What day of the week was September 7, 1978?

The day of the week September 7th, 1978 fell on was a Thursday.

Matt Cooke the Canadian ice hockey player was born on 07 September in 1978. As was Erwin Koen the Dutch footballer , Devon Sawa the Canadian actor .

Cecil Aronowitz the South African-English viola player (b. 1916) died on this day in 1978. As did Keith Moon the English drummer, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (b. 1946) , Charles Williams the English composer and conductor (b. 1893) .

While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.