What day of the week was Christmas 1997, December 25, 1997?

The day of the week December 25th, 1997 fell on was a Thursday. It was Christmas Day.

Anatoli Boukreev the Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958) died on this day in 1997. As did Denver Pyle the American actor, singer, and director (b. 1920) .