What day of the week was January 17, 2002?

The day of the week January 17th, 2002 fell on was a Thursday.

Camilo José Cela the Spanish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) died on this day in 2002. As did Bishop Karas the Sudanese-American bishop (b. 1955) , Queenie Leonard the American actress (b. 1905) , Eddie Meduza the Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948) , Roman Personov the Russian physicist (b. 1932) .

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the displacing an estimated 400,000 people.