancy Dussault)

Nov 03 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, first mission to Mercury

Nov 21 18 minute gap found in Watergate Tapes

Nov 29 Chrysler Halts Production witht he economic downturn of the late 1970s struck again. This time, limping auto giant Chrysler Corp. announced plans to halt production at seven plants

Nov 27 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP

Nov 05 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service

Nov 14 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips

Nov 25 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos

Nov 25 I response to the 1973 oil crisis, President Richard M. Nixon called for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers.

Nov 26 Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape

Nov 07 NJ becomes first state to allow girls into the little league

Sep 10 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton

Sep 23 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

Sep 29 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth

Sep 16 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13

Sep 08 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)

Sep 21 Dr. Henry Kissinger is confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of State.

Sep 13 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for the 1976 Olympics

Sep 22 "A Little Night Music" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway

Sep 08 The first all Australian women's US Open final, (Court beats Goolagong)

Sep 01 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Sep 27 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)

Sep 26 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m

Sep 25 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium

Sep 01 George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title

Sep 20 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match

Sep 25 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days

Sep 24 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence

Sep 11 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

Sep 22 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State

Sep 14 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s

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