WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened January to November 1973

Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. (14. January 1973)

Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. (6. April 1973)

Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. (11. February 1973)

In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. (21. July 1973)

Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record. (5. May 1973)

George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars. (17. April 1973)

Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. (17. May 1973)

Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. (16. July 1973)

The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. (7. November 1973)

Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. (8. January 1973)

Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. (15. January 1973)

The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War. (31. May 1973)

Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. (22. February 1973)

A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. (3. June 1973)

Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India. (9. February 1973)

Juan PerĂ³n returns to power in Argentina. (23. September 1973)

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

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

The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. (22. November 1973)

President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. (23. January 1973)

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