January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of death January 23, 1973
The temperature on January 23, 1973 was between 0.2 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 22 » A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
May 18 » Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
June 23 » A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
July 13 » Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
August 14 » The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
November 17 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
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