Title: 1973 Content: 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was . == Events == * January 1 – United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 22 – Supreme Court of the United States rules on Roe v. Wade. * January 22 – George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier for the heavyweight world boxing championship. * January 23 – Eruption in Heimaey begins. * January 23 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. * January 27 – U.S. involvement in Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts. See Paris Peace Accords. * April 3 – The World Trade Center opens in New York City. * September 11 – Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile, in a coup, in which President Salvador Allende dies. * September 15 – Ascension to the throne of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden * The rock group KISS form in New York City. * Homosexuality is no longer considered a mental disorder. *Japans first video game, Elepong is produced == Births == * January 8 – Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer * January 22 – Rogério Ceni, brazilian football player * February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian Aborigine athlete * March 22 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater * April 8 – Emma Caulfield, American actress * April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor * April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler * May 24 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer * June 10 – Faith Evans, American singer * June 26 – Gretchen Wilson, American singer * July 15 – John Dolmayan, Armenian-American drummer (System of a Down) * July 23 – Monica Lewinsky, White House member of staff under Bill Clinton * July 30 – Markus Näslund, Swedish hockey player * August 7 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand disc jockey and television presenter * September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer * September 18 – Mark Shuttleworth, South African businessman * October 22 – Ichiro Suzuki, Professional baseball player for the Seattle Mariners * October 28 – Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler * October 30 – Adam Copeland, Canadian professional wrestler * October 31 - Beverly Lynne, American actress * November 6 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor * November 17 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer * November 30 – Kate Fischer, Australian actress and model * December 3 – Holly Marie Combs, American actress == Deaths == === January === * January 20 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924) * January 22 – Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908) === February === * February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (b. 1907) === March === === April === * April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881) * April 21 – Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) * April 25 – Frank Jack Fletcher, US Navy admiral during World War II (b. 1885) * April 25 – Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884) === May === * May 6 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor (b. 1893) === June === === July === * July 2 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916) * July 7 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895) * July 7 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (b. 1922) * June 13 – Viriato Clemente da Cruz, Angolan poet and politician (b. 1928) * July 20 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor and martial artist (b. 1940) *July 25 – Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882) === August === * August 1 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893) * August 4 – Eddie Condon, American jazz guitarist (b. 1904) * August 6 – Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba (b. 1901) * August 12 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881) * August 12 Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898) * August 31 – John Ford, American movie director (b. 1894) === September === * September 2 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer (b. 1892) * September 11 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908) * September 15 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer (b. 1932) * September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904) * September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908) * September 29 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet (b. 1907) === October === * October 2 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish athlete (b. 1897) * October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (b. 1932) * October 25 - Robert Scholl, German politician (b. 1891) * October 25 - Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928) === November === === December === * December 1 – David Ben- Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886) * December 20 – Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936) * December 25 – İsmet İnönü, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884) == Movies released == * American Graffiti * Enter the Dragon * Magnum Force * Last Tango in Paris * Papilon * The Exorcist * The Sting == Hit songs == * "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Roberta Flack * "Radar Love" – Golden Earring * "Smoke on the Water" – Deep Purple * "You're So Vain" – Carly Simon * "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" – Jim Croce * "Crocodile Rock" – Elton John * "Delta Dawn" – Helen Reddy * "D'yer Mak'er" – Led Zeppelin * "Frankenstein" – The Edgar Winter Group * "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" – Elton John * "Half Breed" – Cher * "Higher Ground" – Stevie Wonder * "Keep On Truckin' " – Eddie Kendricks * "Kodachrome" – Paul Simon * "Let's Get It On" – Marvin Gaye * "Live and Let Die" – Paul McCartney and Wings * "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" – ABBA * "Loves Me Like a Rock" – Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds) * "Me and Mrs. Jones" – Billy Paul * "Midnight Train to Georgia" – Gladys Knight * "Morning After"- Maureen McGovern * "My Love" – Paul McCartney and Wings * "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" – Vicki Lawrence * "Over the Hills and Far Away" – Led Zeppelin * "Photograph" – Ringo Starr * "Ramblin' Man" – Allman Brothers Band * "Ring Ring" – ABBA * "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" – Elton John * "Superstition" – Stevie Wonder * "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" – Paul Simon * "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin * "Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" – Tony Orlando & Dawn * "Top of the World" – Carpenters * "Touch Me in the Morning" – Diana Ross * "Why Me" – Kris Kristofferson * "Will It Go Around in Circles" – Billy Preston