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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 ...
The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War. Produced in 1973 at a cost of £900,000 (equivalent to £13,700,000 in 2023), it was the most expensive factual series ever made at the time. [ 1 ]
Political pressure led to America's withdrawal from the war in 1973, and the Fall of Saigon in 1975 leading to evacuations of South Vietnamese that same year; the 1973 oil crisis causes a financial crisis throughout the developed world; both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; in 1971 ...
The United Nations announced in its report on 1970 world population that the Chinese city of Shanghai, with 10,820,000 residents, was the largest in the world, displacing Japan's capital of Tokyo, which had been at the top of the list with 8,840,942 residents. New York City remained at third place with 7,894,862 in its city limits.
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 Dow" would not break the 1973 peak until almost 10 years later, with a close on November 3, 1982, of 1,065.49. BBC Open University, which had offered degrees to older and working students through distance learning with early morning broadcasts on BBC-2 that started on January 3, 1971, awarded its first diplomas. [58]
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
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