WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened April to November 1973

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

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

The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. (22. November 1973)

The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. (18. September 1973)

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

In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. (14. November 1973)

The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. (17. November 1973)

U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. (16. November 1973)

Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (16. October 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)

Greek military junta of 1967–1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule. (8. October 1973)

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

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

During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tyre failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed. (29. July 1973)

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

"Saturday Night Massacre": President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. (20. October 1973)

George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. (25. November 1973)

Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War. (6. October 1973)

The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD. (8. November 1973)

Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. (24. September 1973)

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