What day of the week was January 5, 1940?

The day of the week January 5th, 1940 fell on was a Friday.

Athol Guy the Australian bassist (The Seekers) was born on 05 January in 1940. As was Michael O'Donoghue the American screenwriter (d. 1994) , Mike Rose the English general .

FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.