What day of the week was December 18, 1969?

The day of the week December 18th, 1969 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 7 days until Christmas.

Charles Dvorak the American pole vaulter (b. 1878) died on this day in 1969.

Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 the which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.