What else was happening in 1973?

A look at cultural and news events around the world while Watergate was unfolding at home.

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In this photo released by American Honda Motor Co. Inc., a 1973 Honda Civic 1500 is shown. Honda introduces the Civic hatchback at a manufacturer's price of $2,150. The car hit showrooms on the eve of the energy crisis. Sales of the vehicle increase sevenfold between 1973 and 1974.

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A picture of a 1973 Ford Pinto sedan after it was crashed into at 50.26 mph by a 1972 Chevrolet van, shown Feb. 27, 1980 as part of the evidence in the Ford Pinto trial in Winamac, Ind.

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The casket of former President Lyndon Johnson is shown in this Jan. 24, 1973, photo taken with a wide-angle lens from the top of the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.

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Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho, shake hands after their last meeting at the International Conference Center in Paris, Jan. 23, 1973. In the background is the Arc de Triomphe.

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As Hanoi's Peace Talks delegation head Xuan Thuy, left, looks on, North Vietnamese foreign minister Nouyen Duy Trinm signs the ceasefire agreement ending the war in Vietnam, at the first of two signing ceremonies in the Hotel Majestic, Paris, Jan. 27, 1973. Unidentified aides stand between them.

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In this May 1973 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, an unidentified man rides a graffiti-covered subway in New York. The photo is part of Documerica, an EPA project during the 1970s in which the agency hired dozens of freelance photographers to capture thousands of images related to the environment and everyday life in America.

Erik Calonius / AP

A scene from the sock hop from the 1973 film "American Graffiti" by Universal Pictures.

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John S. McCain III is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Coupe Jr., public relations officer, March 14, 1973, to Hanoi's Gia Lam airport after the POW was released.

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Army Chief Master Sgt. Max Beilke of Alexandria, Minn., officially the last U.S. combat soldier to leave Vietnam, boarded a helicopter in Saigon, leaving on March 29, 1973. The fall of Saigon and the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy did not come until a month later. Beilke was among those missing in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, airplane crash into the Pentagon.

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Isaac Hayes in 1973, dressed up in chains.

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Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor and drug advocate, accompanied by a friend, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, smiles on arrival at Heathrow Airport from Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 18, 1973. Two federal agents of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs escorted the couple from Kabul, where Leary had been arrested.

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The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan are shown in this April 3, 1973, file photo one day before the dedication.

David Pickoff / AP

President Richard Nixon faces television cameras in his oval office, April 30, 1973, to announce the departure of his two closest assistants, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Only three days before, an aide says, he got his first word that Spiro Agnew was in trouble. And now, after the speech, television technicians would report that he wept.

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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew gestures Aug. 8, 1973 at a Washington news conference during which he stated he would not resign.

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Paul Newman, left, in the role of master con artist Henry Gondorff, and small-time crook apprentice Johnny Hooker, played by Robert Redford, team up to separate a powerful "mark" from his money in Universal's "The Sting." The movie about a con operation in Chicago in the 1930s won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Max Von Sydow as Father Merrin silhouetted in the light from the bedroom window and street lamp in the 1973 thriller "The Exorcist."

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Bruce Lee is shown in a scene from the 1973 film, "Enter the Dragon," completed shortly before the martial arts stars' death of brain edema in 1973.

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A floral panel welcomes American singer Diana Ross arriving in Cannes, France, to present "Lady Sings the Blues" at the International Film Festival at Cannes, May 25, 1973.

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Elvis Presley performing in the 1973 television special “Aloha From Hawaii.”

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Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. after he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1973. The satirical novelist wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," among other works. He died April 11, 2007 at age 84.

Jill Krementz / AP

A 1973 photo of Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon's secretary at her White House desk, demonstrating the movement which could have resulted in the erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. Woods died Jan. 22, 2005.

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In this 1973 photo, singer Lena Horne embraces the character Grover during an appearance on the children's program "Sesame Street" in New York.

Bill Pierce / AP

This June 1973 photo released by the U.S. National Archives shows an "Out of Gas" sign in Portland, Ore., during the energy crisis.

David Falconer / AP

Cars line up for gas at the Parkway Shell Station on Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue NE in Washington, D.C.

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Billie Jean King raises her arms after defeating Bobby Riggs, rear, getting ready to jump over the net, in the "Battle of the Sexes" at the Houston Astrodome on Sept. 20, 1973.

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Joe Namath, the New York Jets quarterback, appears in a September 1973 episode of “The Brady Bunch.”

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Rep. Gerald Ford with his wife Betty leave the White House in Washington on Oct. 12, 1973, after President Richard Nixon nominated the Michigan Republican to be his vice president following the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.

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La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, is bombarded by military jets during a coup against President Allende's government, Sept. 11, 1973.

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Former military ruler Gen. Augusto Pinochet, left, and Marxist President Salvador Allende, during a ceremony in presidential palace La Moneda on Aug. 23,1973, less than a month before the military coup in which Pinochet led the plot to overthrow Allende.

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Soldiers burn Marxist books and leaflets in downtown Santiago, Sept. 23, 1973, some days after the military coup that ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende. The poster portrays the dead Argentine Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

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In this October 1973 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, participants check out the Exide Battery Sundancer, an early experimental electric car at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Frank Lodge / AP

Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, right, views a map with Maj. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev in the Sinai Desert in this Oct. 10, 1973, file photo during the 1973 Mideast War.

Israel Government Press Office / AP

In this undated photo taken in November 1973, Hosni Mubarak, then the head of Egypt's Air Force, is promoted to Air Chief Marshal during the People's Assembly of the October War.

Farouk Ibrahim / AP

Oakland A's outfielder Reggie Jackson sits on the hood of his newly won automobile and gestures to the crowd in New York on Oct. 25, 1973. Jackson was presented with the auto honoring him as the most valuable player of the A's seven-game World Series win over the New York Mets.

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Cars line up in two directions on Sunday, Dec. 23, 1973 at a gas station in New York City. The gas station remained open despite President Richard Nixon's plea for stations to close on Sundays during the energy crisis.

Marty Lederhandler / AP

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