The USA launch its first space station, Skylab.
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23 August 1973
In Stockholm, Sweden a bank robbery that went wrong results in a hostage crisis. The hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the what becomes known as the “Stockholm syndrome”.
29 May 1973
Tom Bradley is elected as the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
17 March 1973
The photograph ‘Burst of Joy’ is taken. It came to symbolize the end of USA involvement in the Vietnam War.
27 January 1973
The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending the Vietnam War.
20 October 1973
The US President, Richard Nixon, fires the US Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuses to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
6 October 1973
20 September 1973
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.
29 July 1973
A referendum in Greece, the people vote to abolish the monarchy.
24 March 1973
Jim Parsons who plays Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory is born.