What day of the week was October 4, 2001?

The day of the week October 4th, 2001 fell on was a Thursday.

Blaise Alexander the American race car driver (b. 1976) died on this day in 2001. As did George Claydon the English actor (b. 1933) , John Collins the American guitarist (b. 1913) , Ahron Soloveichik the Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917) .

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.