Notable Historical Events - 1973
1973 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) |
Jan 1 |
Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market |
Jan 1 |
West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
Jan 3 |
George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million |
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 |
"Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances |
Jan 7 |
British Darts Organisation founded in North London |
Jan 7 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Jan 7 |
Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again |
Jan 7 |
US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize |
Jan 7 |
WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 8 |
"Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jan 8 |
Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG |
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 |
Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
Jan 11 |
American League adopts designated hitter rule |
Jan 11 |
Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106 |
Jan 11 |
Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC |
Jan 13 |
"Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Jan 13 |
Lasse Daniel Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) |
Jan 14 |
Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif |
Jan 14 |
Super Bowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins, 14-7 in LA, MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S |
Jan 14 |
Tap dancer Roy Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV |
Jan 14 |
2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army |
Jan 15 |
4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
Jan 15 |
Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel |
Jan 15 |
Pope Paul VI holds an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
Jan 15 |
Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam |
Jan 16 |
NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza" |
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 |
Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH |
Jan 18 |
Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak |
Jan 18 |
John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC |
Jan 20 |
A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no organisation claimed responsibility) |
Jan 21 |
3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 |
Jan 21 |
Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" |
Jan 22 |
George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 22 |
Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions |
Jan 22 |
US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord |
Jan 23 |
23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago |
Jan 23 |
Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs |
Jan 23 |
Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims |
Jan 23 |
US President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War |
Jan 23 |
Shah of Iran announces that the 1954 operating agreement between a consortium of oil companies and Iran will not be renewed when it expires in 1979 |
Jan 24 |
Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 26 |
Belgium government of Leburton forms |
Jan 27 |
UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) |
Jan 27 |
US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and miltary draft |
Jan 27 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
Jan 27 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
Jan 28 |
"Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV |
Jan 28 |
Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont |
Jan 28 |
Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 28 |
Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" |
Jan 28 |
In the run up to the first anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' there is serious rioting in Derry, North Ireland |
Jan 30 |
26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers |
Jan 30 |
Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts |
Jan 30 |
KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY) |
Feb 1 |
Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 2 |
"Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV |
Feb 2 |
James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July) |
Feb 2 |
Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA |
Feb 2 |
Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington |
Feb 3 |
Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6 |
Feb 4 |
"No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances |
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 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 5 |
Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted |
Feb 5 |
Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War |
Feb 5 |
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
Feb 6 |
"Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances |
Feb 6 |
40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution |
Feb 6 |
6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah |
Feb 6 |
Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm |
Feb 7 |
1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
Feb 7 |
Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities |
Feb 7 |
The United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike to "re-establish some sort of Protestant or loyalist control over the affairs of the province"; loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened, North Ireland |
Feb 8 |
Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC |
Feb 8 |
Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ |
Feb 8 |
Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal |
Feb 9 |
Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected 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 |
Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin |
Feb 11 |
1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ |
Feb 11 |
1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
Feb 11 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic |
Feb 11 |
Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
Feb 12 |
1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
Feb 13 |
Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC |
Feb 13 |
US dollar devalues 10% |
Feb 15 |
Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
Feb 15 |
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
Feb 16 |
WI v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers |
Feb 17 |
Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket |
Feb 18 |
54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash |
Feb 18 |
Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2 |
Feb 18 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic |
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 |
US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC |
Feb 23 |
Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London |
Feb 25 |
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders |
Feb 25 |
Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres at Shubert Theatre in NYC (601 performances) |
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 |
Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox |
Feb 27 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius |
Feb 27 |
White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract |
