What Day of the Week

December 19, 2019 is the 353^rd day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.

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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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• 1154

  Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1796

  French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
• 1828

  Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
• 1900

  Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
• 1912

  William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
• 1932

  BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
• 1956

  Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
• 1995

  The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
• 2000

  The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
• 2001

  A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.

• 1852

  Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
• 1924

  Gary Morton, American comic; widower of Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
• 1926

  Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
• 1934

  Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006)
• 1935

  Barbara Bostock, American actress
• 1952

  Walter Murphy, American composer, pianist and arranger
• 1959

  Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer
• 1968

  Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
• 1974

  Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM)
• 1975

  Jon Smith, British writer

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