Gareth's Gateway - A Time Capsule

A Time Capsule
January 25, 1973

This page offers a "time capsule" featuring lots of information about events that occurred:
on January 25, 1973 -- Gareth's date of birth,
in 1973 -- the year of Gareth's birth,
and
on January 25 throughout history -- on the anniversary of Gareth's birthday.

Events in history which took place on January 25:

0844 - Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1139 - Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant
1327 - King Edward III accedes to British throne
1348 - Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000
1494 - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples
1533 - King Henry VII of England secretly marries Anne Boleyn
1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1565 - Battle at Talikota India; Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1579 - Treaty of Utrecht is signed, marking beginning of Dutch Republic
1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1775 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1787 - Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, MA
1791 - British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada
1799 - The first US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 - Napoleon is elected President of the Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1817 - Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1825 - The first US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1848 - Last convict ship to Port Phillip in Victoria, the Marion, disembarks passengers
1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Native Americans
1858 - Mendelssohn's Wedding March is performed for the first time in public, as the daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria marries the Prussian Crown Prince
1863 - Battle of Kinston, NC
1863 - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac
1865 - The CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia
1868 - Senufe, Abyssinia, Canadian soldier Alexander Dunn is killed when his hunting rifle accidentally fires; born at York, Upper Canada Sept. 15, 1833; first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross, for bravery as a lieutenant in the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Regiment of Hussars at the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava
1870 - Soda fountain is patented by Gustavus Dows
1875 - Anti-slavery society is formed in NY
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1878 - Turkish steamer becomes the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat
1882 - Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1890 - National Afro-American League forms in Chicago
1890 - Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days)
1890 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly returns home after completing an around the world journey in just 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes
1890 - United Mine Workers of America forms
1894 - James J. Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 - Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
1904 - 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, PA
1907 - Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters
1910 - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
1915 - Giordano, Sardou and Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in New York City, NY
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service is inaugurated (New York to San Francisco)
1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary
1918 - Russia is declared a republic of Soviets
1919 - League of Nations is founded (first meeting is one year later)
1923 - NVV donates ƒ100,000 to mine workers of Ruhrgebied
1924 - The first Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1929 - Bradman scores 340* for New South Wales vs Victoria, 488 minutes, 38 fours
1932 - Bradman scores 167 New South Wales vs Victoria, 224 minutes, 22 fours
1932 - Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system
1932 - The first commencement exercises at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
1937 - Miami-to-Tampa bus overturns in canal, kills 13
1937 - Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on NBC radio
1939 - Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, killing 10,000
1939 - Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1940 - Nazis decree the establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
1945 - Grand Rapids, MI, becomes first US city to fluoridate its water
1945 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1945 - West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1946 - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1947 - Mobster Al Capone dies at age 48
1948 - Investors Syndicate of Canada incorporates Investors Mutual of Canada Ltd.; Canada's first public mutual fund will be first sold to the public in 1950
1949 - The first Israeli election; Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1950 - Cleveland experiences its highest recorded temperature for January, 73ºF (23ºC)
1951 - UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1952 - Test debut of Richie Benaud, vs West Indies at the SCG
1953 - In Liverpool, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada is destroyed in a dockside fire; used as a troop ship during World War II
1955 - Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1955 - Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race
1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955 - US and Panama sign canal treaty
1956 - Kilauea Plantation, HI, experiences state-record rainfall, 96.5 cm (38.0 inches)
1957 - FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR
1959 - American Airlines beings the first scheduled transcontinental U.S. passenger air service, featuring the new Boeing 707 jetliner
1959 - Pope John XXIII proclaims second Vatican council
1959 - The first transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to New York for $301)
1961 - Military coup in El Salvador
1961 - President John F. Kennedy makes history by holding the first presidential news conference simulcast live on radio and TV
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" is released
1962 - The Bank of Montreal acquires Newfoundland Savings Bank
1963 - Wilson Kettle, who lived in Newfoundland, dies at age 102; he has 582 living descendants
1964 - Beatles first US number-1 hit, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
1964 - Echo 2, US communications satellite, is launched
1968 - Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City, NY
1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1970 - Robert Altman's "M*AS*H," premieres
1971 - Charles Manson and three women followers are convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971 - Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada
1971 - Philadelphia Mint's first trial strike of the Eisenhower dollar
1973 - On the British Columbia coast the Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island, spilling 378,000 litres of fuel oil; spill spreads 320 km south
1974 - Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 - Christian Barnard transplants first human heart without removal of old
1974 - Start of major flooding in Brisbane in which 13 die
1976 - Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut India vs New Zealand Auckland
1977 - In New York Rene Levesque (1922-1987) tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'
1978 - Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1979 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through central Honshu, Japan
1979 - Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce
1979 - Pope John Paul II's first overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1980 - Bani Sadr is elected President of Iran
1980 - Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics
1980 - Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is elected president of Iran
1980 - Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 - Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
1981 - Mao's widow Jiang Qing is sentenced to death
1981 - The 52 American hostages held by Iran for 444 days arrive back in the U.S.
1983 - China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983 - Infrared telescope satellite is launched into polar orbit
1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia
1985 - "We are the World" is recorded
1985 - Test debut of Wasim Akram vs New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1986 - General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1988 - George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988 - Ramsewak Shankar is sworn in as President of Suriname
1988 - Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in the Iran-Contra affair
1990 - Actress Ava Gardner dies in London at age 67
1990 - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990 - Seventy-three people are killed when an Avianca 707 jet crashes after running out of fuel in Cove Neck, New York
1990 - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
1991 - Mark Waugh scores ton in first Test Cricket innings vs England Adelaide
1991 - Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a two-and-one-half-year run
1992 - Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language
1993 - Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1994 - Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1994 - Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994 - Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55
1994 - US space probe Clementine is launched
1995 - Lawyers for the defense make their opening statement in the murder trial of former pro football running back and sports commentator O.J. Simpson
1996 - Leilani Muir is awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province's Eugenics Board in 1959
1997 - 71st Australian Women's Tennis Martina Hingis beats Mary Pierce (62-62)
1997 - A cyclone sweeps across the island nation of Madagascar, spawning floods that leave 100 people missing and thousands homeless
1998 - "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY after 1,503 performances
1998 - Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh Spice) and football (soccer) player David Beckham get engaged
1998 - Two US tourists, Thomas and Eileen Lonergan, are left behind by a scuba diving operator on a reef off Port Douglas, north Queensland, and are never found
1999 - More than 1,000 people are killed when an eartquake rocks the South American country of Colombia
1999 - The first hand transplant in the U.S. takes place in Louisville, KY