Feb 28 |
Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders |
Feb 28 |
Iraq and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization |
Mar 1 |
Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens |
Mar 1 |
Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race |
Mar 2 |
"Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum |
Mar 3 |
"Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances |
Mar 3 |
White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000 |
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 |
Mar 7 |
Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh |
Mar 8 |
Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens |
Mar 8 |
Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis |
Mar 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 8 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country |
Mar 10 |
BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath |
Mar 10 |
Morocco adopts constitution |
Mar 11 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
Mar 13 |
Syria adopts constitution |
Mar 13 |
"Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances |
Mar 13 |
Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC |
Mar 14 |
Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland |
Mar 16 |
Shah of Iran and Consortium members agree to nationalize all assets immediately in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil |
Mar 16 |
OPEC discusses raising prices to offset decline of U.S. dollar value |
Mar 17 |
Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge |
Mar 17 |
St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday |
Mar 18 |
"Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances |
Mar 18 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Mar 19 |
Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency" |
Mar 20 |
Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death |
Mar 21 |
Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals |
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 23 |
Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US |
Mar 24 |
Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ |
Mar 24 |
Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title |
Mar 24 |
Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
Mar 24 |
SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
Mar 25 |
27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win |
Mar 25 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
Mar 25 |
Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng |
Mar 26 |
35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76 |
Mar 26 |
Soap "Young & Restless" premieres |
Mar 26 |
Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange |
Mar 26 |
UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title |
Mar 27 |
Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket |
Mar 27 |
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession |
Mar 27 |
45th Academy Awards - "Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians |
Mar 29 |
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 |
Mar 31 |
Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots |
Mar 31 |
Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision |
Apr 1 |
Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Classic |
Apr 1 |
Japan allows its citizens to own gold |
Apr 1 |
John & Yoko 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 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 |
The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States. |
Apr 5 |
NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19) |
Apr 5 |
Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
Apr 6 |
Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium |
Apr 6 |
Indies troops invade Sikkim |
Apr 6 |
Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter & Saturn |
Apr 6 |
Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his # |
Apr 6 |
US launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter & Saturn |
Apr 6 |
Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks |
Apr 6 |
Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. |
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 take place. |
Apr 9 |
37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283 |
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 Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 |
Apr 10 |
KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers |
Apr 10 |
Pakistan suspends constitution |
Apr 12 |
France recognizes North Vietnam |
Apr 12 |
Sudan adopts constitution |
Apr 12 |
Swaziland suspends constitution |
Apr 14 |
Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal |
Apr 15 |
2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Apr 15 |
Walt Disney Story opens |
Apr 17 |
2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59 |
Apr 17 |
77th Boston Marathon won by Jon Anderson of Oreg in 2:16:03 |
Apr 17 |
German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded. |
Apr 18 |
US Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower |
Apr 19 |
Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow" |
Apr 19 |
Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president |
Apr 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 20 |
Mass murderer Ed Kemper attempted to dispose of his mother's vocal chords in a domestic waste disposal unit. |
Apr 20 |
Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
Apr 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 26 |
"2 Gentlemen of Verona" musical opens in London |
Apr 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 27 |
KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 |
Apr 28 |
Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974) |
Apr 29 |
Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
Apr 30 |
Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al |
Apr 30 |
Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love" |
Apr 30 |
Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments |
May 1 |
SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 |
May 3 |
Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out |
May 4 |
1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine |
May 4 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella |
May 4 |
Longest baseball game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings |
May 4 |
Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope |
May 4 |
Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK |
May 5 |
99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 |
May 6 |
1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1 |
May 6 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) |
May 8 |
Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, technically becoming baseball's 1st African American manager |
May 8 |
Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender |
May 9 |
For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game |
May 10 |
27th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
May 10 |
9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4 |
May 10 |
Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania |
May 10 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
May 10 |
Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema |
May 11 |
Dutch government of Uyl forms |
May 11 |
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. |
May 12 |
