What important events went on in 1973?

Answer 1

Historical Events for January 1973

1st - 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)

1st - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

1st - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

3rd - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million

5th - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel

5th - Netherlands recognizes German DR

6th - "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock

7th - "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances

7th - British Darts Organisation founded in North London

7th - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational

7th - Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again

7th - US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize

7th - WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

8th - "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances

8th - Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG

8th - Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris

8th - USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing

9th - Luna 21 launched, to Moon

10th - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die

New York Yankees Owner George SteinbrennerNew York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner 11th - American League adopts designated hitter rule

11th - Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106

11th - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC

13th - "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances

13th - Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)

14th - Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif

14th - Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins, 14-7 in LA

14th - Tap dancer Roy Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV

14th - Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S

15th - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

15th - Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel

15th - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

15th - Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam

16th - NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"

16th - USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon

17th - City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi

17th - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life

18th - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH

18th - Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak

18th - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC

21st - 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28

21st - Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"

Boxing Champ George ForemanBoxing Champ George Foreman 22nd - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

22nd - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

22nd - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord

23rd - 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago

23rd - Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs

23rd - Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims

23rd - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

24th - Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

26th - Belgium government of Leburton forms

27th - UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)

27th - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft

27th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

27th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr

27th - William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty

28th - "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV

28th - Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont

28th - Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame

28th - Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"

30th - 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers

30th - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts

30th - KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)

Answer 2

There are a variety of important events that took place in 1963. These include the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In addition the Mono Lisa was unveiled in the American National Art Gallery.

Answer 3

Jan 1st - 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75)

Jan 1st - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market

Jan 1st - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

Jan 3rd - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million

Jan 5th - Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel

Jan 5th - Netherlands recognizes German DR

Jan 6th - "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock

Jan 7th - "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 14 performances

Jan 7th - British Darts Organisation founded in North London

Jan 7th - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational

Jan 7th - Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 v Pakistan Never again

Jan 7th - US poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize

Jan 7th - WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

Jan 8th - "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 8 performances

Jan 8th - Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 v Pakistan at SCG

Jan 8th - Secret peace talks between US & North Vietnam resumed near Paris

Jan 8th - USSR launches Luna 21 for Moon landing

Jan 9th - Luna 21 launched, to Moon

Jan 10th - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die

Jan 11th - American League adopts designated hitter rule

Jan 11th - Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106

Jan 11th - Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Wash DC

Jan 13th - "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 8 performances

Jan 13th - Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6)

Jan 14th - Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in Calif

Jan 14th - Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Wash Red Skins, 14-7 in LA

Jan 14th - Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV

Jan 14th - Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S

Jan 15th - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

Jan 15th - Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel

Jan 15th - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

Jan 15th - Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam

Jan 16th - NBC presents 440th & final showing of "Bonanza"

Jan 16th - USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon

Jan 17th - City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi

Jan 17th - New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life

Jan 18th - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH

Jan 18th - Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak

Jan 18th - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC

Jan 21st - 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28

Jan 21st - Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"

Jan 22nd - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

Jan 22nd - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions

Jan 22nd - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord

Jan 23rd - 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago

Jan 23rd - Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs

Jan 23rd - Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims

Jan 23rd - Pres Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

Jan 24th - Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 26th - Belgium govt of Leburton forms

Jan 27th - UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)

Jan 27th - US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft

Jan 27th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

Jan 27th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr

Jan 27th - William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty

Jan 28th - "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV

Jan 28th - Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont

Jan 28th - Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame

Jan 28th - Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"

Jan 30th - 1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)

Jan 30th - 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers

Jan 30th - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts

Jan 30th - KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)

Feb 1st - Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame

Feb 2nd - "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV

Feb 2nd - James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July)

Feb 2nd - Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA

Feb 2nd - Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington

Feb 3rd - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6

Feb 3rd - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

Feb 4th - "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances

Feb 4th - Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game

Feb 4th - Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)

Feb 4th - Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled

Feb 5th - Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted

Feb 5th - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War

Feb 5th - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders

Feb 6th - "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances

Feb 6th - 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution

Feb 6th - 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah

Feb 6th - Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm

Feb 7th - 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

Feb 7th - Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

Feb 8th - Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in NYC

Feb 8th - Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket v NZ

Feb 8th - Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal

Feb 9th - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.

Feb 10th - 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0

Feb 10th - 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die

Feb 10th - Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 v NZ Dunedin

Feb 11th - 1st one-day international for Pakistan & NZ

Feb 11th - 1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)

Feb 11th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic

Feb 11th - Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row

Feb 12th - 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine

Feb 13th - Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in NYC

Feb 13th - US dollar devalues 10%

Feb 15th - Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak

Feb 15th - USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)

Feb 16th - WI v Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers

Feb 17th - Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket

Feb 18th - 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash

Feb 18th - Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2

Feb 18th - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic

Feb 20th - 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins

Feb 21st - Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out

Feb 21st - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108

Feb 22nd - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC

Feb 23rd - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London

Feb 25th - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances

Feb 25th - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

Feb 25th - Steven Sondheim's musical "Little Night Music," premieres in NYC

Feb 26th - Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m

Feb 27th - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

Feb 27th - Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox

Feb 27th - Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee

Feb 27th - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius

Feb 27th - White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract

Feb 28th - Suriname govt of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

Mar 1st - Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens

Mar 1st - Robyn Smith becomes 1st female jockey to win a major race

Mar 2nd - "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum

Mar 3rd - "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances

Mar 3rd - White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000

Mar 4th - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America

Mar 5th - Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives

Mar 6th - In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)

Mar 7th - Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory

Mar 7th - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

Mar 8th - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens

Mar 8th - Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis

Mar 8th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 10th - BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath

Mar 10th - Morocco adopts constitution

Mar 11th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic

Mar 13th - Syria adopts constitution

Mar 13th - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances

Mar 13th - Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC

Mar 14th - Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland

Mar 17th - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge

Mar 17th - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

Mar 18th - "Seesaw" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 296 performances

Mar 18th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

Mar 19th - Dean tells Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"

Mar 20th - Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death

Mar 21st - Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals

Mar 23rd - After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends

Mar 23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 23rd - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US

Mar 24th - Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ

Answer 4

First live performence of Led Zepplins 'Stairway to Heaven'