What day of the week was January 17, 1997?

The day of the week January 17th, 1997 fell on was a Friday.

Bert Kelly the Australian politician (b. 1912) died on this day in 1997. As did Clyde Tombaugh the American astronomer (b. 1906) .

A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch the dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.