What day of the week was July 17, 1996?
The day of the week July 17th, 1996 fell on was a Wednesday.
Victims of TWA Flight 800 died on this day in 1996. As did Chas Chandler the American bass player and producer (The Animals) (b. 1938) .
TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island the New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.