What day of the week was February 5, 1840?

The day of the week February 5th, 1840 fell on was a Wednesday.

John Boyd Dunlop the Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921) was born on 05 February in 1840. As was Hiram Maxim the American-English inventor, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) .