What day of the week was January 20, 2006?

The day of the week January 20th, 2006 fell on was a Friday.

Dave Lepard the Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crashdïet) (b. 1980) died on this day in 2006.

Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames the the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.