All Events

English poet James Fenton publishes his first collection, Terminal Moraine

Chess player Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become the first US world champion

Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony alarms the Soviet authorities and is denied a Moscow premiere

Finland has a very low birth rate, declining from an average of 3.5 per woman in 1947 to 1.5 in 1973, threatening a population with an unusually high proportion of old people in future years

The Paris Peace Accords end the US combat role in Vietnam, with nothing achieved and millions dead

Elvis Presley performs in Honolulu in the Aloha Concert, the first programme to be broadcast live round the world by satellite

In the Calder case, the Supreme Court of Canada recognizes Aboriginal title to land

A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, has its premiere in New York

British economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher publishes an influential economic tract, Small is Beautiful

US choreographer Twyla Tharp creates Deuce Coupe, set to songs by the Beach Boys

Roe v. Wade establishes in US law that prohibiting abortion violates a woman's right to privacy

The last US troops leave Vietnam, ending American involvement in a continuing war between the north and south of the country

Thames Water Authority takes over from the Metropolitan Water Board and Hampton waterworks becomes part of Thames Water which is later privatised

The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world

The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime

Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow conjures up weird events in wartime London

The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis

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