What day of the week was January 1, 2011?

The day of the week January 1st, 2011 fell on was a Saturday.

Marin Constantin the Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925) died on this day in 2011. As did Reynaldo Dagsa the Filipino politician , Flemming Jørgensen the Danish singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (Bamses Venner) (b. 1947) .

A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria the Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people. The Kallikratis plan becomes the new administrative system of Greece.