What day of the week was October 3, 1979?

The day of the week October 3rd, 1979 fell on was a Wednesday.

Ray Genet the American mountaineer (b. 1931) died on this day in 1979. As did Hannelore Schmatz the German mountaineer (b. 1940) , Nicos Poulantzas the Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936) .