WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1973
Find out what all happened March to June 1973

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

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

Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages. (1. 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)

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)

Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles. (24. 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)

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

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

Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. (14. May 1973)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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