January 11, 1973 (Thursday)
- 1973 oil crisis: U.S. Phase III price controls are introduced.
- Vietnam War: All Australian involvement in hostilities ceases.
- Born: Paul Kehoe, Irish politician, in Bree, County Wexford; Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)