What day of the week was January 2, 1999?

The day of the week January 2nd, 1999 fell on was a Saturday.

Sebastian Haffner the German journalist and author (b. 1907) died on this day in 1999. As did Rolf Liebermann the Swiss composer (b. 1910) .

A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States the causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.