What day of the week was October 12, 1999?

The day of the week October 12th, 1999 fell on was a Tuesday.

Wilt Chamberlain the American basketball player and coach (b. 1936) died on this day in 1999. As did Robert Marsden Hope the Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919) .

Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia