Date: December 6, 1973
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard. Date: October 31, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 31 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Aeroflot Flight 109 Hijacked,…
The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. Date: October 30, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 30 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Sydney Opera House Opens…
Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. Date: May 14, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 14 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Leon Jaworski Appointed Watergate Special Prosecutor November 1, 1973Pentagon Papers Charges Dismissed for Ellsberg, Government Misconduct…
President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. Date: October 19, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 19 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973American Indian Movement Occupies Wounded Knee in Protest, February 27, 1973UpStairs…
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon fires White House Counsel John Dean; other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, resign. Date: April 30, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 30 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Sunningdale…
Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. Date: March 29, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 29 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Chile Coup Topples Salvador Allende, Pinochet Seizes…