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1973 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  May 8, 1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
•  May 25, 1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
•  July 5, 1973 – Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane is being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters.
•  July 10, 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
•  September 19, 1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
•  October 5, 1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
•  October 19, 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
•  October 30, 1973 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.
•  October 31, 1973 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.

•  February 2, 1973 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
•  March 8, 1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player
•  March 21, 1973 – Stuart Nethercott, English footballer
•  April 2, 1973 – Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress
•  April 7, 1973 – Ève Salvail, Canadian model
•  May 17, 1973 – Josh Homme, American musician and songwriter (Queens of the Stone Age)
•  June 12, 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player
•  July 12, 1973 – Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
•  August 12, 1973 – Richard Reid, British terrorist (the “Shoe Bomber”)
•  December 28, 1973 – Herborg Kråkevik, Norwegian singer and actress