6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
May 12 |
Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92 |
May 13 |
"Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances |
May 13 |
Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in Calif |
May 13 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
May 14 |
Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
May 14 |
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV |
May 14 |
Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
May 14 |
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military |
May 15 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0 |
May 16 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar |
May 16 |
AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki |
May 17 |
"Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances |
May 17 |
Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run |
May 17 |
Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
May 17 |
Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
May 17 |
US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado |
May 17 |
Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's |
May 17 |
Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone |
May 18 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
May 18 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill |
May 19 |
"Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14 |
May 19 |
"Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances |
May 19 |
99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 |
May 20 |
"2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St James Theater NYC after 613 perfs |
May 20 |
25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win |
May 20 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
May 22 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
May 22 |
President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up |
May 24 |
Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords. |
May 25 |
Peronist Hector Campora installed as president of Argentina |
May 25 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Enschede |
May 25 |
George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK |
May 25 |
US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz |
May 26 |
Bahrain adopts its constitution |
May 26 |
Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1 |
May 26 |
Chicago White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28) |
May 26 |
Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15 |
May 26 |
Super Fly Meets Shaft by John & Ernest hits #31 |
May 26 |
Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata premieres |
May 27 |
Rick Wohlhuter runs record 880 yards in 1:44.6 |
May 28 |
Chicago White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) |
May 28 |
Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock wins in 2:05:25.320 (255.944 km/h) |
May 29 |
Thomas Bradley elected 1st black mayor of Los Angeles, California |
May 29 |
Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records |
May 30 |
Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup |
May 31 |
Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th run of English cricket season |
Jun 1 |
George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" goes gold |
Jun 1 |
Greek Pres Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" |
Jun 1 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release "Live & Let Die" |
Jun 1 |
Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent |
Jun 2 |
"Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances |
Jun 3 |
"Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances |
Jun 3 |
At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed |
Jun 3 |
Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic |
Jun 4 |
43rd French Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64) |
Jun 4 |
A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. |
Jun 5 |
43rd French Men's Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60) |
Jun 7 |
Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1 |
Jun 8 |
Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain |
Jun 9 |
105th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 2:24, becoming the 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years |
Jun 10 |
19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
Jun 10 |
NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
Jun 11 |
Libya nationalizes Bunker Hunt concession; Nigeria acquires 35 percent participation in Shell-BP concession |
Jun 12 |
Close finish at Trent Bridge, NZ Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440 |
Jun 12 |
Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer |
Jun 12 |
Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry |
Jun 13 |
Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers) |
Jun 14 |
46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe |
Jun 14 |
US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies |
Jun 15 |
"American Graffiti" opens in NYC |
Jun 16 |
Leonid I Brezhnev visit US |
Jun 17 |
1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa |
Jun 17 |
73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA |
Jun 17 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US |
Jun 18 |
NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants |
Jun 19 |
"Rocky Horror Picture Show" stage production opens in London |
Jun 19 |
Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000 |
Jun 20 |
Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout) |
Jun 20 |
Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
Jun 20 |
SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs |
Jun 20 |
Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
Jun 22 |
Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water |
Jun 22 |
George Harrison releases "Living in the Material World" |
Jun 22 |
Skylab 2's astronauts land |
Jun 23 |
"Cyrano" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 49 performances |
Jun 23 |
"Sugar" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 506 performances |
Jun 23 |
Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched |
Jun 23 |
World Court condemns French nuclear tests in the Pacific |
Jun 24 |
Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" |
Jun 24 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
Jun 25 |
John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee |
Jun 25 |
Russian communist party leader Brezhnev visits France |
Jun 25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m |
Jun 26 |
London production of "Grease" premieres |
Jun 26 |
On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. |
Jun 27 |
"Live & Let Die" premieres in US |
Jun 27 |
John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list" |
Jun 27 |
Uruguay suspends constitution |
Jun 27 |
The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état. |
Jun 28 |
Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule |
Jun 28 |
Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected |
Jun 28 |
New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone after France's refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing; NZ Prime Minister Norman Kirk told the crew of the Otago that their Mururoa mission was an 'honourable' one |
Jun 28 |
Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place |
Jun 30 |
"Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour" TV Variety; debut on ABC |
Jun 30 |
Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) |
Jun 30 |
Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse |
Jul 1 |
"Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 perfs |
Jul 1 |
1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61 |
Jul 1 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
Jul 1 |
Tom Bradley becomes the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, the first (and only) African-American to hold that position |
Jul 2 |
James R Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA |
Jul 2 |
Nation Black Network begins operation on radio |
Jul 3 |
Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses |
Jul 3 |
General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA |
Jul 4 |
Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London |
Jul 4 |
CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms |
Jul 4 |
In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" |
Jul 5 |
"Live & Let Die" James Bond film premieres |
Jul 5 |
Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps |
Jul 5 |
Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda following military coup |
Jul 5 |
Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds |
Jul 7 |
78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India) |
Jul 7 |
80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75), 1st all-US women's 1st all-US women's Wimbledon final |
Jul 7 |
87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63) |
Jul 7 |
All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels |
Jul 7 |
Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland) |
Jul 7 |
Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9) |
Jul 7 |
Shoelace Park in the Bronx named |
Jul 8 |
Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker |
Jul 8 |
NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant |
Jul 9 |
9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel |
Jul 10 |
Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution |
Jul 11 |
Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed |
Jul 12 |
A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. |
Jul 13 |
Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0 |
Jul 13 |
Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina |
Jul 14 |
102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
Jul 14 |
Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers |
Jul 15 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0 |
Jul 15 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic |
Jul 15 |
Paul Getty III kidnapped |
Jul 15 |
Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide |
Jul 15 |
Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs |
Jul 16 |
During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes |
Jul 17 |
Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees |
Jul 19 |
Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) |
Jul 20 |
Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ |
Jul 20 |
Chic's Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0 |
Jul 20 |
The US Senate passes the War Powers Act. |
Jul 21 |
Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR |
Jul 21 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific |
Jul 21 |
USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet |
Jul 22 |
28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
Jul 23 |
Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die |
Jul 23 |
Qaboos bin Said Al Said becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman |
Jul 23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 23 |
Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation |
Jul 24 |
44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC |
Jul 24 |
All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants) |
Jul 25 |
George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album |
Jul 25 |
USSR launches Mars 5 |
Jul 26 |
Peter Shaffers "Equus" premieres in London |
Jul 27 |
40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103) |
Jul 27 |
Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
Jul 28 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 28 |
Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer win Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
Jul 28 |
Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched |
Jul 29 |
$180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton |
Jul 29 |
Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy |
Jul 30 |
Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 |
Jul 31 |
ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets |
Jul 31 |
Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later |
Jul 31 |
Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose |
Aug 1 |
H J Witteveen appointed as director of IMF |
Aug 1 |
Munson & Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park |
Aug 2 |
George Brett gets his 1st hit |
Aug 3 |
Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK) |
Aug 3 |
National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections |
Aug 5 |
Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport, kills 3 injures 55 |
Aug 5 |
Atlanta Braves Phil Niekro no-hits SD Padres, 9-0 |
Aug 5 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic |
Aug 5 |
USSR launches Mars 6 |
Aug 6 |
Roberto Clemente & Warren Spahn inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame |
Aug 6 |
Stevie Wonder involved in car crash, goes into a 4 day coma |
Aug 8 |
US vice-president Spiro T Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign. |
Aug 9 |
Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings |
Aug 9 |
USSR launches Mars 7 |
Aug 10 |
1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station |
Aug 12 |
55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve |
Aug 12 |
Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens |
Aug 12 |
WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris |
Aug 14 |
Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts |
Aug 14 |
US ends secret bombing of Cambodia |
Aug 15 |
Black September kills 3 and wounds 55 in Athens |
Aug 15 |
David Storey's "Cromwell" premieres in London |
Aug 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Aug 17 |
Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one |
Aug 17 |
Willie Mays hits 660th & last HR (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati) |
Aug 18 |
Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet |
Aug 18 |
Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record |
Aug 19 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 19 |
Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years |
Aug 19 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open |
Aug 22 |
Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws |
Aug 22 |
Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs |
Aug 23 |
Intelsat communications satellite launched |
Aug 24 |
Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's |
Aug 24 |
John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium |
Aug 25 |
Butch Trucks, drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks a leg in a car crash |
Aug 25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 25 |
Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings |
Aug 25 |
Zambia adopts constitution |
Aug 26 |
