What day of the week was January 17, 1966?

The day of the week January 17th, 1966 fell on was a Monday.

Joshua Malina the American actor was born on 17 January in 1966. As was Stephin Merritt the American singer-songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies) , Shabba Ranks the Jamaican singer , António Zeferino the Cape Verdean runner .

Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain the killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.