What day of the week was October 15, 1940?

The day of the week October 15th, 1940 fell on was a Tuesday.

Tommy Bishop the English rugby player was born on 15 October in 1940. As was Peter C. Doherty the Australian surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate .

The President of Catalonia the Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.