What day of the week was May 26, 1969?

The day of the week May 26th, 1969 fell on was a Monday.

Paul Hawkins the Australian race car driver (b. 1937) died on this day in 1969. As did Allan Haines Loughead the American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889) .

Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.