WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened May to September 1973

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

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)

Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. (8. August 1973)

A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990. (11. September 1973)

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

A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States. (12. July 1973)

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

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. (28. July 1973)

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

HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece. (25. May 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)

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)

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)

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

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)