WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1973
Find out what all happened January to May 1973

Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. (14. January 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)

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

Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. (17. May 1973)

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

The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia. (2. April 1973)

The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. (27. January 1973)

Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service. (2. April 1973)

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

Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. (8. January 1973)

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

Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. (14. May 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)

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

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

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

Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released. (3. April 1973)

Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position. (11. January 1973)

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