What day of the week was October 8, 2008?

The day of the week October 8th, 2008 fell on was a Wednesday.

Bob Friend the English journalist (b. 1938) died on this day in 2008. As did Eileen Herlie the Scottish-American actress (b. 1918) , George Emil Palade the Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) .