Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

The Portuguese Governor and Commander in Chief from 1968 to 1973, General António de Spínola, returned to Portugal and led the movement which brought democracy to Portugal and independence for its colonies.

The PAIGC National Assembly met at Boe in the southeastern region and declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 24 September 1973 and was recognized by a 93-7 UN General Assembly vote in November, unprecedented as it denounced illegal Portuguese aggression and occupation and was prior to complete control and Portuguese recognition.

However, the Montoneros waited until after the death of Perón in July 1974 to react, with the exception of the assassination of José Ignacio Rucci, general secretary of the CGT ( General Confederation of Labour ) on 25 September 1973, and some other military actions.

* 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners ' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

* 1973 – " Saturday Night Massacre ": President Richard Nixon fires U. S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

* 1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende.

' Traditional Taekwon-Do ' may refer to ITF Taekwon-Do as created by the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi on April 11 1955 ; or WTF Taekwondo, founded by Dr Kim Un Yong on May 25, 1973.

On 24 August 1973, General Prats was forced to resign both as defense minister and as the commander-in-chief of the army, embarrassed by both the Alejandrina Cox incident and a public protest in front of his house by the wives of his generals.

When Cox refused to drop his subpoena, on October 20, 1973, Nixon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus for refusing to fire the special prosecutor.

Bowen won election in own right in 1973, and his been elected every four years since winning his tenth four year term in the 2009 General Election

The NGC had many errors, but a serious if not complete attempt to eliminate them has been initiated by the NGC / IC Project, after partial attempts with the Revised New General Catalogue ( RNGC ) by Sulentic and Tifft in 1973, and NGC2000. 0 by Sinnott in 1988.

From 1973 to 1975, Ischinger served on the staff of the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York.

* Jerry Colangelo, First Suns General Manager, 1968 – 2004 ; ( Interim ) Head Coach, 1970 & 1972 – 1973

On 30 November 1973, the United Nations General Assembly opened for signature and ratification the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.

In 1973, the General Assembly of the United Nations agreed on the text of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid ( ICSPCA ).

* 1973 – Uruguayan General Strike

Former Attorney General Mitchell enters the Senate caucus room to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, 1973

In 1971, he translated the memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen, and in 1973 published The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, a biography of Luftwaffe Marshal Erhard Milch.

1973 ) General Manager of HSBC Group and an executive director of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.

Brigadier General Robinson Risner was the senior ranking POW, responsible for maintaining chain of command among his fellow prisoners, from 1965 to 1973.

Finally, from July 6, 1971 to May 11, 1973, Biesheuvel was Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of General Affairs in the government that bore his name.

In 1972 General Ken Russell, the AWACS System Program Office chief asked Ellingson if MITRE could support a 1973 demonstration of AWACS to key NATO personnel in Europe.

He became finance minister in the government of Chilean president Salvador Allende and then spent three years as a political prisoner ( from September 11, 1973 to 1976 ) after the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet.

Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, The Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

From 1960 to 1973, the colors consisted of either Electric blue (" sky " or " powder " blue, but technically called Collegiate blue ) or white jerseys, both with gold lightning bolts on the shoulders.

Camden Lock market proper started in a former timber-yard in 1973, and is now surrounded by five more markets: Buck Street market, Stables market, Camden Lock village, and an indoor market in the Electric Ballroom.

The first functional AMLCD display was made by Dr T Peter Brody at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1973.

In 1973, Bolan played twin lead guitar alongside his friend Jeff Lynne on the Electric Light Orchestra songs " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " and " Dreaming of 4000 " ( originally uncredited ) from On the Third Day, as well as on " Everyone's Born To Die ", which was not released at the time but appears as a bonus track on the 2006 remaster.

Although the company was merged with another in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries Limited ( EMI ), the company title as " The Gramophone Company Limited " continued in use in the UK into the 1970s, for instance on sleeves and labels of records ( such as The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, vinyl copies of which bear the copyright notice "© 1973 The Gramophone Company, Ltd .").

MTH's founder, Mike Wolf, started assembling and selling trains at the age of 12 in 1973 for Williams Electric Trains, which had begun producing reproductions of trains manufactured by Lionel Corporation in the early 1970s.

* Deep Purple-June 10, 1973 and December 11, 1974, with Elf and The Electric Light Orchestra

* Rommel SA, McCleave JD ( 1973 ) " Sensitivity of American Eels ( Anguilla rostrata ) and Atlantic Salmon ( Salmo salar ) to Weak Electric and Magnetic Fields " Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 30 ( 5 ): 657 – 663.

* Got To Investigate Silicones — General Electric ( 1973 ) ( about Silicones )

* Raymond Burse, 1973: Rhodes Scholar ; General Counsel for General Electric ; former President of Kentucky State University ; and the first African-American to compete in the Oxford v. Cambridge rugby match.

The helical ( three-dimensional spiral ) CFL was invented in 1976 by Edward Hammer, an engineer with General Electric, in response to the 1973 oil crisis.

* Hackmann, W. D., " Alexander Bain's Short History of the Electric Clock ( 1852 )" London: Turner & Devereux 1973.

They were originally hired from English Electric Leasing, not being purchased outright by BR until around 1973.

The double act began as a private joke between the two of them at the Electric Lady Studios, as a way of easing the tension of their 1973 Broadway show Good Evening.

Siberia ’ s contribution to the Soviet economy in percent of national output was given in Soviet statistical yearbooks for 1973 ( 1940 in brackets ) as: Coal 33 % ( 23 %), Coking coal 30 % ( 17 %), Oil 21 % ( 1. 6 %), Natural gas 8. 5 % ( from 1. 5 % in 1950 ), Electric power output 18 % ( 6. 6 %), Iron ore 6. 9 % ( 1. 6 %), Pig iron 9. 5 % ( 10 %), Crude steel 8. 3 % ( 10 %), Rolled steel 10 % ( 9. 1 %).

By 1973, a contract was signed between the municipal council of Lisbon, the Companhia da Carris and the Lisbon Electric Tramway Ltd., transferring the Elevator definitively into the city's historical tram network.

* A 1973 implementation of ALGOL 68 done by D. M. Berry at UCLA & General Electric

Martin Naughton ( b. 1940 in Dundalk, County Louth ), an Irish entrepreneur, founded Glen Electric in November 1973 with a small manufacturing facility employing just ten people in Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.

#* From the album Electric Light Orchestra II ( 1973 ).

Electric Light Orchestra's elaborate eight-minute reworking of " Roll Over Beethoven ", appearing on the album ELO 2 in 1973, included an opening musical quote from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and clever interpolations of material from the symphony's first movement into Berry's song.