What day of the week was December 18, 1973?

The day of the week December 18th, 1973 fell on was a Tuesday.

There were 7 days until Christmas.

Allamah Rasheed Turabi the Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908) died on this day in 1973.

Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13 the crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. The Islamic Development Bank is founded.