January 1, 1973 (Monday)
- The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
- CBS sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner (3.2 million dollars more than CBS bought the Yankees for).
- In the 59th Rose Bowl college football game, the USC Trojans defeat the Ohio State Buckeyes 42-17.
- Born: Jimi Mistry, English actor, in Scarborough; Rabaki Jeremie Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso road cycling champion
- Died: Sergei Kourdakov, 21, KGB agent, found dead in his motel room in Running Springs, California, killed by a gunshot to the head
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“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days—whatever there may be for the dust—the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
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