What day of the week was May 1, 1956?

The day of the week May 1st, 1956 fell on was a Tuesday.

Phil Foglio the American illustrator was born on 01 May in 1956. As was Catherine Frot the French actress , Frank Szymanski the German politician .

The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public. A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system" the marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.