What day of the week was January 3, 1956?
The day of the week January 3rd, 1956 fell on was a Tuesday.
Alexander Gretchaninov the Russian composer (b. 1864) died on this day in 1956. As did Dimitrios Vergos the Greek wrestler, weightlifter, and shot putter (b. 1886) , Joseph Wirth the German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) .