What day of the week was February 8, 1986?

The day of the week February 8th, 1986 fell on was a Saturday.

'The Hinton train collision:' 23 people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton the Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.