What Day of the Week

December 12, 2022 is the 346^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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Here’s the December calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 627

  Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II’s Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
• 1870

  Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels.
• 1918

  Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
• 1937

  USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
• 1940

  World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, as a result of a German air raid.
• 1942

  World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
• 1946

  A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
• 1979

  Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
• 1979

  President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
• 1985

  Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

• 1712

  Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
• 1799

  Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
• 1908

  Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993)
• 1927

  Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
• 1946

  Paula Wagner, American film executive
• 1952

  Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress
• 1958

  Lucie Guay, Canadian canoer
• 1962

  Mike Golic, American football player
• 1985

  Giannis Zaradoukas, Greek footballer
• 1990

  Seungri, Korean singer

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