What day of the week was May 4, 1949?

The day of the week May 4th, 1949 fell on was a Wednesday.

The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà the due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.