What day of the week was October 12, 2011?

The day of the week October 12th, 2011 fell on was a Wednesday.

Heinz Bennent the German-Swiss actor (b. 1921) died on this day in 2011. As did Patricia Breslin the American actress (b. 1931) , Dennis Ritchie the American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941) .