What day of the week was March 17, 2007?

The day of the week March 17th, 2007 fell on was a Saturday. There were 22 days until Easter Sunday.

John Backus the American computer scientist, designed Fortran (b. 1924) died on this day in 2007. As did Roger Bennett the American singer-songwriter and pianist (Legacy Five and Cathedral Quartet) (b. 1959) , Jim Cronin the English zoo keeper and activist, founded Monkey World (b. 1951) .