WHAT HAPPENED IN 1973.
Look what happened the 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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. (26. June 1973)

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

Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. (28. June 1973)

A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters. (5. July 1973)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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