News Highlights of 1973
An agreement is signed in Paris to stop fighting in Vietnam.
G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr., are convicted of plotting to spy on the Democrats in the Watergate break-in.
The first planeload of POWs returns home from the Vietnam War.
Four top aides to President Nixon quit over the Watergate affair.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to The Washington Post for its investigation of the Watergate scandal.
After more than 300 years of British rule, the Bahamas become independent.
Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns under scrutiny by the FBI on charges of taking kickbacks from government contractors.
Juan Peron, president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, is again elected to that post.
President Nixon agrees to turn over tape recordings of conversations that might have some bearing on the Watergate break-in.
O.J. Simpson, pro football player, sets a rushing record of more than 2,000 yards in a season.