What day of the week was September 17, 1980?

The day of the week September 17th, 1980 fell on was a Wednesday.

Dan Haren the American baseball player was born on 17 September in 1980. As was Oliver Risser the Namibian footballer .

Anastasio Somoza Debayle the Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925) died on this day in 1980. As did Sergei Varshavsky the Russian writer and art collector (b. 1906) .

After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk the Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción the Paraguay.