What day of the week was May 12, 1942?

The day of the week May 12th, 1942 fell on was a Tuesday.

Ian Dury the English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads and Kilburn and the High Roads) (d. 2000) was born on 12 May in 1942. As was Michel Fugain the French singer-songwriter , Billy Swan the American singer-songwriter , Dragoljub Velimirović the Serbian chess player (d. 2014) .

World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine the Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. World War II: The U.S. tanker List of shipwrecks in May 1942#12 May|Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507. The Holocaust: 1 the500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.