Page 16: Historical Events In 1973
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Dec 05 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album. 


Dec 06 Gerald Ford sworn-in as inaugural unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew 


Dec 06 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94. 


Dec 07 Wings release "Band on the Run". 


Dec 10 Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81 


Dec 11 Karen and Richard Carpenter received a gold record for their single, Top of the World. 


Dec 14 Yitzhak Edel, composer, dies at 77. 


Dec 15 Jean Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is are discovered alive in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping 


Dec 15 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 


Dec 15 Pirates of Caribbean opens at Disneyland. 


Dec 16 O.J. Simpson is recorded as becoming inaugural NFLer to rush 2000 yard in a season. 


Dec 16 Syd Barnes, cricketer (13 Tests for Australia 1938-48), dies 


Dec 17 Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101. 


Dec 18 Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64. 


Dec 18 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days. 


Dec 20 Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37. 


Dec 21 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US and USSR meet in Geneva 


Dec 22 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87. 


Dec 22 Pierre Berton quoted in Canadian Magazine as saying, "A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe." 


Dec 23 "The Young and the Restless" premiers on TV 


Dec 23 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices. 


Dec 23 Arthur Richardson, cricketer (9 Tests 1924-26), dies. 


Dec 24 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200. 


Dec 25 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799405 miles) 


Dec 26 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours 


Dec 26 Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74. 


Dec 26 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth 


Dec 27 LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8 


Dec 28 Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 


Dec 30 Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101 


Dec 30 The inaugural picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab). 


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