What day of the week was July 1, 1997?

The day of the week July 1st, 1997 fell on was a Tuesday.

Robert Mitchum the American actor and singer (b. 1917) died on this day in 1997. As did Charles Werner the American cartoonist (b. 1909) .

China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong the ending 156 years of British colonial rule.