Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Gilbert Lau opened Flower Drum on 26 May 1975 in Melbourne's Chinatown and spent the following decades making the case that Cantonese cooking belonged at the top of Australian fine dining rather than in a separate category of it. It has been a fixture of the city's restaurant lists ever since, on Market Lane.

A fine-dining Cantonese restaurant in Melbourne’s Chinatown, known for refined food and attentive service.

President Anwar Sadat reopened the Suez Canal on 5 June 1975, eight years after the Six-Day War closed it. A mine-clearing effort by the US and Britain through 1974 had cleared the waterway.

The shortened, long-range Boeing 747SP flew for the first time on 4 July 1975. Built for Pan Am's New York-Middle East routes, it entered service with Pan Am on 25 April 1976.

The Mack family opened Europa-Park, a 16-hectare amusement park built around European-themed lands, in the German town of Rust. It has since grown into continental Europe's second-most-visited theme park.

Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.

Typhoon Nina's record rainfall burst the Banqiao Dam on the Ru River in Henan on 8 August 1975, triggering the failure of dozens of other dams in the deadliest dam disaster in history.

Anchor Brewing's Fritz Maytag brewed the first Christmas Ale on 17 November 1975, a pale dry-hopped ale that began the modern American Christmas beer and later became a spiced brown ale.

Two years after the Arab oil embargo, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act set up a federal emergency oil stockpile and gave the President the power to order it sold when supply is severely interrupted. Ford called the bill imperfect but signed it anyway, to end "the long debate over national energy policy".

In 1976 Whitbread secured a licence to brew the Belgian pilsner Stella Artois under contract in the UK, the start of a British-brewed Stella whose UK strength was 4.8% from 2008 until it was cut to 4.6% in 2020.

British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.

The 11th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 19 February 1976 at the Hollywood Palladium, hosted by Marty Robbins; Loretta Lynn became the first woman to win Entertainer of the Year, and Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" won Single and Song of the Year.