What day of the week was January 9, 1960?

The day of the week January 9th, 1960 fell on was a Saturday.

Elsie J. Oxenham the English author (b. 1880) died on this day in 1960.

President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.