What day of the week was October 2, 2006?

The day of the week October 2nd, 2006 fell on was a Monday. Yom Kippur for Jewish people.

Tamara Dobson the American actress (b. 1947) died on this day in 2006. As did Paul Halmos the Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916) , Charles Carl Roberts the American murderer (b. 1973) .

Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines the Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.