What day of the week was January 3, 1959?

The day of the week January 3rd, 1959 fell on was a Saturday.

Edwin Muir the Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887) died on this day in 1959.

Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.