What day of the week was January 19, 2006?

The day of the week January 19th, 2006 fell on was a Thursday.

Wilson Pickett the American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (b. 1941) died on this day in 2006. As did Awn Alsharif Qasim the Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933) , Geoff Rabone the New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921) .

The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.