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- 1973
- January
- January 1, 1973
- Luxury liner Poseidon is struck by a 90 foot tidal wave on its way to New York.

- January 5, 1973
- Future 4400 returnee and baseball player Gary Navarro disappears, later developing the ability to read minds upon his return. (Season 2 episode Voices Carry)

- January 20, 1973
- Ted Kennedy sworn in as the 38th President of the United States.

- January 21, 1973
- Date of classified mutant Medical & Blood Test Reports being sent to Trask Industries.

- January 22, 1973
- Haven resident Doug Blackwell's wife Samantha born.

- January 25, 1973
- Quicksilver helps Professor X, Beast and Wolverine break Magneto out of the Pentagon.

- January 27, 1973
- In the original timeline, Raven killed for the first time at the Paris Peace Accords - assassinating Bolivar Trask - and truly becoming Mystique.

- In the new timeline, Raven is prevented from killing Bolivar Trask at the Paris Peace Accords.

- January 29, 1973
- Mystique thwarts Magneto's attempt to control the Sentinels to kill President Nixon and his cabinet.

- January 30, 1973
- Date of Washington Senator newspaper headline: MUTANT SAVES PRESIDENT AND CABINET / Sentinel Program Canceled.

- February
- February 1, 1973
- While searching for information about his mother's murder, Dexter attempts to identify the exact date, crossing off 2-1-73, 5-21-73 and 4-9-73 before finding the right date of 10-3-73. (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- March
- March 1, 1973
- Date of Birth on machine number Vanessa Watkins' husband Jeremy's forged US passport under the name Henry Shain. (Season 3 episode Reasonable Doubt)

- Birthdate of Victor L. Amerena, tracked outside Soldier Field following the Unity Rally bombing by the police's implant recognition program.

- March 15, 1973
- Date of Death on Marty's father George Douglas McFly's headstone.

- March 16, 1973
- Date of Hill Valley Telegraph newspaper original headline: GEORGE McFLY MURDERED.

- Date of Hill Valley Telegraph newspaper revised headline: GEORGE McFLY HONORED.

- March 27, 1973
- Birthdate of Robert G. Byelich, tracked outside Soldier Field following the Unity Rally bombing by the police's implant recognition program.

- April
- April 9, 1973
- While searching for information about his mother's murder, Dexter attempts to identify the exact date, crossing off 2-1-73, 5-21-73 and 4-9-73 before finding the right date of 10-3-73. (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- April 12, 1973
- NSA assignment listed in Brill's file: KH-10 Project Leader.

- Roman Pearce born. Date of Birth as listed on his California driver license.

- Date of a recorded video session between Harry and Dr. Evelyn Vogel. (Season 8 episode Scar Tissue)

- April 13, 1973
- G. Harrowitz dies, age 82 years old - per headstone visible during The Tick's opening monologue. (Season 1 episode Tale from the Crypt)

- April 19, 1973
- Future 4400 returnee Werner Liechtenstein disappears. (Season 2 episode The Fifth Page)

- May
- May 9, 1973
- Date of Homicide Report for "Elias, M”, Carl Elias' mother, from the evidence file stolen by Sm Latimore's bank robber ring. (Season 1 episode Mission Creep)

- May 18, 1973
- Ben and Mym arrive in Brooklyn 1973, where Mym picks up a pair of purple suede roller skates at a thrift store. The couple head to Italian restaurant Angelina's on Mulberry Street, but a vagrant stumbles into Ben, dragging him into the future.
- May 19, 1973
- Geo picks Ben up and takes him to his mother's house, where Ben agrees to participate in the Chronothon.
- May 21, 1973
- While searching for information about his mother's murder, Dexter attempts to identify the exact date, crossing off 2-1-73, 5-21-73 and 4-9-73 before finding the right date of 10-3-73. (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- May 23, 1973
- Date of a recorded video session between Harry and Dr. Evelyn Vogel. (Season 8 episode Scar Tissue)

- June
- June 1, 1973
- Date of Birth on James R. mercer's Michigan Driver License. (Season 2 episode Relevance)

- June 18, 1973
- Date scratched into the stall wall at the Miami airport where Tender Branson sits on a toilet: "Be here tonight for a free blow job. Saturday, June 18, 1973". (Chapter 22)
- June 21, 1973
- Richard Langford, the actor that played the sexy plumber on the hit TV show Annabelle!, born. (Season 8 episode Two and a Half Deaths)

- June 23, 1973
- Date that Dr. Falken's WOPR user account was removed, which WOPR mentions when David logs in using Dr. Falken's account. David: "I'm fine. How are... you?" WOPR: "Excellent. It's been a long time. Can you explain the removal of your user account on June 23rd, 1973?"

- July
- July 11, 1973
- Date of newspaper article that Deter comes across while searching for information about his mother's murder. Headline: Florida Violence on the Rise (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- July 19, 1973
- Date of a recorded video session between Harry and Dr. Evelyn Vogel. (Season 8 episode Scar Tissue)

- July 20, 1973
- Bruce Lee does not die from a brain edema. J1, also known as nut-face Josh, travels back in time, rescuing his heroes that died prematurely and taking them to Haven, A town that exists outside of time and space. (Season 3 episode Haven is for Real)

- August
- August 11, 1973
- Date of Birth on Travelwire employee Fred Whalen's New Mexico driver license. (Season 5 episode Wexler vs. Goodman)

- August 18, 1973
- Date of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

- Five young adults are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert pick up a distraught hitchhiker that shoots herself in their van. The group goes to a nearby diner to contact the police, where a woman tells them to meet Sheriff Hoyt at the mill, where a young boy named Jedidiah tells them Hoyt is at home, getting drunk. They come across a plantation house, where they meet Leatherface.

