What day of the week was January 17, 1899?

The day of the week January 17th, 1899 fell on was a Tuesday.

Al Capone the American gangster (d. 1947) was born on 17 January in 1899. As was Robert Maynard Hutchins the American philosopher and academic (d. 1977) , Nevil Shute the English author (d. 1960) .

The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.