What day of the week was May 9, 1877?

The day of the week May 9th, 1877 fell on was a Wednesday.

Mihail Kogălniceanu reads the in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2 the541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.