What day of the week was May 17, 2014?

The day of the week May 17th, 2014 fell on was a Saturday.

Miss Beazley the American dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004) died on this day in 2014. As did Gerald Edelman the American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) , Clarence Ellis the American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) , C. P. Krishnan Nair the Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (b. 1922) , Bob Odom the American soldier and politician (b. 1935) , Douangchay Phichit the Laotian politician (b. 1944) .