What day of the week was February 17, 1996?

The day of the week February 17th, 1996 fell on was a Saturday.

Hervé Bazin the French author (b. 1911) died on this day in 1996.

In Philadelphia the Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match. NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid the 433 Eros.