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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 ...
Events from the year 1973 in the United States. The year saw a number of important historical events in the country, including the death of former President Lyndon B. Johnson , the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Roe v.
The Wounded Knee Occupation, also known as Second Wounded Knee, began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota (sometimes referred to as Oglala Sioux) and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, United States, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. West Texas Intermediate oil price history from 1950–2000, adjusted for inflation (1947 prices) In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against countries that had supported Israel at any point during the ...
1 March Dick Taverne, having resigned from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on leaving the Labour Party, is re-elected as a 'Democratic Labour' candidate.; Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark and bestselling albums, is released in the UK.
June 7, 1973: Astronauts Joseph P. Kerwin and Pete Conrad are flung off Skylab's hull when the stuck solar panel releases; their EVA umbilicals keep them from drifting into space. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] June 18, 1973: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev meets with and U.S. President Richard Nixon at the White House (pictured, interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev
February 12, 1973: First repatriation of Vietnam prisoners of war begins (pictured, U.S. POWs Captain Jeremiah Denton and Captain James Mulligan, released after more than six years captivity) February 28, 1973: Liam Cosgrave leads upset over Jack Lynch's Fianna Fáil party in elections requested by Lynch