What day of the week was January 9, 1998?

The day of the week January 9th, 1998 fell on was a Friday.

Kenichi Fukui the Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) died on this day in 1998. As did Charito Solis the Filipino actress (b. 1935) , Imi Lichtenfeld the Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, founder of Krav Maga self-defense system (b. 1910) .