What day of the week was May 28, 1942?
The day of the week May 28th, 1942 fell on was a Thursday.
Happy Pieterse the South African boxer (d. 2013) was born on 28 May in 1942. As was Stanley B. Prusiner the American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate .
World War II: in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich the Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.