* 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

* 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

* 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.

* 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.

* 1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.

It also severed ties with Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, but kept supporting the U. S. on the Vietnam War.

This version remained the primary infantry rifle of U. S. forces in South Vietnam until the end of the war in 1973, and remained with all U. S. military ground forces after it had replaced the M14 service rifle in 1970 in CONUS, Europe ( Germany ), and South Korea ; when it was supplemented by the M16A2.

* 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

* 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.

** Paris Peace Accords, 1973 attempt to resolve the War in Vietnam

All these numbers had not been seen since the end of U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973.

His intentional misinformation, that the " film you are about to see is true ", was a response to being " lied to by the government about things that were going on all over the world ", including Watergate, the 1973 oil crisis, and " the massacres and atrocities in the Vietnam War ".

When the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973, Thich Nhat Hanh was denied permission to return to Vietnam and he went into exile in France.

In 1973, 500 students forcibly prevented United States government adviser Samuel P. Huntington from giving a speech on campus due to his involvement in the Vietnam War.

In many films, like Gordon's War ( 1973 ) and Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ), the veteran uses his combat skills developed in Vietnam to wage war on evil-doers in America.

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Conventional forces were being withdrawn ; the last SEAL advisor left Vietnam in March 1973 and Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975.

He has disapproved of America's wars in Korea ( 1950 – 1953 ), Vietnam ( 1964 – 1973 ), Afghanistan ( 2001 – present ), and Iraq ( 2003 – 2011 ), believing that the United States should not be overly militaristic or play the role of global policeman.