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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
April 28 – The last section of the IRT Third Avenue Line from 149th Street to Gun Hill Road in The Bronx is closed. April 30 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that Attorney General Richard Kleindienst has resigned along with staffers H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) ... 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1973 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.
Pages in category "April 1973 events in the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
3 April 1973: Successful Nauka: MOM Low Earth Technology: 9 April 1973: Successful April. 3 April 09:00 Proton-K Baikonur Site 81 Salyut 2 MOM Low Earth Space Station:
1973 in the Vietnam War began with a peace agreement, the Paris Peace Accords, signed by the United States and South Vietnam on one side of the Vietnam War and communist North Vietnam and the insurgent Viet Cong on the other. Although honored in some respects, the peace agreement was violated by both North and South Vietnam as the struggle for ...
6 April – Peter Niesewand, a correspondent of The Guardian newspaper and the BBC, is jailed in Rhodesia for an alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act. 11 April – The House of Commons votes against restoring capital punishment by a margin of 142 votes. 12 April – The Labour Party wins control of the Greater London Council.