* 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

* 1973 – Donnie Edwards, American football player

* 1973 – Randall Godfrey, American football player

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and model

* 1973 – Sun Wen, Chinese footballer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1973 – Claudia Jordan, American model

* 1973 – Christina Moore, American actress

* 1973 – Antonio Osuna, Mexican baseball player

* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Jeff Timmons, American singer and producer ( 98 Degrees )

* 1973 – Kinna McInroe, American actress

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1973 – Jazz, American wrestler

* 1973 – Cory Bowles, Canadian actor and choreographer

* 1973 – Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer

* 1973 – Dietmar Hamann, German footballer

* 1973 – Burak Kut, Turkish singer-songwriter

* 1973 – Johan Norberg, Swedish author

* 1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress

* 1973 – Monica Goodling, American lawyer

* 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster

Years later, Fawcett ironically sold the rights for Captain Marvel to DC — which in 1973 revived Captain Marvel in the new title Shazam!

* 1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

The group performed under several names, most frequently " Captain Trundlow's Sky Company " or " Skyco ", before selecting the band name " Squeeze " as a facetious tribute to The Velvet Underground's oft-derided 1973 album " Squeeze ".

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Then in 1973 he was the initial artist for DC Comics ' revival of Captain Marvel, titled Shazam!

* " Ukiah " is the name and subject of a song on the 1973 Doobie Brothers album The Captain and Me.

* Omar Sharif played Captain Nemo in La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo ( 1973 ).

Stanshall collaborated on numerous musical projects including Robert Calvert's 1974 concept album Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters, and Mike Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells where he played the Master of Ceremonies, breathily announcing the buildup of instruments in the finale of the first side of the album.

Whitman appeared in an episode of the TV series Ghost Story (" The Concrete Captain ," c. 1973 ), an example of his fine acting skill.

A string of hits followed, including Johnston's " Long Train Runnin '" and " China Grove ", from the 1973 album The Captain and Me.

Jarvis joined the United States Air Force the same year and served until 1973, when he was honorably discharged as a Captain.

After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1973, with the rank of Captain, he joined the Hughes Aircraft Company's Space and Communications group, where he worked as a Communications Subsystem Engineer on the MARISAT Program.

In 1973, the Governor of Bermuda, Sir Richard Sharples, and his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers, were murdered on the grounds of Government House.

Deeply troubled by the conflict between his pacifism and his training for war, he spoke at length with his company commander, Captain Edward Courtney Bullock Danforth ( 1894 – 1973 ) of Augusta, Georgia and his battalion commander, Major Gonzalo Edward Buxton ( 1880 – 1949 ) of Providence, Rhode Island, a devout Christian himself.

* 1973: De kleine kapitein in het land van Waan en Wijs, translated as The little Captain and the Seven Towers ( 1973, J. M. Dent )

* American comic book super hero Captain Marvel from Fawcett Comics, after having been cancelled in 1953, was given a story where he ( and most of his friends and his arch foes ) was trapped in suspended animation for 20 years to explain his revival in 1973 by DC Comics.

* 14 July 1973: While performing a practice airshow at Moose Jaw, Captain Carl Stef ejected from his aircraft after a bird strike caused an engine compressor stall.

Sebastian was a rear gunner during World War II in the Royal Canadian Air Force, voluntary Captain in the Scottish Army, local physician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ( Prince Charles ), when His Highness visited St. Kitts in 1973 ( the Prince of Wales visited the island to open the newly-restored Prince of Wales Bastion, 1 June ).

* Captain Marvel # 25-34 ( full art ); # 36 ( 3-pages only ) ( writer / artist, 1973 – 74 )

* Captain America # 162 ( Marvel Comics, 1973 )

His son Edward George Godolphin Hastings ( 1887 – 1973 ) was a Captain in the Royal Navy.

In 1973, a biographer paid for a new headstone with the words, John Porteous, a Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, murdered 7 September 1736-All passion spent.