About the day » Tuesday April 24, 1973Calender converter

• Steve E Dorsett, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota († 2001)
• Jacob Ossel, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 2018)
• Heidi Irene TRUMP († 1973)
• Esther Heuvel, Waalre Noord-Brabant Nederland († 2007)
• Marco Rudolf Johannes Tebbens, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Jeroen Hosmar, Hellendoorn († 1991)
• Jacob Ossel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2018)
• Janina Janny Greetje Bos († 1992)
• Sérgio Kuhnen, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1995)

• Alexander Harold Colbert (66), Nhill, Victoria, Australia
• Anna Maria Vlemmings (94), Veldhoven, NL
• Bertrand de La Bourdonnaye (75), La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, France
• Engel Stam (67), Egmond aan Zee
• Charles R. Burlingame (88), Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
• Eleno Martinez (13), Seabrook, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Petrus van Kessel (41), onbekend
• Catharina Joanna Adriana Mijland (74), Tilburg
• Albertus van der Flier (86), Amersfoort
• Cor van Kessel (41)

• 1972 » Chipper Jones, American baseball player
• 1972 » Jure Košir, Slovenian skier and singer
• 1972 » Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
• 1973 » Brian Marshall, American bass player and songwriter
• 1973 » Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 » Eric Snow, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 » Gabby Logan, English gymnast, television and radio host
• 1973 » Lee Westwood, English golfer
• 1973 » Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
• 1973 » Toomas Tohver, Estonian footballer

• 1966 » Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1970 » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Robert
6. Marcel
7. Marco
8. Michael
9. Mark
10. Richard
11. Patrick
12. Cornelis
13. Hendrik
14. David
15. Dennis
16. Pieter

1. Sandra
2. Bianca
3. Maria
4. Johanna
5. Miranda
6. Monique
7. Wendy
8. Esther
9. Ingrid
10. Anna
11. Jennifer
12. Karin
13. Natasja
14. Nicole
15. Patricia
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
• March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
• March 29 » Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
• September 28 » The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
• November 14 » In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
• November 14 » The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.

The temperature on April 24, 1973 was between 6.0 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.