What Day of the Week

December 16, 2023 is the 350^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 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.

• 1761

  Seven Years’ War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
• 1914

  World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
• 1922

  President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
• 1937

  Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
• 1942

  Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris.
• 1979

  Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States.
• 1989

  Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
• 1998

  Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox – The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
• 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.

• 1900

  V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
• 1942

  Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor
• 1944

  Don Meyer, Basketball coach Northern State University, David Lipscomb University, and Hamline University
• 1961

  LaChanze, American singer
• 1962

  Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress
• 1970

  Valerie Chow, Hong Kong actress
• 1971

  Paul van Dyk, German DJ
• 1979

  Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer
• 1981

  Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
• 1993

  Lola Créton, French actress

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