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WELL, Happy Birthday 2 U.... GENO!! Did you know that ... On the day that you were born.... Secretariat won the Preakness Stakes!!












....and many, many more!!!!

The MARATHON candy bar was introduced by MARS candy co. in 1973... i was 6 going on 7 and i remember eating those gooey strings of caramel and chocolate... well, shoot thanks for making me feel OLD! LOL "HIPPIE BIRDS DAY TO YOU GENO"

Happy birthday Geno and all that celebrate this month

For me 1973 was an exceptionally GREAT year!
My sister was born!!!
She died 3 times within the first 5 hours and against all odds she not only survived, but is now a very happy mother of my 12 year old nephew
She is battling Graves disease, but is booked in to have her thyroid gland removed
In two years she should be as good as new
I am so blessed she lived as she truly is my best friend

well... here are the nobel prize winners for 1973:

Physics - Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
Chemistry - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
Medicine - Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
Literature - Patrick White
Peace - Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
Economics - Wassily Leontief


Happy Birthday Geno!!

First let me say....


HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENO!!!!


Here is a little something I found that happened in 1973.

The Great UFO Wave: October, 1973 - What Happened?
Kenny Young, UFO Research, Cincinnati

original source | fair use notice

Summary: Perhaps one day through future revelation or discovery, history may acknowledge the bizarre blitz of UFO sightings across America which happened in the shadows of Watergate. But for today, most people are unaware of the extraordinary UFO Wave of 1973

my first born was on march 14 th 1973

Hi,

Below is top 100 Hits of 1973...Also in 1973 I was 9 Yrs old

sisters

Top 100 Hits of 1973 / Top 100 Songs of 1973


1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn
2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
5. My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings
6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson
7. Crocodile Rock, Elton John
8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston
9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon
10. Touch Me In The Morning, Diana Ross
11. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Vicki Lawrence
12. Playground In My Mind, Clint Holmes
13. Brother Louie, Stories
14. Delta Dawn, Helen Reddy
15. Me And Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul
16. Frankenstein, Edgar Winter Group
17. Drift Away, Dobie Gray
18. Little Willy, Sweet
19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Stevie Wonder
20. Half Breed, Cher
21. That Lady, Isley Bros.
22. Pillow Talk, Sylvia
23. We're An American Band, Grand Funk Railroad
24. Right Place, Wrong Time, Dr. John
25. Wildflower, Skylark
26. Superstition, Stevie Wonder
27. Loves Me Like A Rock, Paul Simon
28. The Morning After, Maureen McGovern
29. Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
30. Stuck In The Middle With You, Stealers Wheel
31. Shambala, Three Dog Night
32. Love Train, O'Jays
33. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Barry White
34. Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose, Tony Orlando and Dawn
35. Keep On Truckin' (Pt. 1), Eddie Kendricks
36. Dancing In The Moonlight, King Harvest
37. Danny's Song, Anne Murray
38. Monster Mash, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Crypt Kickers
39. Natural High, Bloodstone
40. Diamond Girl, Seals and Crofts
41. Long Train Running, Doobie Brothers
42. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth), George Harrison
43. If You Want Me To Stay, Sly and The Family Stone
44. Daddy's Home, Jermaine Jackson
45. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye), Gladys Knight and The Pips
46. I'm Doing Fine Now, New York City
47. Could It Be I'm Falling In Love, Spinners
48. Daniel, Elton John
49. Midnight Train To Georgia, Gladys Knight and The Pips
50. Smoke On The Water , Deep Purple
51. The Cover Of Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
52. Behind Closed Doors, Charlie Rich
53. Your Mama Don't Dance, Loggins and Messina
54. Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Chicago
55. The Cisco Kid, War
56. Live And Let Die, Wings
57. Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?, Hurricane Smith
58. I Believe In You, Johnnie Taylor
59. Sing, Carpenters
60. Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got), Four Tops
61. Dueling Banjos, Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
62. Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder
63. Here I Am (Come And Take Me), Al Green
64. My Maria, B.W. Stevenson
65. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
66. Get Down, Gilbert O'Sullivan
67. Last Song, Edward Bear
68. Reelin' In The Years, Steely Dan
69. Hocus Pocus, Focus
70. Yesterday Once More, Carpenters
71. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Bette Midler
72. Clair, Gilbert O'Sullivan
73. Do It Again, Steely Dan
74. Kodachrome, Paul Simon
75. Why Can't We Live Together, Timmy Thomas
76. So Very Hard To Go, Tower Of Power
77. Do You Want To Dance?, Bette Midler
78. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu, Johnny Rivers
79. Ramblin' Man, Allman Brothers
80. Masterpiece, Temptations
81. Peaceful, Helen Reddy
82. One Of A Kind (Love Affair), Spinners
83. Funny Face, Donna Fargo
84. Funky Worm, Ohio Players
85. Angie, Rolling Stones
86. Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Blue Ridge Rangers
87. Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend, Lobo
88. Break Up To Make Up, Stylistics
89. Daisy A Day, Jud Strunk
90. Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001), Deodato
91. Stir It Up, Johnny Nash
92. Money, Pink Floyd
93. Gypsy Man, War
94. The World Is A Ghetto, War
95. Yes We Can Can, Pointer Sisters
96. Free Ride, Edgar Winter Group
97. Space Oddity, David Bowie
98. It Never Rains In Southern California, Albert Hammond
99. The Twelfth Of Never, Donny Osmond
100. Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Temptations

Hi,


Geno may you have a wonderful birthday....


