* 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 – 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

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

* 1973, he was appointed a Grand Cordon First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun

As the sport quickly evolved, hot-shot mogul skiers like John Clendenin, Scott Brooksbank, Bill O ' Leary and " Airborne " Eddie Ferguson gave rise to the sport and in 1973, Sun Valley, Idaho hosted the first U. S. Freestyle Championships which John Clendenin went on to win.

The Japanese appointed conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun in 1973.

", 1973 ; " Sitting in the Midday Sun ", 1973 ).

Janss ' wife Ann, age 54, died in 1973 while helicopter skiing near Sun Valley.

Pioneers 10 and 11, which were launched in 1972 and 1973 and preceded Voyager in outstripping the gravitational attraction of the Sun, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future.

*** Sun Ke 孫科 / 孙科 ( 1891 – 1973 ; Zhongshan, Guangdong ), Premier of the Republic of China, 1931 – 1932, 1948 – 1949

** Sun Caiyun 孫彩雲 / 孙彩云 ( 1973 -; Shenzhen, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Soon Choi Yun ), World record-holder, Pole Vault, 1992 – 1995

Anderson is capable of hitting many high notes, such his E5s at the end of " Heart of the Sunrise " from the album Fragile ( 1971 ), and is able to get at least as low as G # 2, which he displays once and briefly in the song " The Ancient ( Giants Under The Sun )" from Tales from Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ).

( 1966 ), in which he played a Norman Bates-like character reminiscent of Psycho ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), in which he played Acres, a dining room attendant ; The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ), in which he played a physical medium assigned to a team attempting to crack the secret of the Belasco House ; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry ( 1974 ); Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ); Class of 1984 ( 1982 ); Fright Night ( 1985 ), in which he played Peter Vincent, a television host and moderator of telecast horror films ; and Overboard ( 1987 ) in which he played a kind-hearted butler.

Nevertheless, his 1957 novel Island in the Sun was a best-seller, as was his 1973 novel, A Fatal Gift.

* The jazz composer Sun Ra performed the Concert for the Comet Kohoutek in December 1973.

Beissel's internationally successful Inuk and the Sun (" a mythic masterpiece ", Sherrill Grace ) premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1973.

* Inook And The Sun, The Stratford Festival, Canada, 1973

* 1973: Construction of Nakano Sun Plaza near Nakano Station reaches completion.

* ELO 2 ( 1973 ) – ELO ( although uncredited at the time, Wood played cello and bass on " In Old England Town " and " From the Sun to the World ").

Founded in 1963, its members were Abilene Christian College ( now Abilene Christian University ; departed 1973 for NCAA Division II, but will move to Division I and rejoin the Southland effective 2013 ), Arkansas State College ( now Arkansas State University ; departed 1987, now a member of the Sun Belt Conference ), Arlington State College ( now The University of Texas at Arlington, which joined the Western Athletic Conference in 2012 and will move to the Sun Belt in 2013 ), Lamar State College of Technology ( now Lamar University, left in 1987 and re-joined in 1999 ; the only founding school that is currently a member ), and Trinity University ( departed 1971, now participating in NCAA Division III ).

* Ghost in the Noonday Sun ( 1973 )

In the last thirty-odd years writers such as Raymond Williams ( who wrote The Country and the City, 1973 ), Eric Hobsbawn ( the editor of The Invention of Tradition, 1983 ), Ronald Hutton ( author of The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, 1996 ) and Georgina Boyes ( The Imagined Village.

* 1973: The Sun Newspapers Of Omaha, " for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, Nebraska, leading to reforms in this charitable organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.

Lockwood's role as the feisty Harriet Peterson won her Best Actress Awards from the TV Times ( 1971 ) and The Sun ( 1973 ).