What day of the week was December 20, 2001?

The day of the week December 20th, 2001 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 5 days until Christmas.

Foster Brooks the American actor (b. 1912) died on this day in 2001. As did Léopold Sédar Senghor the Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906) .