What day of the week was May 2, 2012?

The day of the week May 2nd, 2012 fell on was a Wednesday.

Fernando Lopes the Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935) died on this day in 2012. As did Tufan Miñnullin the Russian playwright and politician (b. 1936) , Junior Seau the American football player (b. 1969) , Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih the Indonesian physician (b. 1955) , J. T. Ready the American soldier (b. 1973) , Akira Tonomura the Japanese physicist (b. 1942) .

A pastel version of The Scream the by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.