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 French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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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.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: George Washington’s Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• 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.
• 1907

  A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
• 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.
• 1941

  World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
• 1967

  Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
• 1975

  John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.
• 1983

  The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1995

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

• 1934

  Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006)
• 1947

  Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician
• 1952

  Walter Murphy, American composer, pianist and arranger
• 1961

  Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1968

  Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
• 1970

  Tyson Beckford, American model
• 1980

  Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
• 1983

  Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984

  Ian Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1989

  Hamza Riazuddin, English cricketer

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