What day of the week was July 4, 1826?

The day of the week July 4th, 1826 fell on was a Tuesday.

John Adams the American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735) died on this day in 1826. As did Thomas Jefferson the American lawyer, architect, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743) .

Thomas Jefferson the third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.