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Died on Sunday November 4, 1973



Born on November 4

Died on November 4
  • 1968 » Horace Gould, English race car driver (b. 1918)
  • 1968 » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (b. 1892)
  • 1969 » Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (b. 1911)
  • 1974 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
  • 1975 » Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
  • 1975 » Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)
  • 1976 » Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
  • 1977 » Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (b. 1935)
  • 1980 » Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (b. 1905)
  • 1982 » Burhan Felek, Turkish lawyer and journalist (b. 1889)

Names that were popular for boys in 1973
  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
Names that were popular for girls in 1973
  1. Sandra
  2. Bianca
  3. Maria
  4. Johanna
  5. Miranda
  6. Monique
  7. Wendy
  8. Esther
  9. Ingrid
  10. Anna
  11. Jennifer
  12. Natasja
  13. Saskia
  14. Patricia
  15. Karin
  16. Nicole

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1973
  • 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.
  • April 10 » Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
  • May 5 » Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59​5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
  • July 5 » A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
  • July 25 » Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
  • November 1 » Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
  • December 15 » The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
Weather November 4, 1973

The temperature on November 4, 1973 was between 3.7 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.

Source: KNMI