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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• 627

  Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II’s Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
• 1901

  Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.
• 1917

  In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
• 1937

  USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
• 1969

  Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing – The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
• 1979

  A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1821

  Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
• 1892

  Milko Kos, Slovenian historian (d. 1972)
• 1930

  Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host
• 1945

  Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997)
• 1950

  Rajinikanth, Indian actor
• 1958

  Monica Attard, Australian journalist
• 1976

  Lloyd Owusu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980

  Gus G, Greek musician
• 1981

  Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1986

  Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer

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