What day of the week was January 3, 1961?

The day of the week January 3rd, 1961 fell on was a Tuesday.

The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets. A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1 the a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers. In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax the resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.