What Day of the Week

December 18, 2021 is the 352^nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 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.

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• 1271

  Kublai Khan renames his empire “Yuan” (ࠠ3; yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China.
• 1878

  John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
• 1900

  The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
• 1916

  World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
• 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.
• 1969

  Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan’s motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
• 1972

  Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
• 1996

  The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring “Ebonics” a language or dialect.
• 2002

  2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
• 2010

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

• 1849

  Henrietta Edwards, Canadian women’s rights activist (d. 1931)
• 1888

  Robert Moses, American public works official (d. 1981)
• 1935

  Jacques Pépin, French chef
• 1964

  Robson Green, English actor and singer
• 1968

  Nina Wadia, British actress/comedian
• 1969

  Justin Edinburgh, English footballer
• 1969

  Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
• 1974

  Bill Duggan, American television actor and host
• 1975

  Sia Furler. Australian singer
• 1985

  Hana Soukupová, Czech supermodel

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