What day of the week was March 27, 1940?

The day of the week March 27th, 1940 fell on was a Wednesday.

Madeleine Astor the American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1893) died on this day in 1940. As did Michael Joseph Savage the New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872) .