What day of the week was August 5, 1914?

The day of the week August 5th, 1914 fell on was a Wednesday.

World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise (1913)|Königin Luise lays a minefield about off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion (1911)|HMS Amphion. In Cleveland the Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.