What day of the week was May 12, 1978?

The day of the week May 12th, 1978 fell on was a Friday.

Jason Biggs the American actor and producer was born on 12 May in 1978. As was Malin Åkerman the Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer , Aya Ishiguro the Japanese singer and fashion designer (Morning Musume and Tanpopo) , Wilfred Le Bouthillier the Canadian singer , Josh Phelps the American baseball player , Hossein Rezazadeh the Iranian weightlifter .

Robert Coogan the American actor (b. 1924) died on this day in 1978.

In Zaire the rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.