What day of the week was August 5, 1916?

The day of the week August 5th, 1916 fell on was a Saturday.

World War I: Battle of Romani Allied forces the under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.