What day of the week was October 12, 1960?

The day of the week October 12th, 1960 fell on was a Wednesday. Last day of Sukkot for Jewish people.

Inejiro Asanuma the Japanese politician (b. 1898) died on this day in 1960.

Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma the leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.