What day of the week was October 31, 2006?

The day of the week October 31st, 2006 fell on was a Tuesday.

There were 55 days until Christmas.

P. W. Botha the South African politician, State President of South Africa (b. 1916) died on this day in 2006. As did Peter Fryer the English journalist (b. 1927) , Amrita Pritam the Pakistani-Indian author and poet (b. 1919) .