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1973
 
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Work starts on a new building for the Public Record Office on the site of former government offices in Kew, Surrey See in Google maps   
1973
 
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A military coup plunges democratic Uruguay into eleven years of repressive terror     
1973
 
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A military coup deposes Zahir Shah and brings to an end the hereditary monarchy in Afghanistan      
1973
 
   
Likud is formed in Israel as an alliance of right-wing parties      
1973
 
    
US author Stephen King publishes Carrie, the first of his many best-selling horror novels       
1973
 
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President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet       
1973
 
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The 77-year-old Juan Perón, after returning to Argentina, is once again elected president      
1973
 
     
William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty        
1973
 
   
Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state      
1973
 
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Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet