What day of the week was October 29, 1980?

The day of the week October 29th, 1980 fell on was a Wednesday.

There were 57 days until Christmas.

Ben Foster the American actor was born on 29 October in 1980. As was Nadejda Ostrovskaya the Belarusian tennis player , Kaine Robertson the New Zealand-Italian rugby player , B. J. Sams the American football player .

Giorgio Borġ Olivier the Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911) died on this day in 1980.

Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field the Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.