1973 Events

1973 AC/DC is formed
AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy me...
1973 "Ashani Sanket" Is Released
Distant Thunder (Ashani Sanket) is a 1973 Bengali film by the renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray, based on the novel by the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay Unlike most of Ray'...
1973 "Bang The Drum Slowly" Is Released
Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the U.S. Steel Hour with Paul Newman and...
1973 Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard University
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[18] and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973.[19] Prior to the mid-1990s, an SA...
1973 Castle & Cooke Becomes Leader in North American Banana Market
Castle & Cooke develop two large banana plantations on the coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Castle & Cooke banana operations become the leader in the North American market.
1973 'Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?' is Published
How can a wise, older man perched on a cactus not have perils of wisdom to offer readers about the value of life, liberty, and opportunity? Page after page asks readers to look at bad sit...
1973 Donald J. Kirchoff Becomes President of Castle & Cooke
Donald J. Kirchoff becomes president of Castle & Cooke.
1973 Empire is Written for the PLATO System
In reviewing how other early game designers describe their firsts, the innovations they initiated, I felt it important to keep my descriptions accurate and written with humility. First...
1973 Funkadelic releases Cosmic Slop
Cosmic Slop is a the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in 1973 on Westbound Records. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album...
1973
to 1975
George W. Bush Attends Harvard Business School
Beginning in the fall of 1973, Bush attended the Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA. He is the only U.S. President to have earned an MBA.
1973 Karen Marley is born
Karen Marley, second daughter of Bob Marley, was born in England in 1973 but grew up in Jamaica. Karen has always had a passion for fashion and interior design influenced by her great gra...
1973 Maya Angelou marries Paul du Feu
In 1973, Angelou married Paul du Feu, a British-born carpenter and remodeler, and moved to Sonoma, California with him. The years to follow were some of Angelou's most productive years as...
1973 Nissan Caravan is First Produced
The Nissan Caravan is a van designed by Nissan for use as a fleet vehicle or cargo van. Outside Japan the car was sold as either Nissan Urvan or Homy. Several configurations of this van a...
1973
to 1974
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Animated Series (also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek) is an animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe and a...
1973 Sydney Opera House Completed
"There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout th..." —Pritzker Prize
1973 'The Shape of Me and Other Stuff' is Published
Using silhouettes for illustrations, Dr. Seuss offers an entertaining lesson in learning shapes with this book. By asking young readers to consider the shapes of beans, grapes, elephants,...
1973 Jan
to 1973 Mar
The Bee Gees release Life in a Tin Can
Life in a Tin Can is the Bee Gees' eleventh studio album (ninth worldwide), released in January 1973. The Bee Gees moved their base of operations from England to Los Angeles to record Lif...
1973 Jan United States Negotiates Release of POW's from North Vietnam through Operation Homecoming
Operation Homecoming was a series of diplomatic negotiations that in January 1973 made possible the return of 591 American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam. On Feb. 12, 1973, three ...
1973 Jan 3
to 2009 Jan 20
 Joe Biden serves as US Senator
When Biden did take office on January 3, 1973, at age 30 (the minimum age to become a U.S. Senator), he became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. In 1974, freshman Senator Biden ...
1973 Jan 9 Sean Paul Is Born
Sean Paul was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and spent his early years "comfortably" in Upper Saint Andrew Parish, a few miles north of his birthplace. His parents, Garth and Frances, were bo...
1973 Jan 13 Aerosmith releases self-titled debut album
Aerosmith is the self-titled debut album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1973.
1973 Jan 14 Super Bowl VII - Dolphins 14, Redskins 7
Super Bowl VII was an American football game played on January 14, 1973, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, to decide the National Football League (NFL) cham...
1973 Jan 18 George H.W. Bush Serves as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Amidst the Watergate scandal, Nixon asked Bush to become chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973. Bush accepted, and held this position when the popularity of both Nixon and...
1973 Jan 20 Richard Nixon's second inauguration
The election of 1972 consolidated the gains that the President had made with the electorate in 1968. Although the Democratic Party maintained majorities in the Congress, the presidential...
1973 Jan 22 President Lyndon B. Johnson Dies
Lyndon Baines Johnson died at his ranch at 4:39 p.m. on January 22, 1973 at age 64, from a third myocardial infarction (heart attack). His death came two days after Nixon's second Inaugur...
