What day of the week was November 5, 1879?

The day of the week November 5th, 1879 fell on was a Wednesday.

There were 50 days until Christmas.

Otto Wahle the Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963) was born on 05 November in 1879.

James Clerk Maxwell the Scottish-English physicist and mathematician (b. 1831) died on this day in 1879.