What day of the week was January 16, 1969?

The day of the week January 16th, 1969 fell on was a Thursday.

Neil Back the England rugby player was born on 16 January in 1969. As was Marinus Bester the German footballer , Roy Jones the Jr., American boxer , Per "Dead" Ohlin the Swedish singer-songwriter (Mayhem and Morbid) (d. 1991) , Rich Ward the American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fozzy, Stuck Mojo, and Adrenaline Mob) .

Vernon Duke the Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903) died on this day in 1969.

Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague the Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first- ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit the the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.