What day of the week was October 21, 1959?

The day of the week October 21st, 1959 fell on was a Wednesday.

George Bell the Dominican baseball player was born on 21 October in 1959. As was Tony Ganios the American actor , Rose McDowall the Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, and Current 93) , Andy Picheta the English director, producer, and screenwriter , Kevin Sheedy the Welsh-Irish footballer and manager , Ken Watanabe the Japanese actor and producer .

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.