WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1973
Find out what all happened August to October 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)

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

Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina. (23. September 1973)

Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. (26. September 1973)

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

Signature of the European Patent Convention. (5. October 1973)

John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8. (21. October 1973)

Yom Kippur War ends. (24. October 1973)

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

The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. (23. October 1973)

Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. (8. October 1973)

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

In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. (14. October 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)

OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria. (17. October 1973)

The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect. (14. August 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)

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

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

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