What day of the week was December 6, 1997?

The day of the week December 6th, 1997 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 19 days until Christmas.

Willy den Ouden the Dutch swimmer (b. 1918) died on this day in 1997.

A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk the Siberia, killing 67.