First release for Virgin Records
Time: 1973
Place: London, England, United Kingdom
Details: He leased studio time to fledgling artists, including multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, whose debut album Tubular Bells (1973) was the first release for Virgin Records and became a chart-topping best-seller.
‹ Earlier in historyReleasing the Album Burnin'Tuesday Oct 9, 1973 Later in history ›Operation Nickel GrassFriday Oct 12, 1973
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1973 - Paris, France
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Magdi Yacoub-Returning to England
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Warren Buffett-The Washington Post Company
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Martin Bormann-Facial Reconstruction was Undertaken on both Skulls
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KFC-Malaysia
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Robin Williams-Full scholarship to the Juilliard School
1973 - New York, U.S.
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Bernard Arnault-Marriage
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Ted Bundy-Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS
1973 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Joe Biden-Biden was sworn in by the secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo at the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center
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1973 oil crisis-U.S. Phase III price controls begin
Thursday Jan 11, 1973 - U.S.
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1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-President Nixon suspends the mandatory oil import quota on No. 2 heating oil through April 30
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1973 oil crisis-1954 operating agreement between a consortium of oil companies and Iran will not be renewed
Tuesday Jan 23, 1973 - Iran
Donald Trump-Profiles of Trump
1973 - New York, U.S.
Johan Cruyff-European Super Cup
Wednesday Jan 24, 1973 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vietnam War-Paris Peace Accords
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Vietnam War-The War of the flags
Sunday Jan 28, 1973 - Vietnam
Warren Buffett-Friendship With Katharine Graham
1973 - Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.
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1973 - Stanford, California, U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Iraq and IPC reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization
Wednesday Feb 28, 1973 - Iraq
Vietnam War-All US forces personnel were completely withdrawn
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1973 oil crisis-Iran resumes petroleum exports
Tuesday Mar 6, 1973 - Iran
1973 oil crisis-Special Rule No. 1 reimposes mandatory (Phase II) price controls on the 23 largest oil companies
Mar, 1973 - U.S.
Vietnam War-Nixon implied the US would intervene again militarily if the North launched a full offensive
Thursday Mar 15, 1973 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Shah of Iran and Consortium members agree to nationalize all assets immediately in return for an assured 20-year supply of Iranian oil
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1973 oil crisis-OPEC discusses raising prices to offset the decline of U.S. dollar value
Friday Mar 16, 1973 - Vienna, Austria
Marlon Brando-1973 Academy Awards ceremony
Tuesday Mar 27, 1973 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Mobile Phones-The First Mobile Telephone Call From Handheld Subscriber Equipment
Tuesday Apr 3, 1973 - Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.
Pablo Picasso-Death
Sunday Apr 8, 1973 - Mougins, France
1973 oil crisis-Nixon announced the end of the quota system
1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-U.S. Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program
Apr, 1973 - U.S.
Russell Bufalino-Bufalino was arrested
Friday Apr 20, 1973 - Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Pope Francis-Final vow in Jesuit
Sunday Apr 22, 1973 - Spain
Freddie Mercury-"I Can Hear Music" and "Goin' Back"
1973 - England, United Kingdom
Johan Cruyff-Third European Cup
Wednesday May 30, 1973 - Belgrade, Serbia
1973 oil crisis-Eight OPEC countries raise posted prices by 11.9 percent
Friday Jun 1, 1973 - Vienna, Austria
1973 oil crisis-Nixon administration imposes a 60-day economy-wide price freeze
Thursday Jun 14, 1973 - U.S.
James Bond-Live and Let Die
Wednesday Jun 27, 1973 - United Kingdom and U.S.
Richard Nixon-Alexander Butterfield's Testimony under oath to Congress
Jul, 1973 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Ted Bundy-Bundy rekindled his relationship with Brooks
1973 - California, U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Libya nationalizes 51 percent of Occidental Petroleum concession and of the Oasis consortium
Aug, 1973 - Libya
KFC-The Middle East
1973 - Middle East
Johan Cruyff-To Barcelona
Monday Aug 13, 1973 - Barcelona, Spain
Celine Dion-The first public appearance
Monday Aug 13, 1973 - Quebec, Canada
Computer animation-Westworld
Saturday Aug 18, 1973 - U.S.
