What day of the week was December 21, 2006?

The day of the week December 21st, 2006 fell on was a Thursday.

There were 4 days until Christmas.

Scobie Breasley the Australian jockey (b. 1914) died on this day in 2006. As did Saparmurat Niyazov the Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940) .