What Day of the Week

December 16, 2022 is the 350^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1575

  The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
• 1598

  Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.
• 1689

  Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
• 1850

  History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
• 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.
• 1957

  Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1960

  1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York’s Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
• 1971

  Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
• 1989

  Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.

• 1716

  Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)
• 1787

  Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855)
• 1883

  Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film (d. 1925)
• 1900

  V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
• 1917

  Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (d. 2008)
• 1944

  Don Meyer, Basketball coach Northern State University, David Lipscomb University, and Hamline University
• 1966

  Dennis Wise, English footballer
• 1986

  Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1986

  Candice Crawford, American beauty queen and sports reporter
• 1987

  Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer

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