What day of the week was February 22, 2002?

The day of the week February 22nd, 2002 fell on was a Friday.

Roden Cutler the Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916) died on this day in 2002. As did Chuck Jones the American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912) , Daniel Pearl the American journalist (b. 1963) , Jonas Savimbi the Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934) .

Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.