* 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

* " Immanuel Velikovsky's Catastrophic History ," Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, 25 / 4 ( December 1973 ): 134 – 139.

The Kingman Explosion, also known as the Doxol Disaster or Kingman BLEVE, was a catastrophic boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion ( BLEVE ) that occurred on July 5, 1973 in Kingman.

* Kingman, AZ BLEVE — An account of the 5 July 1973 explosion in Kingman, with photographs

*" The Battle of Epping Forest " ( 1973 ), a song by Genesis, that mentions a hood: " Liquid Len by name, of wine, women and Wandsworth fame "

* Miki Garcia, model and Playboy magazine's Playmate for the January 1973 issue, was born in Kingman.

Significant industrial BLEVEs include accidents at Sunray, Texas in 1956, Glasgow, Scotland in 1960, Feyzin, France in 1966 ; Crescent City, Illinois in 1970 ; Kingman, Arizona in 1973 ; Texas City, Texas in 1978 ; Murdock, Illinois in 1983 ; and San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City in 1984.

In 1973, largely because of the skinny-dipping party scene, the film was banned in Phoenix, Arizona when the city attorney notified a drive-in theater manager that the film violated a state obscenity statute.

* Scott Schoeneweis ( born 1973 ), a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

425th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron Northrop F-5B-50-NO Freedom Fighter 72-0439, Williams AFB, Arizona, 1973.

In 1973, Moreno graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in marketing.

Nonindigenous orccurences of this species in the United States were recorded from Lake Mead on the Colorado River and on the Arizona border ( Minckley 1973 ).

In 1973, while a student at the University of Arizona, his eldest daughter Cheryl was involved in a serious car collision just outside of Tucson, Arizona.

He received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1973 and both a master's degree ( in 1978 ) and PhD ( in 1982 ) in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona.

His son John Bertrand Conlan served as a U. S. Representative from Arizona from 1973 to 1977.

After designation as a Naval Aviator at Beeville, Texas in May 1973, he flew F-4 Phantom aircraft with VF-121 at NAS Miramar, California ; with VF-151 aboard the, permanently homeported in Yokosuka, Japan ; and with the U. S. Air Force in the 426th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, where he served as Weapons and Tactics Instructor.

He graduated from Kenwood High School, Essex, Maryland, in 1973 ; received a bachelor of science degree in basic sciences from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977, and a doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988.

The Tucson Garbage Project is an archaeological and sociological study instituted in 1973 by Dr. William Rathje in the city of Tucson in the Southwestern American state of Arizona.

She joined the law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1971 and became a partner in 1973.

Matusow returned to the United States in 1973, eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona.

He first became known as director of the National Geographic-sponsored Cozumel Archaeological Project ( Harvard / U of Arizona: Feb – June 1973 ) -- which established Cozumel's significance as an Olmec and Mayan port of trade.

With his students at the University of Arizona, Rathje began Le Projet du Garbàge in 1973, sorting waste at Tucson's landfill.

Other promoters have run pylon racing events across the USA and Canada, including races in Las Vegas, NV in 1965, Lancaster, CA in 1965 and 1966, Mojave, California in 1970-71, and 1973-79 ; at Cape May, NJ in 1971, San Diego, CA in 1971, Miami, FL in 1973 and 1979, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1984 ; Hamilton Field, California, in 1988 ; at Dallas, TX in 1990, in Denver, CO in 1990 and 1992, in Kansas City in 1993, in Phoenix, Arizona in 1994 and 1995 ; and in Tunica, Mississippi in 2005.

DeConcini served one elected term as Pima County, Arizona Attorney ( 1973 – 1976 ), the chief prosecutor and civil attorney for the county and school districts within the county.

The 4080th at Laughlin AFB and its successor unit, the 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, would continue to maintain a permanent operating location at McCoy AFB for U-2 detachment operations through 1973.

Prior to his judicial service, Judge Leonardo served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1982 to 1993 and for the Northern District of Indiana from 1973 to 1982, where he also served as the First Assistant United States Attorney from 1978 to 1982.

Chan moved with his family in 1962 from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, then in 1968 to Phoenix, Arizona and later in 1973 to Houston, Texas where his family owned restaurants.

These tortoises, known as the Appleton tortoises in commemoration of Ariel Appleton, a champion of Bolson tortoise conservation, were originally brought to Arizona from Durango, Mexico by Dr. David Morafka in 1973.

They were originally called Arizona Automation from 1969 to 1973 and then changed their name to Mirco in 1974.