What day of the week was May 20, 2002?

The day of the week May 20th, 2002 fell on was a Monday.

Stephen Jay Gould the American paleontologist (b. 1941) died on this day in 2002.

The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal the formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).