WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened March to September 1973

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

Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. (20. June 1973)

Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. (29. July 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)

Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed. (11. May 1973)

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

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

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

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (20. September 1973)

The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship. (27. June 1973)

A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome". (23. August 1973)

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

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

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

Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. (24. September 1973)

The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. (18. September 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)

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)