What day of the week was April 9, 1959?

The day of the week April 9th, 1959 fell on was a Thursday.

Frank Lloyd Wright the American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (b. 1867) died on this day in 1959.

Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts the whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".