Wikipedia: 1973

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January 1 - Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community
January 22 - United States Supreme Court rules on [Roe vs. Wade]?
January 27 - Vietnam War ends with the signing of peace pacts
February 11 - First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place
June 1 - Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic
August 15 - The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
September 11 - Chile's demacratically elected government is overthrown in bloody military coup staged by the United States over state expropriation of copper mines. President [Salvador Allende]? is killed. Dictatorship installed. General [Agusto Pinochet]?
September 15 - Swedens king Gustav VI Adolf dies. [Carl XVI Gustav]? becomes king
October 6 - Fourth and largest Arab-Israeli conflict begins as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israel as Jews mark Yom Kippur.
October 10 - [Spiro T. Agnew]? resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore?, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of [income tax]?es on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
November 11 - Egypt and Israel sign a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire accord
December Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.

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