What day of the week was January 1, 1994?

The day of the week January 1st, 1994 fell on was a Saturday.

Arthur Porritt the Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900) died on this day in 1994. As did Cesar Romero the American actor (b. 1907) , Edward Arthur Thompson the Irish historian (b. 1914) .

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.