What day of the week was August 12, 1973?

The day of the week August 12th, 1973 fell on was a Sunday.

Muqtada al-Sadr the Iraqi politician was born on 12 August in 1973. As was Joseba Beloki the Spanish cyclist , Jonathan Coachman the American basketball player, wrestler, and sportscaster , Todd Marchant the American ice hockey player , Richard Reid the English terrorist, attempted the 2001 shoe bomb plot .

Walter Rudolf Hess the Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) died on this day in 1973. As did Karl Ziegler the German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) .