What day of the week was January 22, 1959?

The day of the week January 22nd, 1959 fell on was a Thursday.

Linda Blair the American actress was born on 22 January in 1959.

Mike Hawthorn the English race car driver (b. 1929) died on this day in 1959.

Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston the Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.