What day of the week was January 17, 1945?

The day of the week January 17th, 1945 fell on was a Wednesday.

Javed Akhtar the Indian poet, playwright, and composer was born on 17 January in 1945.

World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.