# Without looking it up, can you say what day of the week 9/11 happened on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 11, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238 "2015-06-11T04:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/21 "2015-06-11T07:50:12Z")
I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/22 "2015-06-11T08:17:25Z")
I remembered, although it was Wednesday by the time I found out - with the time difference it was (IIRC) about 11pm our time and I’d already gone to bed. My mother told me the following morning when I called her to discuss something else. Maybe that’s why I remember - we spent the evening watching the coverage with my parents and grandfather. Wednesday was always the day we had dinner with my parents and my grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/23 "2015-06-11T08:20:50Z")
I know it was a working day because the news started coming over the company intranet - IIRC it was early afternoon in England. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/24 "2015-06-11T08:27:00Z")
I remember a _Becker_ episode where the confused old woman who had been bothering Becker all episode started getting serious and talked about a warm Tuesday in September. Without that, I probably wouldn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/25 "2015-06-11T11:01:55Z")
I’m going to say Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/26 "2015-06-11T11:23:09Z")
I believe it was a Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/27 "2015-06-11T11:31:56Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > And can you remember _exactly_ what you were doing when you heard the news, and who told it to you? I was on Canon’s web site looking at digital cameras, and it was my mother who told me. I knew which day of the week it was as it was my one year anniversary of working with the FAA. We got an email saying a plane had hit the tower. Since that’s all it said I thought they were talking about a smaller, private plane. My first thought, jokingly, was, “who forgot to chart the towers on the chart?” It wasn’t until a few minutes later when they told us what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/28 "2015-06-11T11:32:45Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > And can you remember _exactly_ what you were doing when you heard the news, and who told it to you? I was on Canon’s web site looking at digital cameras, and it was my mother who told me. I remembered what day. I was pulling into the parking lot to drop my son off for preschool. At first I thought it was for sure some kind of joke. I took my son into the building and then decided I was taking him back home with me. I had to argue a bit with the teacher and administrator but I took him anyway. By the time I got home all the schools in the county were closing. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/29 "2015-06-11T11:33:52Z")
I was correct, because I remembered watching TV after work for several nights afterward. I thought it may have been a Monday for that reason, and only due to half-remembering the trivia did I guess Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/30 "2015-06-11T11:36:34Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > And can you remember _exactly_ what you were doing when you heard the news, and who told it to you? I was on Canon’s web site looking at digital cameras, and it was my mother who told me. Depends on what you mean by “heard the news”. I was checking out Wall Street’s opening bell on Yahoo! when there was no ticker, only an announcement that the opening bell would be delayed because a plane hit the WTC. I shrugged it off, thinking it was a general aviation mistake with only a few casualties. Then a couple minutes later I went to the bathroom and saw several people in the break room. When I got out of the bathroom I thought “hey, they’re probably watching TV about the crash,” so I joined them and found out the fuller details. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/31 "2015-06-11T11:37:12Z")
Yep, I knew right away. I don’t indulge in the annual recreational grief over it but I distinctly remember the day, just as I remember JFK and RFK being killed, the moon landing, Challenger, Columbia, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/32 "2015-06-11T11:37:30Z")
Without looking… It was a Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/33 "2015-06-11T12:06:05Z")
I remember because I was up late the night before watching the Broncos winning over the Giants in the first regular-season game in Invesco. Which brings up a question I never thought about before right now: How long did it take the Giants to get back to New Jersey, seeing as how they were supposed to play the Packers at home the following Sunday? Do NFL teams generally fly out the same night, even after a Sunday or Monday (or now Thursday) night game? ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/34 "2015-06-11T12:09:45Z")
I remembered, not because I had life context clues (I was on vacation), but because it’s one of those random bits of info that gets stuck in the cracks of my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/35 "2015-06-11T12:26:24Z")
Without looking, I thought it was Thursday. After looking, it turns out I was wrong. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/36 "2015-06-11T12:32:50Z")
I’ll always remember because it was the second day of kindergarten for my daughter. Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/37 "2015-06-11T12:36:05Z")
It was Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/38 "2015-06-11T12:39:34Z")
I was right about the day of the week. I know exactly where I was when the first tower was hit and the second, and when the pentagon was hit. I know exactly where I was when the first tower fell. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/39 "2015-06-11T12:56:40Z")
Yes I remembered it correctly. I had no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-looking-it-up-can-you-say-what-day-of-the-week-9-11-happened-on/722238/40 "2015-06-11T13:19:04Z")
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