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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. This article is about the year 1973. For other uses, see 1973 (disambiguation). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1973 ...
George Foreman wins boxing's World Heavyweight Championship, defeating Joe Frazier by technical knockout in the second round at Kingston, Jamaica. January 23 – President Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
October 6, 1973: Syrian troops invade Israel from the east October 10, 1973: Facing criminal indictment, Spiro Agnew becomes first U.S. Vice President in more than 140 years to resign October 6, 1973: Army of Egypt recaptures the Suez Canal after six years as Yom Kippur War starts with invasion of Israel from the south
All of these—and many more—monumental things happened in 1973, a year that many still reminisce about to this day. ... when the World Trade Center—the tallest building in the world back then ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
Between 1973 and 1981, Saudi Arabia donated a sum worth $1 billion US dollars to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which thus had a budget that exceeded that of many Third World nations. [94] On November 8, 1973, Kissinger became the first Secretary of State to meet with a Saudi leader since 1953 as he met King Faisal to ask him to end the ...
The Northern Ireland Assembly Act received royal assent, allowing the UK government to set up a Northern Ireland Assembly and to attempt power sharing. [13]U.S. President Nixon sent his fourth annual "State of the World" address to Congress and warned the government of North Vietnam that "We will not tolerate violations of the Vietnam agreement" made in the Paris Peace Accords in January, and ...
April 30, 1973: White House policy advisor John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman forced to resign after being implicated in Watergate April 8, 1973: Pablo Picasso, "the most famous artist of his time", [1] [2] [3] dies at the age of 91 April 4, 1973: World Trade Center officially opens in New York City