What day of the week was October 8, 1973?

The day of the week October 8th, 1973 fell on was a Monday.

Jim Fairchild the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grandaddy and Modest Mouse) was born on 08 October in 1973.

Gabriel Marcel the French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889) died on this day in 1973.

Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal the in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. Greek military junta of 1967–1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.