Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.

Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.

Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.

The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.

The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.