What Day of the Week

December 20, 2021 is the 354^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

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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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• 217

  The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
• 1192

  Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third crusade.
• 1860

  South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
• 1959

  The Walker family murders are committed.
• 1960

  National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
• 1973

  The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
• 1988

  The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna.
• 1991

  A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
• 2007

  Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
• 2007

  The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

• 1833

  Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American physician (d. 1883)
• 1890

  Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1898

  Konstantinos Dovas, Greek Greek general and interim Prime Minister (d. 1973)
• 1914

  Harry F. Byrd Jr, American politician
• 1918

  Audrey Totter, American actress
• 1940

  Pat Chapman, English Author, Founder The Curry Club
• 1948

  Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist
• 1970

  Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress
• 1978

  Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1986

  Anoop Desai, American singer

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