WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1973
Find out what all happened April to August 1973

In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. (21. July 1973)

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

Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California. (29. 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 Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'etat, commencing 17 years of military rule. (22. August 1973)

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

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

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

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

Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. (20. June 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)

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

Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in. (13. July 1973)

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

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

Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi. (29. July 1973)

A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. (2. August 1973)

A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89. (31. July 1973)

A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. (3. June 1973)