What Day of the Week

December 16, 2021 is the 350^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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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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• 1497

  Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
• 1689

  Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
• 1864

  American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign – Battle of Nashville – Major General George H. Thomas’s Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee.
• 1914

  World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
• 1930

  Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
• 1972

  Vijay Diwas: (Victory Day) is commemorated every 16 December in India as it marks its military victory over Pakistan in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
• 1979

  Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
• 1986

  Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s tenure
• 1997

  An episode of Pokémon, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”, aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children.
• 2003

  President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States’ first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions.

• 1584

  John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)
• 1872

  Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)
• 1937

  Joyce Bulifant, American actress
• 1965

  Melanie Sloan, American attorney
• 1966

  Dennis Wise, English footballer
• 1972

  Željko Kalac, Australian footballer
• 1974

  Earl C. Poitier, American actor
• 1975

  Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor
• 1978

  Joe Absolom, English actor
• 1982

  Garnon Davies, Welsh actor

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