WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1973
Find out what all happened February to August 1973

Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. (22. February 1973)

A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming. (4. April 1973)

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

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

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

Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India. (9. February 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)

The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. (27. February 1973)

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

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

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

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. (19. April 1973)

Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. (15. August 1973)

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

Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. (29. March 1973)

Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. (25. July 1973)

The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated. (4. April 1973)

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