GNP History
The Year: 1973

What was going on in 1973:
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.

Albums you might have been listening to in 1973:
Al Green - Call Me
Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters
Bee Gees - Life in a Tin Can
Bill Monroe - Bean Blossom
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin'
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Carpenters - Now and Then
Chicago - VI
Eagles - Desperado
Elton John - Don't Shoot I'm Only the Piano Player
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Gram Parsons - GP and Grievous Angel
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Jimmy Cliff - The Hard they Come
John Cale - Paris 1919
John Prine - Sweet Revenge
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On
Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There
Paul McCartney & Wings - Red Rose Speedway
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band On The Run
Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
Sly & The Family Stone - Fresh Spinners
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
The Who - Quadrophenia
Tom Waits - Closing Time

What you went to the movies to see: 
Poseidon Adventure was the winner at the box office.  The Sting won Best Picture at the Oscars.
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

What you were watching on TV:
The Rookies
Monday Night Football
Gunsmoke
Lucy Show
Doris Day Show
New Bill Cosby Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Temperatures Rising
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Maude
Hawaii Five-O
Bonanza
New Doctors / Bold Ones
Paul Lynde Show
Julie Andrews Hour
Carol Burnett Show
Medical Center
Cannon
Adam 12
Madigan / Cool Million / Banacek
Mod Squad
Owen Marshall
Waltons
Flip Wilson Show
Ironside
Dean Martin Show
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Room 222
Odd Couple
Love, American Style
Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Sanford & Son
Banyon
Alias Smith & Jones
Streets of San Francisco
The Sixth Sense
All in the Family
Bridget Loves Bernie
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart Show
Mission: Impossible
Emergency!
The FBI
M*A*S*H*
Sandy Duncan Show
New Dick Van Dyke Show
Mannix
Wonderful World of Disney
Hec Ramsey / McCloud / Columbo / McMillan & Wife
Night Gallery
Shaft
The Magician
Police Story
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Kojak
Faraday and Company / Madigan / Snoop Sisters / Tenafly
Love Story
Toma
Kung Fu
Girl with Something Extra
Brian Keith Show
New Adventures of Perry Mason
Barnaby Jones

Thanks to super70s.com