What day of the week was March 12, 2001?

The day of the week March 12th, 2001 fell on was a Monday.

Morton Downey the Jr., American singer-songwriter and talk show host (b. 1933) died on this day in 2001. As did Robert Ludlum the American author (b. 1927) , Victor Westhoff the Dutch botanist (b. 1916) .