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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 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
• January 11, 1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
• February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
• March 24, 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
• May 17, 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
• August 8, 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• September 23, 1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
• October 6, 1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
• November 1, 1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
• November 25, 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners’ coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.

Who Were Born On 1973?

• January 7, 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
• February 17, 1973 – Raphaël Ibañez, French rugby player
• February 19, 1973 – Nikos Oikonomou, Greek basketball player and coach
• May 14, 1973 – Julian White, English rugby player
• June 2, 1973 – Marko Kristal, Estonian footballer and manager
• July 14, 1973 – Paul Methric, American rapper and producer (Twiztid, Dark Lotus, and Psychopathic Rydas)
• August 2, 1973 – Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer, created Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan
• October 11, 1973 – Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor and singer
• October 22, 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• December 20, 1973 – Maarja Kangro, Estonian author and poet