What day of the week was October 13, 1972?

The day of the week October 13th, 1972 fell on was a Friday.

Summer Sanders the American swimmer and sportscaster was born on 13 October in 1972.

An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il- 62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains the near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.