What day of the week was February 24, 1999?

The day of the week February 24th, 1999 fell on was a Wednesday.

Andre Dubus the American author (b. 1936) died on this day in 1999. As did David Eccles the 1st Viscount Eccles, English politician (b. 1904) , Frank Leslie Walcott the Barbadian politician (b. 1916) .

The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand the a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.