What day of the week was January 16, 2002?

The day of the week January 16th, 2002 fell on was a Wednesday.

Robert Hanbury Brown the English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916) died on this day in 2002. As did Bobo Olson the American boxer (b. 1928) , Ron Taylor the American actor and singer (b. 1952) .

The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden the al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.