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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.
• January 23, 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
• February 3, 1973 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
• June 20, 1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
• August 23, 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term “Stockholm syndrome”.
• October 5, 1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
• November 1, 1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• November 4, 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
• November 16, 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
• November 17, 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

Who Were Born On 1973?

• January 22, 1973 – Larry Birkhead, American photographer
• March 8, 1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-American actor
• March 27, 1973 – Ade Adepitan, Nigerian-English basketball player and actor
• April 10, 1973 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer and manager
• September 12, 1973 – Darren Campbell, English sprinter
• October 1, 1973 – Christian Borle, American actor, singer, and dancer
• October 16, 1973 – María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model and actress
• November 7, 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American actress
• November 25, 1973 – Eddie Steeples, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• December 12, 1973 – Gary Breen, English-Irish footballer and manager