America - 1973AD

In 1973AD:

• Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigned after he was charged with accepting bribes.
• Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. headed a committee to investigate the Watergate break-in.
• Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed for demanding the Nixon tapes.
• Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
• The American Indian Movement occupied the site of Wounded Knee in a political protest.
• Congress passed the Endangered Species Act.
• The Pioneer 10 spacecraft made a rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
• The Skylab manned orbiting laboratory was launched.
• The World Trade Center in New York City became the tallest building in the world.
• Pop recording artist Billy Joel released his first album Piano Man.
• Film actor Al Pacino starred as an undercover policeman in Serpico.
• The Washington Post received the Pulitzer Prize for reporting the Watergate scandal.
• American novelist Thomas Pynchon published Gravity's Rainbow.
• American playwright Thornton Wilder published the novel Theophilus North.
• Novelist, poet, and feminist Erica Jong published Fear of Flying.

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