What day of the week was January 17, 1961?

The day of the week January 17th, 1961 fell on was a Tuesday.

Maia Chiburdanidze the Georgian chess player was born on 17 January in 1961. As was Brian Helgeland the American director, producer, and screenwriter .

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office the in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military- industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending. Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.