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1973
Augusto Pinochet
The dictator Augusto Pinochet comes to power through a military coup in Chile .
Destruction in the Syrian city of Kunaitra on the Golan Heights
With the Yom Kippur War , the fourth Arab-Israeli war breaks out in the context of the Middle East conflict.
Oil prices 1861-2007
With a price increase from three to five US dollars per barrel of crude oil and production limits, some OPEC countries trigger the first oil crisis .
Annual dedications
International Year ( United Nations ) -
Bird of the year (Germany) kingfisher
1973 in other calendars
From urbe condita 2726
Armenian calendar 1421-1422
Ethiopian calendar 1965-1966
Badi calendar 129-130
Bengali calendar 1379-1380
Berber calendar 2923
Buddhist calendar 2517
Burmese calendar 1335
Byzantine calendar 7481-7482
Chinese calendar
 - era 4669-4670 or
4609-4610
 - 60 year cycle

Water Rat ( 壬子 , 49) -
Water Cattle ( 癸丑 , 50)

French
revolutionary calendar
CLXXXI - CLXXXII
181-182
Hebrew calendar 5733-5734
Hindu calendar
 - Vikram Sambat 2029-2030
 - Shaka Samvat 1895-1896
Iranian calendar 1351-1352
Islamic calendar 1392-1393
Japanese calendar
 - Nengō (era): Shōwa 48
 - Kōki 2633
Coptic calendar 1689-1690
Korean calendar
 - Dangun era 4306
 - Juche era 62
Minguo calendar 62
Modern Olympics XX
Seleucid calendar 2284-2285
Thai solar calendar 2516

In 1973 the first oil crisis , the Watergate affair , the coup in Chile and the Yom Kippur War determined world affairs.

Events

Annual dedications

Politics and world events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

Gauja National Park

October

OPEC logo
  • October 16 : OPEC decides to raise oil prices by 70%; Beginning of the first major oil crisis .
  • October 20 : Watergate Affair: President Nixon dismisses Special Counsel Cox. In the US Congress, the votes for impeachment are increasing .
  • October 28 : Seven Arab oil countries announce an oil boycott against the USA and the Netherlands.
  • October 30 : The MBFR negotiations between East and West begin in Vienna on a mutual reduction in armed forces and armaments, including related measures, especially in Central Europe.

November

  • November 3 : Foreign Minister Walter Scheel reaches an agreement in Moscow on the question of the representation of Berlin (West) by the Federal Republic of Germany.
R. Nixon speaks with future Vice President G. Ford

December

Day unknown

economy

Bosphorus bridge

science and technology

The World Trade Center in New York City in 2001

Culture

religion

Logo of the YMCA

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .

Disasters

Born

January

February

March

Jim Parsons , 2009
Larry Page , 2009

April

Tine Wittler, 2007
Max Herre , 2013

May

Oliver Neuville (2014)

June

Heidi Klum , 2010

July

Aílton

August

Javier Zanetti (2009)
Sergey Brin , 2005

September

Paul Walker (2009)

October

November

Bernd Schneider (2006)

December

Day unknown

Died

January

Lyndon B. Johnson († January 22)

February

Hans Jensen, 1963

March

Noël Coward († March 26)

April

Pablo Picasso († April 8)

May

June

July


August

Walter Ulbricht († August 1)
John Ford († August 31)

September

JRR Tolkien , 1916
Gustaf VI. Adolf

October

Paavo Nurmi († October 2)
Pau Casals († October 22)

November

December

David Ben-Gurion († December 1)

Day unknown

Nobel Prizes

music

Movie

Web links

Commons : 1973  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. zeit.de
  2. ^ 3sat: Martin Cooper - The inventor of the cell phone