What day of the week was January 1, 2003?

The day of the week January 1st, 2003 fell on was a Wednesday.

Joe Foss the American pilot, politician, and broadcaster, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915) died on this day in 2003. As did Dumitru Tinu the Romanian journalist (b. 1940) , Royce D. Applegate the American actor and screenwriter (b. 1939) .