What day of the week was October 28, 1971?

The day of the week October 28th, 1971 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 58 days until Christmas.

Roxana Briban the Romanian soprano (d. 2010) was born on 28 October in 1971. As was Leonidas Sabanis the Albanian-Greek weightlifter .

Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket the the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.