What day of the week was January 1, 2012?

The day of the week January 1st, 2012 fell on was a Sunday.

Gary Ablett the English footballer and manager (b. 1965) died on this day in 2012. As did Bob Anderson the English fencer, stuntman, and choreographer (b. 1922) , Kiro Gligorov the Bulgarian-Macedonian politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917) , Alessandro Liberati the Italian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1954) , Nay Win Maung the Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (b. 1962) , Fred Milano the American singer (The Belmonts and Dion and the Belmonts) (b. 1939) , Tommy Mont the American football player and coach (b. 1922) , Carlos Soria the Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1948) , Yafa Yarkoni the Israeli singer and actress (b. 1925) .

A Moldovan civilian is fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone the leading to demonstrations against Russia.