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1973 in Japan

Explore 2 historical events and records for Japan in 1973.

Historical records for Japan in 1973

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September

Marriage

Ono, Yoko · Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin an 18-month separation, during which Lennon embarks on his infamous "lost weekend" in Los Angeles

December

Nobel Prize for Electron Tunnelling

Esaki, Leo · Stockholm · Physicist · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental discoveries concerning tunnelling in semiconductors.

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