1973 Jan 22 Supreme Court Issues its Decision on Roe v Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), a landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion, is one of the most controversial and politically significant cases i...
1973 Jan 26 Deep Purple release Who Do We Think We Are
Who Do We Think We Are is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded in Rome (in July 1972) and Frankfurt (October 1972) using the Rolling Stones Mobil...
1973 Jan 27 Signing of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam as Part of the Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973, intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam Conflict, ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting bet...
1973 Jan 30 First Kiss performance
The first Kiss performance was on January 30, 1973, for an audience of three at the Popcorn Club (renamed Coventry shortly afterward) in Queens. In March of that year, the band recorded a...
1973 Feb Blue Öyster Cult releases Tyranny and Mutation
Tyranny and Mutation (On the album cover: THE BLVE ÖYSTER CVLT: TYRANNY AND MVTATION) was the second album by hard rock band, Blue Öyster Cult, released in 1973.
1973 Feb 5 Boston College defeats Northeastern, 9-8
1973 Feb 5 Boston University defeats Harvard, 8-3
1973 Feb 7 "Last Tango In Paris" Is Released
Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo Tango a Parigi) is a 1973 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci which portrays a recent American widower who takes up an anonymous sexual relat...
1973 Feb 12 Boston University defeats Boston College, 4-1
1973 Feb 12 First "Hanoi Taxi" Flight to Retrieve American POW's through Operation Homecoming
Hanoi Taxi is a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter strategic airlift aircraft (serial number 66-0177) that was in service with the United States Air Force and became famous for bringing back the f...
1973 Feb 12 Harvard defeats Northeastern, 8-5
1973 Feb 25 Alice Cooper releases Billion Dollar Babies
Billion Dollar Babies is an album by American hard rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1973. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number o...
1973 Feb 28 'Gravity's Rainbow' is Published
And now Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge ...
1973 Mar 7 "The Long Goodbye" Is Released
The Long Goodbye (1973), directed by Robert Altman, is a contemporary film noir adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s elegiac novel The Long Goodbye (1953), the screenplay is by Leigh Brackett...
1973 Mar 8 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Dies
Ronald C. "Pigpen" McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973) was a founding member of the band the Grateful Dead. His musical contributions to the Grateful Dead included vocals, Hammon...
1973 Mar 10 Pink Floyd releases The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd. Released in March 1973, the album built on the ideas Pink Floyd had explored in their live shows...
1973 Mar 26 UCLA Beats Memphis State in Final Four
The 1973 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA University Division (the prede...
1973 Mar 27 45th Academy Awards
The 45th Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, an...
1973 Mar 28 Led Zeppelin releases Houses of the Holy
Houses of the Holy is the fifth album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on 28 March 1973. The album title is a dedication by the band to their fans who appea...
1973 Mar 30 Adam Goldstein, Better Known as DJ AM, is Born in Philadelphia
"I was probably destined to be a drug addict. I grew up in Philadelphia with a father who seemed to hate me: The verbal abuse he subjected me to was unbelievably cruel. I would find out la..." —Adam Goldstein
1973 Apr 5
to 1973 Apr 9
 Tommy Aaron wins the 37th Masters Tournament
With a first-round 68, Tommy Aaron took the lead in the 1973 Masters. With middling middle rounds, he lost the lead. But with another 68 in the final round, Aaron reclaimed the lead and t...
1973 Apr 9
to 1973 Apr 10
 Israeli raid on Lebanon: Operation Spring of Youth
The 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon (code-named Operation Spring of Youth) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973 when Israel Defense Forces special forces un...
1973 Apr 11 "Scenes From A Marriage" Is Released
Scenes from a Marriage (Swedish: Scener ur ett äktenskap) is a 1973 Swedish film and mini-series written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The story follows the relationship between Mariann...
1973 Apr 13 David Bowie releases Aladdin Sane
Aladdin Sane is an album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973 (see 1973 in music). The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Ma...
1973 Apr 17 Bangladesh Tornado of 1973
In one of the worst tornado tragedies to hit Bangladesh, 681 people were killed in the Manikganj subdivision of Dhaka district on 17 April 1973. The details of this tornado were provided ...