What day of the week was March 17, 1956?
The day of the week March 17th, 1956 fell on was a Saturday. There were 15 days until Easter Sunday.
Patrick McDonnell the American author and illustrator was born on 17 March in 1956. As was Rory McGrath the English actor and screenwriter .
Fred Allen the American actor (b. 1894) died on this day in 1956. As did Irène Joliot-Curie the French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) .