* 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

* Agatha Christie: play, Akhnaton ( written in 1937, published by Dodd, Mead and Company York, 1973, ISBN 0-396-06822-7 ; Collins, 1973, ISBN 0-00-211038-5 )

Christie also starred in The Go-Between ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Demon Seed ( 1977 ).

The last Marple novel Christie wrote, Nemesis, was published in 1971, followed by Christie's last Poirot novel Elephants Can Remember in 1972 and then in 1973 by her very last novel Postern of Fate.

Director Nicolas Roeg's edgy, puzzling and macabre Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), a tale of despair in Venice, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as a couple grieving the drowning death of their daughter.

Their other appearances were in Partners in Crime, a 1929 collection of short stories ( each reminiscent of another writer's work ); N or M ?, a 1941 espionage novel ; By the Pricking of My Thumbs ( published in 1968 ); and Postern of Fate in 1973, the last novel Christie ever wrote ( although not the last to be published ).

Jeff Christie kept the group's name alive well into 1973 with replacement members, and cut songs for Mercury Records in the mid 1970s — he kept using the group name as an alias on material recorded for the Epic and Wizard, and took back his full name for records on the RK label in the 1980s.

Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( 1965 / 66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley ), W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick ( 1970 ), Relative Values ( Noël Coward revival, 1973 ), and the thrillers Spider's Web ( 1955, written for her by Agatha Christie ), Signpost to Murder ( 1962 ), and Double Edge ( 1975 ).

Christie Mary Clark ( born December 13, 1973 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carrie Brady on Days of our Lives ( 1986 – 1990, 1992 – 1999, 2005 – 2006, 2010, 2011 -).

* The Shrike, a character in Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry ( 1973 ), a novel by experimental English writer B. S. Johnson

* Abberline was played by Gordon Christie in the 1973 TV miniseries Jack the Ripper.

Christie also referenced the poem in naming her final written work, Postern of Fate ( 1973 ).

Christie died in Europe in September, 1973.

Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

In 1973 Elmes left Christie and followed a solo career that brought him other success.

* 1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player

Many examples are reproduced in Dennis Rickard's The Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith ( Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1973 ).

Special Clark Ashton Smith issue, 96 pp. ( 1973 )

* Richard C. Clark, former United States Senator from Iowa, 1973 – 1979

On May 2, 1973, at about 12: 45 a. m., Assata Shakur, along with Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ), was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick by State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle ( Car 820 ), for driving with a broken tail light.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

Clark married Maureen McTeer in 1973, while she was still a law student.

By 1973 over 200 " covers " had been recorded of Norman's songs, including by Cliff Richard, Jack Jones, Petula Clark, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pat Boone, The Imperials, and The Oak Ridge Boys.

East Brunswick was also the site of the gunfight at Turnpike Exit 9 shortly after midnight on May 2, 1973, in which a car being driven by Zayd Malik Shakur ( born James F. Costan ), with Assata Shakur ( formerly JoAnne Chesimard ) and Sundiata Acoli ( born Clark Squire ) as passengers, was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle.

The 523d replaced the squadron at Clark beginning on 23 November 1965, not returning to Cannon until 31 August 1973.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

He demanded his friend Clark Olofsson to be brought there, along with 3 million Swedish Kronor ($ 730, 000 US 1973 value ), two guns, bullet-proof vests, helmets, and a fast car.

* James Clark ( shinty ) ( born 1973 ), shinty player from Invergarry, Scotland

* Clark, Timothy J., Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 ); ( Originally published 1973.

After opening a series of shows for Roy Clark, the Oak Ridge Boys moved in 1973 to the Columbia label, for whom they made three albums and several singles.

The fourth president at Binghamton was Clifford D. Clark, who left his position as dean of the Business school at the University of Kansas to serve as vice president for academic affairs at Binghamton in 1973, but quickly was asked to take on the job of acting president in the fall of 1974 when Magrath left for Minnesota.

* Joe Venuti / Zoot Sims-Joe & Zoot & More ( 1973 ) w Spencer Clark on bass saxophone, Milt Hinton and Bucky Pizzarelli

In 1973, whilst at university, he married fellow student Rosalind Retey, who died of cancer at age 26 in 1979 ; Benn subsequently married Sally Christina Clark in 1982.

* Mike Clark, 1973 – 1978

* A History of the Duck River Baptists, by Forrest Shelton Clark in The Quarterly Review, January-March 1973

Richard Clarence " Dick " Clark ( born September 14, 1928 ) represented the state of Iowa in the United States Senate from 1973 to 1979.

Dick Clark is the host most commonly associated with the show, having hosted every incarnation from 1973 – 1988, save for a 1974 – 1979 syndicated version, The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, hosted by Bill Cullen.

The $ 10, 000 Pyramid, with host Dick Clark, made its network debut on March 26, 1973 and was a ratings hit, sustaining its ratings even when episodes were delayed or preempted by the Watergate hearings.

The American Music Awards is an annual American music awards show, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to present the Grammy Awards expired.