What day of the week was August 19, 2000?

The day of the week August 19th, 2000 fell on was a Saturday.

Bineshwar Brahma the Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948) died on this day in 2000. As did Tony Parisi the Italian-Canadian wrestler (b. 1941) , Theodore Trautwein the American judge (b. 1920) .