What day of the week was October 17, 1973?

The day of the week October 17th, 1973 fell on was a Wednesday. Last day of Sukkot for Jewish people.

Ingeborg Bachmann the Austrian author and poet (b. 1926) died on this day in 1973.

OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries the considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.