What day of the week was January 23, 2002?

The day of the week January 23rd, 2002 fell on was a Wednesday.

Pierre Bourdieu the French sociologist (b. 1930) died on this day in 2002. As did Robert Nozick the American philosopher (b. 1938) .

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody. Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi the Pakistan and subsequently murdered .