What day of the week was December 22, 2001?

The day of the week December 22nd, 2001 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 3 days until Christmas.

Burhanuddin Rabbani the political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.