- Date of the original Texas Chainsaw massacre.

- August 20, 1973
- Two investigating officers are killed by Leatherface while doing a crime scene investigation of the Hewitt house.

- Date of a recorded video session between Harry and Dr. Evelyn Vogel. (Season 8 episode Scar Tissue)

- August 22, 1973
- New record added 1/28/2023
- Secretariat banned from running ever again. (Season 1 episode The View from Halfway Down)
- Secretariat banned for life from competition for betting on his own races. (Season 1 episode Later)

- August 24, 1973
- Date of the Swannekke Hydra Reactor report.

- August 28, 1973
- Date of Birth on Ted Sprague's data record, incorrectly suspected of being the mysterious and deadly Sylar. (Season 1 episode Nothing to Hide)

- August 29, 1973
- Brian Spilner born. Date of Birth as listed on his California Driver License.

- Ferry bomber Carroll Oerstadt born.

- September
- September 3, 1973
- A blue fly capable of flapping 70 beats a minute lands on St. Vincent Street in Montmartre. On a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically makes two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Emile Maginot's funeral. Amelie is conceived.

- September 4, 1973
- Date circled on Luisa Rey's wall calendar.

- Date of Lincoln Star newspaper headline: 300 POWERED OUT OF WORK.

- September 6, 1973
- Sam Beckett leaps into F.B.I. Agent Peter Langley, protecting a very annoying yet beautiful woman, and must protect her from being killed by a jealous criminal. (Season 2 episode Her Charm)

- September 9, 1973
- Date circled on Luisa Rey's wall calendar.

- September 11, 1973
- Isaac Sachs's life is headed in one direction. The next day, after meeting Luisa Rey, it heads in another.

- September 12, 1973
- Date of entry in Isaac Sachs's journal - his last entry, as the airplane he is aboard explodes.

- September 13, 1973
- Date on evidence envelope.

- September 15, 1973
- Date of film reel that Tony watches, an introduction to the Stark Expo from his father, Howard Stark. Prod. No.: Expo Intro / Director: Barney Balkoff / Camera: Johnny Libatique / Scene: 1A, Take 8, Roll 5.

- September 17, 1973
- Date of Birth on Robert Fischer's passport.

- September 21, 1973
- Date of a recorded video session between Harry and Dr. Evelyn Vogel. (Season 8 episode Scar Tissue)

- September 28, 1973
- Dexter's adoptive father Harry Morgan interviews Dexter's mother Laura Moser about a drug shipment. Dexter listens to the tape years later, how he finds out that Laura was Harry's informant. (Season 2 episode The Dark Defender)

- October
- October 1, 1973
- Dexter and his older brother Brian witness their mother's brutal murder at the hands of three drug dealers. (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- Date of San Francisco Examiner headline: "Oil Lobbyist Arrested in Swannekke Island Scandal."

- October 2, 1973
- Laura Moser found dead in shipping container - from Miami Tribune newspaper article that Deb discovers while digging into her father's past. (Season 4)

- October 3, 1973
- Date of Miami Tribune newspaper article about the death of Dexter's birth mother Laura Moser. Deb finds the article while digging into her father's past. (Season 4)

- Date of newspaper article about the massacre in the shipping yard where Dexter and his older brother Brian were found, locked in a shipping container, along with their mother Laura Moser and three others, all chopped up with a chain saw. (Season 1 episode Truth Be Told)

- October 12, 1973
- NASA established Jamestown base on the moon. (Season 1 episode Into the Abyss)

- November
- November 2, 1973
- New record added 1/30/2023
- Date of Jarod simulation video, involving Ugandan president Idi Amin betraying his people. (Season 1 episode The Better Part of Valor)

- November 25, 1973
- Birthdate of Brian P. Walsh, tracked outside Soldier Field following the Unity Rally bombing by the police's implant recognition program.

- November 27, 1973
- Samantha Mulder is mysteriously abducted by aliens from the Mulder family home on Martha's Vineyard, when she is 8 years old.

- December
- December 1, 1973
- Appointment for "Kids Dentist” marked on Ralphie's family calendar.

- December 6, 1973
- Susie Salmon murdered: Grandma Lynn predicted I would live a long and happy life because I had saved my brother. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong. My name is Salmon like the fish, first name Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.

- December 19, 1973
- Ralphie's father - the Old Man - dies.

- Appointment for Ralphie's meeting with Dalfie marked on Ralphie's family calendar.

- December 21, 1973
- Date that Ralphie's mother and father are due to arrive, prior to the old man's death.

- December 22, 1973
- M. Lewis dies - obituary in the paper that Ralphie reviews when preparing to write one for his father.

- December 24, 1973
- Bob has to go to work for one appointment on Christmas Eve and then go home for a small Christmas celebration with Emily. Events conspire against him as his patient has a break down, the weather turns hazardous, and he has to walk home. (Season 2 episode I'm Dreaming Of A Slight Christmas)

- Christmas Eve. When the tree's star falls and breaks, Ralphie goes out to find a new one. Since all of the stores are closed, his only option is to "borrow" the star from the tree in Flick's tavern.

- December 25, 1973
- Christmas morning. Ralphie is confused by compliments he receives about his piece in the newspaper. Sandy, it turns out, had found the obituary manuscript and took it to the local paper.

- December 31, 1973
- Reminder of Ralphie's last day to find a publisher for his science fiction novel before returning to the rat race.

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