The given date was a Thursday.
October 1 1952 was a Wednesday.
July 1 1952 was a Tuesday.
July 1, 1952 was a Tuesday.
June 1, 1952 fell on a Sunday.
August the 1st 1952 was a Friday.
It was a Tuesday.
It was a Sunday.
It was a Wednesday.
There are two answers to that, depending on your interpretation of the date: The 11th of January 1952 was a Friday. November the 1st 1952 was a Saturday.
The day of the week that May 1, 1977 fell on was a Sunday.
January 21, 1952 was a Monday.
May Day, May 1 2009, was on a Friday.