What day of the week was February 12, 2001?
The day of the week February 12th, 2001 fell on was a Monday.
Tiberio Mitri the Italian boxer (b. 1926) died on this day in 2001. As did Kristina Söderbaum the German actress (b. 1912) .
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros the becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.