What day of the week was March 5, 1940?

The day of the week March 5th, 1940 fell on was a Tuesday. There were 19 days until Easter Sunday.

Cai Yuanpei the Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868) died on this day in 1940.

Six high- ranking members of Soviet politburo the including general secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.