What day of the week was January 16, 1979?

The day of the week January 16th, 1979 fell on was a Tuesday.

Aaliyah the American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2001) was born on 16 January in 1979. As was Muntadhar al-Zaidi the Iraqi journalist , Mark Anthony Fernandez the Filipino actor , Brenden Morrow the Canadian ice hockey player , Jason Ward the Canadian ice hockey player .

August Heissmeyer the German SS officer (b. 1897) died on this day in 1979.

The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.