Major Stories 

January 20: President Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.

January 22: All state laws preventing a woman's right to an abortion during the first three months are ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

January 23: A cease-fire agreement between the U.S. and Vietnam is announced in Paris.

January 27: The cease-fire agreement is signed and the military draft ends in the United States.

February 12: The first U.S. prisoners of war are handed over near Hanoi.

February 14: The first returning U.S. POWs land at Travis Air Force Base in California.

April 8: Spanish artist Pablo Picasso dies at age 91.

April 30: Nixon henchmen H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign while Nixon fires John Dean as White House consel.

May 7: Thanks to the Watergate efforts of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post wins a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

May 17: Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate hearings begin.

June 9: Secretariat becomes the first horse since 1948 to win the Triple Crown.

July 16: The White House admits that recording equipment has been used to tape virtually all presidential meetings.

August 22: Henry Kissinger is named U.S. secretary of state.

September 11: Chilean President Salvador Allende is killed in a coup.

September 18: The United Nations accepts East and West Germany as member nations.

October 6: A war between Israel and both Egypt along the Suez Canal and Syria along the Golan Heights begins.

October 10: Spiro Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States after pleading nolo contendere to a count of tax-evasion.

October 17: OPEC begins its oil embargo against the West.

October 24: Their militaries demoralized and decimated, Egypt and Syria accept a United Nations cease-fire agreement ending the 2nd Arab-Israeli war.

December 3: The first close-up color photos of Jupiter are transferred from Pioneer 10.

December 6: Confirmed by the Senate, Gerald R. Ford becomes the first unelected vice-president of the United States.

# 1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree- Tony Orlando & Dawn
# 2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown- Jim Croce
# 3. Killing Me Softly With His Song- Roberta Flack
# 4. Let's Get It On- Marvin Gaye
# 5. My Love- Paul McCartney & Wings
# 6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson
# 7. Crocodile Rock- Elton John
# 8. Will It Go Round In Circles- Billy Preston
# 9. You're So Vain- Carly Simon
# 10. Touch Me In The Morning- Diana Ross
# 11. The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia- Vicki Lawrence
# 12. Playground In My Mind- Clint Holmes
# 13. Brother Louie- Stories
# 14. Delta Dawn- Helen Reddy
# 15. Me And Mrs. Jones- Billy Paul
# 16. Frankenstein- Edgar Winter Group
# 17. Drift Away- Dobie Gray
# 18. Little Willy- Sweet
# 19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life- Stevie Wonder
# 20. Half Breed- Cheer  

Movies

The Poseidon Adventure was the runaway winner at the box office while The Sting won Best Picture at the Oscars.  Other notable movies of 1973 include

American Graffiti

Badlands

The Day of the Jackal

Enter the Dragon

The Exorcist

Live and Let Die

Mean Streets

Paper Moon

Save the Tiger

Serpico

The Getaway

The Last Detail