David Eisenhower writes his last sports column |
Aug 26 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
Aug 26 |
University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing |
Aug 26 |
10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners |
Aug 28 |
"Monster Mash" goes gold |
Aug 28 |
"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold |
Aug 28 |
6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 |
Aug 28 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 28 |
India & Pakistan sign POW accord |
Aug 28 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 30 |
Danny Seiwell quits Wings |
Aug 31 |
1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman) |
Aug 31 |
PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony |
Sep 1 |
74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
Sep 1 |
George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 1 |
Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies' concessions |
Sep 2 |
Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
Sep 2 |
Netherlands wins hockey world's championship |
Sep 2 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 3 |
General Walters ends term as acting director of CIA |
Sep 3 |
Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 4 |
William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA |
Sep 5 |
"Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances |
Sep 5 |
1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket |
Sep 5 |
Conference of less developed countries approves forming "producers' associations" and calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands |
Sep 6 |
New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed |
Sep 7 |
Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion |
Sep 7 |
Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner |
Sep 8 |
87th US Women's Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
Sep 8 |
Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
Sep 8 |
Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709) |
Sep 8 |
Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974 |
Sep 8 |
"Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV |
Sep 9 |
93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) |
Sep 9 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
Sep 10 |
Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
Sep 10 |
NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis |
Sep 11 |
Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup |
Sep 12 |
2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) |
Sep 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 13 |
ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
Sep 13 |
Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
Sep 13 |
Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea |
Sep 14 |
Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
Sep 14 |
Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
Sep 14 |
Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
Sep 15 |
Dutch Guilder devalued 5% |
Sep 15 |
Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing |
Sep 15 |
Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles |
Sep 15 |
OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually |
Sep 16 |
"Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances |
Sep 16 |
Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13 |
Sep 16 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
Sep 18 |
German FR & German DR admitted to UN |
Sep 19 |
Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden |
Sep 19 |
Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx) |
Sep 19 |
NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC |
Sep 19 |
Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms |
Sep 19 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 20 |
Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match |
Sep 20 |
Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season |
Sep 21 |
Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000 |
Sep 21 |
NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12½ games |
Sep 21 |
Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000 |
Sep 22 |
"Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
Sep 22 |
20th Ryder Cup: US, 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland |
Sep 22 |
Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers |
Sep 22 |
Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State |
Sep 23 |
Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
Sep 23 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open |
Sep 23 |
Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered |
Sep 24 |
Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
Sep 24 |
St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals |
Sep 25 |
3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days |
Sep 25 |
Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium |
Sep 26 |
Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years) |
Sep 26 |
Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors |
Sep 26 |
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington DC to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m). |
Sep 27 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season |
Sep 27 |
Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days) |
Sep 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 28 |
Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train |
Sep 28 |
ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile. |
Sep 29 |
"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33 |
Sep 29 |
"We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1 |
Sep 29 |
Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit) |
Sep 29 |
Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents |
Sep 29 |
Soyuz 12 returns to Earth |
Sep 30 |
3rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 |
Sep 30 |
4th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54 |
Sep 30 |
Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
Sep 30 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open |
Sep 30 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 30 |
Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk resigns as manager |
Oct 1 |
Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager |
Oct 1 |
USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens |
Oct 3 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
Oct 4 |
Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam |
Oct 5 |
Signature of the European Patent Convention. |
Oct 6 |
Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel |
Oct 7 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
Oct 7 |
Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company. |
Oct 8 |
NLCS game 3 brawl between Cins' Pete Rose & NY Met Bud Harrelson |
Oct 8 |
Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece |
Oct 8 |
OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail. |
Oct 9 |
1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 |
Oct 9 |
Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal |
Oct 9 |
Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors |
Oct 10 |
NY Mets beat Cin Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS |
Oct 10 |
US Vice President Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns |
Oct 11 |
Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant |
Oct 12 |
Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria |
