His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

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 early 1973, the price of copper accounted for 95 % of all export earnings ; this had halved in value on the world market by early 1975.

Even as late as 1970, the British Protectorate did not envisage independence for Solomon Islands in the foreseeable future but shortly thereafter, the financial costs of supporting the Protectorate became more trying, as the world economy was hit by the first oil price shock of 1973.

At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years.

A year later, world oil prices rose dramatically as a result of the 1973 energy crisis, and skyrocketing revenues enabled Saddam to expand his agenda.

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 ".

The story had already been described as a myth in 1973 ; the Economist quoted a Mr Maney as " revealing that Watson never made his oft-quoted prediction that there was ' a world market for maybe five computers '".

In early 1973, the rates were abandoned, and the major nations of the world allowed their currencies to float.

In 1973 the price of copper accounted for 95 % of all export earnings ; this halved in value on the world market in 1975.

The novel The Bridge ( 1973 ) by D. Keith Mano presents a world dominated by a global environmental fascism, where the government ultimately promotes the extinction of the human race by enforced mass suicide, so as to ' save ' the environment.

* In the future world of Marvel Comics ' Killraven ( 1973 ), the Martian Masters who orchestrated the invasion in The War of the Worlds returned to Earth a century later and conquered it ; they were overthrown by rebels led by the psychic human Jonathan Raven, alias Killraven.

In 1973 this machine is widely named in the entire world a " microcomputer ".

Criticizing immigration and taking advantage of the economic crisis striking France and the world since the 1973 oil crisis, Le Pen's party managed to increase its support in the 1980s, starting in the municipal elections of 1983.

They have built several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the John Hancock Center ( 1969, second tallest in the world when built ), Sears Tower ( 1973, tallest in the world for over twenty years ), and Burj Khalifa ( 2010, current world's tallest building ).

* " Drive-In Saturday " ( 1973 ) by David Bowie, depicting a world placed in 2033 in which its inhabitants have forgotten how to reproduce and need to watch old porn films to remember how it's done.

Chronology of world history: a calendar of principal events from 3000 BC to AD 1973.

The older, traditional industries of Wallonia, particularly steel industry, began to lose their competitive edge during this period, but the general growth of world prosperity masked this deterioration until the 1973 and 1979 oil price shocks and resultant shifts in international demand sent the economy into a period of prolonged recession.

On her Silver Jubilee in 1973, Queen Juliana donated all of the money that had been raised by the National Silver Jubilee Committee to organizations for children in need throughout the world.

Robert Watts ' Fluxatlas, 1973, for instance, contains small rocks sent by members of the group from around the world.

Atansoff invented the first digital computer in the world during the 1930s in the Iowa State College, but it took a lengthy court battle for achieving legal patent to 1973 when the case of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand was solved and the verdict named Atansoff with the title the inventor of the computer, the decision was never appealed, thus giving him the legal right to be called as such in the United States.

San Diego Country Estates, on May 13, 1973, hosted former 55 year old tennis player Bobby Riggs and then 30 year old women's world number one player, Margaret Court.

When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

The prolonged worldwide boom, beginning in the late 1940s and lasting until the first oil crisis in 1973, was a challenge that Finland met and from which it emerged with a highly sophisticated and diversified economy, including a new occupational structure.

After 1973, Germany was hard hit by a worldwide economic crisis, soaring oil prices, and stubbornly high unemployment, which jumped from 300, 000 in 1973 to 1. 1 million in 1975.

GDP per capita grew 545 % from 1970 to 1980 as a result of the sudden increase in oil export revenues from 1973 to 1979.

These favorable developments, combined with the presence of a large and cheap labour force, laid the foundation for spectacular economic growth that lasted almost uninterrupted until the " Hot Autumn's " massive strikes and social unrest of 1969-70, which then combined with the later 1973 oil crisis and put an abrupt end to the prolonged boom.

Inflation continued, aggravated by the increases in the price of oil in 1973 and 1979.

Since the oil shocks of the 1970s, Japan has reduced dependence on petroleum as a source of energy from more than 75 % in 1973 to about 57 % at present.

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

* 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

The oil crisis of 1973 and a slump in export revenues put Zambia in a state of economic crisis.

In 1973, the massive increase in the price of oil was followed by a slump in copper prices and a diminution of export earnings.

After the 1973 oil crisis and the subsequent rise in fuel costs, gas turbine locomotives became uneconomical to operate, and many were taken out of service.

Gaddafi played a key role in promoting the use of oil embargoes as a political weapon for challenging the West, hoping that an oil price rise and embargo in 1973 would persuade the West — especially the United States — to end support for Israel.

These policies, coupled with economic pressures stemming from the 1973 oil crisis, resulted in the rapid collapse of Madagascar's economy and a sharp decline in living standards, and the country had become completely bankrupt by 1979.

Mazda's rotary success continued until the onset of the 1973 oil crisis.

Fraser's economic record was marred by rising unemployment, which reached record levels under his administration, caused in part by the ongoing effects of the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis.

* 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.