News
The American Thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat is the first horse to win the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes) in 25 years.
1973 Context: News, Entertainment, Lifestyle
News
The 1973 Roe v. Wade case is a landmark US Supreme Court decision that allows a woman to have an abortion without excessive restrictions.
News
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) places an embargo on oil exports to countries supporting Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The result is gas shortages in the US and Europe leading to long lines at filling stations.
Television
Veteran character actor Telly Savalas plays New York City police detective Theo Kojak on the CBS television action crime drama Kojak, which runs until 1978.
Advertising
Photo detail from a 1973 Volvo advertisement.
1973 Plymouth Ad
Photo detail from a 1973 Plymouth Roadrunner advertisement.
Advertising
Detail from a 1973 MGB advertisement.
Fashion
1973 Ebony Magazine cover Is The Afro On The Way Out?
Lifestyle
1973 photo of boys with a go-cart.
Lifestyle
A couple standing in front of a 1973 Volkswagen Bug.
Lifestyle
Photo of 1973 college students on campus.
Lifestyle
Street scene in Boston, Massachusetts 1973.
Fashion
Fashion photo from a 1973 Seventeen magazine.
Advertising
Photo detail from a 1973 advertisement for Playboy magazine subscriptions.
Fashion
Dexter Shoes advertisement for men's platform shoes.
Fashion
Detail from a menswear magazine advertisement.
Movies
The Exorcist is a hit 1973 horror film starring 12-year-old actress Linda Blair as a girl possessed by the devil.
Movies
Actors Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand star in the 1973 romance film The Way We Were.
Movies
Ryan O'Neal and his 10-year-old daughter Tatum star in the depression era road movie Paper Moon. Tatum O'Neal wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award.
Television
Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of educational short films that begin airing in 1973 during ABC's Saturday morning cartoon block.
News
Members of the Lakota Tribe occupy the village of Wounded Knee on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for 71 days to protest tribal president Richard Wilson and the US Governments failure to honor Native American treaties.
News
55-year-old retired pro tennis player Bobby Riggs challenges the number one female tennis player Billie Jean King to a match to demonstrate the superiority of men's tennis. The match called "The Battle Of The Sexes" is played at the Houston Astrodome and televised nationally, with King winning in straight sets.
News
In January the Paris Peace Accords are signed with an agreement to withdraw all US troops from South Vietnam within 60 days.
News
Nixon administration officials are interviewed in televised Senate hearings from May through August related to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Building.