What day of the week was March 5, 1953?

The day of the week March 5th, 1953 fell on was a Thursday.

Herman J. Mankiewicz the American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897) died on this day in 1953. As did Sergei Prokofiev the Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891) , Joseph Stalin the Russian marshal and politician, 3rd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878) .