What day of the week was October 6, 1979?

The day of the week October 6th, 1979 fell on was a Saturday.

David Di Tommaso the French footballer (d. 2005) was born on 06 October in 1979. As was Richard Seymour the American football player , Lex Shrapnel the English actor , Pascal van Assendelft the Dutch sprinter .

Elizabeth Bishop the American poet and author (b. 1911) died on this day in 1979.

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.