What Day of the Week

December 12, 2020 is the 347^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1862

  USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
• 1915

  President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
• 1935

  Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
• 1936

  Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
• 1941

  World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
• 1964

  Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
• 1969

  Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
• 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.
• 2000

  The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

• 1298

  Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
• 1887

  Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
• 1923

  Bob Dorough, American jazz pianist/vocalist
• 1927

  Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
• 1930

  Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1952

  Brenton Broadstock, Australian composer and academic
• 1968

  Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
• 1970

  Regina Hall, American actress
• 1972

  Georgios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
• 1981

  Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer

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