What day of the week was October 17, 1956?

The day of the week October 17th, 1956 fell on was a Wednesday. Prophet's Birthday for Muslim people.

Anne Crawford the Israeli-English actress (b. 1920) died on this day in 1956.

The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield thein Cumbria, England. Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.