What day of the week was January 5, 1979?

The day of the week January 5th, 1979 fell on was a Friday.

Kyle Calder the Canadian ice hockey player was born on 05 January in 1979. As was Ronnie O'Brien the Irish footballer , Masami Tanaka the Japanese swimmer .

Billy Bletcher the American actor (b. 1894) died on this day in 1979. As did Charles Mingus the American bassist and composer (b. 1922) .