What day of the week was October 5, 1940?

The day of the week October 5th, 1940 fell on was a Saturday.

Ballington Booth the English-American co-founder of the Volunteers of America (b. 1857) died on this day in 1940. As did Lincoln Loy McCandless the American politician (b. 1859) , Silvestre Revueltas the Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889) .