21. децембар 1973. је био петак под знаком звездице ♐. Био је 354 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Richard M. Nixon.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 52 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био недеља, 21. децембар 2025., пре 205 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је понедељак, 21. децембар 2026., за 159 дана. Живели сте 19.198 дана, или око 460.757 сати, или око 27.645.465 минута, или око 1.658.727.900 секунди.
Date: 22 December 1973
Special to The New York Times
Dade County, Fla, Circuit Ct Judge R L Williams on Dec 20 sentences reporter L W Morgan (St Petersburg Times) to 90 days for contempt of ct for refusing to indentify confidential news source who had given her information for Nov 1 article about secret presentment by Dade County jury
Date: 22 December 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
CBS, in its answer to antitrust suit filed by Justice Dept in Apr '72, asserts on Dec 21 that legal action by Govt is act or reprisal against network for exercising its 1st Amendment rights in covering news of Nixon Adm; charges that suit is part of 'unlawful plan' to use machinery of Fed Govt to 'restrain, intimidate and inhibit criticisim of Pres of the US and his appointees' and that suit has purpose of 'harassing' network
Date: 22 December 1973
AFL-CIO says on Dec 21 that Pres Nixon should be impeached for 'interfering with const guaranteed freedom of press by means of wiretaps, FBI investigations and threats of punitive action,' 6th in series of wkly statements calling for impeachment
Date: 21 December 1973
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
NBC, in what is considered test case on right of broadcasters to engage in investigative journalism, goes to ct to appeal decision of FCC that documentary program, entitled Pensions: The Broken Promise, broadcast on Sept 12, '72, is in violation of FCC's fairness doctrine; says it will file petition with Ct of Appeals for Dist of Columbia to rev comm's decision concerning program which upheld complaint by Accuracy in Media that program did not present balanced rept on pension plans; NBC vp and gen mgr C B Dunham says network has chosen to take case to ct because it has implications for future of broadcast journalism to deal in and other forms of investigative reptg; NBC petition asserts that FCC staff which made ruling exceeded bounds of fairness doctrine into areas of news judgment; says staff treated program as pro and con survey of whole pension system when instead it was investigative documentary on problems in field; NBC is being represented in its appeal by F Abrams
Date: 22 December 1973
Williamstown, Mass, News announces on Dec 21 that it will suspend publication
Date: 22 December 1973
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
White House handling of Pres Nixon's holiday travel plans, especially order that no press plane be chartered for trips in move to conserve fuel, reptdly has further complicated President's relationship with press
Date: 22 December 1973
By MURRAY ILLSON
Murray ILLSON
CBS on Dec 21 brings suit against Vanderbilt Univ for what it terms 'unauthorized' editing, videotaping and distributing for fee of copies of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite; suit, filed in Fed Dist Ct, Nashville, Tenn, seeks to prohibit Vanderbilt from infringing on CBS's copyright and calls for univ to surrender copies of CBS news programs in its possession; Vanderbilt Chancellor A Heard comments
Date: 22 December 1973
ALBIN KREBS
Albin KREBS
Pres Nixon delays his annual medical examination so his personal physician, Dr W R Tkach, can fly to Calif to be married