What day of the week was February 17, 1970?

The day of the week February 17th, 1970 fell on was a Tuesday. Eid-al-Adha for Muslim people.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon the Ukrainian- Israeli author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) died on this day in 1970. As did Alfred Newman the American composer and conductor (b. 1900) .