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Top news headlines during the week of January 21-27, 1973:

Jan 21 - Third NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 33-28
Jan 21 - Leslie Nielsen appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
Jan 22 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
Jan 22 - Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
Jan 22 - US, North and South Vietnam, and Vietcong sign boundary accord
Jan 23 - Helgafell, island of Heimaey, Iceland, erupts for first time in 7,000 years
Jan 23 - Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria, kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
Jan 23 - 23rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
Jan 23 - President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War
Jan 24 - Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 26 - Belgium government of Leburton forms
Jan 27 - UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
Jan 27 - US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and military draft
Jan 27 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn (her fifth consecutive win)
Jan 27 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen, Jr.
Jan 27 - William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty

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Academy Award winners in 1973:

Best Picture: The Sting directed by George Roy Hill
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in Save The Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in A Touch Of Class

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On television in 1973 (USA):

Adam-12
All in the Family
The Bob Newhart Show
Bonanza

The Brady Bunch

The Carol Burnett Show

Columbo

Emergency

Gunsmoke

Hawaii Five-0

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

M*A*S*H

Mission: Impossible

The Odd Couple

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

The Waltons

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Top songs for 1973 (USA):

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks
Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips

My Love - Paul McCartney and Wings

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree - Dawn
Top of the World - Carpenters
You're So Vain - Carly Simon

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Top books in 1973 (USA):

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Deliverance by James Dickey
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sounder by William Armstrong
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Cromer Byars
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

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Hot new toys in 1973 (USA):

Action Jackson
Alien Zeroid
Barrel of Monkeys
Boggle
Dawn Doll
Dungeons and Dragons
Easy-Bake Premier Oven
Evel Knievel Figures

Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
Fashion Plates
Fisher-Price Movie Viewer
Hacky Sack
Kicktail Skateboard
The Lone Ranger Action Figure

Mandy ("My Friends Doll")
Mastermind
Masterpiece
Nerf Ball
Odyssey (Odyssey 100)
Perfection
Perfection
Pong
Radio Flyer "Fireball 2000"

Seance
Shrinky Dinks
Snoopy Sno-Cone
Split-Level Aggravation
Stay Alive
Weebles
World's Greatest Super Heroes
Zeroids

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Prices in 1973 (USA):

Bread: $0.27/loaf

Milk: $1.36/gal

Eggs: $1.22/doz

House: $35,500

Car: $4,052

Gasoline: $0.39/gal

Postage Stamp: $0.08/ea

Average Income: $13,622/yr
Minimum Wage: $1.60/hr

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Noteworthy people (in addition to Gareth, of course!) born on January 25:

1037 - Su Tung-p'o, [J Sotoba], China, layman/poet/administrator [or Dec 19]
1477 - Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII
1509 - Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic"
1540 - Edmund Campion, London, saint/Jesuit martyr (Decem Rationes)
1615 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob)
1626 - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter
1634 - Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88)
1693 - Anna Ivanova Romanova, daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia (1730-40)
1708 - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
1728 - Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer
1736 - Joseph-Louis, Comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician
1741 - Benedict Arnold, general/traitor (US revolution)
1750 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1759 - Robert Burns, Alloway, Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne)
1766 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
1770 - Francis Burdett, British politician
1777 - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance (1813-14)
1796 - William McGillivray, Old Aberdeen, naturalist
1806 - Daniel Maclise, Irish painter
1814 - Francis Harrison Pierpont, Governor (Union), died in 1899
1826 - Rembt T.H.P.L.A. van Boneval Faure, Dutch MP
1627 - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1834 - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
1839 - Seldon Connor, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1841 - John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, first Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
1844 - Frederick E. Kitziger, composer
1851 - Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer (Sea Bride princess of Herberg)
1851 - Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Bondestudentar)
1858 - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer
1860 - Charles Curtis (R), 31st US VP (1929-33)
1866 - Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP party
1874 - Hewlett Johnson [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
1874 - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
1880 - Francis George Scott, composer
1881 - Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man)
1881 - Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
1882 - Virginia [Adeline] Woolf, London, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse)
1884 - Edward Kilenyi, composer
1885 - A.J. Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon)
1886 - Wilhelm Fürtwängler, Berlin, Germany, conductor/composer
1887 - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
1889 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1891 - Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britian, actress (Cleopatra)
1891 - William C. Bullitt, first US ambassador to USSR
1896 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
1898 - Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding)
1899 - Ace Goodman, Kansas City, MO, comedian (Easy Aces)
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, statesman, leader in European integration
1900 - Mildred Dunnock, Baltimore, MD, actress (Baby Doll, Nun's Story)
1900 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, geneticist/writer (Mankind Evolving)
1901 - Eric Brown, architect
1902 - Gerard P.M. Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian (Vocation, Kitty)
1903 - "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker
1904 - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Het Parool)
1904 - Geza Frid, Hungarian/Dutch composer/pianist
1908 - W.H.V. "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper (England in 1 Test in Calcutta)
1908 - Lord Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar)
1910 - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman
1910 - Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer
1911 - Julia Frances Smith, composer
1912 - Lucius E. Burch, Jr., US lawyer/civil rights leader
1913 - Witold Lutoslawski, Warsaw, Poland, composer (Jeux Vénitiens)
1915 - Michael Duane, educationalist
1918 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol)
1919 - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair of Sherlock Holmes Society of London
1919 - Edwin Newman, New York City, NY, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment)
1921 - Alfred Reed, composer
1921 - Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author
1922 - Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady)
1922 - Jules P. de Palm, Antilles, writer
1923 - Eva Zeller, writer
1924 - Lou "The Toe" Groza, AAFC, NFL tackle, kicker (Cleveland Browns)
1925 - Eric Dempster, cricketer (New Zealand slow bowl of mid-50's, bowling average 109.5)
1927 - Seung Sahn, Zen teacher (Korean line)
1927 - Gregg Palmer, San Francisco, CA, actor (Scream, To Hell & Back)
1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, composer
1928 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (1985-91)
1931 - Paavo J. Haavikko, Finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
1931 - Dean Jones, Decatur, AL, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
1931 - Harold Lloyd, Jr., actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1931 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
1933 - Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines (1986-92)
1934 - Elizabeth Allen, Jersey City, NJ, actress (Laura-Bracken's World)
1936 - Dan Schaefer (Representative-R-CO, 1983- )
1936 - Diana Hyland, Cleveland Heights, OH, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)

