What day of the week was January 21, 1960?

The day of the week January 21st, 1960 fell on was a Thursday.

Toxey Haas the American businessman, founded Haas Outdoors, Inc. was born on 21 January in 1960.

Little Joe 1B the a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay the Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.