Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. Date: December 20, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. Date: December 18, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 18 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. Date: December 17, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 17 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
Aeroflot Flight 2022 crashes in the Soviet Union's (now Russia) Volokolamsky District, killing all 51 aboard, including four Lithuanian doctors. Date: December 16, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 16 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Date: December 15, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10. Date: December 15, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 15 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland. Date: December 9, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 9 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.) Date: December 6, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 6 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This…
Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. Date: December 3, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 3 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia. Date: December 1, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 1 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)