Many happy returns hun....


Hugs,

Sarah

Have a very Happy Birthday Geno!!!

I turned 1o years old May 16th 1973

Happy Birthday Geno!!!!

I was 5 when you were born Geno, so glad you were born!

Cease fire in vietnam war.!!!!!!!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY MORE, that was 1 of the best years of my life as the 70s were. its 2 bad we can't go back in time, oh yes i live in mo. and the records center caught fire and a lot of military records were lost .ty josie46

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU GENO

Here's a few things that were happening in England in 1973

ncumbents
Monarch - HM Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister - Edward Heath, Conservative Party

[edit] Events
1 January - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union.
25 January - English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey.
8 March - IRA bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in England.
9 March - Northern Ireland vote overwhelmingly to remain within the UK. Voter turnout is reportedly at 59%, although less than 1% of Catholics vote.
17 March - Queen Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.
24 March - Pink Floyd release The Dark Side of the Moon.
5 May - Sunderland AFC defeats Leeds United AFC in the FA Cup final.
23 June - A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a 6-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
10 July - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
31 July - Militant protesters of Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
23 September - The BBC introduces Ceefax, which with ITV's ORACLE first broadcast in 1974, are the world's first teletext systems. [1]
8 October - London Broadcasting Company, Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, begin broadcasting.
20 October - The Dalai Lama makes his first visit to the UK.
14 November - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries a commoner, Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey (they divorce in 1992).
9 December - The Sunningdale Agreement is signed in Sunningdale, Berkshire by Prime Minister Edward Heath, Irish premier Liam Cosgrave, and representatives of the Ulster Unionist Party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
31 December - Due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure - the Three-Day Week comes into force.

[edit] Unknown dates
The National House Building Council is formed.
Brian David Josephson shares the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects". [2]
Geoffrey Wilkinson wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ernst Otto Fischer "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds". [3]

[edit] Births
January 18 - Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
February 8 - Sonia Deol, Presenter Network East, BBC Asian Network & programme narrator
26 April - Chris Perry, English footballer
May 10 - Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
May 24 - Dermot O'Leary, British TV Star
May 30 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
June 9 - Iain Lee, British comedian and radio and television presenter
July 3 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
July 23 - Fran Healy, British singer (Travis)
July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, English actress
August 12 - Richard Reid, English terrorist
September 12 - Darren Campbell, British athlete
October 21 - Beverly Turner, British TV and radio presenter
November 29 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
December 17 - Paula Radcliffe, British athlete

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - April
January 19 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
15 January - Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist(b. 1891)
28 January - Francis Romney, English cricketer (b. 1873)
16 February - Harold Gibbons, English cricketer (b. 1904)
12 March - David Lack, British ornithologist and biologist (b. 1910)
March 26 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
30 March - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, British politician and Conservative peer (b. 1903)

[edit] May - August
11 May - Russell Everitt, English cricketer (b. 1881)
14 May - A. C. Ewing, British philosopher (b. 1899)
6 June - Jimmy Clitheroe, aka 'The Clitheroe Kid', English comedian (b. 1921)
18 June - Roger Delgado, English actor (Doctor Who) (b. 1918)
1 July - Charles Ernest Garforth, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1891)
July 8 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
18 July - John Brown Hamilton, Scottish soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1896)
July 29 - Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b. 1948)
29 July - Cecil Griffiths, British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1920 Summer Olympics (b. 1901)
16 August - A. K. Chesterton, British politician and journalist (b. 1896)
17 August - George Benson, British Labour Party politician (b. 1889)
18 August - Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British Ulster Unionist politician (b. 1888)
29 August - Stringer Davis, English actor (b. 1896)

[edit] September - December
September 2 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
6 September - William Henry Harris, English organist and composer (b. 1883)
11 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British anthropologist (b. 1902)
21 September - C. H. Dodd, Welsh scholar and theologian (b. 1884)
24 September - Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, British peeress
25 September - George Porter, British Labour Party politician (b. 1884)
September 29 - W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
4 October - Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician and Conservative peer (b. 1894)
9 October - Hilda Plowright, English actress (b. 1890)
10 November - Gerald Cock, British broadcasting executive (b. 1887)
5 December - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1892)
9 December - Anthony Gilbert (pen name of Lucy Beatrice Malleson), British crime-fiction writer (b. 1899)

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