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The 13th Grammy Awards on 16 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium were the first broadcast live on television, on ABC with host Andy Williams; Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" won Record, Album and Song of the Year and the Carpenters Best New Artist.

Merle Haggard won the first Entertainer of the Year, and Top Male Vocalist, at the sixth Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 22 March 1971 at the Hollywood Palladium, hosted by Dick Clark, where "For the Good Times" won the three record prizes.

American Airlines flew the first DC-10 passenger flight, a Los Angeles-Chicago round trip with N103AA, on 5 August 1971; United followed on 16 August with San Francisco-Los Angeles.

The Magic Kingdom and its Florida resort opened to the public near Orlando, realizing Walt Disney's vision for a second, larger theme park.

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

VEB TAKRAF completed the first F60 lignite overburden conveyor bridge at the Welzow open-pit mine, creating what is still recognized as the largest mobile land machine ever built.

Richard Nixon spent 21 to 28 February 1972 in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, meeting Mao Zedong on the day he arrived. No sitting US president had set foot in the People's Republic, and the two governments had had no diplomatic relations for 23 years.

At the end of Nixon's visit the two governments published a joint statement setting out, separately, what each believed about Taiwan. Washington said it 'acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China' — the sentence US policy has rested on ever since.

Freddie Hart's "Easy Loving" won Album, Single and Song of the Year, and Hart was also Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, at the seventh Academy of Country & Western Music awards on 13 March 1972 at Knott's Berry Farm, hosted by Dick Clark.

At the 14th Grammy Awards on 14 March 1972 at the Felt Forum in New York, Carole King won Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), Album of the Year (Tapestry), Song of the Year ("You've Got a Friend") and Best Female Pop Vocal; Carly Simon won Best New Artist.

Hamilton Watch Company released the Pulsar P1 Time Computer on 4 April 1972, the first all-electronic digital watch, an 18-karat gold LED watch priced at US$2,100.

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, N301EA, entered commercial service with launch customer Eastern Air Lines on 26 April 1972 on the Miami to New York route, making it the third wide-body airliner in commercial operation after the 747 and DC-10.

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.

Brigantine Coronado in Coronado. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

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.