What day of the week was January 1, 1955?

The day of the week January 1st, 1955 fell on was a Saturday.

Mary Beard the English classicist was born on 01 January in 1955. As was LaMarr Hoyt the American baseball player , Gennady Lyachin the Russian captain (d. 2000) , Georgina von Etzdorf the Peruvian-English textile designer .

Arthur C. Parker the American archaeologist and historian (b. 1881) died on this day in 1955. As did Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar the Indian chemist (b. 1894) .