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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.

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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.
• 1653

  English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1707

  Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
• 1773

  American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1947

  William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
• 1971

  Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts.
• 1991

  Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan.

• 1941

  Lesley Stahl, American journalist
• 1946

  Christopher Ellison, English actor
• 1961

  Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
• 1961

  Shane Black, American actor, writer and director
• 1967

  Donovan Bailey, Jamaican/Canadian sprinter,
• 1967

  Mark Palmer, American ambassador
• 1968

  Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (d. 2008)
• 1972

  Paul Leyden, Australian actor
• 1979

  Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
• 1988

  Anna Popplewell, English actress

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