What day of the week was May 12, 1982?

The day of the week May 12th, 1982 fell on was a Wednesday.

During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima the Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".