1973
From top to bottom, left to right: the 1973 oil crisis begins after an OPEC embargo; the Yom Kippur War erupts as Egypt and Syria attack Israel; the 1973 Chilean coup d'état ousts Salvador Allende and installs Augusto Pinochet; the Saturday Night Massacre deepens the Watergate scandal under Richard Nixon; the Paris Peace Accords end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War; Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion nationwide; the 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon escalates regional conflict; the Athens Polytechnic uprising is violently suppressed; and Skylab launches as the first U.S. space station.
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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.