What day of the week was October 26, 1979?
The day of the week October 26th, 1979 fell on was a Friday.
Park Chung- hee the Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (b. 1917) died on this day in 1979.
Park Chung-hee the President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.