What day of the week was January 23, 1937?

The day of the week January 23rd, 1937 fell on was a Saturday.

Orso Mario Corbino the Italian physicist (b. 1876) died on this day in 1937.

In Moscow the 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.