What day of the week was August 31, 2006?

The day of the week August 31st, 2006 fell on was a Thursday.

Mohamed Abdelwahab the Egyptian footballer (b. 1983) died on this day in 2006. As did Tom Delaney the English race car driver (b. 1911) , Derrick Wayne Frazier the American murderer (b. 1977) .

Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream the stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.