The New TGIF 2008
| Vol. 4 No. 1 |
www.clarence1973.com |
April 17, 2008 |
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As I was thinking back to 1973 I remembered sitting in a class discussing the Middle East.
While the teacher's name escapes me, she told us that we were living in history, all sorts
of things were happening around us that would be shape our future.
Since then, I'd forgotten that Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1973. And while today we take satellites for
granted, it was 1973 when Canada (of all countries) launched the first commercial satellite. The
first US commercial satellite, Western Union's WESTAR I, wasn't launched until April 1974.
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| Date | Events from history - Spring 1973 |
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| March 23 | Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in U.S. |
| March 24 | Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
| March 26 | 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76 |
| March 30 | Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam |
| April 5 | Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
| April 5 | Iraq has pulled back military forces that crossed the border with Kuwait on March 20 |
| April 10 | Pakistan suspends constitution |
| April 14 | Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal |
| April 20 | Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
| April 30 | Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al |
| May 3 | Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building finished |
| May 5 | 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 |
| May 10 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
| May 14 | Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London |
| May 14 | Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 14 | Skylab launched, 1st Space Station |
| May 17 | Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings |
| May 17 | Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love" |
| May 19 | 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4 |
| May 20 | 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore |
| May 22 | President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up |
| June 3 | At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes |
| June 16 | Leonid I Brezhnev visit U.S. |
| June 20 | Juan Peron returns to Argentina |
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