What day of the week was May 9, 1987?

The day of the week May 9th, 1987 fell on was a Saturday.

Obafemi Awolowo the Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909) died on this day in 1987.

An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M the Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP- LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.