What day of the week was May 20, 1956?

The day of the week May 20th, 1956 fell on was a Sunday.

Max Beerbohm the English author and illustrator (b. 1872) died on this day in 1956. As did Zoltán Halmay the Hungarian swimmer (b. 1881) .

In Operation Redwing the the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.