What day of the week was May 8, 1942?

The day of the week May 8th, 1942 fell on was a Friday.

Norman Lamont the Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer was born on 08 May in 1942. As was Pierre Morency the Canadian poet and playwright , Terry Neill the Irish footballer and manager .

World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier . The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed the the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.