Date: May 31, 1973
Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee. Date: July 13, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 13 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Project Tiger Launched at…
The Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Date: March 17, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in…
A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale. Date: June 23, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June…
Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago sign the Treaty of Chaguaramas in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago establishing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It replaces the Caribbean Free Trade Association as another step towards Caribbean regional integration. Date: July 4, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 4 📅 Events on this…
Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record. Date: May 5, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 5 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Tops Billboard Chart, April 28, 1973Primer Congreso…
Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California. Date: May 29, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1973Watergate Trial Begins for Seven Men January 8, 1973Yom Kippur War: Israel Loses…