What day of the week was January 4, 2006?

The day of the week January 4th, 2006 fell on was a Wednesday.

John Hahn-Petersen the Danish actor (b. 1930) died on this day in 2006. As did Milton Himmelfarb the American sociographer (b. 1918) , Irving Layton the Romanian-Canadian poet (b. 1912) , Robert Howard White the New Zealand politician (b. 1914) .

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second the apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.