What day of the week was October 5, 1986?

The day of the week October 5th, 1986 fell on was a Sunday.

Mike Burgmann the Australian race car driver (b. 1947) died on this day in 1986. As did Hal B. Wallis the American actor and producer (b. 1898) , James H. Wilkinson the English mathematician (b. 1919) .

Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".