What day of the week was May 25, 1979?

The day of the week May 25th, 1979 fell on was a Friday.

Itzhak Bentov the Czech-Israeli scientist, mystic, and author (b. 1923) died on this day in 1979. As did John Spenkelink the American murderer (b. 1949) .

American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago the a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground. Etan Patz the who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).