WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1973
Find out what all happened February to October 1973

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

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

Yom Kippur War ends. (24. October 1973)

Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108. (21. February 1973)

Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. (21. October 1973)

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

Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion. (10. October 1973)

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

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

Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California. (29. May 1973)

Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. (6. October 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)

King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. (17. July 1973)

A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. (12. July 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)

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

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

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. (19. April 1973)

A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. (2. August 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)