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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1973!
IN THE NEWS:
- Richard M. Nixon begins his second term as 37th President
- Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns
- Viet Nam War ends
- President Nixon accepts responsibility for Watergate and accepts the resignations of H.R. Haldeman and John D. Erlichman
- President Nixon fires John W. Dean III as counsel
- U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends
- President Nixon fires special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus
- Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigns
- Supreme Court rules in Roe v Wade that abortions may be legally performed throughout the United States
- Former Vice President Spiro Agnew pleads guilty to tax evasion charges in a Baltimore Federal Court and receives three years probation and a $10,000 fine
- The first ETHERNET (local computer network) begins operation
- Gene splicing becomes a reality
- Watergate hearings are televised
- SKYLAB, an orbiting space laboratory, is launched into orbit
- Oakland A’s defeat the NY Mets to win the World Series
- George Forman defeats Joe Frazier for the heavyweight championship
ON THE RADIO:
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- Future Tense
- Hollywood Radio Theater
- Same Time, Same Station
- Superman
- Zero Hour
ON TELEVISION:
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Griff
- Barnaby Jones
- Columbo
- McMillan and Wife
- McCloud
- Police Story
- The Magician
- Kojak
- Love Story
- Adam’s Rib
- Brian Keith Show
- Bob Newhart Show
- Emergency!
FADS & FASHION:
- BIC pens
- Evel Knevel stunt cycles
- Perfection (the game)
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Streaking
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $4,052
- Gasoline: 39 cents per gallon
- House: $35,500
- Bread: 27 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.36 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 8 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $13,622
- Minimum Wage: $1.60 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- The Sting – a dramatic film by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- A Little Night Music – based on the book by Hugh Wheeler, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, choreographed by Harold Prince
PULITZER PRIZES:
- The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty (fiction)
- That Championship Season by Jason Miller (drama)
- People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization by Michael Kammen (history)
- Luce and His Empire by W.A. Swanberg (biography)
- Up Country by Maxine Kumin (poetry)
- Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald (non-fiction)
- Children of Crisis by Robert Coles (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- Henry A. Kissinger, U.S., former United States Secretary of State; and
- Le Duc Tho, North Viet Nam, 1910-1990, joint negotiator of the Viet Nam Peace Accord in 1973 (he declined the prize)
TOP SONGS:
- Let’s Get it On by Marvin Gaye
- Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Photograph by Ringo Starr