Johan Cruyff-Last match with Ajax
Sunday Aug 19, 1973 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
1973 oil crisis-Two-tier price ceiling
Sunday Aug 19, 1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Motorists faced long lines at gas stations
1973 - U.S.
Bill Gates-Enrolled in Harverd
Sep, 1973 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
International Monetary Fund-Johan Witteveen
Saturday Sep 1, 1973 - Washington D.C., U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other companies' concessions
Saturday Sep 1, 1973 - Libya
World Trade Organization-Tokyo Round
Sep, 1973 - Tokyo, Japan
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Colin Tennant introduced Margaret to Roddy Llewellyn
Sep, 1973 - United Kingdom
Atari, Inc.-Joe Keenan circumvent
1973 - Sunnyvale, California, United States
Indira Gandhi-The 1973 Oil Crisis
Sep, 1973 - India
Ted Bundy-Bundy matriculated at UPS Law School
1973 - Seattle, Washington, U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Egypt attacked the Bar-Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula
Saturday Oct 6, 1973 - Egypt
1973 oil crisis-Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity
Sunday Oct 7, 1973 - Iraq
1973 oil crisis-Gulf Six unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude 17 percent from $3.12 to $3.65 per barrel
Monday Oct 8, 1973 - Arabian Peninsula
Bob Marley-Releasing the Album Burnin'
Tuesday Oct 9, 1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Operation Nickel Grass
Friday Oct 12, 1973 - Sinai, Egypt
1973 oil crisis-Arab oil producers cut production by 5% and instituted an oil embargo against Israel's allies
Wednesday Oct 17, 1973 - Middle East
1973 oil crisis-OPEC oil ministers agree to use oil weapon in Arab-Israeli War
Wednesday Oct 17, 1973 - Vienna, Austria
1973 oil crisis-Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States
Oct, 1973 - K.S.A., and Arabian Peninsula
James Bond-BBC documentary Omnibus
1973 - London, England, United Kingdom
Xerox-The first commercial non-impact printer was the Xerox 1200
1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Arab oil ministers cancel the scheduled 5 percent cut in production for EEC
Sunday Nov 18, 1973 - Middle East
1973 oil crisis-Embargo extended to Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa
Nov, 1973 - Rabat, Morocco
1973 oil crisis-Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act (EPAA)
Tuesday Nov 27, 1973 - U.S.
David Ben-Gurion-Death
Saturday Dec 1, 1973 - Ramat Gan, Israel
1973 oil crisis-Production had been cut to 25% of September levels
Dec, 1973 - K.S.A.
DC Comics-The Line of DC Super-Stars
Dec, 1973 - U.S.
Nobel Prize-Second to refuse the prize
Dec, 1973 - Oslo, Norway
1973 oil crisis-Nixon named William E. Simon as the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office
Tuesday Dec 4, 1973 - U.S.
1973 oil crisis-Arab oil ministers announced a further production cut of 5 percent for January for non-friendly countries
Sunday Dec 9, 1973 - Middle East
1973 oil crisis-Rationing led to violent incidents when truck drivers chose to strike for two days
Dec, 1973 - U.S.
Disasters with highest death tolls-1973 Dhaka Tornado
1973 - Bangladesh
1973 oil crisis-OPEC Gulf Six decides to raise the posted price of marker crude from $5.12 to $11.65 per barrel
Saturday Dec 22, 1973 - Vienna, Austria
1973 oil crisis-Japan was hard hit
1973 - Japan
1973 oil crisis-Series of strikes by coal miners
1973 - United Kingdom
Carlos the Jackal-Failed assassination
Sunday Dec 30, 1973 - Queen's Grove, St John's Wood, London, United Kingdom
Vietnam War-Military Deaths In 1973
1973 - Vietnam
Nintendo-Magnavox Odyssey video game console
1973 - Kyoto, Japan