WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1973
Find out what all happened April to October 1973

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

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

Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion. (10. October 1973)

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

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

President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. (19. October 1973)

The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado. (27. October 1973)

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

The Sydney Opera House opens. (20. October 1973)

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

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

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture. (19. September 1973)

A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. (2. August 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)

The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile. (28. September 1973)

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

Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (20. September 1973)

Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. (26. September 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)