WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened February to November 1973

The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. (17. November 1973)

President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. (19. October 1973)

The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. (23. October 1973)

Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor. (1. November 1973)

A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89. (31. July 1973)

Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India. (1. April 1973)

A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. (10. April 1973)

A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. (23. June 1973)

Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (16. October 1973)

The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. (27. February 1973)

A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria. (23. October 1973)

Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. (16. November 1973)

The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. (6. April 1973)

The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile. (28. September 1973)

In horseracing, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown. (9. June 1973)

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture. (19. September 1973)

Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. (8. October 1973)

Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles. (24. March 1973)

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. (26. June 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. (31. October 1973)

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