1937 - Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer
1937 - Don Maynard, NFL receiver (New York Jets), #13
1938 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte)
1938 - Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], US singer (Roll With Me Henry)
1941 - Elzie "Buddy" Baker, race-car driver
1945 - Leigh Taylor-Young, Washington, DC, actress (Peyton Place, Alice B Toklas)
1946 - Ronnie Brandon, rocker (McCoys)
1946 - Silvio Blatter, writer
1946 - Josephine M. Verspaget, sociologist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1950 - Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place)
1950 - Michael Cotton, rocker (Tubes)
1951 - Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay, OR, 5K (Olympics-4th-1972)
1953 - Malcolm Green, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You)
1954 - Richard Finch, rock bassist (KC & Sunshine-That's the Way I Like It)
1954 - Condredge Holloway, Alabama, CFL quarterback (Ottawa, Toronto)
1955 - Joe Strummer, vocalist/guitarist (Clash-Rock the Casbah) [or 8/21/53]
1956 - Andy Cox, Birmingham, England, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1957 - Edmund Theodore Sylvers, rocker (Sylvers)
1957 - Martha Elizabeth Thomsen, Moses Lake, WA, playmate (May, 1980)
1957 - Jeff Gossett, NFL punter (Oakland Raiders)
1957 - Jenifer Lewis, actress (Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act)
1958 - Gary Brian Tibbs, London, rock bassist (Adam & The Ants, Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1958 - Dinah Manoff, New York City, NY, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol-Empty Nest)
1958 - Harti Weirather, Austrian alpine skier
1961 - Michele Tobin, Chicago, IL, actress (Fitzpatricks)
1962 - Chris Chelios, Chicago, IL, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team USA)
1963 - Suzanne Klemann, Dutch singer (Loïs Lane-I Wanna Be)
1963 - Carl Fysh, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1963 - Joe Lloyd, Highland Park, IL, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Space Coast)
1964 - Chip Foster, actor/twin of Pepper (Chip & Pepper's Surf's Up Saturday)
1964 - William Thomas Andrade, Fall River, MA, PGA golfer (1991 Kemper Open)
1964 - Bob Sweeney, Concord, NHL center (New York Islanders, Calgary Flames)
1965 - Esa Tikkanen, Helsinki, Finland, NHL left wing (Panthers, Canucks, Olympics-B-98)
1965 - Brian Holman, Winfield, KS, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners)
1966 - John [Vo] Velyvis, North Adams, MA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 - Richie Lewis, US, baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 - Mark Schlereth, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl XXXII)
1966 - Paul Ranheim, St. Louis, MO, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1966 - Pavel Torgajev Nizhnij, Novgorod, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1967 - Randy Mckay, Montréal, Québec, Canada, NHL right wing (New Jersey Devils)
1967 - Mario Brunetta, hockey goaltender (Team Italy 1998)
1967 - Marty Calder, St. Catharine, Ontario, Canada, 62 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympics-12-92,96)
1968 - Lynette Brooky, New Zealand, golfer (New Zealand Open 1993/94)
1968 - Tim De Leede, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1968 - Roosevelt Collins, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Heidi Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1969 - Jesse Harte, Rome, GA, heavy metal vocalist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1969 - Penny Moore, WNBA guard/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 - Nolan Harrison, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Pitt Steelers)
1970 - Chris Mills, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks)
1970 - Milt Stegall, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 - Pau Coll, WLAF kicker/safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Scott Hendrickson, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - China Slick, rocker (daughter of Grace Slick)
1971 - Herman Smith, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, London Monarchs)
1971 - Jordan Young, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Purdue)
1971 - Kerry Taylor, US, baseball pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Kevin Williams, receiver/kick returner (Arizona Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Konstantin Matoussevich, Israel, Men's high jump (Olympics-7th-1996)
1971 - Tommie Jones, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Vincent Brisby, NFL wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1973 - Anthony Harris, linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1973 - Elvis Presley, Jr., alleged son of Elvis Presley
1973 - Marco Battaglia, tight end (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 - Rodney Young, NFL safety (New York Giants)
1973 - Terrell Wade, Rembert, SC, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1974 - Adam Meadows, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 - Daniel Sproule, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1974 - Jonathan Bryan Colling, Boston, MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1975 - John Piersma, US, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-4th-96)
1976 - Tara Fleming, North York, Ontario, Canada, LPGA golfer (1992 LPGA Corning-10th)
1978 - Mandy Carraway, Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1996)
1978 - Christine Lakin, actress (Alicia Lambert-Step by Step)
1980 - Amanda Michelle Burns, Miss West Virginia Teen-USA (1997)
???? - George Alvarez, Cuba, actor (Enrique Alvarez-Bold & Beautiful)
???? - Erika Wicoff, LPGA golfer
???? - Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (775-80)

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Noteworthy people (in addition to Gareth, of course!) born in 1973:

Banks, Tyra (4 December)
Beckinsale, Kate (26 July)
Best, Ahmed (19 August)
Blaine, David (4 April)
Brody, Adrien (14 April)
Burns, Steve (9 October)
Campbell, Neve (3 October)
Chappelle, Dave (24 August)
Chimpsky, Nim (21 November)
De La Hoya, Oscar (4 February)
De Matteo, Drea (19 January)
Ealy, Michael (3 August)
Garciaparra, Nomar (23 July)
Herzigova, Eva (10 March)
Kerry, Alexandra (5 September)

Kidd, Jason (23 March)
Klum, Heidi (1 June)
Knight, T. R. (26 March)
Landry, Ali (21 July)
Lewinsky, Monica (23 July)
Lobo, Rebecca (6 October)
Lopez, Mario (10 October)
McGowan, Rose (5 September)
Mos Def (11 December)
Rai, Aishwarya (1 November)
Seles, Monica (2 December)
Simms, Molly (25 May)
Suzuki, Ichiro (22 October)
Walker, Paul (12 September)

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