1973
30 verified events recorded in 1973.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy · Edgar Kaiser | confirmed | |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign Richard Nixon · American Mining Congress · National Forest Products Association · American Farm Bureau Federation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · Lewis F. Powell Jr. | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Jacob Javits · Clement Zablocki · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-11-01 | Leon Jaworski Appointed as Special Prosecutor to Replace Fired Archibald Cox Leon Jaworski · Robert Bork · Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-20 | Saturday Night Massacre: Nixon Fires Special Prosecutor Cox, Richardson and Ruckelshaus Resign in Protest Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Elliot Richardson · William Ruckelshaus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller David Rockefeller · Zbigniew Brzezinski · Jimmy Carter · Chase Manhattan Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship Milton Friedman · Arnold Harberger · Augusto Pinochet · The Chicago Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Salvador Allende · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-03 | Bunker Hill Smelter Fire Leads to Worst Corporate Lead Poisoning in U.S. History Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp. · Bunker Hill Mining & Metallurgical Complex · Idaho Department of Health · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-09-01 | American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Founded as Systematic State-Level Corporate Influence Platform Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · Lou Barnett | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Alexander Butterfield Reveals Nixon White House Secret Taping System in Bombshell Testimony Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Donald Sanders · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis Alexander Butterfield · Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Fred Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | John Dean Testifies to Senate Watergate Committee: "Cancer Growing on the Presidency" John Dean · Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-06-25 | Opus Dei: Canonical Recognition and Unique Ecclesiastical Status Pope Pius XII · Pope John Paul II · Josemaria Escriva · Opus Dei | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-17 | Senate Watergate Committee Begins Televised Hearings, Exposing Presidential Crimes to Public Sam Ervin · Howard Baker · Senate Watergate Committee · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-09 | Acting DCI Schlesinger Orders CIA "Family Jewels" Internal Inventory of Illegal Activities James R. Schlesinger · William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | confirmed | |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration Nelson Rockefeller · New York State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-03-19 | Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · John Dean · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-30 | G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Convicted in Watergate Burglary Trial, Five Others Plead Guilty G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · Bernard Barker · Virgilio Gonzalez · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization U.S. Supreme Court · Nellie Gray | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries Agha Hasan Abedi · BCCI management · Swaleh Naqvi · international regulators | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Richard Viguerie | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism Rousas John Rushdoony · Gary North · Chalcedon Foundation | confirmed |