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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.
•  April 4, 1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
•  June 26, 1973 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
•  October 14, 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
•  October 20, 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
•  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.
•  November 1, 1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
•  November 8, 1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
•  November 24, 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
•  December 6, 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).

•  February 16, 1973 – Maureen Johnson, American author
•  April 1, 1973 – Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer
•  May 12, 1973 – Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress
•  June 12, 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
•  July 12, 1973 – Magoo, American rapper
•  August 15, 1973 – Adnan Sami, British-born Pakastani music composer and singer
•  August 30, 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
•  September 13, 1973 – Mahima Chaudhry, Indian actress
•  December 27, 1973 – Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer