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23 August 1973 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 23 August 1973 was a Thursday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Touch Me in the Morning” by Diana Ross.
- Top Film of 1973
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1973 was The Exorcist.
- Bestselling Novel of 1973
- “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1973.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “All in the Family” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1973–74 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 23 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 23 August 1973 fell in the Year of the Ox.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 23 August 1973 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 23 August
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- 1975 The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
- 1975 The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan.
- 1977 Waylon Jennings arrested in a drug raid.
Famous people born on August 23
- River Phoenix, American actor (1970–1993)
- Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman (1978–2020)
- Scott Caan, American actor (born 1976)
- Louis XVI (1754–1793)
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Events of 1973 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1973 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 22 – Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.
- February 28 – The landmark postmodern novel Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is published.
- March 26 – TV soap opera The Young and the Restless and game show The $10,000 Pyramid debuts on CBS.
Life in the US in 1973
President
Richard Nixon
Gas (per gallon)
$0.40
Loaf of Bread
$0.27
Average House
$22,100
Weekly Wage
$165
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Famous Faces Born in the 1970s
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