About the day » Tuesday August 28, 1973Calender converter

• hendrika josephina (susanne) janssen, helden-koningslust
• Dianne Schyff, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada († 1973)
• Jason Edward Bruce Mouw, Colfax, Whitman County, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Jan Allen Frederik de Boer, Bussum, NH, The Netherlands († 1977)
• Bianca Rijks (***), Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Enit Hetterschijt († 1975)
• Brian Röttgers († 1981)
• Jan Allen de Boer, Bussum, Noord-Holland, NL († 1977)
• Linda Schyff, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada († 1973)

• Anna Bartha Francisca van Looy (77), Duitsland
• Arie van der Steen (20)
• Anne de Waal Malefijt (77), Hilversum
• Anna Bartha Francisca van Looij (77), Duitsland
• Catharina Sanderse (83)
• Beatrice Louise Allard (57)
• Andreas Bernardus Wilhelmus Smulders (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Augusta DE VOS (75), Lokeren
• Anthony Staiduhar (born Stajduhar) (60), Euclid, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
• Alice Grace BAXTER (74), Oakland, Alameda, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1971 » Janet Evans, American swimmer
• 1971 » Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Shane Andrews, American baseball player
• 1971 » Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach
• 1972 » Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
• 1973 » J. August Richards, American actor
• 1974 » Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
• 1974 » Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
• 1974 » Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer

• 1965 » Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1976 » Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
• 1978 » Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Robert Shaw, English actor (b. 1927)
• 1981 » Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)

• 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.
• February 21 » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
• February 27 » The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
• April 1 » Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
• June 24 » The UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, is attacked by an arsonist during a church service, and 32 people die from smoke inhalation or fire.
• November 24 » A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
• December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.

The temperature on August 28, 1973 was between 15.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.