Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:01 am
Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched
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A ceasefire is signed, ending involvement of American ground troops in the Vietnam War. (Jan. 2
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US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
Chile's Marxist president, Salvadore Allende, is overthrown (Sept. 11); Gen. Augusto Pinochet takes power.
Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Egypt and Israel sign US-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hikes oil prices tremendously in retaliation for Western countries' involvement in Yom Kippur War.
Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter European Economic Community (Jan. 1).
Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade (Jan. 22).
Vietnam War ends with signing of peace pacts (Jan. 27).
Nixon, on national TV, accepts responsibility, but not blame, for Watergate; accepts resignations of advisers H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, fires John W. Dean III as counsel (April 30).
Greek military junta abolishes monarchy and proclaims republic (June 1). U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).
Fourth and biggest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur, holiest day in their calendar (Oct. 6). Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967, while governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation (Oct. 10).
In the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus; Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigns (Oct. 20).
Egypt and Israel sign U.S.-sponsored cease-fire accord (Nov. 11).
Duke Ellington's autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, is published.
and.....
i turned 11 on May 27th 1973!
Happy Birthday Geno!!!
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:55 pm
Liverpool FC won their first European trophy in 1973 in the UEFA Cup, as well as winning another league title that season.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:46 pm
ON FEBRUARY 11 1973, CCONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLDS LARGEST FREESTANDING STRUCTURE, THE CN TOWER, BEGAN IN TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA!!!
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:05 pm
ON JANUARY 22 1973, GEORGE FOREMAN DEFEATED "SMOKING JOE" FRAZIER FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, DIES IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS!!!
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:48 am
Geno!
In 1973. when you were just one day old, I turned Sweet 16 
Now how is that for some HISTORY! LOL
Thankyou so much for all the good times I have had at CC
Connie
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 4:29 pm
What an educational birthday card, Geno!
I have learned so much reading it!
Hope your birthday is the best ever!
Congratulations, OC, for a WONDERFUL contest idea!!!!! I love it!
THANK YOU, MEMBERS, for so much great and interesting posts!
RoyalCrush
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:08 am
IT was a great year for me cause it was the year i was born, March 14 th 1973
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:49 pm
Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, a massive rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band, attracts over 600,000 music fans!! This happened on July 28th in 1973.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:29 pm
Happy Birthday to you Geno, May it be filled with goodness
in 1973 May 18 Senate Watergate Committee opens public hearings
thanks for contest
GL all
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:53 am
here are a few soccer facts of 1973:
Events
Copa Libertadores 1973: Won by Independiente after defeating Colo Colo on an aggregate score of 2-1.
Sunderland AFC wins the FA Cup final.
May 31 – NAC claims the Dutch Cup by defeating NEC Nijmegen: 2-0.
Winners club national championship
Argentina:
Huracán - Metropolitano
Rosario Central - Nacional
Brazil: Palmeiras
East Germany: Dynamo Dresden
Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam
Poland: Stal Mielec
Turkey: Galatasaray S.K.
West Germany: Bayern München
Ed1974
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:11 am
1974..the starsky and hutch car was born.....LMAO
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