What day of the week was January 31, 2001?

The day of the week January 31st, 2001 fell on was a Wednesday.

Gordon R. Dickson the Canadian-American author (b. 1923) died on this day in 2001.

In the Netherlands the a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.