Oct 12 |
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina |
Oct 12 |
Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP |
Oct 13 |
Jordan enters Yom Kippur war |
Oct 13 |
Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol" |
Oct 14 |
Egyptian tanks move further into Israel |
Oct 14 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
Oct 14 |
Willie Mays last hit, as Mets beat A's in World Series game 2 A's Mike Andrews makes 2 errors, prompting owner Finley to remove him |
Oct 15 |
7th Country Music Association Award: Roy Clark wins |
Oct 15 |
Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed |
Oct 16 |
Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal |
Oct 16 |
Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize |
Oct 16 |
Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta |
Oct 16 |
Monks Heng Yo & Heng Ju, start 1000 mile SF to Seattle pilgrimage |
Oct 16 |
The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent |
Oct 17 |
OPEC oil ministers agree to use oil weapon in Arab-Israeli War, mandate cut in exports, and recommend embargo against unfriendly states |
Oct 18 |
"Raisin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 847 performances |
Oct 18 |
Congress authorizes bi-centennial quarter, half-dollar & dollar coin |
Oct 18 |
Judd Woldon & Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in NYC |
Oct 18 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief |
Oct 19 |
Ringo releases "Photograph" |
Oct 19 |
Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States |
Oct 20 |
Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz" |
Oct 20 |
OPEC oil embargo begins |
Oct 20 |
President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century |
Oct 20 |
Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House |
Oct 20 |
US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox |
Oct 20 |
Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned |
Oct 20 |
The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Mass |
Oct 21 |
A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series |
Oct 21 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic |
Oct 21 |
Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. |
Oct 22 |
Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon |
Oct 22 |
Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War |
Oct 23 |
Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica |
Oct 23 |
UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
Oct 23 |
Yankee GM & pres Lee MacPhail named AL president |
Oct 23 |
Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands |
Oct 24 |
Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike |
Oct 24 |
John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone |
Oct 24 |
Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
Oct 25 |
Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship |
Oct 25 |
Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock & Vic Harris |
Oct 25 |
SF Giants trade Willie McCovey to SD Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell |
Oct 26 |
Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army |
Oct 26 |
President Nixon released first White House tapes on Watergate scandal |
Oct 26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 26 |
Wings release "Helen Wheels" |
Oct 27 |
1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2 |
Oct 27 |
Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
Oct 28 |
Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) |
Oct 28 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
Oct 30 |
Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award |
Oct 30 |
The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. |
Oct 31 |
Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award |
Oct 31 |
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter |
Nov 1 |
"Molly" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 68 performances |
Nov 1 |
The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu . |
Nov 2 |
"Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV |
Nov 2 |
OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms |
Nov 3 |
Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury |
Nov 4 |
Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou |
Nov 4 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
Nov 4 |
M Medoff's "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" premieres in NYC |
Nov 4 |
New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills |
Nov 4 |
The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters. |
Nov 5 |
BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service |
Nov 5 |
Arab producers announce 25 percent cut in oil production |
Nov 6 |
"Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting |
Nov 6 |
Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC |
Nov 6 |
Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
Nov 7 |
NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league |
Nov 7 |
US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links |
Nov 8 |
Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai |
Nov 9 |
Fire at Taiyo dept store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan) |
Nov 9 |
Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support |
Nov 9 |
Ringo Starr releases "Ringo" album |
Nov 12 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th String Quartet premieres |
Nov 13 |
"Gigi" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 103 performances |
Nov 13 |
Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
Nov 14 |
"Good Evening" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 438 performances |
Nov 14 |
Canada begins production of Olympic coins |
Nov 14 |
Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner |
Nov 15 |
Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war |
Nov 16 |
John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
Nov 16 |
US Presidennt Richard Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline |
Nov 16 |
Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit |
Nov 17 |
Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed |
Nov 17 |
Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse" |
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 |
Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests |
Nov 18 |
Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC |
Nov 19 |
Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair |
Nov 21 |
Pete Rose wins NL MVP |
Nov 21 |
Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate |
Nov 22 |
The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. |
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 24 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
Nov 25 |
3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai |
Nov 25 |
61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18 |
Nov 25 |
Bloodless military coup ousts Greek Pres George Papadopoulos |
Nov 25 |
Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure |
Nov 26 |
Nixon's personal sec, 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 |
Nov 27 |
Neil Simon's "Good Doctor" premieres in NYC |
Nov 27 |
Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as VP |
Nov 27 |
US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls |
Nov 28 |
Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine |
Nov 28 |
Balt Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year |