What Day of the Week

December 16, 2020 is the 351^st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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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• 755

  An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China.
• 1707

  Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
• 1761

  Seven Years’ War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
• 1850

  History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
• 1914

  World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
• 1918

  Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1989

  Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama.

• 1882

  Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
• 1888

  King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
• 1900

  V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
• 1941

  Lesley Stahl, American journalist
• 1941

  Robert Kerman, American actor
• 1955

  Xander Berkeley, American actor
• 1963

  Jeff Carson, American singer
• 1977

  Sylvain Distin, French footballer
• 1981

  Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer
• 1985

  Keita Tachibana, Japanese singer (w-inds.)

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