What day of the week was May 28, 1878?

The day of the week May 28th, 1878 fell on was a Tuesday.

Paul Pelliot the French sinologist and explorer (d. 1945) was born on 28 May in 1878.

John Russell the 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792) died on this day in 1878.