WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1973
Find out what all happened January to July 1973

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned. (30. April 1973)

Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Ireland are admitted into the European Economic Community. (1. January 1973)

The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission. (22. January 1973)

During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tyre failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. (29. July 1973)

The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. (10. July 1973)

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

Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. (11. July 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. (8. May 1973)

National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. (10. July 1973)

A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176. (22. January 1973)

Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. (29. March 1973)

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

A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming. (4. April 1973)

Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in. (13. July 1973)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family. (17. March 1973)

A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland. (23. January 1973)

Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft. (6. April 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)

John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. (10. July 1973)

In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law. (21. June 1973)