What day of the week was January 31, 2000?

The day of the week January 31st, 2000 fell on was a Monday.

Gil Kane the Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926) died on this day in 2000.

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83 the experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.