What Day of the Week

December 18, 2020 is the 353^rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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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• 1642

  Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
• 1777

  The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
• 1892

  premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
• 1912

  The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
• 1932

  The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yd long.
• 1935

  The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
• 1944

  World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
• 1999

  NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
• 2006

  United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
• 2010

  Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests

• 1856

  Sir J. J. Thomson, English physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
• 1897

  Fletcher Henderson, American arranger and composer (d. 1952)
• 1911

  Jules Dassin, American film director (d. 2008)
• 1947

  Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian crime fiction writer
• 1964

  Don Beebe, American football player
• 1968

  Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer
• 1975

  Vincent van der Voort, Dutch dart player
• 1978

  Ali Curtis, American soccer player
• 1979

  Carlos, Portuguese footballer
• 1987

  Fernando Jara, Panamanian jockey

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