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1973

INTERNET EVENTS

• 75% of all ARPANET transmissions are now e-mails.

• England and Norway joined ARPANET making it international.

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CURRENT EVENTS

• The U.S. Supreme Court rules that abortion is legal... at least during the first 6 months of pregnancy.

• The "Sears Tower" in Chicago opens; it is 1,455 feet tall.

• UPC barcodes first introduced.

• A ceasefire ends U.S. ground troop involvement in Vietnam. The war has claimed the lives of over 45,000 Americans.

• OPEC doubles price of oil.

• Presidential aides Haldeman, Erlichman, and Dean resign as the Watergate scandal edges closer to the White House.

• George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

• President Nixon orders a freeze on all retail food prices.

• In a tennis "battle of the sexes" contest, Billy Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs.

• Spiro Agnew resigns.

• The Academy award for Best Picture goes to "The Sting."

• Jim Croce dies in a plane crash just as his career was taking off.

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