Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Audemars Piguet introduced the Gerald Genta-designed Royal Oak Ref. 5402, a 39 mm steel watch with an integrated bracelet, at the Basel watch fair in April 1972 during the quartz crisis.

Magnavox released the Odyssey in the United States in September 1972, the first commercial home video game console, designed by Ralph Baer’s team at Sanders Associates. The Age of Mass Production cites it as the start of mass-produced video game hardware.

Tumut 3 became Australia's first major pumped-storage hydroelectric plant, eventually reaching 1,800 MW of generating capacity as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Three of its six units, fed by Talbingo Dam, can also pump water back uphill overnight at a combined 600 MW using cheap off-peak power.

Airbus’ first aircraft and the world’s first twin-engine wide-body airliner flew from Toulouse–Blagnac a month ahead of schedule, for one hour and 25 minutes, with Max Fischl as captain and Bernard Ziegler as first officer.

San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid welcomed its first tenant after overcoming years of public opposition to its unconventional tapered design.

A small Madrid dining room known for seasonal Spanish cooking and its neighborhood feel.

Donna Fargo won four major awards for "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." and Roy Clark was named Entertainer of the Year at the eighth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 26 February 1973 at Knott's Berry Farm.

At the 15th Annual Grammy Awards on 3 March 1973 at Nashville's Tennessee Theatre, Roberta Flack won Record of the Year and Song of the Year for 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh took Album of the Year and America won Best New Artist.

Nobita Nobi is so hapless that his 22nd century descendants are still impoverished as a result of his 20th century bumbling.

Chad and Hanna Williams pair a contemporary tasting menu with a downstairs bar.

The first production Tupolev Tu-144S, CCCP-77102, broke apart during its flying display at Le Bourget on 3 June 1973 and fell on Goussainville, killing all six crew and eight people on the ground.

Fischer Black and Myron Scholes give a closed-form price for a European option in the Journal of Political Economy, in the same year the Chicago Board Options Exchange opens. The formula becomes the language of the derivatives market.

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera House, capping fourteen years of construction that ran a decade late and far over its original budget.

Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It reached US theaters on 8 November 1973.

The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and produced by William Peter Blatty, who adapted his own 1971 novel. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.

Third-generation Seocho samgyetang shop (opened 1973) known for a 40-ingredient broth topped with mung bean and pine nut purees.

Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience completed its hangar-sized Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator in Tsukuba, letting scientists recreate extreme storms on demand to study landslides and flooding.

On the 16th Grammy Awards telecast on 2 March 1974 the Recording Academy named the first five recordings in the new Grammy Hall of Fame, from Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" to Bing Crosby's "White Christmas".

At the 16th Annual Grammy Awards on 2 March 1974 at the Hollywood Palladium, Roberta Flack won Record and Song of the Year for 'Killing Me Softly with His Song', Stevie Wonder's Innervisions won Album of the Year and Bette Midler won Best New Artist.

The Airbus A300B2-1A received its initial type certificate on 15 March 1974, clearing Airbus's first production wide-body for airline service two months before its first delivery.

Charlie Rich won four awards for "Behind Closed Doors" and Roy Clark became the first repeat Entertainer of the Year at the ninth Academy of Country Music awards, taped on 25 March 1974 at Knott's Berry Farm and aired on ABC on 28 March, hosted by Roger Miller.

Air France took delivery of the first production Airbus A300B2, msn 005 registered F-BVGA, on 10 May 1974, thirteen days before the type entered scheduled service.

On 23 May 1974 Air France began scheduled A300 operations, premiering the first twin-engine wide-body airliner on its Paris to London Heathrow trunk route with two round trips.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

Unit 1 begins commercial operation on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, following construction that began in 1968.

A traditional Castilian restaurant on Cava Baja, known for its huevos rotos.

Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

Mac Davis won Entertainer of the Year, John Denver's "Back Home Again" took Album of the Year and Cal Smith's "Country Bumpkin" Single and Song of the Year at the tenth Academy of Country Music awards on 27 February 1975 at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, hosted by Roger Miller and aired on ABC on 5 March.

At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards on 1 March 1975 at New York's Uris Theatre, Stevie Wonder won four awards including Album of the Year, Olivia Newton-John won Record of the Year for 'I Honestly Love You' and Marvin Hamlisch won Song of the Year and Best New Artist.