The space laboratory will be in orbit for eight months. In the meantime, an Apollo spacecraft will carry three astronauts to the space station. The 36-meter-long space station has a studio and a living room for three astronauts.
But soon after take-off, a solar shield was damaged. Surprisingly, about 65,438+00 days later, Charles Conrad Joseph Kell and Paul Witz on the Apollo spacecraft repaired the space station in space with the replacement parts they carried. They plan to return to Earth on June 22nd.
2 1973 On August 24th, the 10th National Congress of communist party, China was held.
From August 24th to 28th, 1973, the 10th National Congress of China was held in Beijing. The meeting was attended by 65,438+0,249 delegates representing 28 million party member. Presided over by Mao Zedong, the conference adopted a political report drafted by Mao Zedong and a report by Wang Hongwen on amending the constitutions of party constitution and China.
Elected 195 Central Committee members and 124 alternate Central Committee members. Some veteran comrades who were tested, rejected and persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution", such as Deng Xiaoping, Wang Jiaxiang, Ulanhu, Li Jingquan, Tan Zhenlin and Liao Chengzhi, were elected as members of the Central Committee. But a group of careerists, speculators and gang leaders were also elected to the Central Committee.
The Congress criticized the crimes of Lin Biao's counter-revolutionary clique, but still adhered to the theory of "continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat" and confirmed that "the political line and organizational line of the Ninth National Congress are correct". In the revised "General Program" of party constitution, the provision that Lin Biao was the successor was deleted, but the guiding principle of the "Cultural Revolution" remained unchanged.
3 1973,101October 6, the fourth Middle East war broke out.
1973, 10/0 On October 6, Israel was suddenly attacked by Egypt and Syria, and this first attack was quickly reinforced by Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Both sides were fully armed by a superpower: the Israeli air force suffered heavy losses because of the Sam missiles provided by the Soviet Union, but in the decisive desert encounter, the American and British tanks prevailed.
4 1973, 10, 16, the oil crisis that shocked the world broke out.
In the Middle East War of May 438+10, in order to attack Israel and its supporters, Arab oil-producing countries took oil as a strategic weapon to defend national sovereignty, recover lost territory and oppose hegemonism, and took measures such as reducing production, raising prices, embargo and nationalization, and launched an oil struggle that shocked the world, which became a great initiative in the anti-hegemonic struggle of the third world.
5, 1973,165438+129 October, a complete stegodon was discovered in Gansu.
1973165438+10. In October, a saber-toothed elephant fossil was excavated at the bank of Ma Lian River in Banqiao commune, Heshui County, Gansu Province. The skeleton of this saber-toothed elephant belongs to an elderly individual, and its height is about.
It is 4 meters long, about 8 meters long, and its front teeth are 3.03 meters long and 32 centimeters in diameter (50 centimeters near the end). It is one of the largest known saber-toothed elephants in the world.
June1973 65438+February 2 1 Middle East Peace Conference was held in Geneva.
1973 65438+On the morning of February 2/kloc-0, the "Middle East Peace Conference" opened in the League of Nations Building in Geneva. UN Secretary-General waldheim presided over the opening ceremony.
This "Middle East Peace Conference" was organized by two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. The meeting was co-chaired by Soviet Foreign Minister gromyko and US Secretary of State Kissinger.
65438+February 18, representatives of the Soviet Union Malik and the United States Bennett met with UN Secretary-General waldheim and submitted letters with the same contents to the UN Secretary-General. The letter informed waldheim that "the meeting should be co-chaired by the Soviet Union and the United States" and asked him to "act as the convener of the meeting and preside over the opening stage of the meeting".