What day of the week was February 1, 2012?

The day of the week February 1st, 2012 fell on was a Wednesday.

Gerlando Alberti the Italian mobster (b. 1927) died on this day in 2012. As did Robert B. Cohen the American businessman, founded Hudson News (b. 1925) , Don Cornelius the American television host and producer (b. 1936) , Angelo Dundee the American boxing trainer (b. 1921) , Ardath Mayhar the American author (b. 1930) , Ladislao Nerio the Salvadoran footballer (b. 1976) , David Peaston the American singer (b. 1957) , Wisława Szymborska the Polish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) .