What day of the week was August 1, 2004?

The day of the week August 1st, 2004 fell on was a Sunday.

Philip Abelson the American physicist and author (b. 1913) died on this day in 2004. As did Alexandra Scott the American cancer patient, founded Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996) .

A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción the Paraguay.