In 1973, the designated hitter ( DH ) rule was adopted by the American League, while in the National League pitchers still bat for themselves to this day.

while the HP 3000 business computer ( 1973 ) could have 64K, 96K, or 128K bytes of memory.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

By 1973 the PAIGC controlled most of the interior of the country, while the coastal and estuary towns, including the main populational and economic centres remained under Portuguese control.

On July 14, 1973, the legendary White was killed by a drunk driver while loading equipment in his car for a concert with the New Kentucky Colonels.

The $ 10, 000 Pyramid and its numerous higher-stakes derivatives also debuted in 1973, while the 1970s also saw the return of formerly disgraced producer and host Jack Barry, who debuted The Joker's Wild and a clean version of the previously rigged Tic-Tac-Dough in the 1970s.

Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions created by the severe 1971 – 72 drought, former Prime Minister Mohammad Sardar Daoud Khan seized power in a non-violent coup on July 17, 1973, while Zahir Shah was receiving treatment for eye problems and therapy for lumbago in Italy.

Hunt the Wumpus was originally written by Gregory Yob in BASIC while attending the Dartmouth campus of the University of Massachusetts in 1972 or 1973.

* 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

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.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

* The HP 21MX real-time computer ( 1974 ) denoted 196, 608 ( which is 192 × 1024 ) as " 196K ", while the HP 3000 business computer ( 1973 ) denoted 131, 072 ( which is 128 × 1024 ) as " 128K ".

After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal's Estado Novo regime headed by António de Oliveira Salazar issued a decree officially renaming Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions as overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared ( Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese resident population was about 300, 000 in 1973, which excludes the Portuguese military sent from the mainland and mulatto population ).

* 1973 – HNS Velos ( D-16 ), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Monica Samille Lewinsky ( born July 23, 1973 ) is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an " improper relationship " while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

* R v Quick & Paddison 1973 3 AER 397 a diabetic committed an assault while in a state of hypoglycaemia caused by the insulin he had taken, the alcohol he had consumed, and not eating properly.

In 1973, while Mohammed Zahir Shah was in Italy undergoing eye surgery as well as therapy for lumbago, his cousin and former Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan staged a coup d ' état and established a republican government.

Tarkenton would go on to lead the Vikings to three Super Bowls and earn a place in the Hall of Fame, while the Giants suffered through one of the worst stretches in their history, winning only 23 games from 1973 – 79.

Executive Order 12464, dated February 23, 1984, authorized award of the Purple Heart as a result of terrorist attacks or while serving as part of a peacekeeping force subsequent to March 28, 1973.

After 28 March 1973, as a result of military operations while serving outside the territory of the United States as part of a peacekeeping force.

Four of his films, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), were filmed entirely on location within Mexico, while The Getaway ( 1972 ) concludes with a couple escaping to freedom there.

DeFreeze escaped from the Soledad State Prison on March 5, 1973 simply by walking away while on work duty in a boiler room located outside the perimeter fence.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

In 1973, Bardot announced that she was retiring from acting as " a way to get out elegantly ".

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

In 1973, she accepted a position with the Dade County State's Attorney's Office.

On her retirement from Oxford in 1973, she was appointed a DBE.

In 1973, she won silver in the women's competition and another silver for Best pas de Deux ( with Frank Augustyn ) at the second International Ballet Competition in Moscow.

She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically.

In 1971, she signed with RCA, resulting in three albums: Nancy & Lee – Again ( 1971 ), Woman ( 1972 ), and a compilation of some of her Reprise recordings under the title This Is Nancy Sinatra ( 1973 ).

When Steele died in 1959 Crawford was appointed to the Board of Directors of Pepsi-Cola, a position she held until 1973, although she was not a board member of the larger PepsiCo, created in 1965.

This was illustrated during the 1973 Stonewall rally when, moments after Barbara Gittings exuberantly praised the diversity of the crowd, feminist activist Jean O ' Leary protested what she perceived as the mocking of women by cross-dressers and drag queens in attendance.

* 1967: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries adapted by Rex Tucker starring Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973.

In 1973, she gained her first major television role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line.

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

She came to international prominence for her roles as Holly Sargis in Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands, and as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie ( based on the first novel by Stephen King ) for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination.

In 1962 she was elected the Swedish parliament and in 1962 she was sent as the Swedish delegate to the UN disarmament conference in Geneva, a role she kept until 1973.

In 1966 she was also made consultative Cabinet minister for disarmament, which she also held until 1973.

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam instituted a number of changes, including removing reference to the United Kingdom in Queen Elizabeth's Australian title on 19 October 1973, when she signed her assent to the Royal Style and Titles Act, and creating a domestic system of conferring civil and military honours.

In 1973 she was invited to compete in the 60-yard dash in the new Professional International Track Association competitions.

In 1973, eight years after Mrs. Mirabel Topham announced she was seeking a buyer, the racecourse was finally sold to property developer Bill Davies.

This was achieved after interrogating Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, Solzhenitsyn's typist who knew where the typed copy was hidden ; within days of her release by the KGB, she hanged herself on 3 August 1973.

In a 1973 interview featured in the Turner Classic Movies documentary The Men Who Made The Movies: William Wellman, Wellman said he added the grapefruit " hitting " to the scene, because when he and his wife at the time would get into fights, she would never talk or give any expression.