What day of the week was January 19, 1969?

The day of the week January 19th, 1969 fell on was a Sunday.

Edwidge Danticat the Haitian-American author was born on 19 January in 1969. As was Luc Longley the Australian basketball player , Predrag Mijatović the Montenegrin footballer and manager , Junior Seau the American football player (d. 2012) , Casey Sherman the American author , Steve Staunton the Irish footballer .

Jan Palach the Czech activist (b. 1948) died on this day in 1969.

Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.