What day of the week was August 17, 1973?

The day of the week August 17th, 1973 fell on was a Friday.

Conrad Aiken the American author and poet (b. 1889) died on this day in 1973. As did Jean Barraqué the French composer (b. 1928) , Paul Williams the American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (b. 1939) .