What day of the week was October 24, 2002?

The day of the week October 24th, 2002 fell on was a Thursday.

Winton M. Blount the American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) died on this day in 2002. As did Hernán Gaviria the Colombian footballer (b. 1969) , Harry Hay the English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912) , Stella Brooks the American female jazz singers (b. 1910) .

Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo the ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.