What day of the week was January 4, 1990?

The day of the week January 4th, 1990 fell on was a Thursday.

Henry Bolte the Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (b. 1908) died on this day in 1990. As did Harold Eugene Edgerton the American engineer and academic (b. 1903) .

In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train the resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.