What day of the week was May 1, 1945?

The day of the week May 1st, 1945 fell on was a Tuesday.

Rita Coolidge the American singer-songwriter was born on 01 May in 1945. As was Carson Whitsett the American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Imperial Show Band and Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (d. 2007) .

Joseph Goebbels the German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897) died on this day in 1945. As did Magda Goebbels the German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901) .

World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery the by order of Stalin. World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths. The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.