What day of the week was January 17, 1970?

The day of the week January 17th, 1970 fell on was a Saturday.

Cássio Alves de Barros the Brazilian footballer was born on 17 January in 1970. As was Masaaki Mochizuki the Japanese wrestler , Jeremy Roenick the American ice hockey player , Genndy Tartakovsky the Russian-American animator, director, and producer , James Wattana the Thai snooker player .

Simon Kovar the Russian-American bassoon player (b. 1890) died on this day in 1970. As did Billy Stewart the American singer and pianist (b. 1937) .