1973
ID: 1905
Chester Pierce: 'Every child in America entering school at age five is mentally ill'
ID: 1905
1973
ID: 1906
CIA Director Helms orders destruction of all MKUltra files; Sidney Gottlieb supervises
ID: 1906
1973
ID: 1907
Roe v. Wade - Supreme Court admits no explicit privacy right but claims to discover it
ID: 1907
1973
ID: 1908
US surgical abortions begin (over 62 million by 2019)
ID: 1908
1973
ID: 1909
Casey resigns from SEC; Continental Bank of Texas formed; Harken Energy incorporated
ID: 1909
1973
ID: 1910
Oil Crisis - German industrial exports benefit while US economy suffers
ID: 1910
1973
ID: 1911
Henry Kissinger (German-born) shapes US Middle East policy to German advantage
ID: 1911
1973
ID: 1912
Congress forces USAID to end Public Safety program due to torture allegations
ID: 1912
1973
ID: 1913
BNDD reorganized into Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) - Operation Twofold continues
ID: 1913
1973
ID: 1914
CIA Institutional Capture Complete - CIA infiltrates and commandeers federal drug enforcement
ID: 1914
1973
ID: 1915
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) established replacing APB
ID: 1915
1973
ID: 1916
European Patent Convention signed in Munich
ID: 1916
1973
ID: 1917
First handheld mobile phone call made by Martin Cooper
ID: 1917
1973
ID: 1918
John Conway develops systematic theory of surreal numbers
ID: 1918
1973
ID: 1919
Synthetic stucco (EIFS - Exterior Insulation Finishing Systems) first commercialized
ID: 1919
1973
ID: 1920
Final Phoenix Statistics (1968-1972): 81,740 'neutralized', 26,369 killed officially
ID: 1920
1973
ID: 1921
Operation Twofold Results: CIA prevents BNDD from interfering with CIA worldwide drug dealing network
ID: 1921
1973
ID: 1922
OUR LADY OF AKITA, JAPAN - Wooden statue weeps 101 times, warns of Church infiltration
ID: 1922
1973
ID: 4426
Robin Milner develops ML at Edinburgh - Meta Language with type inference, influences modern functional languages
ID: 4426
1973
ID: 4514
Landauer's principle proven - only irreversible operations require energy, reversible computation theoretically needs zero
ID: 4514
1973
ID: 4581
Quantum chromodynamics developed - theory of strong force with asymptotic freedom
ID: 4581
1973
ID: 5657
First successful use of oral rabies vaccine baits tested on skunks
ID: 5657
1973
ID: 4330
March 1973
Xerox PARC completes Alto computer - first workstation with mouse, windows, icons, Ethernet, laser printing
ID: 4330
1973
ID: 4331
May 1973
Bob Metcalfe invents Ethernet at Xerox PARC - local area networking standard still used today
ID: 4331