What day of the week was November 17, 1990?

The day of the week November 17th, 1990 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 38 days until Christmas.

Robert Hofstadter the American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) died on this day in 1990.

Fugendake the part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.