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12 Facts About the Year 1973
There were some really big stories that took place.
The year 1973 was a big one for me. I graduated from high school. I was ready to take on the world. Score another one for the world. I worked with my father in his business for a few months, but that wasn’t a long-range career option. After a while, I got a job planting trees for Weyerhaeuser. That proved not to be a long-range career either.
I initially remembered minimum wage at that time being $1.80 per hour. I checked, and the number was actually given as $1.60. Layer I was given as raise of about 50 or 60 cents an hour. Ah, the good times were rolling. But other things were going on. The Viet Nam War was winding down, and Watergate was warming up. Plus, there were a lot of culture events going on. Let’s go back to the year 1973.
1: The so-called “Battle of Sexes” took place on September 20, 1973. As you may recall the “battle’ was a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Of course, Billie Jean King prevailed. I will say that, as a male, if I was going to pick a representative for my gender, it would not have been Bobby Riggs.
