WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1973
Find out what all happened May to November 1973

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

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

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

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

The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu. (1. November 1973)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura. (2. November 1973)

Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. (28. June 1973)

Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record. (5. May 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)

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 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)

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months. (24. November 1973)

A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters. (5. July 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)

Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard. (31. October 1973)

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

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

Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (16. October 1973)

The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters. (4. November 1973)