What Day of the Week

December 12, 2023 is the 346^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 19 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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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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• 1098

  First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan – Crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.
• 1408

  The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
• 1911

  Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
• 1925

  The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
• 1940

  World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield, as a result of a German air raid.
• 1950

  Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
• 1969

  Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
• 1982

  Women’s peace protest at Greenham Common – 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence.
• 1984

  Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
• 1988

  The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

• 1298

  Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
• 1610

  Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
• 1849

  William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920)
• 1875

  Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953)
• 1904

  Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor (d. 1981)
• 1918

  Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1958

  Lucie Guay, Canadian canoer
• 1968

  Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1970

  Mädchen Amick, American actress
• 1979

  Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist

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