What day of the week was April 17, 1942?

The day of the week April 17th, 1942 fell on was a Friday.

David Bradley the English actor was born on 17 April in 1942.

Jean Baptiste Perrin the French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) died on this day in 1942.

French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.