What day of the week was July 8, 1979?

The day of the week July 8th, 1979 fell on was a Sunday.

Mat McBriar the American football player was born on 08 July in 1979.

Michael Wilding the English actor (b. 1912) died on this day in 1979. As did Robert Burns Woodward the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) .