What day of the week was January 17, 1977?
The day of the week January 17th, 1977 fell on was a Monday.
Kevin Fertig the American wrestler was born on 17 January in 1977. As was Leigh Whannell the Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter .
Gary Gilmore the American murderer (b. 1940) died on this day in 1977. As did Dougal Haston the Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940) .
Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah the ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.