WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1973
Find out what all happened January to June 1973

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

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

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

President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. (23. January 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)

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. (19. April 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 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 Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia. (2. April 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)

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

The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter. (6. April 1973)

Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. (15. January 1973)

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

Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. (29. March 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)

George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars. (17. April 1973)