The 1973 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( along with the 2003 remake ) claims to be based on true events, but this is not the case.

In Texas, " Confederate Heroes Day " is celebrated on January 19, the birthday of Robert E. Lee ; Jefferson Davis ’ birthday had been officially celebrated on June 3 but was combined with Lee's birthday in 1973.

In 1973, Welch attained a Master of Science degree in Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Four hundred animals were captured from southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas from 1973 to 1980 by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

* 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

They were successful as live performers, becoming known to fans as " that little ol ' band from Texas ", and their 1973 album Tres Hombres, according to AllMusic, propelled the band to national attention and " made them stars ".

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

* Paul H. Carlson, William R. Shafter: Military Commander in the American West, unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1973

The most frequently cited example is the 1973 United States Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade,, which challenged a Texas law forbidding abortion in most circumstances.

Meanwhile, Fregosi failed to produce as a Met, making no significant contribution to the Mets ' 1973 pennant-winning campaign ; he was sold to the Texas Rangers mid-season.

The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales ( republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas ).

He later lost to Billie Jean King in The Battle of the Sexes at the Houston, Texas, Astrodome, on 20 September 1973.

* Donald Hardy Castle, was a first-round pick in the 1968 amateur draft who hit. 308 in the majors with the Texas Rangers in 1973.

China Grove, Texas, became famous in 1973 as the name of a hit song written and sung by Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers.

* Louie Welch, mayor of Houston, Texas, from 1964 to 1973, was born in Lockney in 1918.

The Big Sandy High School football team has won three Texas Class B state championships ; 1973, 1974, and 1975.

* Papers of E. K. Warren & Sons, 1884 – 1973, ranchers in Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, held at Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University

Richardson, Texas: Richardson Centennial Corporation, 1973.

On July 20, 1973, Smithson died in a plane crash, while surveying sites for his work Amarillo Ramp in Texas.

While living in Crockett, Texas, their second child Rain Joan of Arc Bottom was born on November 22, 1973.

On February 19, 1973, the center was renamed in honor of the late U. S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Advanced Scientific Computer, or ASC, was a supercomputer architecture designed by Texas Instruments ( TI ) between 1966 and 1973.

Regular speed TTL parts were also available for a time in the 6400 series-these had an extended industrial temperature range of − 40 C to + 85 C. While companies such as Mullard listed 6400-series compatible parts in 1970 data sheets, by 1973 there was no mention of the 6400 family in the Texas Instruments TTL Data Book.

* Recording, Five Poems for Narrator and 8 Instruments, by Netty Simons, CRI Records, 1973.

The " Aquila " was constructed by Woodhall Nicolson, of Halifax with help from Lucas, Smiths Instruments and Triplex The resultant car was then exhibited at the 1973 show and then given to Field.

McDermott was the Chairman of TI from 1951-1957, was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Board of Directors from 1957-1964 and was a Director until his death in 1973.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

Flirty Fishing was practiced by members of Berg's inner circle starting in 1973, and was later introduced to the general membership.

Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper.

The FIH introduced competitive tournaments in 1974, forcing the acceptance of the principle of competitive field hockey by the IFWHA in 1973.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

In 1973, IBM introduced a new type of hard drive codenamed " Winchester.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

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For instance, in 1973 the team introduced its popular mascot, Bernie Brewer.

" Amateur Pankration " was first introduced to the martial arts community by Greek-American combat athlete Jim Arvanitis in 1969 and later exposed worldwide in 1973 when he was featured on the cover of Black Belt magazine.

As soon as he was well enough to write again, he began work on Time Enough for Love ( 1973 ), which introduced many of the themes found in his later fiction.

Othello was first introduced in Japan in 1973, by Tsukuda Original Co., who at Becker's suggestion organized the Japanese Othello Association.

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Taito introduced their first video arcade game in 1973.

In September 1973, Colin Tennant ( later Baron Glenconner ) introduced Margaret to Roddy Llewellyn.

Concerning civil law, civil marriage was introduced and homosexuality and adultery were decriminalised ( 1973 ); capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1971.

The 1973 Xerox Alto and 1981 Star workstations, which introduced the graphical user interface, used TTL circuits integrated at the level of ALUs and bitslices, respectively.

He elaborated on his ideas in a 1973 paper that introduced the concept of " linguistic variables ", which in this article equates to a variable defined as a fuzzy set.

* The Benefit Improvement Law ( 1973 ), which made entitlement to hospital care legally binding ( entitlements already enjoyed in practice ), abolished time limits for hospital care, introduced entitlement to household assistance under specific conditions, and also introduced entitlement to leave of absence from work and cash benefits in the event of a child ’ s illness.

Noncontributory pensions were also introduced for all persons aged eighty and above, while in 1973, a new Social Security Act was passed which introduced benefit indexation in the United Kingdom for the first time by index-linking benefits to prices to maintain their real value.

In 1973 the British Post Office introduced a new type of card, PHQ Cards, popular with collectors, especially when they have the appropriate stamp affixed and a First day of issue postmark obtained.

5 kwacha notes were introduced in 1973, the same year that the last 50 ngwee notes were issued.