What day of the week was August 21, 2001?

The day of the week August 21st, 2001 fell on was a Tuesday.

Calum MacKay the Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927) died on this day in 2001.

NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan the and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.