What Day of the Week

December 2, 2023 is the 336^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 29 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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• 1775

  The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
• 1805

  Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz – French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• 1851

  French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1859

  Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• 1920

  Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
• 1943

  A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
• 1947

  Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1956

  The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba’s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1962

  Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war’s progress.
• 1988

  Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

• 1846

  Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)
• 1884

  Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
• 1963

  Brendan Coyle, English actor
• 1967

  Laurie Morgan, Channel Islands chief minister
• 1971

  Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor
• 1972

  Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 1978

  Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)
• 1981

  Britney Spears, American singer, dancer and entertainer
• 1986

  Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian electric bass player
• 1988

  Alfred Enoch, British actor

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