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1973 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1973 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1973

• January 8, 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
• February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
• March 29, 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• May 29, 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• June 27, 1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
• June 28, 1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• July 10, 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
• October 23, 1973 – The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
• December 15, 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
• December 17, 1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.

Who Were Born On 1973?

• February 8, 1973 – Project Pat, American rapper
• February 9, 1973 – Shaun Parkes, English actor
• March 7, 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer (Il Divo)
• May 14, 1973 – Shanice, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• May 29, 1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
• July 13, 1973 – Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter
• August 6, 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American lawyer, journalist, and author
• September 18, 1973 – James Marsden, American actor and singer
• November 12, 1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress and producer
• November 17, 1973 – Eli Marrero, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager