What day of the week was March 1, 2002?
The day of the week March 1st, 2002 fell on was a Friday.
C. Farris Bryant the American politician, 34th Governor of Florida (b. 1914) died on this day in 2002.
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit above the Earth on its 11th launch the carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons). The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).